Moeed Ahmad

Heading AJ+ English. Settling in DC for a bit.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — released in full by Drop Site.

The classified document, known as a cypher, shows that State Department diplomats had threatened in 2022 that Pakistan would suffer greatly if Khan remained in office, but that “all would be forgiven” if he were removed in a no-confidence vote.

The Biden administration was infuriated over Khan’s refusal to grant rights for U.S. drone bases in Pakistan, as well as his neutral stance on the Russia-Ukraine war.

@MazMHussain | @ryangrim | @worqas

🔗 Read the full story at Drop Site News

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including:

"*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*"

Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him "Pakistan's PM."

Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn't hanging in the balance.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is a courage and a confidence in Trump’s humanity that I frankly don’t have. Moving display.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Obviously what these downed pilots need to do is find an old, abandoned fighter jet in an unguarded hanger and steal it

[Hanaa’ Tameez @HanaaTameez]

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."

Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: https://t.co/0JvCy6mvX2

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

A Canadian academic traveled to Pakistan for his research on human rights abuses.

Pakistan locked him up and is continuing to detain him, as if making his point for him, that the Pakistan military has no respect for human rights, and no respect for Canada, is fellow Commonwealth nation.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

WOW!!!

Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South:

"We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

No Other Land is (finally) available in the US. All profits from tickets will go to the Masafer Yatta community. You can rent it on Apple, Google, Amazon, YouTube, Gathr. If you already watched it and want to donate to the community, visit https://t.co/5tIuYawPQ6

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Mahmoud Khalil could miss the birth of his baby.

His wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, was already in her 3rd trimester when police arrested the pro-Palestine activist in March.

"As we're getting a lot closer to my due date," Noor told AJ+’s @Dena, "I'm not going to lie, I am scared."

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“I’m overwhelmed with joy. I can now go back to Syria. At least one of my two homelands is accessible.”

AJ+ Managing Director Dima Khatib is both Syrian and Palestinian. This is the story of her double exile.

[Dima Khatib @Dima_Khatib]

If you lived in Syria, you would know this is such an incredible moment. Try to think of Syrians as human beings, instead of geopolitics, just for a second. Imagine how people are feeling as their disappeared loved ones are being found in prisons, alive.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Al Jazeera says it “condemns in the strongest terms” Israel’s assassination of its reporter Ismail al-Ghoul and his camera operator Ramy al-Rify.

Israel has killed at least 108 Palestinian journalists since Oct. 7.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

This is the moment Al Jazeera Arabic broke the news of the death of their colleague, Ismail al-Ghoul.

Ismail was killed, along with his cameraman Ramy al-Rify, by an Israeli airstrike while reporting from northern Gaza.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Bisan Owda (@wizardbisan) has been nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy for her work with AJ+ on the series “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive.”

Since Oct. 7, Bisan has captured life during Israel’s war on Gaza. In June, she won a Peabody for the same series.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

THREAD: This past Friday, 19 July, Ansar Allah, the Yemeni movement also known as the Houthis, struck the heart of Tel Aviv with an armed drone. Two days later, 21 July, the Israeli air force bombed the Yemeni port of Hodeida, targeting oil storage facilities and a power plant.

[Tony Karon @TonyKaron]

FIFA meets Friday to vote on suspending Israel. Daniel Levy and I write on how the threat of disruptive mass action at grassroots could force FIFA bureaucracy to abandon its hypocritical refusal to treat Israel as it treated Russia https://t.co/jsEAdiet5C

[AJ+ @ajplus]

What happened in the hours before 6-year-old Hind Rajab was killed by Israeli tank fire?

Forensic architects told @AJFaultLines that Israeli tank operators - who killed Hind as she was trapped in a car with her family, would have been able to see that they were targeting her. https://t.co/n7Idb2yTXT

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

'If you decide to move against the students, you’ll have to go through us first.'

This is the moment when University of Toronto faculty members declared they would protect student protesters supporting Palestine, despite threats from the college administration and police.

[Matt Lieb?? @mattlieb]

Speaking of “horseshoe theory” Biden could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot 40,000 Palestinians, and wouldn’t lose your vote.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“Israel has gone out of its way to try to suppress, and kill off, any evidence of its genocide.”

@dianabuttu spoke to AJ+ about the ICJ’s order to halt attacks on Rafah, and whether Israel will comply with them.