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My latest for the Washington Post on Imran Khan. The legendary cricketer and politician Pakistan can jail, censor but never erase. @PostOpinions
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/…

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Pakistan Air Force reaching Eastern Saudi Arabia at a time when Pakistan is marketing itself as an honest broker between the US & Iran is a very bad optic. In the first instance, the “Mutual Defense Pact” between Pakistan & Saudia (Sept, 2025) is a ridiculous misnomer for a mercenary relationship where Saudis can only pay for Pakistan’s services through deferred oil payments, credit facilities & permitting expatriate remittances etc. This neatly fits in the pattern of mercenary relationship feuding European princely states exhibited in the period before the 18th century rise of nation states..Pakistan’s only defense challenge lies in its East with India and in case of a conflict the only help Saudis can extend is “Good Will” or the kind of mediation, Pakistan is offering to Iran which in reality is “Helping President Trump”..Saudis don’t even have the space to offend India when it comes to Pakistan..
Pakistan ~Saudi mercenary relationship demonstrates the extent to which Pakistan has lost its sovereignty because of its failing economy. Since nothing is working for economy, one can fear more and more shameless compromises in near future. Over the past few years, US led or influenced global institutions (IMF, World Bank, ADB, UK Aid, and EU’s GSP plus etc) have helped maintain a financial drip for Pakistan that has prevented a political meltdown but Pakistani regime is forced to give away more and more of its sovereignty & related resources without getting anything substantial for its economy and people. Majority of Pakistanis are becoming more and more poor, income inequality is increasing- but antics like the “Roman Games in Coliseum” continue like this “Islamabad Talks” - unless something substantial flows out for Iran, Pakistan and the region these talks will only be remembered as “Trump & Saudi Bail out” - Iran’s real need is lifting of Primary, Secondary & UN Sanctions and can make Nuclear related compromise in return; Pakistan benefits in a big way if Sanctions are lifted. Because Pakistan’s biggest problem that makes its exports uncompetitive is cost of energy. Iranian gas through IPI can give Pakistan breathing space & Iran provides a geographic corridor to Turkey and Europe - but Pakistani elite are busy as always in antics to please their masters and fooling people! PAF landing in Eastern Saudi Arabia and US Warships entering Straits of Hormuz (if without coordination with Iran’s military, as claimed by Barak Ravid in Axios) at a time when Iranian leaders are busy negotiating with the US Vice President, JD Vance, are not good signs - and raise very difficult questions! @tparsi @vali_nasr @RealScottRitter @BarakRavid
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“Did you know U.S. and Israeli jets fired missiles at protesters in Tehran? Your media won’t tell you.” says Professor Mohammed Marandi of Iran.
Host: “Can Iran close the Strait of Hormuz indefinitely?”
Marandi: “For them, it’s a fight for survival. For you, it’s about maintaining power structures and ethno-supremacy.”
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“They say that Spain is alone. They said the same when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. We are not alone. We are the first. Those defending the indefensible will be the ones left alone.”
(Sánchez, March 9)
POLITICOEurope@POLITICOEurope
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s condemnation of the U.S. and Israel’s attack on Iran initially made him an outlier in Europe. Now everyone wants in. politico.eu/article/spain-…
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