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Farooq Sumar

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Businessman. Write occasionally on politics and the Pakistani economy. Interested in Urdu poetry.

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Farooq Sumar
Farooq Sumar@FarooqSumar·
3/3 YA SHAAFA'E ROZAY JAZAA PURSAAN TU HEE PURSAAN TU HEE Man aasiyam, man aajzam, man bekasam haale maraa Ya Shafa'e Roze Jazaa, PursaaN Tui Jami ravat az chashme maa Jalvaa numa behre Khudaa Jaano dilam har do fidaa, JaanaaN Tui @rubeena_uns @danyalqadri @a_siab @LastQamar
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Documenting Saylor
Documenting Saylor@saylordocs·
Vladimir Putin said, "After the Soviet Union collapsed, we believed we would quickly join the civilized Western world. Today, it seems there is no civilization there, only degradation."
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Furkan Gözükara
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara·
Absolute disaster for Washington. A former White House advisor admits on 60 Minutes that the Trump administration is completely powerless to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has total strategic dominance. Trump started a catastrophic war he literally cannot win!
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New Order with Afshin Rattansi
🚨Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the war on Iran: NO ONE should be a friend of ‘SUICIDAL, HOMICIDAL’ Israel ‘It’s not a matter of not stopping Trump while he’s making a mistake. Because the mistake, in this case, is not Trump’s mistake. It is the world’s disaster. The grown-ups need to explain: “Donald, sit down, have a tea, put your feet up. You’re not going to drive Iran into the Stone Ages. You’re not going to do it. This is not how we do things in the 21st century, how we do things in the nuclear age. You’ve got to stop this.” We have to understand. And it’s again a sad truth that Israel has part of its political leadership in a 6th-century BC mentality. Yeah. And I think people do understand. I do not exaggerate. My view is that the only ones that can do this really are the BRICS. India has the Presidency of the BRICS… One should not be a friend of Benjamin Netanyahu right now. I regard India as a great country, as a great civilisation, as an absolute core to global stability, and I regard Israel as a rogue nation that is, I think, suicidal, but is definitely homicidal.’ - Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on New Order. If you missed the interview, you can watch it today on RT International and RT India, or watch it in the quoted post below 👇
New Order with Afshin Rattansi@NewOrder_TV

🚨NEW EPISODE OF NEW ORDER🌐 Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: Only India🇮🇳, Russia🇷🇺 & China🇨🇳 Can Stop ‘PSYCHOPATH’ Trump’s War on Iran How will Iran retaliate if Trump tries to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age? How will the unprecedented economic crisis hit the Global South nations? How should India position itself diplomatically and geopolitically as the crisis deepens? Why has Trump completely misunderstood how catastrophic the economic consequences of the war will be? All this and more on this episode of New Order.

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Sarah Wilkinson
Sarah Wilkinson@swilkinsonbc·
Harrowing testimony of Australian filmmaker Juliet Lamont, kidnapped by the israelis on the @gbsumudflotilla, battered & sexually assaulted
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Reza Amiri Moghadam
Reza Amiri Moghadam@IranAmbPak·
On behalf of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and myself, categorically and with the strongest words, i condemn the cowardly and heinous suicide terrorist act on the Quetta railway, which lead to the deaths of more than 20 innocent civilians. Terrorism is a condemnable phenomenon in all its forms all over the world. In particular, the malicious and mischievous acts against the civil transportation infrastructure that serve for the human development and the smooth movements of the passengers and consignments needed for the development of trade, are examples of crimes against humanity and reflect the malicious, infirm and inhumane minds of the perpetrators, founders and supporters of this heinous phenomenon. I express my heartfelt and sincere condolences to the Government and people of Pakistan, especially to the bereaved families who lost loved ones. My sincere prays for the safe and speedy recovery of the injured.
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Mark Ruffalo
Mark Ruffalo@MarkRuffalo·
huffpost.com/entry/released… “At least 15 cases of sexual assaults, including rape. Shot with rubber bullets at close range. Tens of people’s bones broken,” organizers of the Global SumudFlotilla posted on the Telegram social media app. “While the world’s eye is trained on the suffering of our participants, we cannot emphasize enough that this is a mere glimpse of the brutality Israel imposes daily on Palestinian hostages.”
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James Wood 武杰士
James Wood 武杰士@commiepommie·
🇨🇳Every time China advances, the same accusation gets thrown around: “They just stole our tech!” This has been the standard complaint for years. But living here in China, the gap between that narrative and what you actually see every day is hard to ignore. Yes, in the catch-up stage China studied, licensed and sometimes reverse-engineered foreign technology. Exactly like Japan did after World War II with American cars and electronics. Like South Korea did with Japanese industrial models in the 70s and 80s. Like the United States itself, which borrowed British textile and steam technology in the 19th century. That’s how every late-developing nation has moved forward. No country invents in a vacuum. The difference is that China didn’t stop at copying. It iterated, scaled and improved at a pace the West hasn’t matched. Take high-speed rail as an example. Japan, France and Germany pioneered it. China bought the initial trains, absorbed the technology through joint ventures, then built the world’s largest and safest network with over 45,000 km today, more than the rest of the planet combined. Domestic Fuxing trains now run smoother, cheaper and more reliably than the originals. In addition, China exports the entire system to dozens of countries. That’s not theft; that is engineering execution at state scale. Initially, BYD’s EV designs were influenced by other companies, but they eventually took a completely different approach. Their Blade Battery is safer, longer-lasting and cheaper than what Tesla was using. They vertically integrated everything from raw materials through to final assembly. The result: BYD overtook Tesla in global EV sales volume, now supplies batteries to Tesla’s Berlin plant and leads the world in affordable mass-market electrification. Tesla’s 4680 cells are solid engineering, but BYD’s patent portfolio on batteries is eleven times the size. Solar panels tell the same story. China turned laboratory curiosities into the cheapest clean energy source on the planet, massive R&D, production scale and relentless incremental efficiency gains. Chinese firms now hold the top efficiency records and over 80 percent of global output. China files nearly half the world’s total patents, leads in 37 of 44 critical technology areas and just cracked the Global Innovation Index top ten for the first time. For a brief history lesson, ancient China handed the world some of the most consequential inventions in human history. - Paper, in the second century BC. Printing, eighth to eleventh centuries. Together they turned knowledge from something monks hoarded into something millions could read and pass on. - Gunpowder, in the ninth century. Ended the age of knights and stone castles. - The magnetic compass, already in use by the fourth century BC. Without it, no European Age of Exploration. Sailors had no means to cross open oceans. - Cast iron, two millennia before the West. - The stirrup, which made heavy cavalry possible. - The seismograph, back in 132 AD. The world’s first, capable of pinpointing earthquakes hundreds of kilometres away. - The mechanical clock, porcelain, the decimal system with zero, negative numbers and the list goes on. These weren’t minor curiosities. These were the true bases that fueled Europe’s subsequent rise. Without Chinese breakthroughs in paper, printing, gunpowder and navigation, there would have been no Renaissance, no Scientific Revolution and no industrial takeoff on the scale the West eventually achieved. For over a thousand years the Silk Road didn’t just carry silk and spices. It carried ideas and the traffic ran overwhelmingly one way. Today, China invests more in R&D than any other country, FACT. It also publishes more high-impact papers in key fields and turns ideas into deployed technology faster than anyone. That’s what real competition looks like when 1.4 billion people decide to lead. Keep shouting “they stole our tech” if it helps, but this claim is nothing more than copium.
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Bill Madden
Bill Madden@maddenifico·
I used to be against vilifying billionaires. But once I saw them enthusiastically abandon democracy and the rule of law for Trump and authoritarian fascism — over nothing but avarice and greed — my opinion changed dramatically.
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Farooq Sumar@FarooqSumar·
@LindseyGrahamSC You stand on the wrong side of the historical truth. Only six countries have joined Abraham Accords, while 165 countries supported Saudi Arabia's proposal for a two state solution for Palestine and Israel. You and the USA are complicit in humanitarian crimes @meranaam @a_siab
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Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham@LindseyGrahamSC·
If in fact as a result of these negotiations to end the Iranian conflict, our Arab and Muslim allies in the region agreed to join the Abraham Accords, it would make this agreement one of the most consequential in the history of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan joining the Abraham Accords would be beyond transformative for the region and world. It is a brilliant move by President Trump. To Saudi Arabia and others: Now is the time to be bold for the future of a new Middle East. I expect, as President Trump has suggested, you will in fact join the Abraham Accords effectively ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. If you refuse to go down this path as suggested by President Trump, it will have severe repercussions for our future relationships and make this peace proposal unacceptable. Further, it would be seen by history as a major miscalculation. President Trump: Stick to your guns in getting a good deal with Iran. Equally important, stick to your guns in insisting Saudi Arabia and others join the Abraham Accords as part of these negotiations. Again, this is a brilliant proposal by President Trump.
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Rubab
Rubab@rubabbx·
Every grain of Himalayan pink salt sold in the world comes from one place. Pakistan. Specifically from a mine in Punjab that was discovered 2,350 years ago when Alexander the Great's horses started licking rocks during a rest stop. Khewra Salt Mine. The second largest salt mine on earth. Its deposits formed 540 to 800 million years ago when a prehistoric sea evaporated inside what would become the mountains of Pakistan. Alexander's army was marching through in 326 BC. The horses stopped and licked the ground. The soldiers tasted the rocks. Salt. The greatest accidental discovery in the history of food. The Mughals mined it. The Sikhs refined it. The British modernised it in 1872 building tunnels still in use today. Today it stretches 110 square kilometres. 12 stories. 6 underground. 6.687 billion tons of salt reserves remaining. Producing 350,000 tons every year. Inside its tunnels craftsmen have carved a mosque from salt bricks that still holds prayers. A replica of the Great Wall of China in pink salt. A glowing crystal Sheesh Mahal chamber. An underground lake that reflects pink light off salt walls. 250,000 visitors every year walk through mountains that have been slowly becoming the world's most famous salt for 800 million years. All of it in Pakistan. Discovered by a horse. Used by the world. Pakistan. 🇵🇰
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Farooq Sumar@FarooqSumar·
@AArafi67105 YES indeed Israel is the only terrorist state to be funded, weaponised, diplomatically, and politically supported by the USA and EU. The US and EU are complicit in Israel's crimes against humanity. @a_siab @araghchi @HalaJaber
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Ayatollah Alireza Arafi
Ayatollah Alireza Arafi@AArafi67105·
🚨 Global Discussion 🌍 ⚠️🇮🇱Should Israel be labeled a terrorist state? ◉ YES ◉ NO Drop your thoughts below 👇
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Farooq Sumar@FarooqSumar·
@KenRoth Just words that have no meaning : why sanctions have not been imposed on genocidal Israel? Israel continues to blatantly kill Palestinians, destroy their homes, kill children, destroy hospitals/ schools. Deny all means of subsistence and steal Palestinian lands @a_siab @meranaam
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Kenneth Roth
Kenneth Roth@KenRoth·
Condemnation of Israeli settlements and settler violence from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium: "International law is clear: Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal." trib.al/l59TrRb
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Tamer Nahed
Tamer Nahed@Tamer_Alnoaizy·
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked. An Israeli soldier filmed and published this clip while proudly boasting about the destruction of all homes in Gaza. A video that the world must never forget.
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Hala Jaber
Hala Jaber@HalaJaber·
Israel killed 9 paramedics in roughly 72 hours. Let that sink in. These are some of their faces. According to Lebanon’s latest health sector figures, now updated after the killing of additional paramedics in the last 48 hours: • 125 healthcare workers killed • 273 wounded • 149 attacks on the healthcare sector • 142 ambulances targeted • 32 medical centres destroyed • 16 hospitals forced out of service • 221 ambulance crews attacked Lebanon’s emergency sector is not collapsing accidentally. It is being systematically dismantled. Israel is committing war crimes against Lebanon’s medical services.
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Nermeen from Gaza 𓂆🇵🇸🍉
Not a single stone remains standing, nor a tree, nor a human being 💔 If you stand with us, comment with your country's flag 🍉🇵🇸
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Warfare Analysis
Warfare Analysis@warfareanalysis·
Israel tied up children and babies, KILLED them, then buried them in mass graves. A French aid worker: “We found a mass grave in Gaza containing 300 bodies. Small children were killed with their hands tied behind their backs EuroMedHR: Inside the mass graves, they found children & babies with their hands bound with zip ties This photo is from 2 mass graves discovered at Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza, in April During the genocide, the EuroMedHR documented over 130 mass graves of victims of the Israeli genocide
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Robert Reich
Robert Reich@RBReich·
Friends, I’ve been around politics for over 50 years. I’ve never seen anything as brazenly crooked and corrupt as what Trump and his cronies did this week.
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Johannes Maria
Johannes Maria@luo_yuehan·
Exposing the "$29 Billion War Lie": Video Alleges Massive Cover-Up of Iran Conflict Costs A viral video commentary makes startling allegations against the Trump administration, claiming it deliberately misled the public about the true financial and military costs of a conflict with Iran. According to the speaker, the reported $29 billion price tag was not for the entire war, but solely for the wreckage of 42 American aircraft lost in the engagement. The True Cost of Wreckage The video's central claim is that the $29 billion figure, which former President Trump's own generals testified was the total cost, was a gross misrepresentation. "Turns out that number was just the receipt for the aircraft we lost," the commentator asserts, emphasizing that this cost did not include bombs, missiles, or troop deployments. Citing a bipartisan report from the Congressional Research Service, the speaker lists a devastating inventory of lost military assets, including F-15Es, F-35s, A-10s, KC-135 Stratotankers, and MQ-9 Reaper drones. She points out that while the U.S. government allegedly tried to "bury" these details, Iran was confident enough in its victory to post a full list of the destroyed American aircraft within hours. Allegations of a Cover-Up and Hollywood Propaganda The video goes further, accusing the administration of an active cover-up, particularly concerning an incident over Iraq. The speaker alleges that two Stratotankers did not crash due to "friendly skies," as officially stated, but were downed after Iraqi militias fired on them, forcing maneuvers that caused a mid-air collision and the deaths of American service members. "That's not a mistake, that's a cover-up," she declares. This narrative of deception is linked to a Hollywood movie deal announced by director Michael Bay. The film was reportedly set to tell the story of "mystery F-15 pilots" rescued deep inside Iran. The speaker dismisses this as a fabricated hero story designed to distract from the actual losses, questioning why these supposed patriots have never been publicly identified. "If they were real," she argues, "Donald Trump would have those men in red hats on the stage by now." Geopolitical Failures and Waning Influence The commentary concludes by painting a picture of significant strategic failure. Despite the costly conflict, the video claims Iran emerged stronger, formalizing its maritime control over the vital Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the speaker contends that America's international standing has been damaged, with allies now viewing U.S. bases as "magnets for war" rather than sources of protection. The speaker highlights plummeting approval ratings for Trump on issues like the economy and inflation, suggesting that both Americans and the world see the truth. The video ends by accusing the administration of being more obsessed with the appearance of victory—symbolized by a "golden ballroom"—than the reality of its losses, leaving viewers with a final, pointed question: "You paid for those planes. So did you notice?"
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi
Seyed Mohammad Marandi@s_m_marandi·
· The Zionist regime will not have "freedom of action." · Management of Hormuz is a matter of Iran-Oman coordination as coastal states. · Iran makes no nuclear commitments under this MoU, except regarding nuclear weapons, which is nothing new. · Iran will have access to its blocked assets. · Energy-related sanctions will be waived.
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