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Columnist & strategic affairs commentator | South Asian security, India’s foreign policy & the region’s recurring absurdities | 📝 @RisingKashmir @Page3NewsThai

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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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Donald Trump visits Taj Mahal.

Donald Trump visits Taj Mahal.

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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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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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Pakistani media claims the Nur Khan airbase hasn’t been hit, but videos being uploaded by locals suggest otherwise. Maybe not fully destroyed. This is a developing story.

Pakistani media claims the Nur Khan airbase hasn’t been hit, but videos being uploaded by locals suggest otherwise. Maybe not fully destroyed. This is a developing story.

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Bitta ji: +1 Ghazi: -1 Jo bhi kaho, auzaar toh Paaji ka hi bada hai. 😂🤣

Bitta ji: +1 Ghazi: -1 Jo bhi kaho, auzaar toh Paaji ka hi bada hai. 😂🤣

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London-based Pakistani journalist Ihtisham Ul Haq deletes his tweet defending Zainab Abbas after his own old Hinduphobic tweet in which he asks a random Hindu Twitter (X) user to go and drink cow piss goes viral. Links to both the now-deleted tweets:

London-based Pakistani journalist Ihtisham Ul Haq deletes his tweet defending Zainab Abbas after his own old Hinduphobic tweet in which he asks a random Hindu Twitter (X) user to go and drink cow piss goes viral. Links to both the now-deleted tweets:

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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.

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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DG ISPR Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry did not just wink at Absa Komal. He dismissed her question altogether and even asked whether a male colleague, Mansoor Ali Khan, had prompted her to ask it. Mansoor also failed to offer a firm response and instead laughed it off, turning the press conference into a circus. In the eyes of Pakistan’s military spokesperson, a female journalist cannot ask serious questions independently. And when she does, she receives a wink instead of an answer. That says everything about their attitude.

DG ISPR Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry did not just wink at Absa Komal. He dismissed her question altogether and even asked whether a male colleague, Mansoor Ali Khan, had prompted her to ask it. Mansoor also failed to offer a firm response and instead laughed it off, turning the press conference into a circus. In the eyes of Pakistan’s military spokesperson, a female journalist cannot ask serious questions independently. And when she does, she receives a wink instead of an answer. That says everything about their attitude.

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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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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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🚨 A Liberia-flagged container ship capsizes near Kochi; the Indian Coast Guard launches a major rescue operation, saves 21 crew members from liferafts.

🚨 A Liberia-flagged container ship capsizes near Kochi; the Indian Coast Guard launches a major rescue operation, saves 21 crew members from liferafts.

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Jannat Mirza, a famous TikToker and daughter of a senior Pakistani police officer, refuses to comment on the Pahalgam terror attack, fearing her YouTube and Instagram accounts might also get restricted in India like those of many other Pakistani celebrities. This is how the Pakistani elite operates. They radicalise other people’s children while teaching their own to stay quiet when it affects their pockets. Pragmatism for their kids. Jihad for yours.

Jannat Mirza, a famous TikToker and daughter of a senior Pakistani police officer, refuses to comment on the Pahalgam terror attack, fearing her YouTube and Instagram accounts might also get restricted in India like those of many other Pakistani celebrities. This is how the Pakistani elite operates. They radicalise other people’s children while teaching their own to stay quiet when it affects their pockets. Pragmatism for their kids. Jihad for yours.

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A female security officer at the Munich Security Conference asks Asim Munir if he’s the general. Maybe it is his hunched back. Or the permanently sleep-deprived eyes and that odd, slightly lost, almost hesitant gait that hardly projects battle-hardened authority and doesn’t quite scream field marshal. When even a security officer has to ask if he is the general, perhaps the body language is telling a story the rank cannot.

A female security officer at the Munich Security Conference asks Asim Munir if he’s the general. Maybe it is his hunched back. Or the permanently sleep-deprived eyes and that odd, slightly lost, almost hesitant gait that hardly projects battle-hardened authority and doesn’t quite scream field marshal. When even a security officer has to ask if he is the general, perhaps the body language is telling a story the rank cannot.

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This is what targeting innocent children looks like. A kid from Poonch, India, hit by Pakistani shelling.

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This is what targeting innocent children looks like. A kid from Poonch, India, hit by Pakistani shelling.

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Reports from Pakistani Punjab say police opened fire on TLP’s pro-Palestine march, leaving several injured and one reportedly dead. Look at the irony. The same extremists, once sheltered by Punjab Police and the Pakistan Army to persecute Ahmadis and blackmail politicians, are now turning on their masters. For a state that flaunts solidarity with Palestine abroad, this is the bitter cost of nurturing what it cannot control.

Reports from Pakistani Punjab say police opened fire on TLP’s pro-Palestine march, leaving several injured and one reportedly dead. Look at the irony. The same extremists, once sheltered by Punjab Police and the Pakistan Army to persecute Ahmadis and blackmail politicians, are now turning on their masters. For a state that flaunts solidarity with Palestine abroad, this is the bitter cost of nurturing what it cannot control.

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No, Arfa Khanam Sherwani, terrorists do not have human rights. People who murder innocent civilians for an ideology forfeit any claim to moral sympathy. Your contextualising of terrorism is not nuance, it is complicity, in fact an endorsement of it, especially since you repeatedly explain the violence away. The real threat to Indian society is not Dhurandhar, but your steady intellectual laundering of violence as grievance.

No, Arfa Khanam Sherwani, terrorists do not have human rights. People who murder innocent civilians for an ideology forfeit any claim to moral sympathy. Your contextualising of terrorism is not nuance, it is complicity, in fact an endorsement of it, especially since you repeatedly explain the violence away. The real threat to Indian society is not Dhurandhar, but your steady intellectual laundering of violence as grievance.

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Arfa Khanum Sherwani often positions herself as a guardian of journalistic ethics and a champion of women’s rights. Which is why her conversation with Nivedita Menon on love jihad was revealing, but perhaps not in the way she intended. What began as a discussion about individual choice quickly descended into crude communal stereotypes. The suggestion was that Hindu men are frustrated because Muslim men supposedly have some special appeal to Hindu women that Hindu men do not enjoy with Muslim women. Cue the laughter, the jokes about appearance, and the casual mockery of an entire community of men. Think about the contradiction. If interfaith relationships are fundamentally about personal autonomy, why reduce them to a competition between religious communities? Why frame it as one side ‘winning’ and the other side ‘losing’? The contradiction runs even deeper. The exchange was initially framed around the idea that interfaith relationships are simply the result of women exercising their agency. Yet within minutes, the conversation shifted from individual choice to collective outcomes, from personal decisions to communal patterns, from agency to a discussion about which group of men is supposedly more successful in attracting women from another community. If the issue is truly about individual choice, why analyse it through the language of communal success and communal frustration at all? The irony is hard to miss. In the process of mocking concerns about ‘love jihad’, Sherwani ended up framing interfaith relationships as a competition between religious communities herself. More importantly, she inadvertently echoed a much older prejudice that has existed in sections of Islamist discourse across the subcontinent for generations: the idea that the Hindu is weak, timid, inferior and less capable, while the Muslim is strong, virile and dominant. Variations of this stereotype have been repeated for decades in political, religious and military narratives. Reality, of course, is less accommodating to such prejudices. India’s armed forces have repeatedly defeated Pakistan despite the latter’s alliances, foreign backing, and strategic advantages at different points in history. Strength, competence, and character are not determined by religion. The same applies to appearance, attractiveness, and every other stereotype casually invoked in such conversations. Indians and Pakistanis are not separate races. They are people of the same broad civilisational and genetic stock, shaped by geography, family history, region, and climate rather than by religion. There is no Muslim gene for attractiveness, confidence, or masculinity, just as there is no Hindu gene for weakness or timidity. People of every complexion, appearance, and temperament exist in every community. This is why Sherwani remarks matter. Not because they were offensive, but because they inadvertently exposed a bias that many pretend does not exist. Beneath the language of progressivism and feminism emerged a familiar communal stereotype, one that would have been condemned instantly had the communities been reversed. For someone who spends so much time identifying prejudice in others, it was a surprisingly unguarded display of her own. Source: The following clip is excerpted from a podcast published on Arfa Khanum Sherwani’s YouTube channel on 23 February 2026, and shared solely for the purposes of commentary, criticism, analysis, and public discussion.

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