Sohaib Nehal

وطن عزیز دنیا کا واحد ملک ھے جہاں بازار دوپہر کے بعد کھلتے ھیں اور نصف رات کے بعد بند ھوتے ھیں۔ کئی دفعہ ھر سطح پہ یہ مسئلہ اٹھایا ھے مگر تاجر حضرات کی طاقت کے سامنے حکومتیں لاچار ھیں ۔ سالوں سے بجلی کا رونا رویا جاتا ھے۔ بجلی چوری حق سمجھ کے کی جاتی ھے۔ اللہ نے ھمیں بارہ مہینے سورج کی روشنی سے نواز ا ھے۔ مگر ھم مصر ھیں کے کاروبار رات اندھیرے میں بجلی کی روشنی میں کرنا ھے۔ دنیا مغرب کے بعد بازار بند کرتی ھے ھفتے میں ایک مکمل چھٹی ضرور ھوتی ھے۔ ھمارے ملک میں ایسی مارکیٹیں بڑے شہروں میں موجود ھیں نام بتائے جا سکتے ھیں جہاں رزق حلال چوری کی بجلی سے کمایا جاتا ھے۔ ھمارا میڈیا ھر بات و ایشو پہ بات کرتا ھے مگر اس ایشو پہ مکمل خاموش ھے۔ جب مارکیٹوں کہ اوقات آدھی کے بعد تک ھوں تو سمجھ نہیں آتی بچوں اور فیملی کے لئے وقت کب میسر ھوتا ھے۔ کفایت شعاری کی بات ھم حکمران کرتے ھیں مگر بازاروں کے اوقات سے جسطرح آمدنی اور وسائل کا ضیاع ھوتا ھے اسکی کوئ بات کوئ نیں کرتا ۔ پارلیمنٹ بلڈنگ میں بھی بجلی کی بچت کی جارہی ھے۔ مگر بازار شام گئے بند کرنے کی کوئ بات نہیں کرتا جب اتنا بڑا تضاد ھو تو عام شہری پھر وقت کی نزاکت کا احساس نہیں کرتا۔

This particular clip is not from a “conference to revoke Pakistan’s GSP+ status” It is from the General Debate under Item 9 of the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council. Kasim Khan speaks about rising intolerance and political persecution in Pakistan (among other concerns, some of which are factually inaccurate) and calls on the Council to urge Pakistan to end the persecution and release political prisoners. GSP+ isn’t mentioned Available here at 41:45: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1z/k…

Today, I had the honour of speaking to the 47 countries that comprise the @UN #HumanRightsCouncil urging the immediate release of my father @imrankhanpti and all #Pakistan’s #politicalprisoners. Along with this, I want to be very clear. Like my father, I fully support maintaining GSP+ as the people of #Pakistan should never be punished for the actions of its leaders. But the Pakistani regime must also fully comply with the 27 treaties it committed to follow to obtain this benefit, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Convention Against Torture. @UN @ptiofficial #HumanRights #ImranKhanUnlawfullyDetained

طالبان سے محبت پر ایک درجن کے قریب پھیکی جُگتوں کے بعد ایک قدرِ مناسب جُگت پر مصطفیٰ چوہدری صاحب کو میری طرف سے مبارکباد 👏🏽😀

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today. I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC. May God bless America.

Hitting a school is wrong, hitting a clinic is wrong… raging at one, shrugging at other is wrong…

RT @Jemima_Khan: My sons Sulaiman & @kasim_khan_1999 applied for visas in January (again… ) to allow them to visit their father @ImranKhanP…

Respectfully disagree sir :) here’s why. Disclaimer first… I’m not a doctor. Just sharing personal experience and the advice of some physicians I personally trust because they emphasise lifestyle before lifelong medication. I’ve struggled with undesirable cholesterol levels through my adulthood. Recently I started researching health and fitness more deeply and tested things on my own body while tracking regular blood reports under professional guidance. Twice I was able to bring high risk cholesterol markers down to completely normal levels within about 3–4 weeks through disciplined diet and exercise alone. All documented. What I learned was simple. When I slip on diet and exercise, the numbers rise. When I fix my lifestyle, they normalize again. Same pattern with blood sugar. Which made me think about the doctors who advised statins immediately. Don’t get me wrong… medication certainly has its place. It saves lives. But I often wonder why the conversation so rarely begins with fixing the root cause instead of masking the symptom. Shouldn’t diet, movement, and metabolic health be the first prescription and pills the last resort? How many articles do we read about that? But…. I could be wrong. Do your own research under professional guidance. Health is wealth. Food is medicine. Knowledge is power.

میں نے اعتزاز احسن کے تقریریں سنیں ہیں۔ جب وہ کھڑے ہو جاتے تھے تو سب کو بیٹھ کر سننا پڑتا تھا۔ اور پاکستان کی تاریخ میں کوئ شخص نہی جو ان کا مقابلہ کر سکے۔ گوہر ایوب مخالف تھے مگر اعتزاز کو نہی روکا جا سکتا تھا۔ گھنٹوں بولنے کا ریکارڈ ہے ان کا۔ تکلیف ہوئ کہ پاکستان کے اتنے بڑے وکیل کو اک حکومت اکثریت سے لگائے کمیشن کے بنائے سیاسی جج نے جھٹلا کر باہر پھینکا۔ کوئ عدالتی جواز نہی۔ ضرورت ہی نہی۔ کیونکہ ان ججوں کو اس ہی طریقہ کار سے لایا گیا ہے جس سے ڈائریکٹ حوالدار بھرتی کیے جاتے ہیں۔ حوالدار کو پھر بھی اک دو میل دوڑ کر پاس کرنا ہوتا ہے۔ یہ جج حکومت کی مرضی کے فیصلے دے کر وہ امتحان پاس کر رہے ہیں۔ ان کو کیا پتا کہ کون ہے اعتزاز احسن۔ اس نے سی ایس ایس پاس کر کے وکیل بننا پسند کیا۔ پاکستان کے بڑے ترین مقدمے لڑے۔ اس کی بیوی کا ضیا کے خلاف سر پھٹا۔ اس نے جیلیں کاٹیں۔ مگر اسلاماباد کے اس جج نے جس کو حکومت اکثریت سے لگایا گیا ہے۔ اس کیا اس تاریخ سے۔ مانگ کیا رہا تھا اعتزاز کے عمران خان کے خاندان کی تشفی کروا دیں اس کے ڈاکٹرز کے زریعے کے وہ ٹھیک ہے۔ اس کے خاندان کا اخلاقی اور قانونی حق ہے اس کو ملنے کا۔ کیا جرم ہے اس کو مانگنے میں۔ مگر اعتزاز جیسے وکیل کی بھی ہروا نہی کی گئ۔ کوئ شرم نہی رہ گئ اس نظام میں عدلیہ میں اور معاشرے میں

Why and how Geo is doing this?

Breaking News: New video adds to evidence that a U.S. missile likely hit an Iranian school where 175 people, many of them children, were reportedly killed. nyti.ms/4ls4WMr

The worst use case of AI, so far.

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."

"If we allow one of our own to be disappeared, we are failing in our duty to the soul of the game" Greg Chappell writes ⤵️ espncricinfo.com/story/why-a-gr…

Deeply saddened to hear about Imran bhai. Cricket has given us many shared moments, and as a fellow sportsman who has shared the platform and learned from him, I sincerely appeal that he be treated with dignity. Praying for his good health and strength for his family. @ImranKhanPTI #ImranKhanHealthEmergency

Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar among 14 former international cricket captains requesting Pakistan Govt for fair medical treatment, dignified detention conditions and fair trial for Imran Khan These guys have shown how they may have been rivals on the field but will be friends forever IMP: The list has no Pakistani name on it. Sad

Seeing Imran Khan suffer and lose sight in one eye is an emotional meltdown! I hope humanity prevails and suffering is reduced .

The last 3 months I’ve been raising funds in USA for Imran Khan’s Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital. I’m deeply saddened to hear the news of him losing vision in his eye. I hope he gets the best treatment and I’m wishing him a speedy recovery.

A detailed report by the “Amicus Curiae” appointed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on the health and prison conditions of arbitrarily detained former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan reveals disturbing details of serious human rights violations, inhumane treatment, psychological torture, and deliberate medical neglect, which has resulted in 85% vision loss in his right eye. Here are some highlights from the report:

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