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RP-Wht model should the PCB follow for the PSL & why is it better than wht is currently planned. My thesis project docs.google.com/file/d/0B8C93y…

Savour Pulao is freshest right after Jumma....beat the rush too

Watching Wasim Bhai 92’ kee wickets waali FEELS!

It’s a very high bar…but me thinks this week has topped the ALL-TIME charts of Pakistani Meme Game! #IslamabadTalks

Meh….An average day at the PSL

While it is still early days and much remains to be done to ensure a lasting cessation of hostilities, it is absolutely crucial that Pakistan secures tangible benefits from its pivotal role in this global peace effort — and is not short-changed again, as happened after facilitating the Sino-US opening in 1971 or during the Afghan war. It is paramount that Pakistan now focuses on the following: 1. Reducing tensions with its neighbours
Our newfound military prowess, combined with this enhanced global diplomatic stature, must be leveraged to achieve lasting peace on our borders. True and lasting prosperity for Pakistan will only come when our frontiers are stable and secure. 2. Pursuing strategic economic partnerships — not mere debt relief
Given our limited industrial base, we may not attract massive direct investments overnight. However, several high-impact strategic gains are well within reach: • Revive and fast-track the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline
This is a permanent strategic and economic advantage that must not be delayed any further. • Make Gwadar fully operational and activate CPEC transit trade
Operationalise overland trade routes to China, Central Asia, and eventually Europe (using the Wakhan Corridor if necessary). This will generate consistent, meaningful dollar inflows for the economy. Our neighbours (we know who!) have long opposed this corridor — many of those obstacles have now been neutralised. We must not squander this historic window. • Renegotiate the IPP contracts
Resolving these burdensome agreements is essential to meaningfully lower energy costs, which are critical for reviving industrial activity and attracting fresh capital investment - once this is done - go crazy on solar and EV adoption. Just these 3 initiatives alone will make the country fiscal and current-account balances sustainable. Pakistan, you have done (are doing) your duty to the world. Now is the time to do your duty for your own people and for the generations yet to come. God speed. 🇵🇰 zbd #UnitedWeWin #peace #peacewithneighbours

Does anyone with a functioning brain cell believe that decisions of this magnitude involving a critical geopolitical deadline happen because someone fires off a tweet after dinner? Every word, every timeline, every public statement in diplomacy at this level is coordinated, sequenced, and deliberate. So while the miserable and the irrelevant busy themselves dissecting the syntax of a tweet because it helps them cope with their inadequacy, they conveniently ignore what truly matters. Pakistan was at the centre of this choreography. Pakistan was trusted and relied upon by all parties involved to play a role in facilitating one of the most consequential diplomatic moments in recent memory.

This clip sums up Pakistan cricket’s issues. An experienced player gets trapped right in front, yet his partner can’t convince him otherwise as he opts for the review.😑 Lack of honesty as a collective system remains a key factor behind the mediocrity.

Have Lahore and Karachi ever faced off in the PSL with a 100% win record for both teams? @MazherArshad I know it’s pushing it with just one game in the tournament for both; but this may be a first i think

@imranahmadkh @pslmania @zeehu 🤣😂

@pslmania @zeehu @SillyTiddy Zohaib, please use your actual account, stop posting from PSL Mania 😂

Can’t say much about the lyrics, but the BGM could work well as a bubble track during the PSL. Cc: @zeehu @SillyTiddy

𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓 🏏 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 🎶 ​Setting the tone for the #NewEra of HBL PSL with the official anthem, ‘𝑲𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝑷𝒆’ is finally here! Starring Atif Aslam, Sabri Sisters, Daniya Kanwal, and Aima Baig. 🥁🎙 Are you ready to play on the beat this season? 🏆💃 Details here 👉🏼pcb.com.pk/press-release-… ​#HBLPSL11 | #StrongerPepsi | #PepsiPakistan

An IPL-owned franchise has enough faith in Abrar’s ability to buy him but Pakistan didn’t to play him in all their T20 World Cup games because of one poor game (in which he was hardly the only poor performer)

WHAT A CRAZY CRAZY INNINGS. Unlocking an absolutely different level!! Samson take a bow! #IndvWI

Who set up the Zoom coaching sessions for Shai Hope with Babar? #IndvWI

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart. We had a very good month. Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace. By mid-February, we had something. Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green. That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma. Here is what they said, in the order they said it. February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday. February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive. I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach. February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses. February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters. Not happy with the pace. We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway. Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years. Not happy with the pace. February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens. I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses. February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications. February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump. Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production." Rejected. Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman. The President said they rejected it. I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed. February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment. February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school. I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that. February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning. February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse. February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement. The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

@khizersultan42 @LeftArmAround Nope…has to be a total and pure sacrifice

@SillyTiddy @LeftArmAround is he not even monitoring scores??

As you all enjoy this match, don’t forget the momin who is putting in the ultimate sacrifice for the Greater Good! @LeftArmAround 🙏🏽❤️🇵🇰 #PakvSri

@umairjav Chup chaap share kar duo apni bhee; ziaada ambivalence kee zaroorat nahi hey

Nothing but respect for every Pak fan sharing their ideal, semi-final qualifying lineup for tomorrow. Unmatched levels of optimism (or delusion).

Saim Farhan Agha Nafay Shadab Fakhar Faheem Naseem Shaheen Abrar Tariq I’d play this XI tomorrow

@caniyaar @LeftArmAround Hahahaah…too late…the second part of his deal is that IF it works; he will head to Colombo for the knockouts 😂

@LeftArmAround @SillyTiddy you can watch..pls just don’t fly to Kandy 🙏🏼

For a while @SillyTiddy has been trying to convince me to sacrifice watching a big Pakistan game for the greater good. Tomorrow is that day. I’ll be going full dark during the game, will only check at 12:30 EST. A fan’s sacrifice for the impossible result. Over to you Pakistan