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Pakistan and Qatar got Kushner–Witkoff into the room with Iran. That track lived because Mohsin Naqvi’s team kept it alive. Next phase: Mecca Alliance sits with Tehran. If they take the operational file, they can become the guarantors starting with the Strait of Hormuz. That’s the real theatre.

Complete air embargo on Afghanistan. No flights in or out. Saudi imposed the same on Yemen to choke off the Iranian proxy. You cannot give the enemy the luxury of choosing sides in a state of war.

Sistan unrest and cheap drone proliferation is a live CT risk for Pakistani Balochistan. IRGC-PFF fighting in Saravan/Zahedan uses drones and leaves ungoverned space along a 900-km porous border. Militants on both sides already fly modified commercial quadcopters for recon and strikes. Any external actor state or proxy can exploit that corridor for logistics, tech transfer or diversion. Pakistan’s air defence just downed 8 drones from the Afghan side; the Iran-Pakistan frontier needs the same persistent ISR, border fencing completion and joint cell-dismantling. Treat it as one theatre: deny sanctuary, interdict drones at source, and keep CPEC and coastal assets from becoming the next target set. Vigilance, not panic.

Pakistan appoints Lt Gen (retd) Nauman Mahmood first Secretary General of the Makkah Defence Alliance with Saudi Arabia and Türkiye. Secretariat in Riyadh, 3-year Pakistani term. A proud moment that institutionalises collective defence and places Pakistan at the heart of a new security framework linking South Asia, the Gulf and Türkiye.

Naqvi’s Tehran trip is not protocol. It is shuttle diplomacy under pressure.Three tracks, one visit. First: keep the US–Iran door from slamming shut. The Islamabad MoU is stalled. Islamabad is trying to reopen a backchannel before another kinetic spike kills the track for good. Second: capitalize on Mohsen Rezaei’s statement. End the war on all fronts, unfreeze Iranian assets, lift the naval blockade. That is Tehran’s opening bid. Pakistan’s job is to convert a public hard line into something Washington can at least answer. Third: make Riyadh understand the Houthi file and Pakistan’s red lines. Strikes on Saudi oil and economic infrastructure are not a distant Yemen problem for Islamabad. They hit energy security, Gulf partners, and Pakistan’s own strategic commitments. Tehran’s leverage over the Houthis is part of the conversation whether anyone says it on camera or not.Add the quiet fourth track: bilateral cover. Trade, borders, interior-to-interior cooperation. That is the official wrapping so the mediation does not look like message-carrying.This is de-escalation work, not alliance-building. Pakistan wants to stay a bridge, not a battlefield, and keep both Gulf and Iranian doors open while the region tests how far the next round can go.

اجتماع وزراء خارجية السعودية 🇸🇦 وتركيا 🇹🇷 وباكستان 🇵🇰 ومصر 🇪🇬 على هامش الدورة الـ81 للجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة.

Personal news: Warned by three intelligence agencies of an assassination plot funded by an enemy service. The person who took the money has been caught and eliminated. Deep thanks to my friends, family, our agencies and LEA/CTDs of Sindh and Punjab for pre-empting it. To the enemy: I will hurt you further and work to destroy you. This has only strengthened my resolve.

Add, Genocide in Syria/Lebnon/Iraq by Iran = Halal. Killing over 45K people for internal dissent = Halal.

Complete air embargo on Afghanistan; all incoming & outgoing flights. No other cost works. Restart the campaign Pakistan launched in Jan 2026. We were hitting them daily, left, right and center. No more “business as usual” or luxury after they operated under Doha. Enough.

My take on Houthis attack; latest negotiations and US hedging vs Iran's leverages. What's happening. Ali K. Chishti explains.

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Iran killed 35K-45K for coming out to protest. This Iranian proxy Senator Raja Nasir Abbass would not utter a word against Iran. Worst he's a deputy opposition leader of PTI and even worse, the opposition leader is an ethnofascist Achakzai. Ajeeb teri siyasaat, ajeeb tera nizaam; Yazeed say bhi marasim and Hussain (RA) ko bhi salaam!

After Khomeini, Arab states that fought three wars with Israel were forced to confront Wilayat-e-Faqih. Strength that once faced Israel was diverted to Iranian proxies and Palestinian resistance paid the price. Today Iran and the Zionist agenda often converge. They don’t cancel each other; they complement each other.

The last 48 hours do not look like a planned Houthi campaign. They look like panic. Riyadh + the Yemeni government + an allied partner may have hit something the Sanaa leadership actually feared: not another radar, a person. When the inner circle is the target, the reply is loud, messy, and aimed at Mecca/Riyadh headlines not at a military objective. While negotiation and mediation efforts continue.

This John Hussain is behind Tehran Urdu. Iranian proxy news agency spreading sectarian hate, encouraging attacks on Saudia Arabia and recruiting Pakistani Shias in Pakistan for propaganda and other tools. I am told investigations are ongoing.

Absolutely, Ali. Pakistan remains a trusted ally, with an enduring presence supporting Saudi Arabia’s military efforts, The bonds of Islamic brotherhood, shared principles and history cannot be undone by political opportunists or transient militias, The Makkah Accord is bigger than the Houthi issue, I’m sure you’ll agree brother 🫡 پاکستان زندہ باد 🇸🇦🇵🇰 #Pakistan #saudi #Makkah

My take on why the Houthis are suddenly active against KSA: it is more an Iranian strategy after the US blockade than anything else.