Mushahid Hussain Sayed

Journalist, Politician, Writer, reader & an observer of things interesting

[Prime Minister's Office @PakPMO]

Tehran: 3 July 2026.

At the invitation of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran H.E Dr Masoud Pezeshkian, Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif attended the funeral ceremony of the late Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who had embraced martyrdom on 28th February, 2026 during the attacks on Iran.

The Prime Minister led a high-level delegation from Pakistan that included Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Chief of Army Staff & Chief of Defence Forces Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Naqvi, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar, Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and other senior government officials.

On this solemn occasion, the Prime Minister recalled the lasting contributions of the late Supreme Leader for Islam. He paid rich tribute to the late Supreme Leader, who guided the Iranian nation for decades, with remarkable wisdom and sagacity.

The Prime Minister expressed full solidarity with Supreme Leader, His Eminence Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, President Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian and the brotherly people of Iran in this moment of national grief and prayed to Allah Almighty for forgiveness of the departed leader.
After attending the ceremony, the Prime Minister, who had arrived in Tehran earlier today, departed for Istanbul for his official visit to Turkiye.

Parliamentary delegation led by Chairman Senate Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani and Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Parliamentarians and Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah also attended the funeral along with the Prime Minister.

[Mushahid Hussain Sayed @Mushahid]

Keynote Address at World Peace Forum at China’s top Tsinghua University alongwith Chinese Vice President Han Zheng: ‘Retrenchment of Western clout & influence plus unraveling of so-called ‘rules-based order’ as there were neither rules nor order as it was based on double standards’! @XisMoments

[Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Pakistan @ForeignOfficePk]

🔊PR No: 1️⃣5️⃣1️⃣/2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣

Joint Statement by the State of Qatar and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Regarding the Conclusion of Lake Lucerne Summit, First High-Level Committee Meeting with Participation of the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Tireless Pakistani and Qatari mediation has delivered major progress to end Lebanon War. Oil and petrochem exports are waived, blockade lifted, some frozen assets released, and major reconstruction & development plan launched for Iran.

1st real test: Lebanon deconfliction cell

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

When you take into account both Trump and JD Vance's comments of the past 72h, it is not just a push back against Israel's efforts to sabotage the deal with Iran.

It has the broader contours of an effort to "de-specialize" the US-Israel relationship. To turn it into a more normal - and healthy - relationship.

While this will cause panic in much of Washington, it will be tremendously popular with the American public, particularly younger demographics (on both the Left and Right) and with the America First base of Trump himself.

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

این متن، بازتاب صدای ملتی است که عزت و استقلال خود را با هیچ تهدید و فشاری معامله نکرد.
آنچه امروز به ثبت رسید، نتیجه استقامت ملی، عقلانیت سیاسی و دیپلماسی مسئولانه بود.

[Muzamil @muzamil_45]

ایران امریکہ ڈیل کا سب سے بڑا فاتح پاکستان ھے
وال اسٹریٹ جنرل نے لکھا ھے کہ ایران امریکہ معاہدے کا سب سے بڑا فاتح پاکستان ھے طویل عرصے تک، پاکستان کو مغربی دارالحکومتوں میں ایک ایسے ملک کے طور پر دیکھا جاتا تھا جو صرف مشکلات پیدا کرتا ہے، یا پھر ایسا ملک جو اپنی ہی سیکیورٹی
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[Zaigham Khan @zaighamkhan]

Big day in the history of Pakistan's diplomacy.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

JD Vance is not changing the conversation about Israel in the US. He is changing the entire paradigm:

He is reminding the Israelis that they are alone and - though he doesn't use this word - much disliked internationally. Israel should not undermine the only strong friend they have left.

"If I was in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally that I have left."

And, he is reminding them of their utter dependence on the United States.

Because 2/3 of the weapons that have protected Israel (!!) "have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars."

As a point of comparison, no one in the Biden admin ever spoke like this about Israel when Netanyahu was blowing through Biden's so-called red lines on Gaza...

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

There is some poetic justice in that Israel is the biggest loser in the US-Iran deal, since it was Israel who aggressively pushed for this idiotic war of choice.

And if it leads to Netanyahu losing the elections and ending up in jail, the justice will be near complete.

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

امریکا اور ایران میں مفاہمت کرائی جا سکتی ہے تو آزاد کشمیر میں بھی مفاہمت کا راستہ تلاش کریں محرم آ گیا ہے دونوں فریقین ایک دوسرے کے خلاف نفرت پھیلانا بند کریں اور ایسے حالات پیدا نہ کریں جن کا فائدہ دونوں کا مشترکہ دشمن بھارت اُٹھا سکتا ہے مزید گذارشات 👇
https://t.co/FwAqmIttaN

[Pravin Sawhney @PravinSawhney]

Will do a video on Pakistan's permanently risen stature to be online by Saturday evening!

[Daily Iran News @DailyIranNews]

#BREAKING: Countries that thanked Pakistan for Iran-US peace deal:

🇮🇷Iran
🇨🇳China
🇩🇪Germany
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
🇹🇷Turkey
🇬🇧England
🇫🇷France
🇮🇹Italy
🇨🇦Canada
🇶🇦Qatar
🇲🇾Malaysia
🇮🇩Indonesia
🇯🇵Japan
🇦🇺Australia
🇺🇸USA

Entities who didn't:

🇮🇱Israel
🇮🇳India
🇦🇪UAE

This tells you everything you need to know.

[Ishaq Dar @MIshaqDar50]

Pakistan is pleased to facilitate the repatriation of 30 Iranian nationals.

This includes 8 Iranian fishermen rescued at sea by the British vessel MMA Valour after their boat ran aground, and 22 Iranian crew members from the vessel Lenore/Davina, recently interdicted by US authorities. Both groups are expected to transit through Karachi in the coming days.

We remain in close coordination with the Iranian, US and UK authorities to ensure the safe transit and early return of our Iranian brethren to their homeland. Pakistan remains committed to humanitarian cooperation and to extending every possible assistance to our Iranian brothers.

[Mushahid Hussain Sayed @Mushahid]

Good news! ‘Indo-Pacific’ Command, concocted in 2018, was a misnomer in any case as it had ideological connotations, meant to rope in India in a failed strategy to encircle China! Glad that better sense, reflecting new ground realities, has prevailed!

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

U.S. Pacific Command…is back.

[Mushahid Hussain Sayed @Mushahid]

‘Without the United States of America, there’d be no Israel’, so says President @realDonaldTrump with characteristic candour! Well, it’s Time for US to leash Netanyahu & not allow him to be a spoiler in peace with Iran & Lebanon, where Israeli aggression has resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths & over 10,000 injuries since 2 March!

[Mushahid Hussain Sayed @Mushahid]

Absolutely correct! Glorifying Ranjit Singh is misplaced narrow ethnic chauvinism, which has no place in Quaid-e-Azam’s pluralistic Pakistan Federation! Bhagat Singh is an authentic subcontinental hero, a revolutionary & fighter for freedom against British colonialism, for whom Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah raised his voice in Central Legislative Assembly in September 1929 in defence of Bhagat Singh, while Gandhi maintained a studied silence on this issue! Bhagat Singh, who was hanged in Lahore Jail on 23 March, 1931, deserves to be eulogised with a statue, rather than Ranjit Singh!

[Hamid Mir حامد میر @HamidMirPAK]

ایک پرانا کالم۔ رنجیت سنگھ پر تنقید کا مطلب سکھ مذہب پر تنقید نہیں ہے۔ وہ پنجابی اور کشمیری اُسے اپنا ہیرو نہیں مانتے جنہیں پتا ہے کہ رنجیت سنگھ کے دور میں اذان پر پابندی لگائی گئی اس نے ہزاروں کشمیری قتل کئے پنجاب کا ہیرو رنجیت سنگھ نہیں بھگت سنگھ ہے https://t.co/s2eBOYWGqi

[Bushra nazeer @bushranazeer72]

Pakistan did what few thought possible: help bring Washington and Tehran to the table.

How Islamabad navigated one of the most treacherous diplomatic terrains of modern history and what experts makes of it.
@Mushahid
@Masood__Khan

https://t.co/LHiLeFMzX1

[Zara Zhar @Boudicca61AD]

"My will is for you to remain steadfast, clinging to your dignity and to the dream that never dies. The enemy wants us to abandon resistance, to turn our cause into endless negotiations, but I say to you: “Do not negotiate over what is rightfully yours.”
- Quote from The Last Will and Testament of Beloved Yahya Sinwar.

- Portrait of Yahya, by Palestinian Artist Lina Jaradat.

[Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai]

No country in modern history has endured nearly 30,000 strikes over forty days by two nuclear powers – one the strongest military power in the world, the other the most heavily equipped army in the Middle East – and then imposed a condition for ending the war on a third front, Lebanon.

Iran has effectively made clear that without an end to the war there, the broader deal collapses, while signalling its readiness to continue fighting in support of its allies.

This is extraordinary. It overturns decades of simplistic claims that Hezbollah is merely a proxy built to fight on Iran’s behalf. A state does not risk the collapse of a strategic agreement, the continuation of war, and further direct confrontation simply for a disposable 'proxy'.

What the war has revealed is not a one-way chain of command, but a regional alliance in which Iran treats Lebanon and Hezbollah as central strategic allies, not expendable instruments.