Merchantengineer @Merchantengine1

On the #IndusWaterTreaty @WorldBank President Ajay Banga tells me “We have no role to play beyond a facilitator. There’s a lot of speculation in the media about how the World Bank will step in & fix the problem but it’s all bunk. The treaty has worked for 60 years with ups and downs. This is a topic for both countries to decide. There is no provision in the treaty for suspension- it either needs to be gone or traded for another one which requires the 2 countries to want to agree. The world bank’s role is merely as a facilitator @CNBCTV18Live @CNBCTV18News #IndiaPakistan

CNBC-TV18 @CNBCTV18News

a year ago

#CNBCTV18Exclusive I 'The @WorldBank has no role to play in the #IndusWaterTreaty,' says their president #AjayBanga in conversation with @ShereenBhan Banga adds that the pact is between two sovereign nations, and the #WorldBank can only play the role of a facilitator

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@sneheshphilip @VikramMisri why hasn't a single western publication carried this image? what is their game? what kind of irresponsible journalism are they practicing,

Good snapshot of the strangeness of Pakistani state structure. A commander in a Salafist terrorist org that's officially banned leads a big public ceremony, w local bureaucrats, cops, & Pakistani army men in the frame, on video broadcast by a major news network

Taha Siddiqui @TahaSSiddiqui

a year ago

🔴 #BREAKING Hafiz Abdul Rauf, a US-designated global terrorist and a Lashkar e Taiba commander, leads funeral prayers for those killed in India’s strikes

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My view: India cares deeply about an off ramp and has made that clear in all its messaging about Operation Sindoor. What it doesn’t care about is a “face-saving exit” for Gen. Asim Munir. The off ramp India constructed had a sign that said this: “Accept our limited and targeted retaliation for the Pahalgam massacre and we will not escalate further.” It did not say “come launch an attack on our military bases so you can save face and we’ll call it quits.” In short, Pakistan has had an off ramp from the start. It still has an off ramp. It just may not be the most appealing off ramp from the Pakistani army’s perspective.

Christopher Clary @clary_co

a year ago

I made an analytic error, I think. I assumed India would want to restore deterrence by showing cost-imposing capabilities while still finding a way to give Munir a face-saving exit. But it seems clear that India doesn’t care about off-ramps.

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“Bahawalpur.” I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists. When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur. Did India bomb Bahawalpur? It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism. Why do I know? My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur. He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.” What did Danny learn? The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur. On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview. I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur. The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir. It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities. Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814. Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur. Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails? No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others. Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s. Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir. You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor. It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.

I don’t think India should be terribly concerned about Pakistan doing a decent job of conventional fighting. For a considerable period of time, Pak objective was to play up its full spectrum deterrence/TNWs etc. to dissuade India from using conventional strikes in response to subconventional (terrorist) attacks. If so, the better Pak conventional forces perform, the more space it creates under the nuclear threshold for Delhi to use conventional Ops in response to terror strikes. Indian objective is to convince Pak that terrorist attacks will not go unpunished. While it is possible that Pak will respond to it, 2 things are important to be noted: 1. Pak response will be conventional 2. How many times will Pak want to employ subconventional methods which it knows will attract definite conventional response from India? Therefore, it’s the certainty of the Indian conventional response that will ultimately deter Pakistani use of subconventional Ops. Of course, this will take several subconventional-conventional-conventional iterations to become a new normal.

@sarayupani Do you not understand a word of Marathi? He starts off by saying that the US never went to war after 9/11 which is patently absurd! Please look for different heroes.

@Suresh66508150 @parthpunter exactly, afghanistan and iraq both

For 25 mins, Indian drones, missiles, and jets made a mockery of Pakistan's Chinese defence systems to devastate 9 terrorist camps, repeatedly, deep inside nuclear armed Pakistan, inspite of 2 weeks preparation time given to them. This must be the only PR by Indian SM warriors.

Al-Qaeda's South Asia branch (AQIS) has called on all "mujahidin" militants and Muslims across the region to engage in "jihad" against India, saying it was a duty following the country's strikes against Pakistan. The statement came on the same day, 7 May, that India launched a series of strikes on targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, saying they were in retaliation for the 22 April militant attack that killed 26 civilians in Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir. This unusually swift response from al-Qaeda underscores the urgency with which it views the development, and reflects a clear attempt to exploit the escalation as a rallying cry for recruitment and jihadist action. Full details in BBCM reporting: monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/b0003u…

Why do we call them Pakistan's proxies? It's pretty clear they are part of the NatSec apparatus. We need to hold Pakistan accountable for terror. SSG commandos help to train these groups. They get guidance from the military. #SanctionPakistan

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

a year ago

Interesting to see that Pakistani Army soldiers are attending the funeral of 3 Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commanders killed in yesterday’s Indian missile strikes against Muridke. LeT is an Islamist terrorist organization and yet these commanders are buried with state honors. 🇮🇳🇵🇰

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The injured kid is background is worried about his school. These visuals are from Poonch hospital. Christ School in poonch was bombed earlier by Pakistan.

Pakistani activist Tariq Ali explains the difference between India and Pakistan "India has many different peoples speaking different languages. But if you ask them what their nationality is, they say Indian. Pakistan has never built that kind of national identity"

pakistanis calling us a genocidal bloodthirsty state when their entire country and existence was formed based on their hate for hindus is hilarious

#WATCH | Vadodara, Gujarat | Col Sofiya Qureshi briefed the media today on #OperationSindoor. Her brother, Mohammed Sanjay Qureshi, says, "She is my idol... We had been waiting for a long time for revenge. But we could never have expected such revenge, or for the press conference to be conducted by a family member. We were pleasantly surprised that our family got such a big opportunity."

For those who were and are living in a delusion that Pakistan is a well-wisher of Kashmiris. Targeting civilians areas along the LoC in Kashmir is an act of cowardice against innocent, unarmed people.

The Nawakadal @thenawakadal

a year ago

Visuals from near the LoC in north Kashmir's Kupwara district

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⚡️Multiple funerals of LeT terrorists that were eliminated in last night missile strikes currently underway at Muridke, #Pakistan Note how Pak army is at the forefront of this funeral processions. #OpSindoor

Oh no. No no. Pakistan is not Palestine. Let us be clear about this. Pakistan is a rogue state that promotes and shelters terrorists. India has a right to retaliate and the retaliation has been limited to terrorist camps to a large extent.

Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman

a year ago

Modi is the twin devil of Netanyahu. India under a fascist regime clearly wants to take advantage of a world that can’t stop even the most obvious genocide ever. May Allah protect Pakistan, and the innocent people of the world at the mercy of small tyrants with big weapons.

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@somnath1978 cheap scotch