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⚡🇵🇰 Pakistan’s Defence Export Breakout Is No Longer Theoretical

The May conflict with India marked a turning point. Pakistan’s JF-17 Thunder, performed beyond global expectations and exposed a widening gap between perception and reality in South Asian air power. Despite its size disadvantage, Pakistan demonstrated superior operational integration and combat readiness, effectively showing who controls the region’s skies.

This matters because Pakistan is no longer just a defence consumer, it is becoming a defence exporter with momentum.

The results are visible:

- Azerbaijan has inducted JF-17 Block III and is reportedly satisfied

- Myanmar and Nigeria continue operating the platform

- Libya has already agreed a $4bn defence deal

- Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan are now in active negotiations

Secondary interest from Argentina, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Uzbekistan, Peru, South Africa, and Uruguay shows the programme’s growing global appeal.

Unlike many exporters, Pakistan doesn’t sell aircraft alone. Each deal includes training, maintenance, doctrine, and long-term operational support, exporting influence, not just hardware.

PAC’s expansion is a strategic indicator. Production capacity is being scaled to meet sustained demand, while revenues are being channelled into 4.5++ and 5th-generation fighter development, deeper cooperation with China, and future indigenous programmes.

Economically, defence exports won’t replace traditional sectors but they directly reduce loan dependence, improve the trade balance, and generate long-term foreign revenue. This is how states stabilise economies structurally, not rhetorically.

Pakistan is also uniquely positioned to supply the Muslim world with combat-proven systems free from Western political constraints. With Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and others aligning more closely, a new defence axis is emerging.

India’s ongoing struggles in fighter development, highlighted again by recent Tejas failures, show the contrast. Pakistan, by comparison, is exporting fighters while proving them operationally.

Pakistan is quietly climbing the global defence export ladder. In South Asia, no competitor comes close and this trajectory is only accelerating.

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🇵🇰🇸🇦/🇹🇷 Pakistan has confirmed that Turkey is in talks with Saudi Arabia & Pakistan regarding a NATO Article 5 type Muslim alliance.

Good days are coming.

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🇵🇰/🇨🇳 Coming soon.

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🚨🇵🇰🤝🇨🇦 NEW: Canada is looking to strengthen mineral and energy ties with Pakistan following progress at the Reko Diq copper-gold project.

Discussions are centred on expanding cooperation in mining, energy development and future Canadian investment in Pakistan’s natural resources sector.

Reko Diq is a 50/50 joint venture:

Barrick Gold owns and operates 50%, while Pakistan holds the other 50% (25% federal government, 25% Balochistan). Barrick leads development, financing and operations.

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🚨🇵🇰✈️🇮🇳 BREAKING: Pakistan’s decision to close its airspace to Indian aircraft has reportedly cost Air India over $1.6 BILLION in losses, according to Bloomberg.

The move has forced Indian airlines to take longer, more expensive routes significantly increasing fuel and operational costs, highlighting Pakistan’s strategic leverage in regional aviation.

A reminder that airspace sovereignty matters, and Pakistan is well within its rights to protect its national interests.

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🚨🇵🇰🤝🇷🇺 UPDATE: Pakistan and Russia have agreed to revive Pakistan Steel Mills, with construction targeted to begin in 2027 under an EPC (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) framework.

Russian technical experts have completed an initial assessment, valuing existing assets at around $139 million. The full modernisation and revival cost will be finalised once EPC contracts and financing structures are agreed.

The project marks a major step towards restoring Pakistan’s industrial backbone and strengthening Pakistan–Russia economic cooperation.

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I was planning to start posting again, but after reading further into the Epstein files, I’m completely disgusted and will be taking an extended break.

We truly live in a cruel world. 🥀

May Allah grant the victims Jannah and bring His wrath upon those alive or dead, who participated in such heinous acts.

🚨 In approximately 6–7 months, the content on @ThePulsePoint will be published in six of the main languages spoken in Pakistan:

• Urdu
• English
• Punjabi
• Sindhi
• Pashto
• Balochi

Some translations will be produced using translation bots, so there may be occasional inaccuracies. Despite best efforts, minor translation errors may still occur.

Until then we will continue in English.

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✍️ 🇵🇰⚠️🇦🇫 Islamabad Attack: A Failure We Can No Longer Ignore

Yesterday’s suicide bombing in Islamabad, which killed at least 50 worshippers and left over 150 injured inside a mosque, is not just another terrorist incident. It is a grave failure, and it must be called exactly that.

This attack took place in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. A federal territory. The most secure zone in the country. If a suicide bomber can reach a mosque in the capital and detonate himself during prayers, then we must be honest about what this represents: a serious security lapse.

Yes, intelligence failures happen. No country is immune. But Pakistan knows exactly where this terrorism stems from and how it is sustained.

The attacker has now been identified as a Pakistani national from Peshawar who travelled to Afghanistan, received training, ideological indoctrination, and munitions, and then returned to carry out this massacre. This is not speculation anymore. This is a pattern.

These terrorists are radicalised through a distorted and weaponised version of Islam, taught in camps across Afghanistan. They are promised false rewards, fed extremist doctrine, and turned into human weapons. Afghanistan is not merely a neighbour failing to control its territory. It has become the operational base itself.

While Afghanistan hosts multiple terrorist outfits, the Taliban sit at the top. They are fully aware of what their soil is being used for. These groups do not operate independently. They are interlinked, coordinated, and governed through a shared system that ultimately traces back to Afghanistan.

Pakistan can, and does, eliminate terrorists inside its borders. We’ve seen it recently in Balochistan where dozens were neutralised.

But ask the next question:

Where do the injured terrorists go?
Where do the escapees flee?

They regroup in Afghanistan. They recover there. They train there. They return.

Despite border closures, infiltration continues. This is unacceptable. Border security is the most basic responsibility of a state. If borders remain porous, counterterrorism inside Pakistan becomes an endless cycle rather than a solution.

Let’s be clear: killing 200 or 500 terrorists inside Pakistan will never end terrorism if the base remains intact.

To eradicate a threat, you eliminate its base of operations. That base is Afghanistan.

These groups have camps, commanders, supply chains, and full operational structures across the border. Pakistan has the military capability, intelligence depth, and precision strike capacity to dismantle them. We have done it before. When strikes were carried out in 2025, camps were hit and the message was clear. When pressure was applied, terrorism dropped sharply. Even trade suspension led to a 70% reduction in attacks. That alone tells you everything you need to know about the source.

The problem returns the moment pressure stops.

Afghanistan’s current regime is built on militancy. It survives through conflict. Expecting sustained cooperation from such a system is unrealistic.

This is not about portraying Pakistan as flawless. It isn’t. But in comparison, the threat from the western border is systematic, deliberate, and persistent.

The Pakistani public has had enough. Especially the younger generation. They are tired of hearing the same statements after every attack while funerals continue.

If Pakistan truly wants to end this war, it must stop treating the symptoms and neutralise the source.

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It has begun.

🚨🇵🇰⚡️🇦🇫 Press Release by Pakistan.

Press Release
21 February, 2026

In the aftermath of recent suicide bombing incidents in Pakistan, including Imam Bargah at Islamabad, one each in Bajaur and Bannu followed by another incident today in Bannu during the holy month of Ramzan, Pakistan has conclusive evidence that these acts of terrorism were perpetrated by Khwarij on behest of their Afghanistan-based leadership and handlers.
Responsibilities for these attacks were also claimed by Afghanistan based Pakistani Taliban belonging to Fitna al Khwarij (FAK) and their affiliates, and Islamic State of Khorsan Province (ISKP).

Despite repeated efforts by Pakistan to urge the Afghan Taliban Regime to take verifiable measures to deny use of Afghan Territory by
terrorist groups and foreign proxies to carry out Terrorist activities in Pakistan, the Afghan Taliban Regime failed to undertake any substantive action against them.

Pakistan has always strived for maintaining peace and stability in the region, but at the same time the safety and security of our citizens remains our top priority. In this back drop, Pakistan in a retributive response, has carried out intelligence based selective targeting of seven Terrorist camps and hideouts belonging to Pakistani Taliban of FAK and its affiliates and ISKP at the border region of Pakistan Afghan border with precision and accuracy.

Pakistan expects and reiterates Interim Afghan Government to fulfil its obligations and deny use of its soil by Khwarij and terrorists against Pakistan as the safety and security of people of Pakistan comes first and foremost. Pakistan also expects the international community to play a positive and constructive role by urging the Taliban regime to stand by its commitments as part of Doha Agreement to deny use of its soil against other countries; an act vital for regional and global peace and security.

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🚨🇵🇰✍️🇦🇫 Please Read this report.

It covers:

1. Taliban dynamics and cross-border militancy
2. Pakistan-Afghanistan bilateral relations
3. Refugee dynamics and socio-economic impact
4. Regional geopolitics
5. Ideological and psychological dimensions
6. Economic and infrastructural considerations
7. Potential forecasting

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⚡🇵🇰⚔️🇦🇫 — Afghanistan ends all diplomatic relations with Pakistan and has ordered Pakistani staff to leave Afghanistan within 24 hours.

Pakistan has reciprocated, by expelling Afghan diplomatic staff from Pakistani soil.

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🚨🇵🇰⚡️🇦🇫 To see live footage of the recent development head over to @ThePakistanNews

I will make an analysis later on this.🔥

Long Live Pakistan 🇵🇰

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✍️ 🇵🇰⚔️ From Containment to Consequence: Pakistan Changes the Rules

For years, Pakistan absorbed the cost of cross-border militancy. Thousands of soldiers martyred. Tens of thousands wounded. Civilians targeted in markets, mosques, and schools. Entire regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lived under the shadow of fear.

Restraint was shown. Dialogue was attempted. Ceasefires were tried.

But containment has failed.

Now, Pakistan is doing what many citizens have long demanded: shifting from reacting to attacks… to neutralising the infrastructure that enables them.

If safe havens exist, they will be denied. If launchpads operate, they will be dismantled. If networks plan against Pakistan, they will be disrupted.

This is not escalation for the sake of escalation. It is strategic correction.

For the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the former tribal areas, It is survival situation.

These communities have endured assassination campaigns, suicide bombings, extortion rackets, and ideological coercion. They know exactly where these networks operate and how fighters move across porous terrain.

The public mood has shifted. There is growing support for decisive measures that target the root of the threat rather than endlessly absorbing its consequences.

Pakistan has made one consistent demand:

Put it in writing.
Take verifiable action against TTP elements operating from Afghan soil.

Symbolic detentions are not structural dismantlement.
Temporary lulls are not long-term guarantees.

If cross-border militancy continues, the strategic calculus changes.

Pakistan is not a distant superpower operating seven seas away. It is a neighbour with deep intelligence visibility, historical entanglement, and direct exposure to consequences.

Proximity changes doctrine.

The era of passive tolerance appears to be over. What replaces it is deterrence through consequence.

The objective is simple:

End the cycle.
Restore border stability.
Ensure that no external territory can be used to spill blood inside Pakistan.

Whether this marks the beginning of sustained deterrence or prolonged confrontation depends on what happens next.

But one thing is clear:

Pakistan has decided that the cost of inaction is higher than the cost of action.

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Agar maza na aaye to paise wapas 😂

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