Three initial reactions to U.S. attack on Iran: 1. U.S. may have destroyed enrichment infrastructure but no evidence it destroyed stockpiles. 2. Khamenei will not easily accept unconditional surrender. Some form of retaliation likely. This is not end point. 3. Nationalist anger

After shamelessly proposing Trump for Nobel, Pakistan’s hybrid regime is issuing hollow statements claiming to oppose American bombing of Iran. Our war-torn peripheries will be brutalised further by khaki desire to again be ‘frontline state’ of Empire. dawn.com/news/1918334/w…

“War does one good—it teaches people geography.” Will Durant, The Age of Faith (The Story of Civilization)

I told The Washington Post Iran's retaliation will not be guided by revenge but to create deterrence. “The response has to have a purpose, in the sense of managing the next stage.” wapo.st/465LBLd

ناصر اداسیاں تو رہیں گی یونہی مد ام ڈھلنے لگی ہے شام کوئی گیت گائیے

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty…

The propaganda I’ll always fall for:

While we were waiting for hardships to pass, life passed!

i think i now understand the taliban’s longevity

کچھ لوگ تمہیں سمجھائیں گے۔۔۔

اور بھی دکھ ہیں زمانے میں محبت کے سوا۔ فیض احمد فیض

"Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please." –Niccolò Machiavelli

This sentence by Dostoyevsky hits so hard. “You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”

"In the morning there is a silence waiting to be written - and coffee is the first ink." Rilke ☕️📚🌷 Good morning It turned out that this profile has an Anniversary today and that it has lasted here for 5 whole years.

"I am tired of being a 'great man.' I am tired of the speeches, the prizes, the expectations. With you, I am just a man who is loved, and that is the only thing that matters to me now. Without you, I have no more pride, no more desire, no more strength." Albert Camus to Maria

AGREE TO DISAGREE Once dismissed as a Siberia, Balochistan is now a prized posting for military and bureaucratic elites—many arrive with little, yet leave laden with riches and bitches.

"In a chaotic world, buying books is a balancing act on the edge of the abyss. This is the conclusion reached by Walter Benjamin in his brilliant essay"Unpacking My Library"."To renew the old world - this is the innermost desire of the collector" Benjamin writes.