Sam

[Sam @mhbalail]

@syedjamal_agha بہت اچھا اقدام ہے

[Sam @mhbalail]

@OptimistaSuave @syedjamal_agha @FaisQam کیوں گرا دینا چاہیے تمہارے باپ کا ہے

[Sam @mhbalail]

@talhaahmad127 Add me also

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

X is blocking this video. You know what to do.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

As a general rule, NEVER engage a shill and his or her arguments. They are paid to promote (at best) cherry-picked facts out of context, strawmen arguments, or (at the worst), just lies.
Just expose them to the audience.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

A perceptual bias: because the Iranian diaspora is naturally more heavily anti-regime than residents of Iran (people vote with their feet), some decision-makers may overestimate potential domestic support for the strikes.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I wonder if the founding fathers conceived of the possibility that the U.S. government could be controlled by a recently established small Polish-Ukrainian colony in the Near East.

[Mujtaba Hassan. @iMujtabaHassan]

"My enemies have each other’s support to kill me
but O heart-warming love, I have only your support"

[Jappa @talhaahmad127]

History will remember that 14 centuries later, the followers of Ali stood at the right side of history. They stared down the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Resolute. Never a moment’s cowardice. It is the greatest certification for Shia Islam.

[Saad Ahsan @saadahsan]

The heaviest Sunday in years...

Westerners don't fully grasp the scope of what has happened.

Iranians and the wider shia community don't want to accept the level of foreign infiltration within their ranks that has led to this.

Arab & South Asians still in misplaced delulu.

[George Pu @TheGeorgePu]

No amount of money can get you a flight out of Dubai right now.

Or Doha. Or Bahrain. Or Kuwait.

The richest cities on earth - and you can't leave.

Money buys you options. It doesn't buy you exits.

The world changed overnight. Again.

[Sam @mhbalail]

@ZacksJerryRig The number is 81 now

[Size Chad @SizeChad]

Moved to Dubai for tax shelter and now I’m in a bomb shelter

[Faisal Warraich @FSWarraich]

Documented child rapist and genociders are now giving lectures on morality and freedom to the Iranian people — ironically while bombing Iran. What a world we are living in.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

[Sam @mhbalail]

@iamQazizadaa @AJENews Source trust me bro

[Talha Ahmad @talhaahmad967]

Why Pakistan Opted for escalation instead of dialogue with the Taliban?

To understand the current escalation between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban, it is important not to view recent developments in isolation. The roots of this crisis lie in the Post U.S. withdrawal and the strategic miscalculations that followed.

Pakistan has made several policy mistakes regarding Afghanistan over the years. However, after the U.S. withdrawal in 2021, the government of Imran Khan with all sincerity directly engaged with the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) in an effort to permanently end regional violence, particularly by addressing the threat posed by the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other armed factions.

The underlying calculation in Islamabad was straightforward: now that the Taliban had transitioned from a insurgent movement to a governing authority, they would adopt a more pragmatic and state centric approach. Pakistan believed that through diplomatic engagement, economic cooperation, and political outreach along with limited leverage through religious and political networks it could persuade the Taliban that the benefits of peace, (Disengagement from the TTP), would outweigh the costs of continued instability (War via TTP).

Contrary to popular belief, Pakistan did not primarily demand that the Taliban hand over TTP leaders. Instead, Islamabad presented three options:

1. IEA would ensure that Afghan soil was not used for attacks against Pakistan. TTP camps would be relocated away from the Pakistani border, potentially to western Afghanistan, with Pakistan even offering financial assistance for the transition.

2. TTP would enter a process of political reintegration and eventual resettlement back into Pakistan under a negotiated framework.

3. The Taliban would jointly confront both the TTP and ISKP, with Pakistan providing extensive military cooperation, including possible air support.

The Taliban agreed in principle not to allow Afghan territory to be used against Pakistan. In good faith, Pakistan released several TTP commanders and permitted hundreds of fighters to resettle in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, rather than subsiding, attacks escalated in both scale and intensity. Islamabad’s overtures for peace were widely interpreted as weakness and Strategic paralysis.

Even after the first collapse, the policy of dialogue and diplomacy initiated under IK was continued by successor governments (PDM, PML-N), under whom several dialogue initiatives were pursued, led by Mufti-Taqi Usmani and MFR, both of whom met with the highest command of the Taliban to convey the same message. Again Taliban assured that their soil would not be used.

In Kabul, a sense of strategic victory appeared to overshadow considerations of regional integration and long term stability. Many within Taliban leadership believed that just as they had outlasted a superpower through attrition, similar tactics could pressure Pakistan, particularly in the tribal areas.

For their part, TTP negotiators have maintained a single core demand: the withdrawal of Pakistani security forces from the former tribal areas. A De-facto handing over of areas to them on the lines of the Doha Agreement, which isn't going to happen.

Rather than curbing militancy, various factions consolidated under a centralized TTP command structure. Since 2021, Pakistan has faced a sustained low intensity attrition campaign that has claimed over 4,000 lives, including women and children.

Then there is the fusion between IEA and TTP, even if it isn't at the operational level, it is clearly at the tactical level, which is evident from Afghan fighters, including special forces elements, carrying out attacks in Pakistan. Infact even the son of the sitting Deputy governor of the Taliban was killed during an attack in Pakistan.

This notion that Pakistan is fighting to pursue US interests or is the aggressor is wrong and misleading as it overlooks the persistent pattern of cross-border attacks over the past four years.

Multiple UN assessments, as well as public statements by regional actors such as China and Russia, have expressed concern about foreign militant groups operating from Afghan territory.

From Islamabad’s perspective, this is no longer a matter of diplomacy alone but one of national security and state survival. Pakistan appears unwilling to endure a prolonged war of attrition and is instead signaling that it will respond on terms of its own choosing.

For now, the situation remains fluid.

[Sam @mhbalail]

@Dark_Shadows010 @AsfandBhittani @tamimasey Taliban are the ones killing innocent Pakistanis daily. Stupid ass shut your mouth and go to Afghanistan

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Yalda Hakim parroted Hindutva's narrative during Indian aggression against Pakistan . She used Zionist talking points to justify Israeli attack on Iran. Not surprising that she is now promoting Taliban's narrative against Pakistan. Yalda is a vile propagandist, not a journalist.

[Sam @mhbalail]

@ZardSi Very good