Nofal kaleem

Proud to be a Pakistani

[Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe @IRANinZIMBABWE]

American democracy every four years.

[Pat Cummins @patcummins30]

Adding my support here to GC and the other former international captains. I hope the court ordered medical assessment be allowed to run its course, and that family visits continue. I hope Imran Khan is treated with the dignity anyone deserves

[Sabee Kazmi @SabeeKazmi786]

جو قومیں اپنے ہیروز کے ساتھ یہ سلوک کرتی ہیں پھر انجام دیکھیں۔۔۔۔۔
ناصر حسین پاکستان کی کرکٹ ختم ہوتے دیکھ کر دکھی ہورہیں ہیں کہ اب یہ وہ ٹیم ہی نہیں رہی جسے ہم انڈیا کے ساتھ میجز پر خوش ہوتے تھے، نہ بالر ہیں نہ بیٹسمین، نہ جزبہ، نہ لڑنے کی صلاحیت ، نہ خواہشات، یہ ختم ہوچکے ہیں بہت افسوسناک مرحلہ پاکستان کے لیے آچکا ہے۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Prime Minister @andyburnham and Foreign Secretary @Ed_Miliband : how much longer will Britain remain silent?

For three years the father of my two sons, and Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, has been brutally penalised by his political opponents, in a personal vendetta by Army Chief, Asim Munir,  which according to the UN,  amounts to torture and which  is now taking a potentially fatal toll on his physical and mental health. 

He has endured 3 years of solitary confinement. For nearly ten months now his family has been denied contact with him. He has been deprived of the most basic human contact, denied access to books, lawyers and doctors.

The international human-rights standards are unequivocal. Under the UN’s Nelson Mandela Rules, solitary confinement lasting more than 15 consecutive days is prohibited and amounts to torture.

He has endured this treatment not for 15 days, but for three years.

Pakistan’s own Supreme Court has now intervened: ordering comprehensive  medical treatment, access to his personal doctor, regular family visits and twice-weekly calls with his sons.

Yet those orders are being defied.

This is no longer simply a Pakistani political matter. It is a human-rights emergency.

He has deep and lifelong ties to Britain. He studied at Oxford University, captained Oxford University cricket and spent years playing county cricket in England. His relationship with this country stretches back more than half a century. His charitable activities were internationally recognised, and  include building the only free cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as a university.

His sons, my two boys, Sulaiman and Kasim, are British citizens. They have been forced to watch their father’s health decline from thousands of miles away, prevented from visiting him, denied visas, publicly threatened by government officials with arrest themselves, and even denied court-mandated regular phone calls. 

I have repeatedly appealed to the UK government to intervene. Purported attempts at back channelling have evidently failed. The previous Foreign Secretary @DavidLammy informed me in writing that Britain would not  intervene if my sons, British citizens, are arrested when they travel to Pakistan to visit their father. 

@FCDOGovUK: Britain must now speak out publicly and unequivocally. Demand that Pakistan comply with its own Supreme Court;  restore Imran Khan’s medical access, his right to see his family, end his prolonged isolation and uphold his fundamental human rights.

Pakistan is a Commonwealth country. Britain has a long and proud tradition of standing against arbitrary detention, inhumane treatment and the denial of fundamental rights. Those principles mean very little if we invoke them only selectively and neglect them when inconvenient.
This an appeal to the new Burnham government  to please now do the right thing.

[Iftikhar Firdous @IftikharFirdous]

Pakistan has gone beyond its limits to facilitate peace and will continue to do so, looks like the Iranian’s have some work to do internally. One can argue that it’s rhetoric, but the internal fault lines are visible with the developments emerging from Tehran since Trump’s statement.

[Gerhardt vd Merwe @realgerhardtvdm]

🇺🇸 WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS MAN!?

Now Trump says the U.S. has a Great relationship with Iran!

[National Resistance Front (NRF) 🇦🇫 @NRFMediaCell]

This country is unbelievable! Sent jets and Troops to Saudi Arabia to protect them, bombed Taliban in Afghanistan, Beat India one-sidedly, doing an eye-to-eye with Israel, hosting US-IRAN talks, and repaying the debt to UAE and other countries! All this happening at once!

[وزارة الدفاع @modgovksa]

تُعلن #وزارة_الدفاع عن وصول قوة عسكرية من جمهورية باكستان الإسلامية إلى قاعدة الملك عبدالعزيز الجوية بالقطاع الشرقي ضمن اتفاقية الدفاع الإستراتيجي المشترك الموقعة بين البلدين الشقيقين.

وتتكون القوة الباكستانية من طائرات مقاتلة ومساندة تابعة للقوات الجوية الباكستانية، بهدف تعزيز التنسيق العسكري المشترك، ورفع مستوى الجاهزية العملياتية بين القوات المسلحة في البلدين، وبما يدعم الأمن و��لاستقرار على المستويين الإقليمي والدولي.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Images from a plane carrying Iran’s delegation to US-Iran talks in Islamabad show seats filled with photos and belongings of victims of the Minab school strike.

The aircraft, “Minab 168,” honours the 168 killed, mostly children.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

A country that has nuclear weapons is threatening to use its nuclear weapons on the country it won’t allow to have nuclear weapons because if they had nuclear weapons they would ‘use them.’

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The Israelis are terrorists. No other word for it.

[RT @RT_com]

‘The president is dispatching his negotiating team, LED BY THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, JD VANCE, SPECIAL ENVOY WITKOFF, AND MR. KUSHNER to Islamabad for talks this weekend’ — Leavitt

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Justo hoy, Netanyahu lanza su ataque más duro contra el Líbano desde que empezó la ofensiva.

Su desprecio por la vida y el derecho internacional es intolerable.

Toca hablar claro:

- Líbano debe formar parte del alto al fuego.

- La comunidad internacional debe condenar esta nueva violación del derecho internacional.

- La Unión Europea debe suspender su Acuerdo de Asociación con Israel.

- Y no debe haber impunidad ante estos actos criminales.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

One of the few good things about the war was that Trump finally understood the difference between 'Strait' and 'Straight'.

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.
Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days!

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[Sameer Siddiqui #TaxTheRich @SenatorSameer]

I swear, someone needs to do a proper case study on how Gulshan-e-Iqbal declined over the last 15 years. It feels like a systematic deterioration. Once one of Karachi’s top areas but now it looks like a war torn area.

[Mubashir Zaidi @xadeejourno]

JUST IN....An Iranian missile struck the oil refinery in Haifa, Israel #IranWar‌

[Ammar Rashid @AmmarRashidT]

As more facts emerge about Pakistan's recent strikes in Kabul, I think the following can be said with a reasonable degree of certainty:

1- While the Taliban's initial claims may have been exaggerated, it seems increasingly evident that a massive number of civilians in a rehab facility did indeed die as a result of the strike on Camp Phoenix. Irrespective of your views on this conflict, this is a horrific tragedy that objectively deserves condemnation and investigation, notwithstanding the broader context of & reasons for the war.

2- From the publicly available evidence - the footage of the explosion & the satellite imagery - it seems that the strike wasn't deliberate and the actual target struck was likely an ammunition depot or drone facility in Camp Phoenix, the secondary explosions from which caused the destruction of the rehab facility located nearby inside the camp.

There are certainly legitimate questions about the Taliban placing vulnerable individuals right next to a weapons dump inside a military camp during war but they do not absolve Pakistan of its responsibility to take every possible measure to ensure such massive risk to civilian life is avoided in the pursuit of military objectives.

I understand & agree with those who think the Taliban & TTP's ideological & militant irredentism is the primary cause of the current conflict. Am under no illusions about the necessity of fighting ruthless militant groups mowing down Pakistanis on a daily basis, whose attacks I've also lost friends & family to.

However, it is completely legitimate for people to ask whether regularly incurred human costs of this scale justify the current strategy (whatever people currently believe it is, everyone has a somewhat different idea). Massacres like these, even if unintentional, will inevitably & understandably dilute the moral justifications for prosecuting this battle.

Beyond concerns about the conduct of war, such questions become even more critical in the context of the current state of political polarization in Pakistan. We are already a very long way away from the political & societal consensus needed to effectively fight multiple insurgencies amid spiralling regional chaos. In 2014, we at least devised something resembling a plan that everyone was on board with. Today, there's no pretense of even working towards one, and people are expected to just trust where this is going.

Hope there can be some sober reflection on this crisis among decisionmakers over the Eid ceasefire. The government & military should substantively engage the broader political leadership in the country on the war & counter-insurgency. They should also seriously consider the recent mediation offers from China & Russia & involve neighbouring countries to work towards a long-term regionally-grounded settlement.

Prayers to the families of all civilians who lost their lives in Kabul, as well as those whose loved ones died in this week's attacks in Pakistan. Hope we can bring this horrific bloodletting to an end soon.

[Waqas @worqas]

Imagine the pain of a woman who can't post honeymoon trip photos anywhere. Sometimes the crime is the punishment.

[Waqas @worqas]

This. Great catch here. Junaid Safdar's honeymoon Gulfstream has been parked at the VIP terminal of Vienna airport for a week, it never went anywhere for repairs or maintenance as the government claims.