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🚨🇵🇰🗳️ ~ Financial Times: "Empowering voters to hold leaders accountable through truly free and fair elections — without the military’s stranglehold — would be a start.With this stunning election result, a long-term reckoning over how Pakistan ought to be governed has begun."
With Imran Khan in prison and his party barred from contesting, Pakistan’s powerful military thought it had orchestrated last week’s election in its favour. It was wrong. On Friday, Khan — the populist former prime minister and national cricket captain — used an AI-generated video to deliver a victory speech from his cell.
Independent candidates loyal to his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party won just over a third of the 265 seats, in the deeply flawed vote. Although rival parties have now agreed to form a coalition, PTI’s success against the odds sends an emphatic message from Pakistani citizens: they are tired of being led by self-serving political elites and the military’s arbitration.
Read More ➡️ FT
🚨🇵🇰🗳️ ~ NEW ~ Two right-wing Islamist parties (JI & TLP) declare their support for PTI amid a possible alliance between establishment backed opposition parties to deny PTI a 2/3 majority in parliament.
"We are with the oppressed, and TLP will give all the form 45 they have to PTI challenging electoral rigging." - Saad Rizvi, TLP’s party chief.
The war hero was honored with the prestigious ‘Sitara-e-Jurat’ with BAR for his outstanding performance in the 1965 war.
The war hero breathed his last on 18th March 2013, in Karachi after a prolonged illness.
🇵🇰 | A Pakistani F-16D flanked by two J-10Cs over the outskirts of Islamabad today.
Читать полностью…🇵🇰⚡️🇮🇷 | On February 14, Iran’s interior minister Ahmad Vahidi arrived in Islamabad for a day-long visit with the Commander of the Iranian Border Guards, Brigadier General Ahmad Ali Goudarzi, among other high-ranking officials.
While Pakistani leadership hailed the historic “brotherly ties” with Iran, privately the delegation was given a stern warning: “He was given the message that we know [about the use of Iranian soil by Baloch insurgents]. If there are more attacks, we will take decisive action,” says the security official, who is privy to details of the meeting.
➡️ https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/why-pakistan-is-coming-down-hard-on-iran-55499
🛩 🇵🇰🇺🇦| Pakistan sends humanitarian aid including medicines, tents, generators for the people of Ukraine via two C-130 aircraft. Ukrainian ambassador Markian Chuchuk thanked the people and government of Pakistan for the support. ➕
Читать полностью…📸 | A poster of Pakistan’s supreme leader Imran Khan. 🇵🇰
Читать полностью…🇵🇰🇬🇧 | Pakistan & UK have finalized an extradition agreement that will enable extradition of convicted persons between the two countries.
Читать полностью…🇵🇰⚔️ | Pakistan Air Force on 13 March, 2022: Induction of J-10C aircraft has further strengthened PAF as a formidable and potent force well capable of defending the aerial frontiers of our beloved country.
With J-10C “Dragon” Omni role fighter in its ranks, PAF retains the first shot BVR capability while maintaining a qualitative edge in the application of Air Power across all domains.
The capabilities of the aircraft are showcased in this short video documentry.
🗣 "China gave us fighter jets in record time, This is for our Defence. What could have taken 2-3 years, they gave us the J-10C Squadron in 7 months". - Prime Minister Imran Khan 🇵🇰🇨🇳
Читать полностью…"EU diplomats wrote a letter to me, asking me to condemn Russia. This letter was against all diplomatic protocols.
We want to have strong diplomatic relations with all countries, but without compromising on our national interests.
Pakistanis are not the children of an inferior god. We would never compromise on our sovereignty."
- He continued. 🇵🇰
🚨 Foreign Ministers of 46 Islamic countries from the OIC to witness the Pakistan Day Parade on 23rd March. 🇵🇰
Читать полностью…🚨🇵🇰 | The Pakistan Air Force has inducted the YLC-8E ultra high frequency 3D phased array radar, specialising in anti-stealth and anti-jamming, and is world’s first mobile UHF band radar designed to achieve long-range (500-700 km) early warning detection of stealthy aircraft.
Читать полностью…🇵🇰⚔ | The Air Force on the occasion of J-10C induction
"Today marks a very important day in the history of PAF as it inducts the state of the art J-10C aircraft in its arsenal.
This addition further strengthens PAF as a formidable and potent force well capable of defending the aerial frontiers of our beloved country. With the induction of J-10C “Dragon” Omni role fighter in its ranks, PAF retains the first shot BVR capability while maintaining a qualitative edge in the application of Air Power across all domains.
The modern AESA radar, Integrated EW suite, informationized infused sensor system and an ability to carry a wide array of weapons, makes the J-10C a lethal weapon system capable of taking on any contemporary aerial and ground threats with a high degree of assurance.
Induction of J-10 C is a manifestation of brotherhood, unity, trust and reliance between Pakistan and China as well as prudence of our visionary leadership. PAF is committed to be worthy of being “The Nation’s Pride”." 🇵🇰
🚨🇵🇰⚡️🗳️ ~ All major highways in Balochistan were blocked today in protest against systematic rigging during general elections on February 8.
There was a shutter down strike yesterday, with several sit-ins happening in different cities simultaneously. People will not let their mandate be stolen easily.
⭐️ Barrick Gold gets to restart the Reko Diq mine project in Pakistan. It's capable of producing 200,000 tons of copper and 250,000 ounces of gold a year for more than half a century.
Reko Diq is one of the largest undeveloped copper and gold deposits in the World based in Balochistan region of Pakistan.
Pakistan PM Imran Khan says it liberate the country from crippling debt & IMF and usher in a new era of development & prosperity. 🇵🇰
Read More ➡️ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-20/barrick-gold-pakistan-agree-to-restart-reko-diq-project
🇵🇰⚔️ | 18 Mar, 2022: PAF is paying tribute to the 1965 war hero Air Cdre Mohammad Mahmood Alam (Late) on his 9th death anniversary. Alam achieved the remarkable feat of downing 5 Indian Air force jets in under one minute during the 1965 war - A record that remains un beaten till date.
The legendary PAF pilot shot down five Indian fighter jets piloting his F-86 Sabre jet plane, becoming an “Ace in a Day” on 7th September 1965. In total he had 09 kills and 02 damages during a period of 11 days.
🇵🇰🇷🇺 | Pakistan plans to finalise a Russian-built gas pipeline despite international pressure to isolate Moscow economically, as the US ally searches for alternatives to ease a domestic energy crunch.
"We need a gas pipeline to transport LNG from south to north. That’ll become almost essential for us in the next two or three years,” he said. “Either there’s an alternative for us or we’ll go ahead with this deal . . . This is the best alternative as of now, and this was obviously done before Ukraine crises.”
A nuclear deal between the US and Iran would allow Islamabad to revive a plan to build a pipeline delivering gas directly from Iran to neighbouring Pakistan, which is suspended because of international sanctions. “If there’s a deal . . . this is the cheapest [option]. It’s next door,” he said. “It’ll be very good for us.”
Finance minister further added it was “only fair that people should respect” Pakistan’s “neutral” stance. The west “have been our allies for a very long time. We’re listening to them, but we told them, ‘Listen, we don’t believe in taking sides. We’re with you as much as China and others’,” he added. ⛽️
➡️ https://twitter.com/acorn/status/1503937098084397056?s=21
“Pakistan has enjoyed excellent bilateral relations with Ukraine and we are concerned” Pakistan FM Qureshi said.
“Through this gesture, Govt. of Pakistan, PM Imran Khan and people of Pakistan want to express they have not forgotten people of Ukraine.” 🇵🇰🤝🇺🇦
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Pakistan was preparing to launch a retaliatory strike after India's errant missile but it held back after realizing something was amiss, sources say.
India missile launch occurred due to human, technical errors.
➡️ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-15/errant-indian-missile-nearly-led-to-pakistan-retaliatory-strike
📸⚔️ | Pakistan Army troops and SSG preparing for an assault against AQ, TTP & co. in Swat, 2009.
Читать полностью…📸⚔️ | Pakistan Army paratroopers posing for a photo after successfully completing airdrop exercise.
Читать полностью…🚨 Pakistan Federal Cabinet approves a summary for sending aid and Relief to Ukraine on Humanitarian grounds including blankets, sleeping bags, KVA generators, Soap Bars, and sanitisers. 🇵🇰🇺🇦
Читать полностью…Bayraktar Akinci - New addition in Pakistan’s armed drone force. 🇵🇰🇹🇷
▫️Akinci is a twin-engined turbo drop long-range UCAV drone capable of 27 hours endurance, with range over 7,500 kilometers. It has flight ceiling above 40,000 ft.
▫️The drone has the capacity to carry a payload of 1,350kg, including AAM / SAM missiles, anti tank guided missile, thermobaric bombs, ATG precision munitions, SOMs & wing-assisted bombs - to say a few.
▫️It is equipped with an indigenously manufactured active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, a SAR/GMTI radar & a surveillance system.
It has signal intelligence suite (SIGINT), and SATCOM allowing Akinci to become an UCAV as well as ISTAR+C3.
🗣 "I asked the European & US diplomats if you would allow us to do a drone attack in London & kill Pakistan’s most wanted terrorist Altaf Hussain."
"You would never allow us. So why should we allow you carry out drone attacks in our country’s tribal areas?"
Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan addresses a rally. 🇵🇰
🚨 | Paksitan mulling to close its airspace for Indian commercial airliners if India doesn't agree for joint-probe to ascertain the causes of missile malfunction. 🇵🇰🇮🇳
Читать полностью…🚨 | Pakistan rejects Indian explanation & demands a "joint probe" to establish the facts around the grave incident. 🇵🇰🇮🇳
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