Farooq Ali

[Farooq Ali @sfa677]

@GeorgeN28581 Didn’t they order SU57 recently?

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@SubhanJaved911 @Grey_Wolf19 FCS known as the "Crucible".

[Subhan Javed 786 @SubhanJaved911]

RAF 🇬🇧 established landing ground in Mianwali in early 1920s for swift movement of army co-operation aircrafts from aircraft park in Lahore to frontier duties in Miranshah & Wana (North and South Waziristan agency) ...

During WW2 in 1942, it was paved with cement runway and dispersal area but as 🇵🇰 came into being and operation Curzon led to withdrawal of regular units from tribal area, Mianwali was put on "back burner" for almost two decades.

After 65 war, PAF established an operational command to fill gaps in infrastructure and oversee all bases from mauripur to peshawar alike. Wings of under construction Rafiqui (shorkot) were clipped as new FOB at Mianwali was initiated, contrary to original decision of operationalising an alternate base for Sargodha in Jhang district of punjab.

Finally, in oct 1970 this new home of 🦅 was inaugurated by moving detachments of F-6 & Mirage 3. Real test came shortly when IAF Hunters attacked it on 4th dec 1971. Bogeys missed the 'Farmer' on ORP but Flg off. Qazi javed of No 25 sqn managed to shoot down Hunter of pathankot based No 27 sqn 🇮🇳 during egress in which fg off Vidhyadhar shankar chati was taken PoW near Khabaki lake of soon valley !

Mirage 3 of No 5 sqn flown by Flt Lt Naeem atta shotdown IAF Canbera (IF 916) during the same night with sidewinder near Nara village of khushab. Both crew members of Agra based jet bomber conversion unit (JBCU) Flt Lt Lloyd moses sasoon (pilot) and Ram metharam advani (navigator) perished on impact 😶

The very next day, lone hunter attacked Sakesar FPS-20 radar. Mirages were scrambled to intercept but significant damage was done to 📡 which took 3 days of emergency repair. Sqn Ldr Jal manekshaw mistry of No 20 sqn was killed in action.

No. 7 sqn bandits with 10 B-57 bombers & OC wing commander muhammad yunis was also located at Mianwali. They struck srinagar, avantipur, amritsar, pathankot, halwara, adampur, sirsa and bikaner AFS with gusto but lost one bomber and its crew over amritsar.

IAF Canberas bombed mianwali in return but killed rural folks instead of hitting the base. PAF C-130s were chipped in for a unique night time bombing 💣 of Jaisalmer deep into thar desert of Rajasthan !

That is how first combat experience of this new base ended. Seeing its potential, top brass quickly upgraded it to MOB status and inaugurated fighter conversion unit for training young pilots. Rafiqui was waiting to settle its score and became front line fighter base with newly inducted Mirage 5 in 1973 by deployment of No 9 sqn Griffins.

That is how destiny shifted, one with FT-5, FT-6 trainers and another with real horses 🐎 ... rivalry continued well into later decades as "clipping of wings" was never forgiven !

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@leguape @TheAviationist Yup. Non operational moored at the docks.

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@hashem_barat @Zakhe93 I believe these submarines were non operational moored at the docks.

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@kirawontmiss Chemtrails!!!!!

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@SubhanJaved911 @altfoxb I don't know why we don't emply Akinci on western front. They need to be over Kandahar/Helmand 24x7

[Blunt @Shinamuller]

Marvi’s tweet stands on a lie small enough to miss and sharp enough to cut.
Kate Rothschild is not godmother to Imran Khan’s sons. Jemima Goldsmith is godmother to Kate’s son Arthur. The blessing runs the other way. Reverse it, and a wedding guest becomes a sacred tie. A sacred tie turns a bank into a blood pact. That is the trick.
Who opened Rothschild’s door in Pakistan? Benazir Bhutto. In 1988 her government hired N.M. Rothschild. The May 1989 report spoke of “widespread ownership”: small savers as shareholders. Under the polish sat the IMF script. Deficit, debt, no time for a public fight. Klein calls it shock. Not always a flood. Sometimes only a fiscal panic and a thick paper.
Rothschild did not loot the mills. It sold a neoliberal map. PPP and PML-N turned the map into a carve up. Between 1990 and 1993 more than a hundred units went fast. Little contest. Familiar faces. Wealth bunched. MCB went to Mansha’s circle in 1991. Cement followed nearby. A family rose from mid list to the top in a few years. That is not public partnership. That is rent: cheap state franchise, private profit, public risk.
They said sales would lift the debt. The IMF cycle deepened instead. Trade open, subsidies cut, assets sold, nature priced. The budget fed defence, creditors, and the connected. The citizen got tariffs and inflation.
Khan’s cabinet shows no Rothschild mandate like 1988 or like Shehbaz’s 2023–26 bond and debt talks. He married into the Goldsmiths. He did not cut the first door.
A rent seeking economy grabs wealth instead of making it. Licences, cheap assets, guaranteed tariffs, political credit. The old state does not die. It collects rent for a new landlord.
Ask Shehbaz about London if you want. Shame Marvi for another reason. She cut the founders out of the picture: the PPP invitation, the Nawaz rush, the rent, the Fund. She left a rival’s in laws, a false godmother, and “I wonder if they whispered.”
That is not history. It is a curtain. Anger turns to a surname. The loot keeps its quiet.

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@Farzien2 KL was also in the 2010s to support Pakistan’s involvement in WoT. Not related to the original Afg refugee crisis 79-90

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@Farzien2 Happy to correct myself if indeed the case. I lived through it. I know as soon as Obama was in office majority of aid was cut off and relationship deteriorated post Holbrook’s death.

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@Farzien2 Backtracking on what? I said happy to be corrected if you can supply me with documentation which you did. Then I provided you with my rationale.
Having a polite conversation that is all.

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@Farzien2 Instead of screenshots can you please share actual links that I can research? Thx

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@Farzien2 Anything other than Wikipedia?

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@Edwardian842 I know Phelps, Usain Bolt, and Carl Lewis.
No clue who won the shot put gold or Greco-Roman wrestling gold.
One gold is just that.

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@xtrosage @alfienoakes63 @Kathleen_Tyson_ This is turning into a Monty Python skit

[حسن @feast22nd]

@SubhanJaved911 yes one of the jet fell down in our village, i remember the piolet got arrested.