آزاد کشمیر میں جائنٹ عوامی ایکشن کمیٹی اگر غدار تھی تو پچھلے سال پوری وفاقی حکومت نے اس کے ساتھ معاہدہ کیوں کیا ؟ معاہدے کے نکات پر 3 ماہ میں عمل کا وعدہ کیا مگر 8 ماہ تک ان پر عملدرآمد نہ کیا گیا ۔ کمیٹی نے احتجاج کا الٹی میٹم دیا تو اسے دھشتگرد قرار دے دیا ۔ جس افلاطون نے اس کمیٹی کو دھشتگرد قرار دینے کا فیصلہ کیا اس نے کشمیریوں کے دل میں ہمارے لیے نفرت کا بیج بویا ہے۔ اس کا فوری عوامی خواہشات کے مطابق سدباب کریں یا پھر ایک طویل سردردی کے لیے تیار رہیں
ایک زمانہ تھا کہ لوگ راڈو گھڑی بہت فخر سے ہاتھ پر پہنتے تھے - پھر لوگوں نے یہ گھڑی جہیز میں دینا شروع کردی - شروع شروع میں لوگ ہاتھ میں پہن کر لہراتے تھے پر شعور کے ساتھ یہ شرمندگی کی علامت بن گئی کہ فلاں نے خود نہی لی بلکہ سسرال سے مانگی ہوگی --
ان ایوارڈز کے ساتھ بھی راڈو والا حال ہورہا ہے - یقین کریں کہ ان تمغوں اور ایوارڈز کو جن پیمانوں پر دیا جارہا ہے وہ وقت دور نہی جب لوگ ملنے والے تمغوں کو چھپایا کریں گے کیونکہ یہ قابلیت اور میریٹ کا مظہر نہی ہوگا بلکہ خوشامد ' دشنام طرازی اور شاہ کی وفاداری کی علامت بن جائیگا اور لوگ ٹھٹھا اڑنے کے ڈرسے اس کو الماریوں میں چھپاتے پھریں گے کیونکہ یہ میریٹ کی کمائی نہی ہوگا بلکہ کرپٹ کی بروکری (دلالی ) کی علامت سمجھا جائیگا -
Sorry, but it's nonsense:
Bombs can destroy cities, but not civilizations. China survived a century of collapse and came back stronger. The Indus region endured rule, yet its people are rising again. History is clear, pressure hardens civilizations it doesn’t erase them. You can bomb land, but you cannot bomb memory, identity, or time.
Speaking of zardari and assets abroad, the rockwood estate and the Swiss accounts are two helpful trips down memory lane.
Zardari post second round in government:
Denies the Rockwood estate (Surrey mansion) after spending millions of pounds on refurbishing it, filled with hundred thousand pound chandeliers that he decried as being unthinkable for a leader from a poor country.
Then when it was about to be auctioned; zardari decided it was his after all and launched a claim to the asset from jail. He explained his earlier denial of ownership on medical ailments and sought a stay of sale proceedings.
During his second tenure, he was involved in the procurement of a digitisation project for the customs and ports. The companies that bid to win were SGS and cotecna. It was alleged that these companies paid hefty bribes to zardari to win the computerisation contracts. These led to prosecutions of the principals in Switzerland.
Zardari was Convicted in Switzerland for graft related to these contracts. Accounts related to him containing 60 million dollars in Switzerland were frozen.
Zardari then applied for access to these 60 million dollars once the freeze on the graft related account was lifted ONLY because Zardari’s legal team presented the NRO law to the Swiss court and argued that thievery was no longer a crime in that period in Pakistan.
As president in his first term, Once the NRO was declared void ab initio, Zardari’s pppp led government ignored SC directions to write to the Swiss asking for a revisit of that earlier NRO based acquittal.
The PPP Sacrificed a Prime Minister to prevent the writing of the letter. That prime minister was later rewarded with a return to the senate and tickets for his family.
Meanwhile, the court record of the entire Swiss proceedings were then taken from the Pakistani consulate in Switzerland. The person overseeing the taking of the record was then Pakistani consul general in the United Kingdom, wajid shamsul Hasan. Geo’s Murtuza from london was present there for the removal and asked wajid sb on camera what he was upto and the latter refused to offer any replies whilst smoking cigars on the sidewalk.
Jeeay Bhutto.
@Bgrew11@richimedhurst Its not that they managed to damage it, what matters is IRAN with all those sanctions have been able to challenge the US hegemony successfully and still continues to do so
Yesterday I spoke to my father. He asked me to relay the following message:
“The judges in this country should be ashamed of themselves. Time and time again we have gone to the judiciary. But they have sold their souls for their paid personal privileges. They have sold their integrity. They know they cannot break me, so they turn to my wife. How they can allow this inhumane treatment to Bushra BiBi, simply to blackmail me. She spends 24 hours a day in isolation, except for 30 minutes with me per week - and even that is often ignored. It is unislamic to harm women, children and the elderly - and their motives are plain and clear. The judges are responsible for the justice in a society. They should be ashamed of themselves.”
A simple question and Imposed Regime Conduct is giving ita answer clearly
If there is nothing to hide then Why he is not shifted to hospital, His Personal Dr not allowed to check him & his Family not allowed to be involved in the process.
The simple answer is Setup is LYING!
Iran and Hezbollah have found weaknesses in the Israeli early missile early warning system and are exploiting them ruthlessly. Here is how:
1) Iran targeted the Qatar-based AN/FPS-132 early-warning radar and multiple AN/TPY-2 X-band radars in Jordan, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia. These systems previously provided the long-range detection needed for extended 10-minute warnings.
2) Hezbollah hit the Ha'Ela Teleport near Beit Shemesh. That is a crucial satellite communication station.
3) Iran has specifically targeted the Sdot Micha Air Base, which houses Arrow anti-ballistic missile systems and their associated Green Pine radars.
4) By systematically "blinding" the U.S. and Israeli radar network, Iran has turned a redundant sensor web into a "patchwork with serious gaps," exposing missile defense batteries to direct hits.
5) Iran and Hezbollah seem to be working toward a future mass salvo attack where enough of Israel's detection and interception layers have been degraded that more missiles get through. Each strike on infrastructure now is an investment in a bigger attack later.
6) The Qatar radar and UAE THAAD battery being struck reveals that Israel's defense partially rests on American systems that are themselves vulnerable and geographically distant. That's a fragile dependency.
7) Each system is designed for specific threats. A Patriot battery can handle certain drones but not long-range ballistic missiles, machine gun fire, or antitank missiles. This leaves gaps that adversaries exploit.
8) When you use an air defense battery to protect another air defense battery, it's no longer protecting civilian areas or other targets. In Israel's densely defended environment, this creates painful either/or choices.
9) As a result of all this, Israelis have since noticed shorter, or sometimes no, warning times.
There is deep frustration in Israel, both among civilians and officials, at its inability to protect citizens from barrages. The lies everyone is hearing on the media, that Hezbollah and Iran have been defeated and have no capabilities left, only make the frustration worse.
Everyone talks about Iranian oil in barrels. Nobody talks about what is inside them. That difference is why Western refineries have been running shadow networks through Dubai for twenty years to get it despite the sanctions.
Crude oil is not a uniform commodity. It is a spectrum of hydrocarbons with different molecular weights, and the composition of a given crude determines how easily it converts into the products refineries actually want to sell: gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil. The measurement that captures this is API gravity. Higher API gravity means lighter crude with shorter carbon chains, which means lower energy cost to crack, lower processing cost to refine, and higher yield of the light distillates that carry premium pricing. Lower API gravity means heavier crude requiring more energy, more processing steps, more capital equipment, and producing a higher share of lower-value residuals.
Iranian Light crude runs at 33 to 36 degrees API gravity with sulfur content between 1.36 and 1.5 percent. That is the refinery sweet spot. It is light enough to yield high fractions of gasoline and middle distillates without excessive processing costs, but heavy enough to produce the full range of products that complex refineries are designed to process. It is what petroleum engineers call an optimal blend crude.
Now compare the alternatives.
Venezuelan Merey heavy crude runs at approximately 16 degrees API gravity with sulfur between 3 and 5 percent. Refining it profitably requires a coking unit, a hydrocracker, and an extensive desulfurization train. The equipment exists. The economics work for refineries purpose-built around Venezuelan feedstock. It is not a substitute for Iranian crude. It is a different product requiring different industrial infrastructure.
US West Texas Intermediate runs at 39 to 40 degrees API with sulfur below 0.25 percent. In theory, the cleanest and easiest crude to process. In practice, it is so light that it does not yield the heavier middle distillates a complex refinery needs to run at full capacity. European and Asian refineries built around medium crudes cannot switch to WTI without blending it with heavier crudes to achieve the molecular weight distribution their process units require. WTI is not a drop-in replacement for Iranian medium.
Iranian oil fits where both US shale and Venezuelan heavy do not. It is the liquid that flows through the middle of the global refining system without requiring either the coking infrastructure for heavy crudes or the blending operations for ultra-light shale. That molecular fit is why it commands a persistent premium above comparable grades. It is why Indian refineries maintained Iranian crude purchases through every round of sanctions and negotiated the logistics to keep that flow moving. It is why the Dubai shadow banking and trading network that the UAE is now considering dismantling existed in the first place.
The Strait of Hormuz does not just carry oil. It carries the specific category of oil that the global refining system was built to process most efficiently. Closing it does not just reduce supply. It removes the grade of crude that the system runs best on and forces every refinery in the world to run less efficiently on whatever it can find as a substitute.
That is the premium embedded in the $82 oil price. Not just volume. Molecular weight.
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@ranjha001 You just live in some fools paradise, to pitch you need to have infrastructure, security, economic activity in order. The people who are running this country from 30 years have more stakes in UAE and middle east than in Pakistan. They just love to rule here
Sahibzada Farhan was Pakistan’s leading run-scorer in the T20 World Cup but there are certain aspects of his game that merit discussion. Highlighting specific areas does not mean the player is poor or should be dropped. It is simply about assessing performance objectively.
Accumulating runs in T20s has never been an issue for Pakistan’s batters. Both Babar and Rizwan were prolific and topped the rankings yet Pakistan reshuffled the top order because they wanted aggression. Farhan has provided that intent but it is still to be tested consistently against stronger opposition.
Farhan’s T20I record against SENAI (the top five sides) makes a poor reading: 376 runs in 18 innings at a strike rate of 115. Against lower-ranked teams, he has 929 runs in 27 innings at a strike rate of 147. It is noticeable contrast with a decent sample size.
Since 2024, the average balls taken to reach 50 in T20Is are: Australia 27, England 28, India 28, South Africa 29 and New Zealand 29. Pakistan batters on average takes 33 balls to score a fifty, the same as Farhan’s.
Milestones are not the priority in T20 cricket, but when they come, they should arrive at the right pace. At times, there appears to be excessive focus on personal landmarks. For instance, against Namibia he scored just three runs off the last three balls before reaching his hundred with a non-aggressive single and he even acknowledged surpassing Virat Kohli’s 319-run mark by fist-bumping Fakhar. Such celebrations seem slightly unnecessary and pursuit of such landmarks can distract you from bigger goals.
If we look at the last two matches, Farhan’s fifties came off 32 balls against Sri Lanka and 37 against England, well below the current global benchmark. There is no doubt Farhan is a more powerful hitter than Babar and Rizwan against both pace and spin but his dot-ball percentage (42%) remains among the highest, which affects the level of early momentum he can generate.
In a game, read SL vs Pak, where 419 runs were scored in 40 overs, a fifty off 32 balls or a hundred off 59 balls is just about par. It is not a bad innings, but it is unlikely to create a powerful impact. In contrast, Fakhar’s 84 off 42 balls at SR 200.00 was a far more impactful knock.
Farhan now is likely to move to No. 2 in the T20I rankings and could even reach the top if results elsewhere go his way. Rankings are celebrated by fans, but elite teams rarely base their strategies on them alone (a mistake Pakistan did before with certain players). That’s why despite being Number 3 in the world, he didn’t make it to the 14 Pakistan players shortlisted for auction of the Hundred.
Pakistan have won 29 T20Is in the past year. But that quantity does not make them the best team in the world. Similarly, sheer weight of runs cannot, by itself, define a batter as the best.