AP reports: “Pakistan reports a new clash with Afghan forces along border.”
Drop Site News reports: “In Pakistan, thousands of protesters from the religiously conservative Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party were marching in solidarity with Gaza when police reportedly opened fire directly on the crowd.”
Trump claimed Tuesday, “I spoke to Hamas,” and they said, “Yes sir, we will disarm.” In reality, DSN reports “senior Hamas, Islamic Jihad and figures from other resistance factions have repeatedly rejected disarmament throughout negotiations, including in multiple interviews with Drop Site over the past year.” They also report: “Israel on Tuesday announced it will not abide by the terms of the ceasefire agreement related to humanitarian aid … only half of the agreed number of trucks — 300 trucks — will be allowed to enter.”
JUNAID S. AHMAD, junaidsahmad@gmail.com, @Academicatarms
Ahmad is professor of law, religion, and global politics and is the Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decolonization in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Ahmed just wrote the piece “Washington’s Subcontractor: Pakistan and the price of obedience,” in Muslim Views which states: “The generals may have silenced [ousted democratically elected prime minister Imran] Khan’s voice, but not his echo. It reverberates across a nation denied dignity — a roar that grows louder with every crackdown. Cornered at home, Pakistan’s generals have reached for their oldest sedative: war. The clashes with Afghanistan are not accidents of geography but instruments of political survival. Conflict rallies the flag, distracts from repression, and cloaks tyranny in patriotism.”
At the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said he wanted to again nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
In Middle East Monitor, Ahmed recently wrote the piece “The silence of the sultans: Muslim regimes and the holocaust of our time” which states: “It’s not that the Muslim world lacks power. Far from it. The Gulf states alone sit atop a financial arsenal large enough to buy and sell entire Western economies — on Tuesdays. Turkey and Pakistan, meanwhile, field massive, sophisticated armed forces. The former is a NATO member with drones and ambitions. The latter is a nuclear-armed state whose generals never tire of reminding the world that they’re ready for ‘full-spectrum deterrence’ — a euphemism for mushroom clouds on demand. And yet, when it came to Gaza, both seemed to have misplaced their playbooks, their backbones, and their sense of duty.”
in “The Muslim World: A Requiem” he writes: “Let us be honest: most Muslim-majority governments today are client states, marionettes in a puppet theatre directed by Western powers, primarily the United States. Iran is the notable exception, though even it often walks the tightrope between pragmatism and defiance. The rest? From Riyadh to Rabat, from Islamabad to Amman, their foreign policies are either written in Washington or blessed by it. One could argue that the only difference between the State Department and the foreign ministries of many Muslim states is the choice of drapes.” His other pieces in Middle East Monitor include “The Zionism of the brass: Why Pakistan’s army won’t defend Gaza” and “The generals and princes are cashing in while Gaza bleeds.”
His recent pieces in The Palestine Chronicle include “Diplomacy or Drama? The Farcical Axis of Washington, Islamabad, and Tel Aviv” and “What Would Muhammad Do? The Answer They Fear.”
He also writes at Counter Currents. Recent pieces there include “Chappelle in Riyadh: From ‘Killing Them Softly’ to Killing His Own Legacy” and “The Saudi–Pakistan Pact: Theater of Complicity.”
Reuters reported: “A live microphone captured Indonesian President Prabowo asking Donald Trump if he could meet his son Eric, an executive vice president of the Trump Organization. ‘I’ll have Eric call. Should I do that? He’s such a good boy,’ Trump said.”
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Junaid S. Ahmad
Professor of Law, Religion, and Global Politics
Director, Center for the Study of Islam and Decolonization (CSID)
Islamabad, Pakistan
@Academicatarms