Saad Sayeed

"The crackdown on Shia Muslims in the UAE is not new," says our Senior Legal Officer @fal_syd to @Reuters , noting an "escalation in this crackdown" in recent months. ⬇️ Read @Saad_Scrawls 's investigation on Pakistani Shia deportations amid US-Iran war. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

In Pakistan's mostly rural Chakwal district, more than 100 Shi'ite Muslims say they were deported from UAE without their luggage or access to the savings they spent years building reut.rs/4dIA8Dz

Pakistan Shi'ites deported from UAE return to lost jobs, frozen savings - reuters.com/world/asia-pac… @BukhariMubasher

Pakistan hands US revised Iranian proposal for ending war reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a ​squadron of fighter jets and an air defence system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defence pact, ramping up military cooperation with ‌Riyadh even as Islamabad serves as the main mediator in the Iran war.

Pakistan has deployed around 8,000 troops, fighter jets and an air defense system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defense agreement, Reuters reported. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Pakistan has deployed 8,000 troops, a ​squadron of fighter jets and an air defence system to Saudi Arabia under a mutual defence pact, ramping up military cooperation with ‌Riyadh even as Islamabad serves as the main mediator in the Iran war. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Exclusive: Saudi warplanes struck militias in Iraq during war, sources say - reuters.com/world/middle-e…

The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

The sons of a powerful family with close ties to Iran’s new supreme leader control the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, transforming it into a conduit to the global economy used by both blacklisted state institutions and ordinary citizens. reuters.com/investigations…

Evolving drone war in southern Lebanon clouds Iran peace prospects @GebeilyM @MaayanLubell reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Lahore like a local by @BukhariMubasher reuters.com/city-memo/laho… "One who hasn't seen Lahore is not yet born" goes a local saying that captures the enduring pull of Pakistan's cultural capital — where centuries of history and shifting empires meet a restless modern energy.

Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies Saudi Arabia, a key Gulf ally, suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say. nbcnews.com/politics/white…

SUPARCO has successfully launched its indigenous electro-optical satellite (EO-3) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre The addition of EO-3 to Pakistan’s Earth Observation satellite fleet significantly enhances national capabilities in remote sensing.

There was no sign of peace talks, but there was this sunset in Islamabad yesterday

Exclusive: Pakistan's air force escorted Iranian negotiators home from inconclusive peace talks ​with the U.S. last weekend, launching a major operation after the Iranians said Israel might seek to kill them, three sources told Reuters. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

After a sleepless and at times tense night in Islamabad, Iranian and U.S. officials ended their highest-level talks in decades without a breakthrough, but sources said dialogue was still alive Took another sleepless night to report this one out reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Here's a short we did on the venue: The luxury five-star Serena Hotel in Pakistan's capital has become the ‌unlikely venue for peace talks aimed at ending the Iran war, cementing its status as one of Islamabad's most heavily fortified buildings. reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Islamabad was virtually empty today. But at the media centre there were more journalists than I've ever seen here, filming, chatting and trying to figure out what was happening across the street at the Serena Hotel where the most important talks in the world were taking place

The Trump White House chose Munir, Shehbaz et al. because the Americans knew that the Pakistanis ​could not just talk to them but actually influence the thinking of the Iranians. Quoted alongside @Faisalmuh89 & @ethrelkeld in this report by @Saad_Scrawls & @AribaShahid reuters.com/world/asia-pac…