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From the anicent volcanoes of Kuh-i-Malik Salih, 
to the Makran coast lies roughly 560 miles of rugged terrain. 
On either side of this chasm stand the Islamic Republics.

What a striking pair of Imperial kin these two are.
Both succeed the Gunpowder Empires of old.

The fall of Mughal India changed the world forever, but it was only one side of Pax Britannica’s thrust into Afghanistan; Britain sparked a brutal conflict with Persia that humbled the Qajar Shahs at the Treaty of Paris.

2026 has seen Iran soldiering on in another saga of a forever affair. 
The West continues to embrace Pakistan; classic Mughal treatment.

I am puzzled at the West‘s strategic latency, on both ends of the lane.
So, I picked Tariq Ali’s book for one purpose only. 

Three Hundred and Three pages later, Mr. Tariq’s work has struck a chord.

Pakistan was founded as the homeland for India’s Muslims. 
The Iron and Blood Balkanization ended in 1947 as ‘Pakistanis’ settled in the East and West, separated by 1,000 miles of hostile India.

>Pakistan: ‘the land of the pure’.

The Ummah has waded through a bloodstained history; as seen in:

• the Civil War and Bloody Independence of Bangladesh
• four major conflicts with India
• five distinct cycles of operations in Balochistan
• extensive involvement in Afghanistan
• nearly $67 billion dollars in, mostly military, aid from United States;

>The Military has ruled Pakistan for approximately 34 of its 79 years.

>America has provided Pakistan with some form of economic or military assistance for since the nation’s creation in 1947.

Nigeria has more than 100 synagogues — but no local rabbis. This summer camp wants to change that.,
by Simone Saidmehr, Forward, 2026-08-14.

 

> On summer mornings in Abuja, Nigeria, a small fleet of cars fan out > across the sprawling capital city carrying unusual passengers: > children headed to Jewish day camp. > > In a one-story synagogue on a dirt road in Kubwa, a densely > populated suburb, children who spend most of the year as the only > Jew in their school spill out of cars alongside dozens of their > peers. They might spend the day acting out scenes from the Torah, > crocheting kippot or competing in color war. > > It’s an untraditional location, but almost everything else about > Camp Sarah is inspired by Jewish summer camps in the U.S. After > all, it was founded by an American. > > Debbie Isser, who moved to Nigeria in 2021 for her work with the > World Bank, started the camp with members of Abuja’s Jewish > community after local mothers told her they wanted their children to > have some kind of Jewish education. For Isser, whose own childhood > summers at Jewish camp in New Hampshire had been formative, the > solution felt obvious. > > “I just felt like it was in my genes,” she told the Forward. > > Now in its fourth year, Camp Sarah, a two-week-long day camp hosting > 80 campers and 20 staff, is trying to give a new generation of > Nigerian Jews something their small, dispersed community has > struggled to provide: Jewish teachings that will allow them to > sustain religious life there. > > The hope, of course, is that the children make Jewish friends and > learn Torah stories. But organizers also want Camp Sarah to begin > producing the religious leaders the community currently lacks — > perhaps, one day, even a homegrown rabbi or a shochet, ritual > slaughterer, so that kosher Nigerian Jews can finally enjoy meat > with their jollof rice.

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Why would a sitting president be clocking 80 when the age of retirement for Civil Service is 65/70?

PO gives you hope, but he is not your savior.

They say make we renew our hope with akara and kuli kuli
See those spineless creatures nodding behind her ... I pour una spit ko ni da fun yin!

NDC does not have Obi's interest at heart. Or Obi does not have NDC's interest at heart?
Which is it, at this point?

I'm inspired.

This is what he told the Iranians.
All this talk about the Mahdi.
I wonder where he's referenced in the Quran.

Took me a while to land a job on handshake. But it was worth the wait. Loving the project and the team.