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Columnist & strategic affairs commentator | South Asian security, India’s foreign policy & the region’s recurring absurdities | 📝 @RisingKashmir @ibtimes_india

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Nothing, just an average civilian from Pakistan: “The day we, residents of Muridke, decide to act, we will convert every Hindu temple into a mosque where only chants of ‘Nara-e-Takbeer Allahu Akbar’ will be heard.”

Nothing, just an average civilian from Pakistan: “The day we, residents of Muridke, decide to act, we will convert every Hindu temple into a mosque where only chants of ‘Nara-e-Takbeer Allahu Akbar’ will be heard.”

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Russian President Vladimir Putin: We love Indian cinema. Russia is the only country, other than India, to have a channel that streams Indian films day and night.

Russian President Vladimir Putin: We love Indian cinema. Russia is the only country, other than India, to have a channel that streams Indian films day and night.

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🚨 Just In: PAF Base Nur Khan in Rawalpindi bombed.

🚨 Just In: PAF Base Nur Khan in Rawalpindi bombed.

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Donald Trump visits Taj Mahal.

Donald Trump visits Taj Mahal.

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Funny how the universe works. Divine justice arrives in ways one never imagines. The Pakistan Army’s complaints against the Taliban now sound uncannily similar to the concerns the Indian Army has always raised about Pakistan. Rawalpindi says the Afghan Taliban are giving cover fire to help infiltrators slip in. After all, the Taliban are a student movement and they seem to have learnt very well from their masters. And credit where it is due. Masha Allah, the teachers trained their students perfectly.

Funny how the universe works. Divine justice arrives in ways one never imagines. The Pakistan Army’s complaints against the Taliban now sound uncannily similar to the concerns the Indian Army has always raised about Pakistan. Rawalpindi says the Afghan Taliban are giving cover fire to help infiltrators slip in. After all, the Taliban are a student movement and they seem to have learnt very well from their masters. And credit where it is due. Masha Allah, the teachers trained their students perfectly.

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Is there anything original about Pakistan?

Is there anything original about Pakistan?

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What in the world are the Pakistan Aand Forces?

What in the world are the Pakistan Aand Forces?

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Armaghan Rehman, who runs a company in California, began by sliding into my Facebook DMs with death and nuclear threats simply over criticism of the Pakistan Army. When I posted screenshots and recordings of his messages, people identified his LinkedIn profile. He panicked and changed his profile picture on Facebook, deleted his first message, and started claiming he is based in Switzerland to create confusion over jurisdiction. After sending his second message, he blocked me. Since then, he has been blocking and unblocking me at his discretion purely to send further abuse. He unblocks me long enough to deliver a message, then blocks me again so I cannot respond. Typical Paki coward. This is not some random trolling. It is ideological intimidation. The rage is not about disagreement. It is about silencing critics of Pakistan’s military establishment and asserting religious supremacy through threats. The abuse is explicitly targeted at my Hindu faith. Pakistan’s state narrative, its textbooks, and its public discourse, rooted in radical Islam, normalise hostility towards Hindus and Jews. Western democracies assume that migration leads to assimilation into pluralistic norms. In some cases, it may. But in most cases, it does not. This is why a Pakistani living in California still feels entitled to terrorise non-Muslims. If you believe in your faith, defend it with arguments. If you believe in your army, defend it with facts. But if your first instinct is death threats and religious slurs, then the problem is not the critic. The problem is what you have been taught to believe about those who are different from you. No one should have to tolerate threats for exercising free speech. And no one living in a democratic country should imagine that online intimidation is consequence-free. I call on the U.S. authorities to identify this racist and hateful individual with violent tendencies, as it is clear by his actions that his ideological conditioning from Pakistan did not evaporate at the immigration counter. He is a threat to the entire civilised world.

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Complete internet blackout in Muzaffarabad again after a few hours of relaxation. All videos are being taken down. A local source based in PoJK downloaded this one just in time.

Complete internet blackout in Muzaffarabad again after a few hours of relaxation. All videos are being taken down. A local source based in PoJK downloaded this one just in time.

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And all these years, I thought he was from the Planet of the Apes.

And all these years, I thought he was from the Planet of the Apes.

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Please tell me it’s AI. But, oh wait, Shehbaz Sharif is also fully capable of saying something like this.

Please tell me it’s AI. But, oh wait, Shehbaz Sharif is also fully capable of saying something like this.

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Delhi Police lodges FIR against CJP protestors for violently attacking RAF personnel.

Delhi Police lodges FIR against CJP protestors for violently attacking RAF personnel.

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There is more than enough to criticise about Donald Trump without misquoting him. In this instance, he did not say that the Prime Minister of Pakistan would have died without his involvement. He said that ‘35 million people’ would have died, and that this was conveyed to him by the Pakistani Prime Minister. That is very different from how many mainstream Indian journalists and reporters are presenting it, which misstates what was actually said. One may question the accuracy, the exaggeration, or the framing of what was said. However, altering the wording entirely only weakens legitimate criticism. Disagreement does not justify inaccuracy. If we want higher standards in public life, we must also apply them in our own reporting and commentary, even when the subject is someone we strongly disagree with.

There is more than enough to criticise about Donald Trump without misquoting him. In this instance, he did not say that the Prime Minister of Pakistan would have died without his involvement. He said that ‘35 million people’ would have died, and that this was conveyed to him by the Pakistani Prime Minister. That is very different from how many mainstream Indian journalists and reporters are presenting it, which misstates what was actually said. One may question the accuracy, the exaggeration, or the framing of what was said. However, altering the wording entirely only weakens legitimate criticism. Disagreement does not justify inaccuracy. If we want higher standards in public life, we must also apply them in our own reporting and commentary, even when the subject is someone we strongly disagree with.

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Look, the Taliban are hitting women. The good thing is that the United States of America is always watching them.

Look, the Taliban are hitting women. The good thing is that the United States of America is always watching them.

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Strategic analysis at its finest.

Strategic analysis at its finest.

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This is heartbreaking 💔 Can anyone help me locate this guy?

This is heartbreaking 💔 Can anyone help me locate this guy?

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What the hell did I just hear? How is this allowed on X? I had a similar experience on this person’s Space with the so-called Pakistani scholar Ishtiaq Ahmed. He started using extremely foul language over a disagreement, and the host did not stop him at all. Then he simply quietly deleted the recording as if it never happened. I don’t know the other side of the story, but no disagreement or provocation can ever justify speaking to a woman in such a manner on a public platform. X should deplatform such toxic individuals.

What the hell did I just hear? How is this allowed on X? I had a similar experience on this person’s Space with the so-called Pakistani scholar Ishtiaq Ahmed. He started using extremely foul language over a disagreement, and the host did not stop him at all. Then he simply quietly deleted the recording as if it never happened. I don’t know the other side of the story, but no disagreement or provocation can ever justify speaking to a woman in such a manner on a public platform. X should deplatform such toxic individuals.

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This is the video that former Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim, who quit showbiz for religious reasons, claiming working in the entertainment industry was against Islam, has a problem with. Soon after she announced her departure from films, her mother’s posts on Facebook cheering for Pakistan during cricket matches had gone viral. I remember the TV debates over it. Now, years later, she is lecturing everyone else on what Muslim children should and should not be doing at Independence Day celebrations. My memories of Independence and Republic Day celebrations in Jammu and Kashmir are of very elaborate programmes, even during the peak of terrorism. We had march-pasts, songs, dances and performances, and Muslim children participated just as enthusiastically as Hindu and Sikh children did. We did not see educated, exposed people speaking in such regressive language even back then. I do not remember anyone objecting to singing Vande Mataram either. We sang it all the time, including in schools where the overwhelming majority of students were Muslim and the management was Muslim. These heightened religious sensitivities seem to have appeared with remarkable enthusiasm over the years. And if anyone needs to mind their own business and broaden their vision, it is Zaira Wasim.

This is the video that former Bollywood actress Zaira Wasim, who quit showbiz for religious reasons, claiming working in the entertainment industry was against Islam, has a problem with. Soon after she announced her departure from films, her mother’s posts on Facebook cheering for Pakistan during cricket matches had gone viral. I remember the TV debates over it. Now, years later, she is lecturing everyone else on what Muslim children should and should not be doing at Independence Day celebrations. My memories of Independence and Republic Day celebrations in Jammu and Kashmir are of very elaborate programmes, even during the peak of terrorism. We had march-pasts, songs, dances and performances, and Muslim children participated just as enthusiastically as Hindu and Sikh children did. We did not see educated, exposed people speaking in such regressive language even back then. I do not remember anyone objecting to singing Vande Mataram either. We sang it all the time, including in schools where the overwhelming majority of students were Muslim and the management was Muslim. These heightened religious sensitivities seem to have appeared with remarkable enthusiasm over the years. And if anyone needs to mind their own business and broaden their vision, it is Zaira Wasim.

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South Indians ❎ Indians from the South ✅ There’s something incredibly endearing about the way they speak. So simple, so genuine, so full of warmth. And no, their Hindi isn’t what won me over. Their innocence did. ❤️

South Indians ❎ Indians from the South ✅ There’s something incredibly endearing about the way they speak. So simple, so genuine, so full of warmth. And no, their Hindi isn’t what won me over. Their innocence did. ❤️

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SSG commandos and Pakistan Army soldiers clash over water in a military camp located in Asman Manza area of Upper South Waziristan. Injuries resulting from gunshots were so severe that injured personnel were to be airlifted to the nearest military hospital. Radio silence from ISPR, as usual.

SSG commandos and Pakistan Army soldiers clash over water in a military camp located in Asman Manza area of Upper South Waziristan. Injuries resulting from gunshots were so severe that injured personnel were to be airlifted to the nearest military hospital. Radio silence from ISPR, as usual.

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French, Pakistani, Indian, Afghan, Kazakh, Swiss and American participants gathered in Paris on Pakistan’s Defence Day this Sunday to highlight recent killings of civilians by the Pakistan Army in Kashmir (100) and Afghanistan (500+). Speakers from Afghanistan and PoJK condemned raids, protest crackdowns and cross-border strikes by the Pakistani military, while European participants said Western governments had treated the record as an inconvenience rather than a human-rights file.

French, Pakistani, Indian, Afghan, Kazakh, Swiss and American participants gathered in Paris on Pakistan’s Defence Day this Sunday to highlight recent killings of civilians by the Pakistan Army in Kashmir (100) and Afghanistan (500+). Speakers from Afghanistan and PoJK condemned raids, protest crackdowns and cross-border strikes by the Pakistani military, while European participants said Western governments had treated the record as an inconvenience rather than a human-rights file.

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Convicted terrorist Yasin Malik’s daughter, Razia Sultan, pleads to Asim Munir, requesting more security and a bulletproof car. She says she and her Pakistani mother are loyal servants of Pakistan, keep Asim Munir next to Allah, and that the least they deserve is security from the Pakistani state, as they always defend the Pakistan Army. In her rehearsed plea, she makes a startling revelation that Indian NSA Ajit Doval directly called her mom to threaten her. Sounds completely believable.

Convicted terrorist Yasin Malik’s daughter, Razia Sultan, pleads to Asim Munir, requesting more security and a bulletproof car. She says she and her Pakistani mother are loyal servants of Pakistan, keep Asim Munir next to Allah, and that the least they deserve is security from the Pakistani state, as they always defend the Pakistan Army. In her rehearsed plea, she makes a startling revelation that Indian NSA Ajit Doval directly called her mom to threaten her. Sounds completely believable.

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I’m genuinely stunned by the Prime Minister’s speech from yesterday. I still can’t quite believe that he said this.

I’m genuinely stunned by the Prime Minister’s speech from yesterday. I still can’t quite believe that he said this.

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India Through a Pakistani Mother’s Eyes ♥️

India Through a Pakistani Mother’s Eyes ♥️

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Thank you, PM Modi. Honestly, I would vote for you just for this. Marrying potential terrorists who hate your country should have consequences.

Thank you, PM Modi. Honestly, I would vote for you just for this. Marrying potential terrorists who hate your country should have consequences.

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Jyoti Malhotra on Pahalgam terror attack. Pakistan ko chhod kar sabki hi galati hai, including the victims.

Jyoti Malhotra on Pahalgam terror attack. Pakistan ko chhod kar sabki hi galati hai, including the victims.

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Balochistan: The BLA has now released its own footage showing its attack on a Pakistani military convoy at Ziarat Cross. While the ISPR has not issued any statement yet, local sources have confirmed eight casualties. You can find images of the seven dead soldiers from this attack on my timeline already. However, the BLA is claiming that it had 18 kills and destroyed both vehicles.

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Balochistan: The BLA has now released its own footage showing its attack on a Pakistani military convoy at Ziarat Cross. While the ISPR has not issued any statement yet, local sources have confirmed eight casualties. You can find images of the seven dead soldiers from this attack on my timeline already. However, the BLA is claiming that it had 18 kills and destroyed both vehicles.

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Balochistan: Dozens of vehicles burnt at a Customs office in Gharki area/checkpoint near Ziarat Cross in an overnight attack by Baloch insurgents.

Balochistan: Dozens of vehicles burnt at a Customs office in Gharki area/checkpoint near Ziarat Cross in an overnight attack by Baloch insurgents.

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India sends fresh relief packages for Afghan refugees recently deported by Pakistan.

India sends fresh relief packages for Afghan refugees recently deported by Pakistan.

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Hilarious 😁 Canadian-born international human rights lawyer Hillel Neuer calls out Qatar for harbouring Hamas operatives. Pakistan objects, only to be reminded that it too is a state sponsor of terror.

Hilarious 😁 Canadian-born international human rights lawyer Hillel Neuer calls out Qatar for harbouring Hamas operatives. Pakistan objects, only to be reminded that it too is a state sponsor of terror.

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How about “united hate” as a strategy to tackle India? Uncle got a nice point at 2:17. “Aur mera khyaal hai poori qaum ab finally ek page par aa chuki hai aur China bhi samajh gaya hai ke Pakistan ki geo-“surgical” location kitni important hai.”

How about “united hate” as a strategy to tackle India? Uncle got a nice point at 2:17. “Aur mera khyaal hai poori qaum ab finally ek page par aa chuki hai aur China bhi samajh gaya hai ke Pakistan ki geo-“surgical” location kitni important hai.”

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Somewhere in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Banned Pakistani Taliban outfit TTP releases new visuals showing Pashtun civilians displaced during military operations carried out by the Pakistan Army being inducted and trained for the ‘Al-Maksur Istishadi’ force, that will be deployed to carry out revenge attacks on the Pakistan Army. In Islamist terminology, istishadi translates to a ‘martyrdom seeker’ or suicide bomber, while Al-Maksur means broken, chopped, or modified in various Arabic dialects, suggesting this is essentially gonna be a suicide squad of the TTP.

Somewhere in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Banned Pakistani Taliban outfit TTP releases new visuals showing Pashtun civilians displaced during military operations carried out by the Pakistan Army being inducted and trained for the ‘Al-Maksur Istishadi’ force, that will be deployed to carry out revenge attacks on the Pakistan Army. In Islamist terminology, istishadi translates to a ‘martyrdom seeker’ or suicide bomber, while Al-Maksur means broken, chopped, or modified in various Arabic dialects, suggesting this is essentially gonna be a suicide squad of the TTP.

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