Azam Farooqui

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@schadjoe Agreed! Credit where it’s due! Sped up the game significantly

Let’s give credit to MLB for all the ways they have made the game better Pitch clock Bigger bases ABS challenges Shift ban Pickoff limits Mound visit limits One foot in batter’s box Three batter minimum Pitchcom Extra innings ghost runner Impressive list 👏

Started with a promise: no interest, ever for faith and ethics. Today, we’ve financed Rs. 2.3 billion worth of interactive displays at 0%. A small effort to follow the teachings of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ), who warned against riba. Principles can scale. Alhamdulillah.

"Mocking Pakistan for its efforts to make peace does not help India at all. Impressing domestic constituencies with word play may be politically satisfying. ...it shows up Delhi in poor light, as more bitter about Pakistan than interested in the peace in West Asia." @tallstories

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA -> #FIFAWorldCup 🇧🇦❤️ (@klixba)

WE’RE GOING TO THE WORLD CUP ❤️ WINNING REACTION 🇧🇦

📍SARAJEVO! #FIFAWorldCup

When you tell her you’re a “macro strategist focused on asymmetric risk” instead of a “degenerate gambler”

@amitisinvesting @JDVance We’re just tired from all the winning!

@JDVance JD I am also very happy for her podcast but can you PLEASE PUMP OUR BAGS WE ARE REALLY FEELING IT OUT HERE

Very proud of my wife, Usha, for launching her podcast today!

Pakistan is the rare country that has warm ties w/US & Iran but also the GCC states, Turkey & China. Heck, its ties w/Russia are good too. This may not bring piece to the Mideast, but it gives Pakistan diplomatic alignments that line up well to position itself as a facilitator.

Hoffman LMAO

Our interest lies in accepting our geography and learning lessons from history. Once that is clear everything else becomes and remains easy.

Since there's a lot of wild speculation floating around on this topic, wanted to lay out my thoughts on Pakistan's attempts at mediation in the Iran war & the motivations behind them. I think it's quite clear that Pakistan is trying to bring about an end to the war because it has deeply-held vested interests in both cessation of hostilities & the survival of the Iranian state. If this drags on indefinitely, Pakistan's economy and people will suffer in unimaginable ways. Fuel may become a luxury, Gulf remittances & reserves may plummet, Pakistan will face mounting Saudi pressure to come to its defence, its sectarian fault lines could erupt into mass unrest and in the worst case scenarios of occupation & balkanization, it could find itself surrounded by the India-Israel nexus on all sides amid live nuclear risks & an economic breakdown. Those opponents of the Pakistani government still spreading fantastical conspiracy theories about Pakistan secretly trying to undermine Iran because 'the regime is a Zionist agent' have let their political biases completely disconnect them from material reality. That any Pakistan govt would actually *assist* Israel in dismantling a non hostile border state & effectively invite the phatherland & motherland to start jointly destabilizing our borders while the economy collapses is such an offensively ridiculous idea it doesn't even merit a refutation. It's not even about which party or institution is in charge - any Pakistani govt would be forced to take similar steps in these existential circumstances out of pure national interest (whether they were effective or not). Right now, such breathless rumor mongering despite substantial evidence to the contrary amounts to a conscious attempt to undermine the very fragile dialogue process that Pakistan is attempting as a last ditch effort before the situation spirals fully out of control (exactly as Israel wants, which is why it's furious at Pakistan rn). We shouldn't let our political allegiances completely overwhelm our commonsense to the extent that we actively start seeking widespread human destruction. I've been a critic of the Pakistani establishment my whole life & think the current govt has obvious legitimacy issues, which is the cause of much of its domestic difficulties. But in this particular moment, its own survival instincts fully coincide with the needs of Pakistan (& the entire world other than Israel frankly) in the face of the world-historical catastrophe unfolding before us. My hopes for the success of this peace effort are slim given the reality of US-Israeli duplicity & the hardening of the Iranian position. But the alternative if it doesn't - a prolonged war of attrition involving US ground troops, occupation & full fledged regional destruction & economic collapse - is something we must try to avoid at all costs. Hoping for some sanity to prevail and for this Zionist-imposed crisis to come to an end before it becomes an unstoppable calamity.

I've so far avoided dramatics because I would be accused of bias. To be clear: this is the worst energy crisis of our lifetimes, well beyond what any sober mind could have envisioned, with no end in sight. The level of complacency to me is astounding.

The pragmatic wisdom of the Pakistani public is undefeated.

110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life: "i never once used Microsoft Teams"

I’m developing a deep revulsion for articles either completely or even partially written by AI. Same structure, similar language, even if the content is good I just find it hard to sit through and read the whole thing.

Salah departure truly closes the chapter on Klopp era!