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Feb 4, 2023 20 tweets 6 min read
Did India really try to take out Pakistan’s nascent nuclear weapons programme in the 1970s? No. India’s top nuclear brains believed an economically poor Pakistan didn’t have industrial base or capability to work with gas centrifuges - a thread on #MissionMajnu & the real story… India tested its first nuclear bomb in 1974, less than 3 years after Pakistan lost its eastern wing, which became Bangladesh. The feeling of helplessness was immense in Islamabad & Pakistan’s PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto felt the need to act…
Oct 18, 2022 22 tweets 4 min read
A few thoughts on Shahrukh Jatoi #ShahrukhJatoi who murdered #ShahzedKhan in cold blood on a cool winter night in 2012 ...a thread The Express Tribune's reporter Rabia Ali broke the story. The incident would have been relegated to a few paragraphs on the inside pages if it wasn't for editor Kamal Siddiqi who saw it's significance right at the start tribune.com.pk/story/485132/m…