Sannan

a passionate learner, trekker, Backpacker. FIFA & Sofa lover.

[brief. @brief_pk]

Zia-ul-Haq in 1977 and Pervez Musharraf in 1999 ruled from the front, so the military owned every failure directly. By the end of 2007, public anger against Musharraf got so bad that officers were afraid to wear their uniforms in public and GHQ told personnel to travel in civilian clothes. Today���s military government learned from 2007 and rules from behind. They keep a compromised civilian coalition in office to keep Western credit lines open and take the blame for inflation, militant attacks, and bad governance while the military grabs the country's assets through the SIFC.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, they already took Fauji and Askari's cement and limestone quarries in Nizampur, NLC's border terminals at Torkham, prime cantonment real estate, timber and hydel corridors, and 20,900 square kilometers of reserved copper, gold, and lithium blocks. Unlike real estate, mining takes a decade of military operations, surveys, and crushing plants before it pays out. In KP, that work started after the 2014 North Waziristan operation, moved through the 2016 Boya copper lease, the 2019 plant startup, the 2022 exploration expansion, and the 2023 tax-exempt Export Processing Zone. Now those mines are ready to pay out billions right ahead of next month's investment forum in Islamabad.

The problem for the military is that you cannot run a 1980s cover-up on a 2026 digital trail. To pitch foreign buyers, the state had to put its mining maps on KP's online Landfolio cadastre and clear shipments through international customs. Those public records expose the whole timeline, from FWO's 7,410-acre Boya mine and its $9.34 million in new Chinese rock-boring machinery to NAB's own files clearing the local mining backlog.

The civilian front is not saving the military from a repeat of 2007, because the public records show who is taking the province's wealth right as a decade of groundwork starts paying off.

[brief. @brief_pk]

When an elected government was in office, terror attacks were nonstop news because the chaos gave them an excuse to step in and take over. Now that the provincial government has been removed and governor rule is in place, PEMRA orders TV channels to stop reporting blasts and terror incidents. Either they are hiding their own failure to fight terrorism, or the whole thing was obviously a proxy game from the start.

It’s hilarious how quickly terrorism narrative vanishes the moment the military government has nobody left to blame. And with the cameras turned off, they can quietly push through their mineral bills and strip KP's resources in peace.

Basically a photocopy of what already goes on in Balochistan.

[Ihsanullah Tipu Maseed @IhsanTipu]

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police are already battling severe militant threats of very complex nature. Deploying them for extensive political crackdowns will exhaust the force further and undermine vital public support when it matters the most.

[brief. @brief_pk]

Pakistan’s military government has imposed governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and placed Sohail Afridi under house arrest. While many view this as a move to suppress ongoing protests, our findings suggest the real driver is control over provincial mineral wealth. Central to this maneuver is the 2025 Mines and Minerals Bill (No. 52), designed to grant foreign entities access to regional extraction, a commitment the establishment must uphold to secure its hold on power.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate due to climate change. If they disappeared entirely, the result would be a profound water, food, and security crisis affecting 2 billion people. The fallout would happen in two distinct phases:

Phase 1: The Melt

Before the ice vanishes, rapid melting will cause massive volatility. We will see frequent glacial lake outbursts flooding downstream towns, widespread landslides destroying key infrastructure, and heavy silt crippling vital hydropower dams.

Phase 2: The Aftermath

Once the glaciers are gone, the regional water tower runs dry. Major rivers will lose up to two-thirds of their dry-season flow, triggering immediate drinking water shortages, a collapse in agricultural yields, and widespread power grid failures.

This will inevitably force mass migrations and escalate geopolitical tensions over remaining water rights.
Ultimately, the Himalayas are a global life-support system.

Combating climate change to preserve them is a matter of international security.

[Backpirch Weather @BackpirchCrew]

Initially, it was thought that an earthquake near the Nepal-China border triggered the catastrophic flash flood down the Bhotekoshi River today.

However, further analysis suggests that the glacier collapse ITSELF caused the earthquake.

Yes, you read that right. A Magnitude 5.2 seismic shockwave caused by a colossal landslide of ice and rock on the Earth’s SURFACE. This is actually insane.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

A few updates:
– A glacier broke/shifted along the Tibet/Nepal border
– The sudden shift released the equivalent of 950 tons of TNT detonating
– That allowed a glacial lake to essentially drain into the Triushuli River
– River swelled 50-100+ feet in height and 5X in width

[Kyang Thang རྐྱང་ཐང་ @Kyangs_Thang]

1) Understandably many are confused where so much water came from with no lakes. We need to understand the scale of this. 🧵

> The glacier face that collapsed is ~1.5 kms wide & 1.4 kms deep. That height alone is nearly twice that of Burj Khalifa.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨BREAKING: For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — is being released in full by Drop Site.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Turned out the Epstein files are full of billionaires and not immigrants.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israeli drone chased and struck a man on a scooter with his 12 year old daughter, killing the father. The little girl ran, wounded, ran and was hunted by the drone and struck again. She has succumbed to her wounds.

[Patricia Marins @pati_marins64]

$25 billion falls far short of covering ammunition costs alone. The actual expenditures are clearly being understated and concealed. A more realistic estimate for the total costs, including damages, places the figure between $120 billion and $140 billion.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

The plan is greater Israel by any means necessary. That’s it. There is no other 12D chess going on here. The war is destroying the petrodollar, they don’t give a fuck. It’s not part of some deep strategy involving energy resources, it strengthens China immensely. They don’t care. They will burn everything to the ground to try to get greater Israel.

It was a common error in analysis to treat the Iraq war as “stupid” or “a mistake.” Paul Bremer dismissing the Iraqi army, obliterating the state through De-Ba'athification, creating the insurgency. It doesn’t make any sense as a strategy unless you understand that the war was for Israel.

The Iraqi state had to be pulverized so it could never again threaten Israel. Iraqi academics, engineers, specialists of all kinds had to be killed or chased out in terror. Then ditto in Libya, ditto in Syria. The only plan is to try to do that to Iran.

None of this was “a mistake.” None of it was “stupid.” The actual goals were just different from the justifications presented for public consumption.

The Israel lobby is immensely powerful but a war with Iran was always the one thing they couldn’t get. U.S. state planners since the Iranian revolution have understood what closure of the strait of Hormuz would mean. It is apocalyptic for the maintenance of the petrodollar that the U.S. empire depends on.

The lobby has been working our government for decades now. They’ve finally got a president blackmailed enough and a deep state zogged enough that the initial start of the war could go forward. Now they’re riding on the back of a tiger.

The cost of living crisis is coming home. They have to keep the war going over what will be increasing civil unrest. Eventually they’re going to push Trump into doubling down. The goal is to go nuclear. That’s what they think is the way out. Nuking Iran.

This is genocidal madness. It’s why everyone in Congress needs to be held accountable for not funding a single dollar for this illegal war. It’s why the anti war movement in this country needs to wake up and recognize that we are in a crisis moment. Our passivity will be taken by the ruling class as permission to do the unthinkable.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Asked if he thinks Israel committed genocide in Gaza, Obama accuses the questioner of not following the rules, then says “there are disasters and catastrophes everywhere”

Obama is a historically inconsequential former president who believes in nothing but his own celebrity

[blanc @dqveed]

the fact that we witnessed this in real time and yet the world is still so silent is absolutely enraging

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨Israel assassinated Imad Miqdad yesterday in a drone strike, targeting his solar-powered phone charging station in Gaza yesterday.

Miqdad had been providing civilians with a rare means of communication amid ongoing electricity cuts.

The strike killed him and destroyed the facility, further limiting access to basic services and connectivity for residents.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

The bullshit tactic of Israel supporters is to pretend the bad parts of Israel are due to Netanyahu, so that once he's gone, everyone can and should go back to loving Israel.

Netanyahu is fully representative of Israel. That's why he's been in power 19 years. What comes after him will be more sociopathic. Netanyahu is the by-product of the evils of that country, not the cause.

[Cyborg 🇵🇰🍁 @cyborg_reborn]

Take a look at kilometer long track carved through the forest for timber smuggling, despite the devastating floods we faced last year.

In PTI-run KPK, most of forests have almost been wiped out. Timber mafias must be brought to justice, for Pakistan & for our future generations.

[H™ @MahatmaaGanji]

Babus wouldve taxed him into the ground with a new special AI tax and banks wouldve arbitrarily frozen assets until he warmed a few pockets

Hilarious to even think about it

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Israel slaughtered another journalist in Lebanon today. If you live in America, you pay these monsters to carry out terror in multiple countries. Congratulations.