sidrah roghay

journo, currently @anadoluagency former The News #ICFJ fellow #Karachi #Ankara

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Holy smokes!! 🔥🔥🔥

JD Vance to Israel opposing the MOU

"My response to them would be: What is your exact proposal? You’re a country of 9 million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have."

[sidrah roghay @roghay]

Bangladesh thanks "all parties" involved in the diplomatic effort, but makes no mention of the country widely seen as the primary mediator.

[sidrah roghay @roghay]

Sunehray huroof, finally 😅

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

“What the fuck are you doing?!” Trump lit into Netanyahu over the Lebanon bombing:

“You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

@BarakRavid & I

https://t.co/b1lEZEmN6p

[omar r quraishi @omar_quraishi]

EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Chief Kaja Kallas visited the Saeed Book Bank shop during her stay in Islamabad

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

So if Iran decides to blockade our blockade of their blockade, we will just have to blockade their blockade of our blockade blockading their blockade.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Israel, which wasn’t formally part of the Iran negotiations, wasn’t happy that it got word that a deal was finalized at a late stage and wasn’t consulted, according to mediators and a person familiar with the matter. https://t.co/Dp1dd4wat8

[sidrah roghay @roghay]

@omar_quraishi They always ask in Karachi.

[Anadolu English @anadoluagency]

Islamabad is facilitating indirect talks between US and Iran to end war in the Middle East

[Anadolu English @anadoluagency]

Iran has permitted two Pakistani cargo ships to transit through the Strait of Hormuz, sources in Pakistan’s Ports and Shipping Ministry confirmed to Anadolu on Saturday https://t.co/eypHAu7dR1

[Anadolu English @anadoluagency]

#BREAKING US delegation coming to Pakistan 'in a day or 2’ for possible talks but Iran ‘still not ready' due to mistrust, Pakistani Foreign Ministry sources tell Anadolu

[aqua @aqua52043525]

This is 2024, outside the Israeli Embassy in Seoul.
Jogye Order monks have protested in solidarity with Palestine.
For peace. For the weak. As they always have.

[Anadolu English @anadoluagency]

Head of US National Counterterrorism Center resigns over Iran war ⤵️

- ⁠‘I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,’ Joe Kent wrote a letter to US President Donald Trump on Monday

- Kent says that early into Trump’s second term ‘high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined’ his agenda and encouraged a war with Iran https://t.co/4AKAqKyHoc

[Al Arabiya English @AlArabiya_Eng]

China says it will donate $200,000 to parents of students killed in what it calls an “indiscriminate” missile strike on a school in Iran that left more than 165 people dead early in the Middle East war.

[Himal Southasian @HimalSouthasian]

Himal Southasian is hiring!
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If you care deeply about Southasian politics, society and culture - and want to be part of a publication that has been asking hard questions across the region for over three decades, we would like to hear from you.
We welcome applications from candidates who belong to marginalised social groups.
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[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

Starting now, we’re dropping our paywall.

For 48 hours only, we’ve removed the paywall on all of our coverage of the Iran war. Take a look for yourself to see what FP is all about: https://t.co/WroFooSrk6

[sidrah roghay @roghay]

Pakistan to announce austerity plan tomorrow.

Plan to propose distance learning and work from home arrangements amid sharp hike in fuel prices.

Plan to be reviewed on weekly basis

https://t.co/S5bpTaKqbM

[sidrah roghay @roghay]

“Anger is to make you effective. That’s its survival function. That’s why it’s given to you. If it makes you ineffective, drop it like a hot potato.” - Philip Roth

This woman wraps it up. All the anger, the angst, I have been feeling over the past week.

Viva Spain.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Spanish politician Manuela Bergerot criticised what she called the hypocrisy of supporting US and Israeli attacks on Iran while invoking feminist rhetoric, highlighting the killing of dozens of girls after a school was targeted in Minab.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

In a guest essay, Spain’s prime minister says: “No to the unilateral violation of international law. No to repeating the mistakes of the past. No to the idea that the world’s problems can be solved with bombs” https://t.co/IDUYygaNFZ

[Anadolu English @anadoluagency]

🌍 Top 10 countries with the world's largest proven oil reserves and recent key developments ⤵️

📍 Venezuela

➔ Ranks first in the world with 303.2 billion barrels of reserves
➔ President Maduro has been arrested by the US

📍 Saudi Arabia

➔ Ranks second in the world with 267.2 billion barrels of reserves
➔ Its primary export route, the Strait of Hormuz, is closed

📍 Iran

➔ Ranks third in the world with 208.6 billion barrels of reserves
➔ Currently at war with the US and Israel

���� Canada

➔ Holds 171 billion barrels of oil reserves

📍 Iraq

➔ Holds 145 billion barrels of oil reserves
➔ Its primary export route, the Strait of Hormuz, is closed

📍 UAE

➔ Holds 113 billion barrels of oil reserves
➔ Its primary export route, the Strait of Hormuz, is closed

📍 Kuwait

➔ Holds 101.5 billion barrels of oil reserves
➔ Its primary export route, the Strait of Hormuz, is closed

📍 Russia

➔ Holds 80 billion barrels of oil reserves
➔ Currently at war with Ukraine

📍 USA

➔ Holds 45 billion barrels of oil reserves
➔ Currently conducting strikes against Iran alongside Israel

📍 Libya

➔ Holds 48.4 billion barrels of oil reserves
➔ Has experienced civil war in the recent past