Iqbal Latif

#MissAfghanistan2026 At #Düsseldorf Carnival, a float showed a fully cloaked woman, kneeling, chained, labeled “Miss Afghanistan 2026.” It wasn’t satire for laughs. It is an indictment. 1/4 instagram.com/reel/DU3i_z_DQ…

This is not a tweet. This is a record of a day. From a morning signal few saw, to an evening #ceasefire the world could not ignore. #Pakistan moved. The channel held. The noise was wrong. Read the full story: open.substack.com/pub/iqballatif…

@CMShehbaz جو آپ دیکھتے ہیں — اور جو آپ نے نہیں دیکھا open.substack.com/pub/iqballatif…

@CMShehbaz Awesome

With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes. Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days! @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @SecRubio @SteveWitkoff @SEPeaceMissions @drpezeshkian @mb_ghalibaf @araghchi

Well done

And this too:

👉 @GiorgiaMeloni Still rolling your eyes— or has diplomacy earned a second glance? @realDonaldTrump @CMShehbaz

All my life, I have been a storyteller. I see something, I react to it. A meme, a sculpture, a line of literature — I don’t just see it, I engage with it. My mind is curious. Inquisitive. Always on the move. Continues... @iqballatif/note/p-192902644?r=33eq6&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@iqballatif/no…

“Egoism killed the previous society. It will kill today. It will kill tomorrow. Kill your ego. If you want to progress.” — Iqbal Latif

1996. Steve Jobs is asked on television what went wrong at Apple. He hasn't worked there in over a decade. Within a year, Apple will buy his company NeXT and bring him back. Within 18 months, he'll be running the place. He doesn't know that yet. Nobody does. At this point, he's running NeXT, a small software company, and Pixar, which just released Toy Story. Apple is falling apart. The stock is collapsing. The company has lost over a billion dollars. Its market share has dropped from 18% to around 4%. WIRED will put Apple's logo on its cover, wrapped in barbed wire, with the word "Pray." The interviewer asks Jobs what happened. His answer is one paragraph, and it's basically the entire turnaround strategy he'll execute a year later. He says when he left Apple ten years earlier, they were ten years ahead of everybody else. It took Microsoft a full decade to copy what Apple had built. But Apple stopped. "Even though it invested cumulatively billions in R&D, the output has not been there, and people have caught up with it." He says Apple's advantage over Microsoft has eroded. And then this: "The way out is not to slash and burn. It's to innovate. That's how Apple got to its glory, and I think that's how Apple could return to it." When Apple bought NeXT in December 1996 and brought Jobs back as an advisor, things got worse before they got better. By September 1997, Apple was about 90 days from running out of money. The board made Jobs the interim CEO. He cut 70% of the product line, but not to save money. He cut it so the remaining 30% could be great. He launched Think Different. He built the iMac. Then the iPod. Then iTunes. Then the iPhone. Then the iPad. Every single one of those products was the "innovate, don't slash and burn" philosophy from this interview, applied over and over for 14 years. He also says something in this interview that stands out. He says the most exciting thing in software is the internet, and the reason is "no one owns it. It's a free-for-all. It's much like the early days of the personal computer." He says if any one company gets a dominant position, "the rate of innovation is going to drop precipitously." He's talking about Microsoft. But he could be talking about 2026. Apple is worth about $3.7 trillion today. When this interview was filmed, Apple was worth about $3 billion and falling fast. Jobs walked back into Apple nine months later with no title, no authority, and the same diagnosis he gave on camera in this clip. Video: Steve Jobs Television Interview, 1996. Original broadcast footage.

#Paris n’est pas une ville. C’est une continuité de contradictions — et si vous y vivez assez longtemps, elle commence à penser à travers vous. La Peste noire, la guillotine, le caviar de Sartre, et les ossements de six millions d’âmes sous les pavés drive.google.com/file/d/15KiC1h…

Paris is not a city. It is a continuity of contradictions. The Black Death, the guillotine, Sartre’s caviar, Joséphine Baker’s Panthéon, and the bones of six million beneath the streets. One essay. Written at dawn, New York, March 2026. 📖 drive.google.com/file/d/1hZOhXr… Iqbal Latif

@NLSpy7 @Grok please confirm

First satellite image shows Iran’s missile strike on Qatar’s Ras Laffan refinery—the world’s largest gas condensate complex. Source: MizarVision

The world debates “de-dollarization.” Meanwhile: Global trade: $33 trillion per year FX markets: $7 trillion per day Dollar participation: ~90% That is the architecture of global finance. facebook.com/share/16bWNsGu… #Petrodollar #ForexMarkets #DollarDominance #GlobalFinance

#Oil is priced in dollars. #Globaltrade settles in dollars. Global #FXmarkets run through the dollar. You can pay in #yuan, #rubles, or Inrupees — but somewhere along the line the system still converts back to dollars. The dollar never leaves the room. #Petrodollar #GlobalFinance

People say the #petrodollar is dying.But global #FXmarkets move $7 trillion every day, and the dollar sits on one side of almost 90% of those trades. Currencies don’t replace the dollar with speeches. They replace it with liquidity. No one is even close. #DollarDominance

The world trades about $33 trillion a year, but currency markets trade over $7 trillion every single day — and nearly 90% of those transactions involve the US dollar. That is not sentiment. That is structure.” Iqbal Latif facebook.com/share/16bWNsGu…

Today at the @WaldorfAstoria I had an unexpected conversation with @FIFA President GianniInfantino Sometimes diplomacy begins not in conference rooms — but over coffee. ⚽ @CMShehbaz @betterpakistan

It had to be...

@Lamiakhann Never seen a leader being so floored and he said after that dressing “ I won 🏆 the World Cup “

According to Donald Trump, Nawaz Sharif was not doing anything for the U.S. and was going against them before Imran Khan came into power. I wonder who was behind the selected trio of Bajwa, Faiz & IK? 🤨