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@Invest_Kardo Bahi Jaan want to ruin Pakistan just to buy stocks on discounted price. That the problem with this cult

@ZubairKhanPK This is just the start. Abhi tau aur line peh aana hai tum logon ne.

@Invest_Kardo Pakistan secured an SLA within 24 hours of the petroleum subsidy. If it was so disastrous, that wouldn’t have happened. But agenda driven minds can’t acknowledge anything that helps the masses.

The @FT contradicts the overly optimistic picture painted by the government and its stenographs that the growth of solar has obviated the need for LNG: “…Pakistan is in a particularly vulnerable situation. Almost 99 per cent of its LNG imports came from Qatar last year. Its last cargoes from Ras Laffan arrived on the second and third days of the Iran war. Both of the country’s LNG import terminals have reduced their operations to one-sixth of normal levels and will have stopped dispatching gas completely by the end of the month, according to two people familiar with the situation. One of the two terminals, owned by Pakistan GasPort, will run out of LNG to process in the coming days, said its chair and chief executive Iqbal Ahmed. “After that we’ll run dry,” he said. “We do not know when the next cargo will come in.” Before US and Israeli strikes on Iran began, Islamabad was facing an oversupply of LNG and had asked supplier QatarEnergy to redirect 24 cargoes that had been scheduled to arrive in Pakistan this year. It asked Eni of Italy to redirect a further 11 cargoes. State-owned buyer Pakistan LNG asked Eni to send some of those cargoes after the war broke out, according to a person familiar with the matter, but the request was unsuccessful. Eni declined to comment. Pakistan LNG also contacted traders and suppliers in Europe, Oman, the US, Azerbaijan and Africa but all offered prices that were too high for Pakistan to accept, said the person. Pakistan LNG declined to comment. Buying LNG on the spot market is prohibitively expensive for Pakistan. Asian LNG prices on the Platts JKM benchmark have doubled since the war began, to around $23 per million British thermal units (MMBtu). Shipping costs have risen because of higher charter rates and longer journeys to alternative suppliers of LNG…” ~ @humza_jilani giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac… World faces gas supply cliff edge as Gulf’s final LNG shipments approach ports

I’ve just started @vali_nasr’s new book ‘𝐼𝑟𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑦: 𝐴 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦’ and I have to say, some of the stuff in there is pretty mind-blowing. He writes that back in year 1980, Iran provided Israel with intelligence that it used in bombing Iraq’s nuclear facility at Osirak in June 1981—which Iran too had sought to destroy in September 1980. Mansour Farhang, the Islamic Republic’s first ambassador to the United Nations, attended a meeting in which Khomeini approved receiving Israeli aid, provided it remained secret. At this point, mused Farhang, perhaps for Khomeini the Qur’an was only “holy” because “it was full of loopholes.” Arms sales from Israel to Iran totalled an estimated $500 million annually between 1981 and 1983, and most of it was paid for by Iranian oil delivered to Israel. According to one Iranian arms dealer, roughly 80% of the weaponry bought by Tehran immediately after the onset of the war with Iraq originated in Israel. In a speech on August 24, 1981 just weeks after Israel bombed Osirak using Iranian intelligence Khomeini stood before the world and angrily denied that any cooperation with Israel had taken place. He claimed Iran's enemies were spreading false rumours to undermine the Islamic Revolution. He even invented a conspiracy theory on the spot claiming that Saddam Hussein was actually an ally of Israel who had "forced" Israel to destroy his own nuclear facilities. Meanwhile, Iran even agreed to allow Israeli fighter jets to land on Iranian soil in case of an emergency during the operation against Iraq.