Jehangir Ali

Dawn breaks in Hapatnar, a remote village of walnut growers and pony owners. Naushad Hussain wakes early, slips out of home into the cool mountain air and heads off to work. It is April 22 in Kashmir, and a massacre is about to take place For @thetimes thetimes.com/article/c9214c…

Rupee tanks to fresh all-time low of 94.70 against US dollar in intra-day trade

A #Pakistan airstrike on a drug treatment center in #Afghanistan on March 16 that killed 143 people & injured over 250, was an unlawful attack and a possible war crime finds @hrw. The authorities should investigate, hold all those responsible to account. hrw.org/news/2026/03/2…

It will be appropriate that the US dollar goes down with the signature of the man most responsible for its fall. Trump’s unnecessary conflicts, tariffs and a rapidly growing $38 trillion debt are just a few of the many reasons that pose a major risk to US economic dominance.

BREAKING: Reuters reports that China’s top chipmaker SMIC supplied chipmaking tools and equipment to Iran’s military approximately one year ago, with technical training likely included. Two senior Trump administration officials confirmed to Reuters. SMIC, China, and Iran have not commented. Correct the typo circulating on X. It is SMIC, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China’s largest foundry. Not SMCI, the American server company indicted separately for smuggling. Now hold four facts simultaneously. Chinese BeiDou satellites provide the navigation that guides Iranian ballistic missiles onto Israel. Chinese sodium perchlorate fuels the solid-propellant rockets that carry those warheads. Chinese gyroscopic navigation devices and sensors, shipped through at least six sanctioned front companies in China and Hong Kong, stabilise the drones that supplement the missiles. And now, per Reuters, Chinese chipmaking tools built or upgraded the production lines that fabricate the chips inside those guidance systems. Four layers. Four links in a single supply chain. One country. This is not an alliance. This is a vertically integrated military supply chain. The BIS added 19 Chinese entities to its Entity List in October 2025 for supplying Iranian drone programmes with US-origin electronics. Treasury sanctioned six Chinese front companies in February 2025 for shipping gyroscopic navigation to IRGC-linked UAVs. The Atlantic Council documented 1,000 tons of sodium perchlorate shipped from Chinese ports in early 2025, enough propellant for 200 to 300 ballistic missiles. The pattern is established. What is new is that it now extends to the means of production itself. SMIC did not sell Iran a chip. SMIC sold Iran the tools to make chips. A chip is consumed. A fab tool produces. The transfer of production capability means Iran’s military electronics no longer depend on the next shipment clearing sanctions. They depend on a factory floor already equipped, staffed, and trained. Infrastructure survives sanctions. Infrastructure survives strikes. Infrastructure survives the death of every admiral in the IRGC Navy. The timing is precise. The alleged transfer occurred approximately March 2025, before the war. The Reuters report surfaces March 27, 2026, ten days before Trump’s April 6 energy-strike pause expires, one month before the NPT Review Conference opens April 27, and seven weeks before the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing on May 14 to 15. The intelligence was declassified now, not when it was gathered. The release is the leverage. The message is aimed at Beijing: we know what you sold, and we will discuss it in May. Read this against the day’s developments. The Larak toll booth collects in yuan via Chinese CIPS. Iran’s missiles fly on Chinese propellant guided by Chinese satellites. The IDF Chief warns of collapse. Trump has paused strikes. Russia’s revenue has doubled. And the country providing the navigation, propellant, sensors, and chipmaking tools is the country Trump meets in Beijing on May 14 to discuss rare earths and trade. The arithmetic is no longer speculative. China is materially sustaining Iran’s military capability through a documented, multi-layered supply chain while simultaneously processing 85 - 90 percent of the world’s rare earths that the US needs for its own defence systems. The crude-for-rare-earths grand bargain thesis does not require imagination. It requires reading the BIS Entity List, the Treasury sanctions, the Reuters exclusive, and the Lloyd’s List yuan-toll reporting in a single sitting. The atoms come before the bits. The tools come before the chips. The chips come before the missiles. The missiles come before the toll booth. The toll booth collects in yuan. And the yuan flows back to the country that sold the tools. The circle is closed. The operating system runs on Chinese infrastructure at every layer. And the only negotiation that can break the circle happens in Beijing on May 14.

Hong Kong: On March 23, 2026, the Hong Kong government changed the implementing rules relating to the National Security Law. It is now a criminal offense to refuse to give the Hong Kong police the passwords or decryption assistance to access all personal electronic devices including cellphones and laptops. This legal change applies to everyone, including U.S. citizens, in Hong Kong, arriving or just transiting Hong Kong International Airport. In addition, the Hong Kong government also has more authority to take and keep any personal devices, as evidence, that they claim are linked to national security offenses. Read more: hk.usconsulate.gov/security-alert…

International crude prices have gone through the roof in the last 1 month from around 70 dollars/barrel to around 122 dollars/barrel. Consequently, petrol and diesel prices for consumers have gone up all over the world. Prices have increased by around 30%-50% in South East Asian countries, 30% in North American countries, 20% in Europe and 50% in African countries. The Modi Government had two choices- either increase prices drastically for citizens of Bharat as all other nations have done or bear the brunt on its finances so that Indian citizen is insulated from international volatility. Hon’ble Prime Minister @narendramodi Ji, in keeping with his Government’s commitment of last 4 years since the conflict in Russia-Ukraine started, decided to take a hit on its own finances again to safeguard the Indian citizen. Government has taken a huge hit on it taxation revenues to ensure very high losses of oil companies (approximately 24 Rs/litre for petrol and 30 Rs/litre for diesel) at this time of sky high international prices are reduced. At the same time, export tax has been levied as international prices of petrol and diesel have skyrocketed and any refinery exporting to foreign nations will have to pay export tax. My gratitude to Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi Ji and Hon’ble FM @nsitharaman Ji for this very timely, bold and visionary decision!

The debate among Iranian hardliners over whether Tehran should seek a nuclear bomb in defiance of an escalating U.S.-Israeli attack is getting louder #IranWar‌ reuters.com/business/media…

ערב חג הפסח אני רוצה להזהיר את אזרחי ישראל. אנחנו עומדים בפני אסון בטחוני נוסף. 13 שנים אני חבר בקבינטים בטחוניים ובפורומים הבטחוניים הרגישים ביותר של מדינת ישראל. כראש ממשלה, שר חוץ, שר אוצר, חבר ועדת החוץ והבטחון. בכל 13 השנים האלה אני לא זוכר התראה דומה בחומרתה לזו שהזהיר אתמול בלילה הרמטכ"ל, רב אלוף אייל זמיר, את הקבינט המדיני בטחוני. מי ששמע אותו אתמול, לא יוכל לומר, "לא ידעתי". "אני מרים 10 דגלים אדומים," אמר הרמטכ"ל, "צה"ל עומד לקרוס." ההתראה זו תואמת למה שאני וגורמים אחרים מכירים לגבי מצבו של הצבא. הטייסים שלנו, הלוחמים שלנו, כותבים בימים אלה פרקים מפוארים בתולדות מדינת ישראל. מדובר בדור של אריות שעושה עבודה מדהימה, אבל צה"ל מתוח עד הקצה ומעבר לו. הממשלה משאירה את הצבא פצוע בשטח. כל מי שאומר עכשיו, "אסור לדבר על הסכנות בזמן מלחמה כי זה מחליש אותנו," שכח כנראה מה שלמדנו בשבעה באוקטובר. תפקידה של מערכת הבטחון הוא להזהיר לפני שהאסון קורה, לא אחריו. הרמטכ"ל דיווח אתמול לקבינט שכבר אין לו איך להמשיך לגייס מילואים. יש לו מילואימניקים בסבב שישי ושביעי. המילואימניקים האלה שחוקים ומותשים וכבר לא יכולים לתת מענה לאתגרי הבטחון שלנו. הרמטכ"ל דיווח אתמול לקבינט שכוחות הסדיר בקריסה גמורה. אין לצבא מספיק חיילים למשימות שלו. העובדה שהממשלה ממשיכה לעודד את ההשתמטות החרדית היא סכנה בטחונית ופגיעה חמורה בכשירות הצבא. הרמטכ"ל דיווח אתמול לקבינט שהוא נאלץ להעביר עוד ועוד כוחות ליהודה ושומרון בגלל הטרור היהודי. הרמטכ"ל פירט בפני הקבינט סדרה שלמה של איומים, את רובם אי אפשר לפרט מול מצלמה, אבל השורה התחתונה היא: הממשלה שולחת את הצבא למלחמה רב זירתית בלי איסטרטגיה, בלי אמצעים, ועם מעט מדי חיילים. הממשלה לא תוכל הפעם לומר "לא ידעתי". זה הרמטכ"ל שהם מינו, והם לא יוכלו לצבוע אותו פוליטית ולהפיל עליו את האשמה. החל מאתמול בלילה ראש הממשלה נתניהו לא יוכל לומר "אני לא אחראי." האזהרה ניתנה בידי הרמטכ"ל, אבל אין גורם אחד במערכת הבטחון שלא עומד מאחוריה. הממשלה צריכה להפסיק עם הפחדנות, לעצור מיד את כל התקציבים למשתמטים החרדים, לשלוח את המשטרה הצבאית לעריקים, לגייס את החרדים בלי להסס. הממשלה צריכה להלחם בטרור היהודי בכל האמצעים. להפקיע את הסמכויות מידי בן גביר שתומך בטרוריסטים היהודים בגלוי, להפעיל את כל יכולות האכיפה. אני רוצה להגיד מפה לממשלת ישראל: האזהרה ניתנה. זה על ראשכם. זה על ידיכם. אתם לא יכולים להמשיך להפקיר את בטחון ישראל, בזמן מלחמה, בשביל פוליטיקה קטנה. כמו שהיה נהוג לומר פעם: תנו לצה"ל לנצח.

This is Gujarat, see how NDTV does not mention the state in the heading.

Brazilian President Breaks Down in Tears Over the Suffering of the Palestinian People Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva could not hold back his tears in the face of the suffering of the Palestinian people: “It is painful that the world remains silent in the face of such a genocide, where the real victims are not soldiers, but women and children.”

Iran did not ask for anything from the Trump regime. The evil buffoon in the White House is simply buying more time to bring in more troops. The childkiller will still fail.

Iran doesn't seem intimidated at all and has just released another Lego video mocking the coalition.

Trump: We're going to bomb your energy facilities if you don't open the Strait of Hormuz in 2 days. Iran: F off. Trump: OK, you have 5 more days. Iran: F off. Trump: Fine, we'll give you 10 days like you asked. Iran: We didn't ask for anything. F off.

Trump is going to order a ground incursion into Iran, soldiers are going to get killed, and suddenly he won’t be able to just chicken out. Enabled by his cabinet, he will keep escalating until at some late stage in the war, after the losses mount, his military advisors will no longer be able to use highlight reels to hide the truth and the reality of the strategic defeat will finally hit home. Until that point of realization, maybe months away, Iran will experience even greater traumas.

The first “military target” of the US-Israel strikes was an elementary girls school

Bellingcat identified the mines found overnight in Kafari, Iran as US BLU-91/B anti-tank mines from the Gator Scatterable Mine System. At least two people were reportedly killed. These mines were deployed over a village near a Iranian missile base.

Iran's Fars News Agency is reporting that should America undertake a military operation to re-open the Strait of Hormuz, that the UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant, the Jebel Ali desalination plant, and the MBR Solar Park, among other locations, will be targeted by Iran.

Iran, with 35 years of preparation and a strategy calibrated to outlast rather than outgun, may be winning the war. foreignaffairs.com/iran/irans-lon…

'Rape with Bottles, Metal Rods and Knives': UN Expert Says Israel’s Torture on Palestinians is 'State Doctrine' thewire.in/world/rape-wit…

The @AP is now calling Israel’s military actions in southern Lebanon an invasion. Here's why we made that decision: apnews.com/article/iran-l…