Raag Yaman – an evening raga
by Ustad Bismillah Khan

Yes Mr P, all that the Proxy warriors can now resort to is head-butting. For most of their other parts have received serious injuries.
Monty Python – Black Python –
Tis but a Scratch :

It’s This Way :
Poem by Nazim Hikmet

I stand in the advancing light,
my hands hungry, the world beautiful.

My eyes can’t get enough of the trees–
they’re so hopeful, so green.

A sunny road runs through the mulberries,
I’m at the window of the prison infirmary.

I can’t smell the medicines–
carnations must be blooming nearby.

It’s this way:
being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.

Dear AHH, it is in no one’s interest, especially not India’s, that a nuclear power Pakistan with a strong Army becomes destabilized.

Instead of making him a martyr, Imran Khans wings, along with his subordinates, are being clipped so that he is neutralized. If “…the Pakistani military can be regarded as a cautious and conservative institution that is averse to risk-taking, and its commitment to Pakistan’s stability and security has remained unwavering..” Then what has the Pakistan Army been doing for the wellbeing of Pakistan if its economy is now in doldrums?

Please read about the level of corruption that exists within the Pakistan Army as well as its immense control of Pakistan’s economy. Till date, Pakistan has remained a feudal economy, and now, with the exponential growth in its population, it is bursting at the seams. The Junta is unable to provide for the basic necessities and for the aspirations of the common people. Hence, they have now chosen IK to become their Captain, believing that only IK can lead them out of the present morass.

Were the Pakistan Army rational, it would allow IK to become the PM after the next election, if only to blame him for all the current problems. But the Army has taken a different approach altogether, which goes to show that there are other forces working behind it. Moreover, the western MSM is totally supportive of the current Pakistan regime.

Dear Mr P, on a side note, the said consignment was the personal consignment of the Ukro-Führer Zelenskeyyy.

Without the proper supply, he just cannot sniff out the best possible course of action and go ahead with the much awaited great counter-offensive 😄

That which has been eaten out of the pot cannot be put into the dish.
– Danish proverb

Two very interesting articles which are more or less saying the same thing viz. having been unfortunate enough to have bought the Ukraine now Europe’s days are numbered :

“The West bought the Ukraine, it remains to build it up”
https://m.vz.ru/opinions/2023/5/16/1211675.html
by Dmitry Orekhov
“The West is experiencing difficulties similar to those experienced by the French poet Nerval, who bought a slave girl from Java. The cost of keeping a concubine has already exceeded all the expected benefits, and there is still nowhere to put her. There is only an endless series of contributions to “counter-offensives” ahead.”

The EU Is Over-Invested in the Ukrainian War-Project

by Alistair Crooke
“Ukraine is not a stand-alone foreign policy issue, but rather the pivot around which Europe’s economic prospects will rotate.”

“The European Union, by any standards, is over-invested in the Ukrainian war-project – and in its romance with Zelensky too. Just earlier this year, the western (and EU) narrative was that the coming post-Winter offensive by Ukraine would ‘break’ Russia and render a ‘coup de grace’ to the war. MSM headlines spun a regular tale of Russia on its last legs. Now, however, the Establishment messaging has done a 180°. Russia is not ‘on its last legs’ …

“I have no proof, but I think IK is being set up to be a “beautiful martyr” by the West. It is amazing the Junta didn’t bite so far.”

What you have said may well become true, dear AHH.

Has IK in a convoluted manner given a voice to civilian forces so that they may be in a collision course with the military establishment? If this, indeed, is happening, it is not because anyone wanted it: tactical play and the pace of events have led to this moment.
From an article :
https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/turning-points-the-changing-civil-military-dynamics-in-three-nations/cid/1937962
… we see a new Pakistan struggling to emerge from the old, and, quite apart from the current contest, the country seems to stand at a historical turning point. Older voices, however, also remind us that the country has reached a turning point many times before in Pakistan’s history but to paraphrase A.J.P. Taylor, finally chose not to turn.”