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"This is a test spot cargo under our umbrella term agreement with Vitol. If it is commercially viable and available, we could import at least one cargo per month," Qureshi said as per Reuters. He clarified that the shipment was intended for domestic use only and not for resale.
Despite running at just 30-35% of its refining capacity due to weak domestic demand, Cnergyico is optimistic. "We expect run rates to rise as domestic demand strengthens and local production is prioritised over imported fuels," Qureshi said.
Its not tamper proof. It is easier to tamper with than normal records as long as you have more than 50% of the nodes.Rudradev wrote: ↑01 Aug 2025 07:51 What is Pakistan paying for this oil shipment with?
Crypto, directly into the account of Trump-owned WLF?![]()
One thing to keep in mind. Crypto transactions are invariably entered into blockchain ledgers, of which multiple copies exist and all are tamper proof. One day when the power shifts in the USA, all of these will be subpoenaed and exposed.
So it's probably not as clever a way to launder money or hide wealth as some stable geniuses think.
Thank you!Deans wrote: ↑01 Aug 2025 11:36 X posting here, as I don't think we have an Afghan thread. In any case Taliban is as much Terroristan as our neighbor.
Henry Kissinger said `It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend, is fatal. To understand what being America's friend meant to Afghans, an Afghan army officer shared his story for my blog. A story on fighting the Taliban and how America abandoned them, to the heart wrenching time he was abandoned, as Kabul fell.
My article also features a first person account from a student in Kabul, on life under the Taliban.
https://rpdeans.blogspot.com/2025/07/fi ... fghan.html
He then turns to Pakistan:And then came a felon, convicted under American law, currently president of the United States, who decided his country must be shot in the foot to Make America Great Again (MAGA). Behind him stand millions of Bible Belters, pot-bellied Budweiser-drinking football watchers, and assorted white American losers who blame Mexicans, Muslims, and black ‘welfare mothers’ for their long downward slide.
In 2024, J.D. Vance, now vice president, declared “Professors are the enemy”, adding, “We have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country”.
MAGA’s White House crew forbade universities from discussing equity, diversity, race, affirmative action, climate change, vaccine efficacy, wildlife protection or anything considered ‘woke’. Criticism of Israel is tantamount to antisemitism, now punishable under the law. Should you see images of starving Gaza children being shot in the face by the IDF, you may not mutter “genocide”.
A vengeful throng is sadistically savouring the dismantling of the hated Eastern ‘liberal establishment’. Three-quarters (75 per cent) of US scientists are considering leaving the country, according to a March 2025 survey conducted by the prestigious science journal Nature.
Once-proud Columbia University has eaten humble pie, agreeing to pay $220 million dollars in damages to the US government plus $21m to Jewish employees who “were unlawfully targeted and harassed”. Pro-Palestinian protests are banned, the curriculum changed, and new faculty members in the Middle Eastern Studies department must be affiliated with the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. In return, the US government will release $400m in federal research funding.
Columbia’s shameful capitulation to MAGA’s extortion put Harvard next in the line of fire. Trump ordered withholding of $9 billion in government funds from Harvard and revoked its eligibility to host international students. Students panicked and Harvard responded by filing multiple challenge lawsuits. Hundreds of less well-endowed universities nervously await the court decisions knowing the axe could fall on them.
Today, Pakistan has hundreds of so-called universities. But in reality these are dark dungeons that contain and stifle thought......
Veritas! This one word tells why there cannot be a Pakistani Harvard now or in the foreseeable future. A security state, obsessed with maintaining absolute control over its people, seeks only propaganda machines and technical institutes. It cannot tolerate a free-thinking Harvard-like university.
Most Pakistani professors are quite comfortable with the present rot; they see Veritas as a hindrance, not a help. As for the real Harvard: how much survives by the time Trump exits remains to be seen.
Added: perhaps he means terrorism will resume only when Pakistan has the capability to strike from the east.Pakistan will strike ‘deeper within India’ and “start from the east” if India were to carry out any military action along the lines of Operation Sindoor in the future, director general of Pakistan military’s media wing told The Economist, according to a report published Sunday. Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, spokesman for the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), also downplayed speculation that Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir harbours any political ambitions or that his ideological bent is more stark than that of his predecessors.
Asked how Pakistan would respond to any future Indian military action, given Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that terror attacks would be met with decisive force, Chaudhry added, “They also need to understand that they can be hit everywhere.”
Does it include China and Amreeka?“we are a nuclear nation, if we think we are going down, we’ll take half the world down with us.”
Picking up a fight with IA/IAF is one thing, picking up a fight with Polyster King Mota Bhai? The Field Marshal is really finished now.The Pakistan army chief devoted a substantial part of his prepared speech, read from notes, to the war and its fallout.“Ek tweet karwaya tha with Surah Fil and a picture of [the industrialist] Mukesh Ambani to show them what we will do the next time,” he said. The verse Surah Fil describes how Allah dispatched birds to drop stones on an enemy’s battle elephants, reducing them “to chewed-up straw”.
“I am going to use a crude analogy to explain the situation,” Field Marshal Munir went on. “India is shining Mercedes coming on a highway like Ferrari [sic], but we are a dump truck full of gravel. If the truck hits the car, who is going to be the loser?”
India is like a beautiful house. Pakistan is like Pakistan. The house cant do much to Pakistan, but the Pakistan if it gets backed up and leaks can really damage the house.
The United States Department of State on Monday (August 11) announced that it has designated Pakistan-based Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its armed wing, The Majeed Brigade, as a Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs).
The statement said the State Department is designating BLA and its alias, The Majeed Brigade, as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO), and adding the Majeed Brigade as an alias to BLA’s Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) designation from 2019.
The action, it said, "demonstrates the Trump administration’s commitment to countering terrorism".
The move comes shortly after Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, Field Marshal Asim Munir, visited Washington DC and threatened to wipe out half the world with nuclear weapons.
The US State Department said that in 2024, BLA claimed responsibility for suicide attacks near Karachi airport and the Gwadar Port Authority Complex.
In 2025, the group came into the limelight once more for orchestrating the hijacking of the Jaffar Express train travelling from Quetta to Peshawar in March, which resulted in the deaths of 31 civilians and security personnel, and over 300 passengers being taken hostage.