Baqir Sajjad Profile picture
Pakistan Fellow at @TheWilsonCenter; Foreign Affairs/NatSec Correspondent at @dawn_com. It's personal acc & doesn't reflect my employer's opinions.
May 20, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
BBZ statement at the presser is somehow not in conformity with what @StateDept read out on his meeting with @SecBlinken said about their discussion on Ukraine.
There is prima facie a mismatch between endorsing @ImranKhanPTI visit to Moscow & backing Western position on Ukraine. BBZ may be trying to play smart by saying politically correct things in view of domestic political environment, but he cant walk both sides of the street for long.
Jun 24, 2020 7 tweets 1 min read
Just read PIA flight crash report - some early observations: i) pilot error was obvious from day one, but we can now see that he was mentally pre-occupied or distracted by something else. Was he upset ovr having been flown cont for 5 days, while eight other pilots were available ii) the flight crew did not just commit mistakes during landing they did not even do 'standard callouts' during the entire flight and crew resource management was not observed. This indicates that the problem with the pilot existed before the take-off
Jun 18, 2020 5 tweets 2 min read
India getting 184 of 192 votes in its election as UN Security Council non-permanent is massive, notwithstanding the Asia-Pacific Group endorsement. This means almost all of our MUSLIM brothers voted for India ignoring the plight of Indian Muslims & the Kashmiris. #UNSCelections Indian victory was always certain, but at least a strong message could have been conveyed if 56 oh-I-see countries, sitting in UN, had voted against it.
Jun 13, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
Here I look inside the defense budget - how much of the resources are being spent on it, where is most of the money going within defense sector & which service is getting what. And the money, which is separately going towards pensions of retired soldiers. dawn.com/news/1563187 Before, moving to next year, let's briefly look at past year. The military in 2019 said it was
forgoing usual hike bc of eco challenges & settled for raise of 4.74%, but by end of year it had overshot allocation by 6.33 per cent. In reality there was 11% raise in 2019/20 as well