Saifullah Mahsud

In every country in the region, there is ingress by Mossad. In Pakistan, it’s clearly through PTI’s Goldsmith connection. Anyone who doesn’t see that is a fool.

@Jana_Shah Your X, you tell us.

X is down ?

~اگر کیسی شادی پہ جائیں تو یہ مت کہیں؛ کہ کھانا بیکار تھا. ~لڑکی کا زیور کم تھا ~دُلہن کے کپڑے کیسی سستے ڈیزائنر کے لگتے ہیں وغیرہ وغیرہ ~یہ مت بھولیں کے لڑکی کے والدین نے اس شادی کے لئے اپنی بہت سی نیندئیں حرام کیں اور اپنی ایک ایک کر کے بچائی ہوئ دولت شادی پہ لگا دی۔ ~جہاں جائیں، دُعائیں دیں.

@MinmajMarwat I agree—elegance in theory often comes at the cost of accuracy in reality. If we rely solely on the 'architecture' of the Trap, we risk falling into fatalism, treating war like a natural disaster rather than a series of human decisions.

Fair pushback! and a necessary one. Structural frameworks like the Thucydides Trap can become too elegant. When a pattern explains everything, it risks excusing everything, including the specific ambitions and choices that actually pull the trigger. You are right that ambition and anxiety are not mutually exclusive. The most dangerous leaders are often those in whom the two are indistinguishable, even to themselves. And the Middle East is not a clean two-power theatre. Proxies, sectarian fault lines, and competing interests resist any single lens. Thucydides gives us the architecture. But to understand who built it and who might still find the door, we need more than one map. Single lenses produce sharp images. They also produce blind spots.

Thucydides did not just write history. He diagnosed something permanent about the human condition. When Athens rose and Sparta felt threatened, war followed, not out of malice, but out of the oldest force in politics: fear. Fear of being overtaken. Fear of irrelevance. Fear of losing what you spent generations building. Graham Allison called this the Thucydides Trap. Of 16 cases where a rising power challenged a ruling one, 12 ended in war. Not because leaders were irrational, but because the structure of the situation made conflict feel inevitable. Now look at Iran - 25 days into a war that few truly chose and no one can cleanly end. Israel rose. American power entrenched itself across the region. And Iran watched, for decades, as the walls closed in. Its nuclear program, its missiles, its alliances from Baghdad to Beirut: these were not aggression. They were the language of a civilization that felt encircled and refused to be extinguished. Iran's war is not the war of the confident. It is the war of the afraid. This is what haunts me about power: it is not always ambition that destroys. Sometimes it is anxiety. The challenger does not strike because it is stronger. It strikes because it believes that waiting any longer means never being able to strike at all. Fear, not fury. Desperation, not dominance. Thucydides knew this. The trap was never about who was rising. It was about who felt they were running out of time.

@Afghan0344 🤣🤣😊 پڑوس میں نانستان ہوگا۔

وقت آ رہا ہے کہ پاکستان چار حصوں میں تقسیم ہو جائے گا: پشتونستان، بلوچستان، پنجابستان اور سندھ۔ ابتدا میں سندھ بھارت کے ساتھ مل جائے گا، اور رفتہ رفتہ پنجابستان بھی بھارت کے پنجاب کا حصہ بن جائے گا۔

@mehakgul_mg Felt

Do you think the path to happiness will be invented or discovered?

@ZarrarKhuhro That would be some line.

If i was a cokehead i'd be terrified of Raza Pahlavi. Man has a nose that can snort your cocaine in London while he's sitting in LA

But without a durable pol settlement – one that incorporates the true & unadulterated will of the Afg people, & also delegitimises & disempowers extremist elements & narratives that’ve festered in the region for decades – it risks becoming yet another chapter in the long & bloody history of conflict along the Pak-Afg frontier

@ayeshaijazkhan She was the resident gori in Pakistan for a while. Everyone partook.

What the hell was she doing in GB?

@RealBababanaras @sharrmasumann 😊😊🤣 gussa hu gaye bhaya!!! Bhala ahimsa bhi koi cheej hoti hay!

BREAKING: India has asserted that no permission is required for its vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz, calling it an international passage. Meanwhile, the Indian Navy has deployed 7 warships near the Strait of Hormuz to safeguard India-bound ships. Message is clear.

@sHaidarHashmi ایرانی کسی جلسے کی پیداوار نہیں ہیں ، حلالی ہیں۔ ایسی لغو زبان استعمال نہیں کرتے۔

یہ سب کیا دیکھنے کو ملے ہیں۔۔ 😁

The goal of the war seems to have shifted to opening the strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war. 👏👏👏🫡

@mehakgul_mg Perhaps your focus was self, not the plant. 😊

@ChiefMahsud Why didn’t I think of that

My houseplant started dying in my five-day absence. Should I say words of affirmation to it? Should I tell it how beautiful it is when in bloom? Should I say how much I love it?

شمالی وزیرستان /بدامنی کے باعث تحصیل شیواہ کے چار دیہات خالی کر دئے گئے ۔۔مزید کئی علاقوں سے عوام کی نقل مکانی ۔۔۔۔۔ سیکیورٹی حکام نے مقامی عمائدین کو یقین دلایا ہے کہ ان کے مسائل کے حل کے لیے جلد ہی اعلیٰ حکام کے ساتھ ایک بڑا جرگہ کروایا جائے گا۔۔

@xadeejourno اسُمیں توبہُ توبہ والی کیا بات ہوئ، زیدی بھائ۔ حافظ صاحب پر کوشش فرض تھی سو کی۔ باقی فیصلہ تو ایران و امریکہ کا ہے۔

ایران نے حافظ صاحب کو منع کر دیا۔ ثوبہ ثوبہ

@umertoor @AhmadSharifzad I think China would trust Pakistan with making the right call. And with ETIM in Afghanistan under Takiban protection, they would appreciate friendly boots on ground in WAKhan.

@umertoor @AhmadSharifzad Parts of it are already secured. More on need basis INSHALLAH

“The conclusion of the war across all fronts and for all resistance groups involved throughout the region.” Iran seems unwilling to abandon its Middle Eastern proxies.

@IhsanTipu Well spotted! !