The Israeli narrative is deeply entrenched in mainstream discourse of the US. The analysis of the media coverage of Israel’s occupation over the last 50 years across five major American newspapers shows that there are “deep pockets” of Israeli lobby.

THREAD The five newspapers include the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.

1. The number of headlines citing Israel over the 50-year period is more than four times than that of headlines citing Palestine.

On this day in 1187, Sultan Salahuddin Ayubi liberated the city of Jerusalem after inflicting a huge defeat on Crusaders at the Battle of Hittin in July. Salahuddin reconquered nearly all territory of the Kingdom of Jerusalem after less than 90 years of Christian rule. “In Sultan Salah ud Din's era, no Islamic scholar had more influence than Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jillani, and Salah ud Din was strongly influenced and aided by him and his pupils who formed majority of the Ayyubid army”

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Saladin, Pearson Longman. p. 48.

It is crucial to approach history objectively; both the Sikh Empire and the Afghans were significant powers in their time. The two empires engaged in multiple conflicts and both sides suffered heavy losses.

But there are few important facts which Zaidi sahb must know.

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It is important to note that Ranjit Singh could only consolidate power in Punjab because Zaman Shah had to return to Kabul in 1798 thus quitting his advances toward Lahore in order to quash the movement against him which was led by his half-brother Mehmud.

Later on the…

“Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) rarely known Decree to the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem”

The Armenian Patriarchate was established in Jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. Many Armenians accepted Christianity after going on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 301 AD. They had built a... …part of Sourp Hagop Convent in 420 AD. By the sixth Century, Armenians had constructed 66 religious institutions in Jerusalem. In 626 AD, the Armenian Patriarch Apraham of Jerusalem went to Mecca with a delegation of 40 prominent Armenians to meet Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

In an unfortunate turn of events, an enraged mob vandalized multiple churches in Faisalabad today, in response to an alleged act of blasphemy by a certain Saleem Masih. The unrest erupted after the torn pages of the Qur'an – with blasphemous content written on them – were…. …discovered near the Christian colony. At the time of writing this, 6 churches in vicinity have been ransacked by an extremist mob. There’s no denying that such events are paradoxical to the promise of safeguarding minorities' rights (article 36) as per the constitution.

During some months before and after 14 August 1947, an estimated 75,000 to well over 100,000 Muslim women were abducted by the Indian Sikhs and Indian Hindus and were raped and murdered, sold into prostitution, forced to accept either Sikh religion or Hinduism, or forced into….

…marriage. Some were sold in the market places for Rupees 10 or 20 a piece, others were sent as gifts to friends and acquaintances. Many of them suffered daily physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their Indian abductors.

Sher Shah groaned in pain. Sure, the hakims were trying their best, but Sher Shah knew he didn't have much time left. He was scorched all over, and he felt the icy jaws of death closing in on his burnt body. With a feeble voice, he pronounced what he knew would be his last... ..order to his soldiers: Come hell or high water, they were to seize the fort of Kalinjar before their Sultan breathed his last.

The dying king's exhortation had a dramatic effect on the troops — a contemporary writer, Badayuni, says that on hearing Sher Shah's words,

25th Ramadan, 1260 AD: ‘Battle of Ayn Jalut’ which saved Islam and crushed the Mongols
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Not since the Battle of Badr had the Muslim world stood face to face with extinction as it did at the Battle of Ayn Jalut. Just as the Prophet Muhammad SAW
had triumphed at Badr... ..600 years earlier, the Muslim Mamlukes triumphed over the combined armies of the Mongols, the Crusaders and the Armenians at the Battle of Ayn Jalut. The Muslim civilization survived by the slimmest of margins, a testament to their perseverance in the face of adversity.

Shyam Saran, who served as foreign secretary of India invited her teacher Mrs Chen for a dinner while he was posted in China. Mrs Chen was a cosmopolitan personality with a aristocratic bearing and language to match. Their Chinese conversation about the invitation went like this: SS: Respected Mrs Chen, may I be presumptuous enough to extend an invitation to you to have a very simple and frugal meal at my very humble abode?

Chen: My esteemed friend, I do not deserve this honour. I cannot think of putting you to so much inconvenience as to lay out a...

Following is one of the poems recited by Moors in honour of Prophet Muhammad PBUH when they were severely persecuted in Spain after their downfall in 1492:

Ya verdadero annabi
O True Prophet

De arabi de arabi
Of the Arab and from the Arab Es Allah solo i senero
God is Alone and One

De sin ninghun aparsero
None resembling Him

Y Muhammad su mensajero
And Muhammad is His messenger

Que todo fuwe verdadero
That all is true

I el-alislam mi adin
And Islam is my religion

The agriculture sector is of vital social, political, and economic importance for Pakistan. On the economic side, it contributes 21% of the GDP and employs 44% of the labor force. A host of economic activities in the services and industrial sector are also based on the... ..contribution of agriculture. Pakistan needs to catch up with the performance of the agriculture sector around the world and its neighbors. In this regard, Corporate Agriculture Farming (CAF) can provide access to financing and investment, which is often lacking for small and...

On 27th Feb 2019, Pakistan Airforce launched retaliatory air strikes on three sensitive Indian military targets in broad daylight; shooting down two Indian jets, capturing one of the pilots and generously sparing the top military leadership present in one of the targets.

[1] Indian govt categorically termed Pakistan's actions on the morning of 27th Feb as an ‘act of war’. With a three times larger military force, any professional army would have responded but the Indian military and political leadership was in a state of ‘operational paralysis’.

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Brussels based NGO ‘EU Disinfo Lab’ has published its investigations on India's news agency @ANI. The report contains irrefutable evidence on how the ANI regularly quotes ghost experts and non existent think tanks to target Pakistan and China. Here are few important details:
🧵 1. In its 2019 report, the Lab disclosed 265 fake local media outlets in India which were "designed to influence the EU and the UN by repeatedly criticising Pakistan".

2. In the 2020 disinfo lab report, more than 750 Indian fake media outlets spread across 119 countries were...

It's been thirty two years since the Kunan Poshpara mass rapes when hundreds of Kashmiri women were raped by Indian soldiers. Minor girls, those dumb and dead, and pregnant women were not spared either. Mothers were raped in front of daughters. According to army statements and... ...a letter by the investigating officer to the army asking for the list of nominal roll of soldiers involved in the Kunan Poshpora operation, four companies were established for outer cordon and door-to-door search operations. The four companies included a total of 125 soldiers.

Foreign Minister of Bangladesh Abdul Momen has said that Bangladesh wants Pakistan to “seek apology publicly with a formal announcement” for the 1971 war.

The question arises whether Pakistan should apologise? Is this a justified demand? Let us find out the answer in this 🧵 The ruling party of Bangladesh, Awami League, believes that the country has 'outstanding issues' with Pakistan especially Apology, Reparations and Division of Assets.

However, Pakistan has not demanded any apology or reparations for the atrocities committed by the Mukti...

On the night of December 23, 2015, Ukraine became the first country to suffer a verified large-scale cyber attack on its critical infrastructure. Over 225,000 Ukrainians suddenly lost their light and heating in the middle of winter when a cyber attack disabled part of the... ..country’s power grid. When the attack was concluded, the computers were completely wiped to render them unusable in the future. While attribution is never 100 percent confirmed, foreign investigators as well as the Ukrainian government itself were nearly certain that...

The biggest challenge for 200 million Muslims living in India under the fascist Hindutva regime is that they are scattered in such a way that their absolute large number amounts to very little in terms of power politics.

Omar Khalidi writes in his book ‘Indian Muslims after...

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.. independence’ that there is not a single district in Delhi, Bihar, Gujrat, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra which has a dominant Muslim population. The closest that a district comes to majority is Rampur with 45% Muslims. Since the...

“Dulla Bhatti: the unsung hero of Punjab”

Abdullah Khan Bhatti of Pindi Bhattian, chief of Bhattis, is popularly remembered as ‘Dulla’ Bhatti. He is often lauded as erstwhile Robin Hood of Punjab. Dulla, who robbed the rich to feed poor led a spirited band of Hindu and Muslim... ..peasants against the highly regressive tax policies of Emperor Akbar. Dulla launched himself as a revolutionary leader of the working class. He put up a strong fight against Akbar but was ultimately caught and executed. His grave lies at Miani Sahib in Lahore.

“The story of Baghdad's worst massacre”

In December 2020, President Trump pardoned four Blackwater security guards who committed one of the worst acts of terrorism. Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, Dustin Heard and Nicholas Slatten were part of the convoy that killed 17 innocent... ..Iraqi citizens including a nine year old Ali, 19 year old Ahmed and 11 year old Qasim.

On Sept 16, 2007, at approximately 12:08 p.m., in Nisour Square, Baghdad, a heavily armed Blackwater convoy consisting of four large South African­ made “Mamba” armoured vehicles with...

China has been regarded as a historical continental power, with little interest in ‘maritime politics’. It was not until Liu Huaqing became the PLAN’s commander during the 1980s that someone suggested the state should have a strategy for long-term naval development. They also... suggested that the Navy’s military capabilities needed to be improved in order to break through the constrained “first island chain”, a term that was used by the US as a geopolitical containment strategy during the Cold War to confine China’s expansion of communist ideas but...

“Muslim mohallas of Mumbai”

The 1901 census of Mumbai listed some fourteen different categories of Muslims in the city, including the Arab, Bohra, Baluch, Egyptian, Julhai, Khatri, Khoja, Memon, Moghal, Pathan, Sayyad, Shaik, Sidi, Turk and a further category of ‘unspecified’. Many of these continue to live and work in Mumbai, each occupying a particular section of the old Muslim quarter, commonly referred to as a mohalla.

What makes the Muslim mohallas of Mumbai interesting is their diverse blend of languages, sects, customs and cuisines. Indeed...