Aslan Pahari is an Australian content creator, researcher, and host best known for his accessible, fact-based educational videos on TikTok and YouTube covering history, anthropology, and folklore. He also hosts the history podcast Assassins with Aslan Pahari produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Before Pakistan secretly supplied Baktar-Shikan, Serbian army had massive advantage and used tanks from safe distance to destroy villages, ATGMs killed unfair advantage of Serbian army. Pakistan's intelligence service covertly supplied weapons despite arms embargo
Karachi Airport was one of the busiest and most modern transit facilities in Asia. Major global airlines like Pan Am, BOAC, Air France, and KLM utilized Karachi as their main refueling and stopover point between Europe and Southeast Asia.
To capitalize on this, General Ayub Khan aggressively promoted foreign tourism and upscale infrastructure. The crown jewel of this effort was the InterContinental Hotel Karachi, which opened in 1964. It was the country's first five-star international hotel and immediately became a playground for visiting foreign dignitaries, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy tourists.
Foreigners looking for entertainment found a highly liberal and vibrant nightlife in Karachi. The Saddar district, particularly Elphinstone Street (affectionately known as "Elphi")—was lined with high-end boutiques, cafes, and bars.
Christian and Goan musicians played jazz and rock 'n' roll at elite nightclubs. Alcohol was legal and available to both foreigners and locals in hotels and clubs.
Having voted against the sale of F16s to Pakistan, this moment represented a quiet irony, he now stood alongside the very jet his vote went against. John Herschel Glenn Jr. was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962
PAF's No. 11 "Arrows" Squadron became the first to operate the F-16, a quantum leap from their earlier jet, the F-6.
President Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan launched Pakistan Television Service in November 1964. President Ayub Khan’s primary aim in establishing Pakistan Television (PTV) was to leverage this powerful new electronic medium as an instrument for socioeconomic development, national integration, and mass education. Facing a socio-politically fractured landscape and low literacy rates, his administration sought to bypass conventional barriers by using television to cultivate a cohesive national identity, inform the public on state-led agricultural and economic reforms, and project a modernized, progressive image of the country
The liberalization of Pakistan’s media landscape under the administration of President General Pervez Musharraf, formalized through the establishment of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Ordinance in 2002, fundamentally disrupted the state monopolized broadcasting paradigm and initiated the terminal decline and downfall of Pakistan Television’s (PTV) highly acclaimed "golden era." By granting broadcasting licenses to independent commercial networks, the deregulation policy fostered an environment of intense corporate competition for which the bureaucratic state broadcaster was structurally ill-equipped. Consequently, a pronounced institutional brain drain occurred as PTV’s premier creative capital, comprising veteran actors, scriptwriters, directors, and technical personnel, systematically migrated to the newly emergent private sector. Attracted by substantially higher financial remuneration, superior production budgets, and advanced infrastructural resources that the rigid fiscal frameworks of the state apparatus could not match, these industry professionals shifted their allegiance to commercial enterprises. This massive exodus of talent depleted PTV of its foundational creative leadership, effectively reducing its capacity to produce competitive, high-quality programming and permanently shifting the center of artistic and commercial gravity within the Pakistani media industry to private conglomerates.
>Meta is profiting from paid advertisements promoting child sexual abuse material on Instagram in India, an investigation from the World Service has found. Despite policies prohibiting such material, the BBC identified paid adverts containing sexually explicit and suggestive content involving children.
Meta acknowledged its ad review process may not detect all policy violations, but denied knowingly targeting ads featuring child exploitation to users.
Meta told the BBC they fight child exploitation on their platforms, remove ads that violate their policies, and report such content to the authorities.
It said they had removed content flagged by the BBC and denied prioritising revenue over user safety.
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>Indian social media and news outlets are in a frenzy claiming that Pakistan has suddenly woken up to its history to internationalise the Indus Waters treaty. But within these self aggrandising claims made to tickle the hateful appetite of the Indian right, there is an old claim being reverberated that Pakistan claims to be Arab and Turk.
>Pakistan’s rather complex relations with its history is well known to the world purely because of the activism of Pakistanis themselves. That being said Pakistan never ‘abandoned’ its past.
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Did anyone hear some extremely louder than usual airplane landing or taking off. It woke me up badly 😭, i checked flightradar24 it wasn't even there. Maybe it was PAF C-130?
PIA was originally born as Orient Airways in 1946 (prompted by Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah) before being nationalized into PIA in 1955. However, its true "Golden Age" happened during the Ayub Khan administration (1958–1969). President Ayub Khan appointed visionary leaders to run the airline; most notably Air Marshal Asghar Khan and Air Marshal Nur Khan. Under their strict leadership, PIA transformed from a regional carrier into a world-class luxury airline.
In 1985, the royal family of Dubai wanted to launch a new airline. The government of Pakistan stepped in to help. PIA sent a specialized team of engineers, flight crew, and administrators to Dubai to lay the operational groundwork for Emirates. Crucially, PIA leased Emirates its very first two aircraft, a Boeing 737-300 and an Airbus A300, allowing the young Gulf carrier to make its historic inaugural flights on October 25, 1985. PIA’s legacy of pushing aviation boundaries continued into the 21st century when it partnered with Boeing:
A brand-new PIA-liveried Boeing 777-200LR took off from Hong Kong and flew eastbound (the long way around, over the Pacific and North America) to London Heathrow.
| Total Distance | 11,664 nautical miles (21,601 km) |
|---|---|
| Flight Time | 22 hours and 22 minutes |
The flight carried a team of Boeing pilots, led by Captain Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann, alongside PIA crew members. This incredible record for an unmodified commercial passenger jet stands strong to this day.
In the wider context of the 1992–1995 Bosnian War, the broader campaign of ethnic cleansing resulted in the deaths of over 100,000 people across Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Under the direction of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), supervised by then-DG ISI General Javed Nasir, Pakistan covertly airlifted weapons to the Army of the Republic of Bosnia. Pakistan supplied advanced military equipment, including sophisticated Baktar-Shikan anti-tank guided missiles. These weapons played a crucial role in Turning the Tide helping the Bosniaks defend against and destroy Serbian armored divisions. Pakistani soldiers maintained their positions to protect civilians, clear fields of landmines, and manage large-scale camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Multiple Pakistani soldiers lost their lives serving in this mission
The International Criminal Tribunal in Hague demanded custody for questioning and deposition as a key witness regarding the flow of arms into the conflict zone for ISI chief for arming Bosnians despite arms embargo and demanded he be handed to tribunal for interrogation. Islamabad refused saying General had lost his memory in an accident and is therefore unfit for Trial
>Indian Air Force Dassault Ouragan IC-698 lies in field close to Jangshahi village near Badin shortly after being forced down by an F-104 Starfighter from the No. 9 Squadron "Griffins" during the Rann of Kutch conflict. Although the jet was initially preserved as a war trophy by Pakistan, it was later disposed of and scrapped.
