Adnan Haider

Pakistan increasingly lucky that “langara, kaana” is not the PM of Pakistan. We dodged a massive bullet as a nation. We don’t fully recognise it.

Pakistan has nuclear weapons and is seeking to achieve an ICBM capability that would bring the US within range. Osama bin Laden was also found hanging out in Abbotabad. What am I missing here?

Looks like the US may move to denuclearize Pakistan, as it is increasingly seen as a fragile state and a growing threat to global security.

While the India factor deserves some attention, it is not the entire story. The fact is that the Taliban and TTP are allies and have been allies since before 2021. The first thing the Taliban did following Kabul takeover was to release TTP leaders from Afghan jails. Some of us knew exactly what's going to happen, but at the time Pakistanis were fed fantasies by the previous Pakistani establishment. Pakistanis were told that Taliban will help Pakistan capture Kashmir from India and what not. I said from day one that won't happen. Now the fear is in reverse: Pakistan fears India and Taliban could conspire together to carry out a false flag in Kashmir and blame it on Pakistan - and actually try to establish it with video confessions of "captured" militants. Anyway, a number of Pakistani analysts who have since changed their position, and are now very critical of the Taliban, their problem is that they still do not correctly understand what Pakistan is up against. And that's because they still do not ideologically understand the Taliban or similar Islamist groups. In fact, many of them are closeted Islamists themselves. They just don't know it or don't acknowledge it. Understand this: Global Islamists will *always* side with Taliban over Pakistan. Be it your favorite Palestinians or pro-Hezbollah types. Because for Islamists, Pakistan is a corrupt nation state that is beholden to US, Chinese interests and isn't Islamic enough. This is why the TTP want to establish their Sharia in Pakistan, because they don't consider Pakistan Islamic enough, and it's also why an average Afghan Talib agrees with TTP. Pakistan will never be able to beat Islamists at their own game unless Pakistan stops being a nation state and becomes some kind of a jihadist state. But that will never be allowed to happen to Pakistan because it has nukes. The US won't allow it, the Chinese won't allow it. And most importantly, the Pakistani military won't allow it. So Pakistan's only option is to stop trying to beat the Islamists at their own game and reset the rules of the game itself. Introduce its own terms. And then enforce those terms. Pakistani patriots will back Pakistan to the hilt on that. And it's ok if Pakistan gets ire from Islamists. Pakistan doesn't need them to achieve greatness; it only needs to keep them in check within its own borders. Good luck, Pakistan!

Why are Muslims allowed to close off Trafalgar Square to pray? More importantly who authorised it? This is a blatant domination tactic being employed, why are we caving into it?

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