My take for Stimson's @SAVoices on the past lessons compelling India to break free from ritualistic restraint and why the doctrinal shift stems not only from growing frustration with diplomatic protests but also orchestrated power transitions in Pakistan. https://t.co/7N5HM5CKZr

Bangladesh: Massive protests are going on against Mohammed Yunus in Dhaka right now.

There’s a clear contradiction or difference between the two sources and their assessments in this report. Only time will tell which one is right. “No wires, timers, detonator etc have been found at the spot” “…and the explosion was triggered by detonator or timer”

Sri Lanka cricketers leave Pakistan after bomb blast (AFP) -- At least eight Sri Lankan cricketers will return home without playing in their tri-nation white-ball cricket series against Pakistan and Zimbabwe following Tuesday's suicide bombing in Islamabad which killed 12

Understand the logic of keeping sentiments in check, but this is still an “attack” at the heart of the capital, accidental detonation or not (still unconfirmed). There was a plot for city-wide attacks, and that the lone attacker hung around a national monument says something.

Bihar Exit Polls: as always, devil lies in details 1. seat projections conservative, given vote shares 2. Women voters with NDA, young men with MGB (but polls vary in their estimates) 3: RJD retains, BJP may lose seats & JD(U) gains 4. JSP marginal in votes, Left down

Everyone could guess that it’s going to be close, like last time. Only anomaly seems to be the over-performing/achieving of the JDU, if these seat projections hold.

4% to JSP; not bad for a first timer.

“🇬🇧 recently discontinued some intelligence sharing with 🇺🇸 regarding suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean.. normally chummy government fears becoming complicit in the administration’s illegal military strikes against vessels off the coast of 🇻🇪.”

America’s rivalry with China has left South Korea with less room for manoeuvre in its relations with its giant neighbour and largest trading partner. “We are clearly in the Western camp,” says a South Korean official. https://t.co/GJTZshoh6d

For all the talk of the pushing of low IQ slop or WhatsApp forwards being an exclusive strategy of the Right, the fact is that it’s now common for progressives to match the reductiveness or lies (if not more), both on quantity and quality. Target demographic being different ofc.

BREAKING: US Navy confirms that the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier and its battle group have crossed the Atlantic and have arrived into waters near Venezuela. https://t.co/PivYxvGor7

Red Fort blast: A ‘panicked’ doctor & the unravelling of a post-Op Sindoor plan to serial-bomb Delhi “It is suspected that the terror module comprises nearly 12-14 individuals, including six to seven doctors and at least two ‘professors’”

Pakistan’s defence minister says the country is in “state of war” after the blasts in Islamabad, while indirectly pointing fingers at Afghanistan.

Can news channels stop with the “first one with XYZ image” nonsense, when almost all of them are barely seconds or minutes apart. Treat the situation with the seriousness it deserves.

“Given the massive quantity of explosives and other bomb-making material, it seems they were collected over two years,” an officer connected with the investigation told TOI.

Crucial part re Jaish (JeM) links: One of the three OGWs who was picked up for the poster, eventually playing a role in leading the authorities to the others, was a cleric from Shopian. A phone seized from him “showed a Telegram channel operated by Pak based Jaish terrorist”.

Now media is reporting on multiple raids being conducted in Lucknow.

It all started because the CID chief and the SHO in Naugam (Srinagar) were not okay with taking the appearance of Jaish posters lightly—which isn’t a very unusual or unprecedented occurrence. Their efforts to trace the origin led them to this module. https://t.co/odZ2OY9bWn

An old report (2021) on the bust by other sources, on the names and materials recovered, and their attempts to “recruit Indian youths” to AQIS. https://t.co/bMxN5gQQAM

Not the first time AGH affiliated individuals were nabbed in the hinterlands, outside of J&K. Aside from few arrests or detentions of suspects here and there, there was a famous bust of a module in Lucknow in relation to a terror plot, in 2021, by the UP ATS.