Pakistan cricket = Pakistan's elite capture in microcosm.
Stars enter the elite bubble →learn values of arrogance, zero accountability, entitlement.
Sycophant vultures in media & franchises enable it.
Fans r left happy with the crumbs.
Civilizational rot on full display
@fjriwlpq Pakistanis hv given enough blood already. Expecting more is just foolhardy. The junta is far too entrenched, has too much external support at the momemt and more importantly, is far too ruthless & psycopathic to be toppled with moral pressure.
People who still watch and are invested in Pakistan cricket are the ones who can even survive a nuclear holocaust.
There is absoloutely nothing left of the country or its cricket team.
Been saying this publicly for over a year that the only real roadblock to Imran Khan's freedom is the PTI leadership itself.
Unless disbanded the current incentive structure of the party is better served through Imran Khan's martyrdom in prison than his release.
Not true!
You become a "Third World" country when you surround yourself with third world military dictators, giving them your support, endorsment and blank cheque for their compliance.
So If you really don't want "third world" people coming into your country, stop supporting brutal military dictators in third world countries.
It can't be more straight forward.
@Amermalik12@AbdulRehmanCC@waqyounis99 Calling them out for their professional incompetence isnt getting personal.
& yes, the entire aforementioned exchange before I jumped in was an example of reinforcement of mediocrity.
He has failed as a bowling coach; evidence proves that. So plz spare us the needless deference.
@AbdulRehmanCC@Amermalik12@waqyounis99 Yup, he has fixed Shaheen so well. Can totally see that. Sigh!
Pakistan cricket has an enormous deficit of modernised human intelligence and it shows with comments like these where one just tries to reinforce the other to sustain a dumb system.
Rohail Nazir in List A cricket last 5 years:
Matches - 39
Innings - 34
Runs - 847
Average - 26.4
Strike rate- 79
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50s - 4
100s- 0
Hs- 87
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He’s been doing well in FC cricket, so they dropped him from Tests and picked him in white-ball cricket instead🤐
Would love to see Ghamidi sb. dissect and analyse the political manoeuvres of the prophet of Allah as simply a human leader independent of his divine credence, for all of the companions and the prophet himself would be termed as unreasonable idealists under the ghamidian political framework, where the only mark of pragmatism and political maturity is short term consequentialism, a sincere calculated faith-based audacity as a political driver will only be right or wrong here based on its short term material results.
A sincere calculated faith-based audacity as a political driver will only be right or wrong here based on its short term material results, their pragmatism is always passive & perpetual, the faith-based offensive pragmatism is judged through its material outcomes, but the material failures of years and years of passive pragmatism in the face of oppression is packaged as political maturity.
The problem isn't the denial of basic political and historical facts about muslim defeats, it's about the framing of those defeats - efforts against tyranny - in certain moral tangents which legitimises a political grand strategy rooted in secular & materialist values.
If Ghamidi sb believes in long term strategic political planning against the empire by the muslims rather than "immature militant strategies", the least he could do is initiate such orientations by leaving the empire himself first (even just symbolically) rather than legitimising
it as the "dunya ki tarikh ka sabse mohazzab fateh".
Fahd Hussain making a 2 minute monologue about Pakistan's newly emerging status in the international order and how it has become a meaningful middle power, ending it by asking Mearsheimer whether Pak will be able to mediate
Mearsheimer: Iranians don't trust the Pakistanis at all
Only fools think Raftaar is a neutral media outlet. Look how it is being used to push propaganda against Imran Khan. This is the same old playbook of ISI: Create an image of neutrality, then use it to shape public perception. Do you fools think this will make IK less popular? Lol
Geopolitics for a country is like cocaine; gives you an instant high, confidence and that feeling of taking over the world, but it is almost always followed by a crash.
Governance reforms are like going to the gym and working out. It's controlled pain, muscle breakdown, and recovery, a painstakingly slow process, that progressively builds strength over time. It gives a stable high and long term benefits.
Great nations are built through reforms, and ruined through obsessive geopolitics.
This is a good demonstration of how Pakistani Military Junta's tactics can never amount to a coherent foreign policy.
They need Terrorism to rise so they can sell themselves as the only solution to fight Terror.
But when that happens, Pakistan itself becomes a security threat.
For over four days, @X and @elonmusk have allowed a Zionist-Ukrainian group to use X to raise a million dollars to kidnap me. It, of course, clearly implies torture and murder. Yet not a single Western official, journalist, or media outlet will condemn it, let alone investigate.
@HannibalBarx@FactCheckAsia@Jarblink1 That shows how little you know about the eventual fall out of this war, and what kind of world order will follow it.
Pak nationalists are all, in an almost coordinated fashion, preaching that your loyalty to Pakistan should precede all other loyalties, even that to your religion
This is kufr
It also creates a funnel towards extremism by only giving the option of absolute loyalty or treachery
You can love your country but being overly patriotic is the equivalent of a sports fanboy season ticket holder cheering on men who don’t know you exist
You did not choose where you were born
You are not responsible for your ancestor’s achievements
Let go of unwarranted pride