Shahab Siddiqi @UncleFu

Communications Specialist @Tabadlab. All views expressed here are mostly borrowed. Islamabad, Pakistan Joined June 2009

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Sophia Ahmed @sophiaahmed

2 months ago

I get that Lahore might want to discuss its food's supremacy over Karachi. But Islamabad!!!! But people who eat cabbage on a chaat, know nothing about food.

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Shahab Siddiqi @UncleFu

2 months ago

Pakistan has performed its role of mediator with humility and dignity. We have shown the world our true role as harbingers of peace. Everyone involved in these efforts has made the nation proud.

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I’m so proud of my country this past week. We stepped in to prevent nuclear escalation, arranged talks & facilitated safety against all odds. We kept a lid on speculation & information leaks. We never had control over the outcome but we were the only ones who tried to change it.

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Turgay Evren @TurgayEvren1

2 months ago

Pakistan’s anthem is highly Persianized, so Persian speakers may pronounce it more authentically—though it’s usually sung in an Urdu style. Here is Pakistan’s national anthem performed by an Iranian singer.

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Shahab Siddiqi @UncleFu

2 months ago

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iqbal theba @iqbaltheba

2 months ago

#GirlsInGreen ❤️

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Pakistan Football Federation @TheRealPFF

3 months ago

MATCHDAY 🔥🇵🇰 Pakistan vs Turks & Caicos Islands 🇹🇨 Time to make history 💚⚽ Let’s go Shaheens!

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nJ @khurammmalik

3 months ago

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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86

3 months ago

BREAKING. Thirty-six hours ago President Donald Trump said “obliterate.” This morning he said “productive conversations.” The question every trader, diplomat, and general is asking: what broke between Saturday night and Monday morning? Six things broke simultaneously. Not one of them was Iranian. First. The bill arrived. The Pentagon requested over $200 billion in supplemental funding. The war cost $11.3 billion in six days, $16.5 billion in twelve. At $1.38 billion per day and accelerating, congressional resistance to the supplemental is real. The money that was supposed to fund “days not weeks” now needs a vote that may not pass. Second. The Fed killed the rate-cut thesis. On March 18, the Federal Reserve held rates at 3.5 to 3.75 percent and revised its 2026 PCE inflation forecast to 2.7 percent from 2.4, citing the Iran war energy shock. The dot plot shows one cut in all of 2026, down from two. Every basis point of delayed easing is pain for housing, credit, and the Magnificent Seven. The war that was supposed to demonstrate strength is demonstrating inflation. Third. The allies revolted politely. Twenty-two countries signed up to coordinate on Hormuz. Zero committed a warship during combat. Japan is releasing strategic reserves. South Korea’s Kospi has fallen 12 percent. Europe’s gas surged 35 percent after Qatar’s LNG was knocked offline & declared force majeure up to 5 years. Trump called NATO “cowards” and got a press release. The coalition of the willing is a coalition of the waiting. Fourth. TSMC sent the signal. Taiwan imports nearly 97 percent of its energy. Its LNG reserves cover 11 days. Qatar supplies a third of global helium, which TSMC needs for chip fabrication. The helium is bottled behind a closed strait. Every Nvidia GPU, every Apple chip, every AI cluster depends on a fab in Hsinchu counting its gas in single-digit days. The Magnificent Seven have shed hundreds of billions as energy rotation crushes tech. Fifth. Birol named the damage. The IEA chief told Australia this morning that 40 energy assets across nine countries are severely damaged, global oil supply has fallen 11 million barrels per day, the crisis exceeds both 1970s shocks combined, and no country is immune. He named fertilisers and helium as interrupted flows. The man who runs global energy security called the war Trump started the worst energy crisis in modern history. Sixth. The midterms. Gas prices are up 93 cents per gallon. Sixty-six percent of Americans call this a war of choice. Sixty percent disapprove. Fifty-seven percent say it is going badly. The numbers that matter in Washington are not barrels per day. They are approval ratings in swing states where voters fill their tanks every Tuesday. Six pressures. One post. President Trump did not discover diplomacy. He discovered arithmetic. The 48-hour ultimatum was a threat. The 5-day pause is a confession that the threat’s consequences were worse than its target. Destroying power plants would have sealed the strait permanently, triggered Ghalibaf’s promise to “irreversibly destroy” Gulf desalination and energy infrastructure, crashed TSMC’s supply chain, spiked inflation past 3 percent, and handed the midterms to the opposition on a platter of $7 gasoline. The pause is real. The relief is not. The strait is still closed. The 40 assets are still damaged. The fertiliser is still blocked. The planting window is still closing. The five-day clock is already ticking. The molecules do not negotiate. The molecules wait. Full deep dive analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86

3 months ago

BREAKING: In the last 24 hours, the 2026 Iran war crossed four thresholds simultaneously. Each one would be the lead story of any other week. Together they form the architecture of an escalation spiral that has no off-ramp visible from any capital on Earth. First. Iran struck