#BREAKING Pakistan to become sixth nation to put a satellite around the Moon this year.

A Pakistani engineering and STEM university, and my own alma mater, the Institute of Space Technology (IST) in Islamabad has completed the design, development and construction of a compact deep-space-capable remote sensing satellite for multi-special high-resolution lunar imaging from moon orbit.

The SUPARCO mission to the Moon’s objective is to detect, locate and index traces of water ice on the lunar surface. Pakistan is proud to play its part in the human endeavour for exploration into deep space as the next frontier for humanity. The Pakistani satellite will be the SUPARCO 🇵🇰 contribution to Pakistan’s partnership with China with the CNSA 🇨🇳 Chang’e VI lunar lander mission to the Moon’s far side in May-June 2024.

#Opinion:

After relevant results are counted by the ECP for the #Pakistan General Elections 2024 and whichever Chief Executive is then appointed to govern our Islamic Republic for the next half-decade, will have one most important policy decision to make, perhaps the first truly critical policy decision of the entire tenure.

The next Prime Minister will be responsible for either taking charge or going forward with the abandonment and dereliction of duty with regards to leading and taking political executive initiative to deal with and implement our national defence decisions.

They as Prime Minister will have this one, single-most critical policy decision to make with regards to national security: to go to war or not.

Let us explain briefly in what are, very apologetically, frank words: The Pakistani gains in all domains made by our military operations (owned by the Government, led by the Army with national support, and funded from the people) of the 2000s and 2010s have been largely lost. This is has not happened now, in 2024. This happened in 2020-21.

The current situation is increasingly dire and dangerous due to the fact that the terrorist khwarij enemy is adapting to the long running Pakistani military anti-terrorist IBO policy and is now changing attack methods, developing more sophisticated tactics and growing larger in numbers. It is advancing, and preparing for a toehold to secure in Pakistan. Once they are able to establish even a settled, semi-permanent presence inside our territory with a combat potential, they will be a threat to our way of life. And we must act, now. Such a threat cannot be ignored, avoided or censured away.

The Pakistani military has two options, they can either continue the current procedures of countless IBOs that are growing more fatal by the year, so much so that in some time the terrorists will not have to even do bombings or attacks on forces, the IBOs casualty rate will be enough for them to fill their fatality quotas.

Or there is another option. War.
Or rather a large-scale military operation that would take place on both sides of the border, using ground forces on Pakistani soil and simultaneously using aerial precision strike on terrorist infrastructure on Afghanistan’s territory with taking the IEA into confidence (not in agreement with, mind you, just taking into prior confidence) while securing a commitment from the TTA not to make rash stupid mistakes at the border, in a kind of ultimatum to the Mullah party of Kandahar that we’ve already decided to take out your friends, you can go down with them or look the other way for us and you can play domestic politics to your population how you are so against this operation for a few months for all we care. Your next medical/shopping/entertainment/business visit to Islamabad is free, on us.

I understand and realise that many in our population and military are against another operation, for various reasons.

But the fact of the matter is that counterterrorism strategy is unstable, and will not give us security against this rising threat. The only option is a change in strategy. The current trend is unsustainable. There was a 500% increase in terrorist attack rates in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2023 compared to 2022. In 2024, there will be another increase, and so on every year periodically until a time will come, not so far in the future, when it will be do or die. And then we may not be able to do, or at least in the way we want. On an individual level even it is just poor planning to through your own actions let your enemy grow and grow and inevitably corner you into forced options. Preemption on your own rules is always preferable. And this isn’t an individual decision, either. It’s the secure future of 250 million united citizens.

Moving on, remember that t is not necessary that every operation must be the same. It is important to note that this 2024 operation would not be like the post-2008 operations. There would be no IDPs, no daily bombings and no territorial no-go areas. This would be more surgical, more precise, more deliberate and designed to achieve the desired end-result: all anti-Pakistan terrorist assets, locations and targets eliminated including those in Afghanistan and Iran, and a cessation of the existence of the terror threat to Pakistan’s western borders and two provinces once and for all. Let’s label that the DER (desired end-result).

But, dear author, you may ask, what is the Prime Minister have to do with this? And yes, I realise many people in the country confuse the national defence portfolio and defence ministerial authority under the PM-led cabinet of Pakistan as the entitlement of the senior most officer in one service branch of the tri-service Armed Forces, but I assure you, it is not.

#Pakistan-#India LOC at #Kashmir:

News from the Indian military, of firing by Pakistani bunkers/posts along LOC to Indian side, is completely fake.

Indian state-controlled media is propagating baseless lies to hide continuing own failures against indigenous freedom fighters. Area where Indian occupation forces are conducting the fake raid/operation is over four thousand meters from the LOC.

No question arises of Pakistani soldiers giving any sort of fire support or any kind of assistance to deter an already fake Indian false flag operation.

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#Pakistan’s security forces, the Army, Paramilitary and LEAs, today repulsed attacks at 3 locations coming from #Afghanistan, consisting of both irregular and regular fighters from #Afghanistan’s Taliban and the #TTP.

In #Chitral

https://twitter.com/ospsf/status/1699439470414532935

a large group of terrorists belonging to the Afghanistan-based, Indian-sponsored Khwarij terrorist organisation, TTP, attempted to infiltrate into Pakistan’s territory from Afghanistan at 0400 hours today.

In the consequent Pakistani operation, TWELVE (12) terrorists were killed

The Indian military conducted a massive, multi domain, joint forces offensive exercise this month.

The Indian Army’s Punjab-based II Strike Corps was mobilised. The Indian Air Force also conducted major two-week exercises over Occupied Kashmir and Punjab, deploying a dozen… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… The exercises looked like serious drills of an operational warplan targeting Pakistan. Indian military forces grow increasingly robust and technologically advanced every month.

#Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is estimated to grow by just 0.29% in the Fiscal Year 2022-23.

The 0.29% figure is a huge setback for 250 million Pakistanis, following a 5.74% GDP growth in Fiscal Year 2020-21 and a 6.10% GDP growth in Fiscal Year 2021-22.

The severe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… #Pakistan currently only has $4 billion of foreign exchange reserves, but has to pay back $25 billion to IMF and other Western creditors over the next year, or face default.

Meanwhile, the Sharif-Bhutto-Zardari-Rehman Administration remains uninterested, unbothered and unable to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

I personally support this new school of thought being explored by Pakistani policymakers. It is in the benefit of the State of Pakistan to seriously consider slowly and carefully changing the long-standing instinct of almost all Pakistani policymakers (from all institutions) to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… All of Pakistan’s neighbours and most countries in the region have chosen their blocs and so must Pakistan. And I would seriously suggest choosing China. Not least because of obvious geographical reasons, but because the United States does not help any other country other than… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

An internal memo from #Pakistan’s Foreign Office, dated March 2023 and written by the current Minister of State For Foreign Affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, is part of the top secret Pentagon documents leaked by a U.S. military service member, known as the Discord Server Leaks. The memo states that “#Pakistan should avoid giving the appearance of appeasing the West. The instinct to preserve Pakistan’s partnership with the #UnitedStates would ultimately sacrifice the full benefits of Pakistan’s real strategic partnership with #China. Pakistan can no… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The Chief of Army staff of the #Pakistan Army, General Asim Munir at the occasion made a speech. The COAS remarked:
“The People of Pakistan are central to the unity of the state. First and the foremost is loyalty to the State of Pakistan and commitment to the Constitutional role… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… The COAS also referred a Quranic verse of Surah-e-Baqarah, translation of which is:
" How many times it happened that a smaller force vanquished a bigger force by the Will of Allah”

The Pakistani military will start a major joint forces offensive counterterrorism campaign after Eid al-Fitr 2023. The all-out, comprehensive military operation in targeted areas of North and South Waziristan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

For residents and citizens: Not all of the civilian population of these areas will be required to relocate, neither will all citizens they be displaced by the operation. However it is advisable to consider temporary residence further into the Pakistani mainland and away from the border areas as an even more… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

The #Pakistan Army held the 257th Corps Commanders’ Conference at the General Headquarters, presided over by the Chief of Army Staff, General Asim Munir.

The Army’s field and administrative leadership reviewed in detail threats to national security interests, at all levels. The forum reaffirmed that the institution of the Army will always remain committed to defence of the country, according to the will and command of the citizens and to their chosen representatives, in a democratic system where the people’s will is the source of all state power.

The Pakistani Intelligence Community has said that its unbinding assessment to the Election Commission of #Pakistan is that the security situation at this point in time, especially with regards to unconventional and insurgent threats, is not conducive for holding provincial elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces. This is a consequence of the ongoing multi-front battle the Pakistani Joint Security Forces are fighting against a number of armed terrorist groups that aim to destabilise Pakistani society through fatal violence against

It is heartbreaking to see the severe transformation of the public’s relationship with the military and the still-present downward, spiralling trend of the relations between the People, the soul of the nation-state, and the Armed Forces, the guarantor of its existential security. The fact of the matter is that successive Pakistani leaders, of all kinds, have remained consistently unable to put duty & national interests above personal indulgences & ego.

The role of the people in aiding & abetting the election of these non-deserving dynasties is debatable.