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توی این ویدیو به سراغ کشور پاکستان رفتیم؛ یکی از عجیب‌ترین و پر از تضادترین کشورهای دنیاست، کشوری که انگار هر چیزی که فکرش رو بکنید، یک گوشه‌اش پیدا می‌شه. از بمب هسته‌ای و ارتش قدرتمند گرفته تا فقر گسترده و مردمی که برای ساختن یک زندگی بهتر با مشکلات زیادی روبه‌رو هستن.

پاکستان یک کشور اسلامیه که جامعه‌ای سنتی و تا حد زیادی محافظه‌کار داره؛ کشوری که در بعضی مناطق، طالبان پاکستان مانع تحصیل دختران شده و زنان و دختران با محدودیت‌ها و مشکلات اجتماعی زیادی روبه‌رو هستن. در کنار همه این‌ها، داستان افراد ترنسجندر، فقر، مهاجرت، فریلنسری، تولید اسلحه و مسیر قاچاق مواد مخدر هم بخش‌هایی از چهره کمتر دیده‌شده این کشور رو تشکیل می‌دن.

اما پاکستان فقط تاریکی و مشکلات نیست. طبیعت فوق‌العاده‌ای مثل K2 و دره هانزا، غذاهای معروف و خوش‌طعم، فرهنگ مهمان‌نوازی و شهری مثل سیالکوت که بخش بزرگی از توپ‌های فوتبال دست‌دوز جهان رو تولید می‌کنه، بخش دیگه‌ای از این کشور رو نشون می‌دن. در این ویدیو سعی کردیم پاکستان رو از زوایای مختلف ببینیم؛ کشوری که شاید بهترین توصیف برایش، «کشور تضادها» باشه.

In this video, we take a look at Pakistan — one of the world’s most fascinating and contradictory countries, where it seems like almost everything you can imagine exists somewhere within its borders. A country with nuclear weapons and a powerful military, yet also home to widespread poverty and millions of people struggling to build a better life.

Pakistan is an Islamic country with a traditional and largely conservative society. In some areas, the Pakistani Taliban have prevented girls from attending school, while women and girls continue to face serious social challenges and restrictions. At the same time, the stories of transgender people, poverty, migration, freelancing, weapons production, and drug trafficking reveal some of the lesser-known sides of this country.

But Pakistan is not only about problems and hardship. It is also home to incredible natural landscapes such as K2 and Hunza Valley, famous and flavorful food, a strong culture of hospitality, and cities like Sialkot, which produces a large share of the world’s hand-stitched footballs. In this video, we explore Pakistan from different angles — a country that might best be described as a “country of contrasts.”

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Today, the biggest news is coming from the Russian net. 

Here, the Russian bot farms have just gone completely silent, as Russia’s massive disinformation and manipulation network online was reduced to zero. Zelensky recently stated that following Ukrainian strikes on three of Russia’s nine largest data centers, a noticeable drop in bot activity was recorded across social media. These claims are confirmed by Cloudflare, one of the largest companies providing internet services. They have released statistics showing that known Russian bot traffic coming from the Russian side of the internet dropped to zero point four percent after the Ukrainian strikes, from a staggering eighty-four and a half percent before. This means that essentially, Russia’s information warfare in the online space has ground to a halt. 

The impact of this is visibly noticeable. Online activity relating to political parties in the West has experienced a notable drop. Statistics from independent factcheckers in Germany for example, show an across-the-board drop in mentions of all political parties online by between twenty and thirty-seven percent. Countries across the West are experiencing similar trends, while wider claims on certain extremist parties’ online activity experiencing extreme drops of up to eighty-six percent remain unconfirmed. 

The main thing that the confirmed and fact-checked statistics show is that Russia has an intense and ongoing campaign across the world to influence political debate. How this frequently works is that certain bots make extremist posts and false claims online in order to invoke a response and spread misinformation on important subjects. Other bots pretending to be voters from both sides of the political spectrum then pretend to argue with each other, hoping to bait real people into interacting with the false premise, which in turn boosts its visibility to other real people. This is how Russia creates extreme political and social divide in the countries that oppose it fundamentally. It is no wonder, therefore that when Zelensky stated that there was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations in the online space following the Ukrainian strikes, he spoke the truth. 

Importantly, Russia does not only use its disinformation bot network against the West, but Ukraine has become a massive target as well. Ukraine’s new commander in chief Mykhailo Drapatyi recently stated that coordinated information attacks against him began from his first days in office, as has been the case against the Ukrainian army and government since the start of the war. Through this, Russia attempts to sow social distrust and unrest in Ukraine, as the determination of Ukrainians against the Russian invasion is what allowed the country to hold on against Russia for so long. 

Overall, Russia actively seeks to break the will of Ukrainians and their Western allies at a massive scale. That scale however, has been reduced by an equally massive scale after Ukraine hit and destroyed three of Russia’s nine largest data centers that allow the bot networks to run day and night. With the information space having been much cleared up in recent days, it is important to remember how Russia’s game of dividing and conquering must not be allowed to succeed, as Russia’s crimes against humanity in Ukraine are something that all people truly oppose.

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چرا جز سرنگونی جمهوری اسلامی، راه دیگری در ایران جواب نمی‌دهد؟مهم‌تر اینکه چرا منطقی‌ترین راه، سرنگونی جمهوری اسلامی است؟ دلیلش این است که تجربه‌زیسته ۴۸ ساله ایرانیان نشان می‌دهد این حکومت قابل اصلاح نیست، نمی‌خواهد اصلاح شود و قصد کناره‌گیری از قدرت را هم به رغم ناکارآمدی و نارضایتی مردم ندارد.

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Today, the biggest news comes from the Russian Federation.

Putin is in a panic over how the war could end, proven by the fact that he has told close aides that if the conflict stops under the current circumstances, he could be hunted down and hanged because it would represent one of Russia’s worst military defeats in centuries. Rather than seeking a way to end the war, the Kremlin appears determined to secure at least one major objective, which is capturing the entire Donetsk region. For Putin, ending the war without achieving even this minimal goal could carry serious political and personal consequences. There is also a historical precedent behind these concerns because both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union collapsed after disastrous foreign military campaigns, most notably World War one and the war in Afghanistan.

That is why Russia’s leadership has ordered its forces to reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions by December thirty-first. The problem is that even Russian military commanders believe this deadline is unrealistic, which is why they are instead asking to extend it until March thirty-first. This already marks the fifteenth deadline Russia has set for achieving its territorial objectives in Donbas, a sign of how far the military remains from delivering the results demanded by the Kremlin.

Based on the pace of advance over the last three years, it will take Putin at least another two to three years to take the remaining part of Donbas. Even if Russia manages to capture the most fortified cities of Donbas, namely Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Russian forces would face multiple layered and modern defense lines built specifically to attrit and slow advancing forces down.

Moreover, Ukraine has already adapted its defensive strategy to Putin’s decision to concentrate Russia’s resources on Donbas. Russian sources are reacting with concern to major changes in the Ukrainian military leadership, including the replacement of Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky by Mykhailo Drapatyi, who rose through the ranks from soldier to general, while Evgeniy Khamara has also taken over as defense minister. At the same time, the remaining Ukrainian-held front in the Donetsk region is being reorganized into two major operational groupings. The northern Donbas grouping, made up of several corps and supporting units, has been placed under the command of third Army Corps commander Andriy Biletsky. The southern Donbas grouping, also consisting of multiple corps and adjacent units, is now commanded by Azov National Guard Corps commander Denys Prokopenko. Biletsky and Prokopenko are among Ukraine’s most experienced commanders, both having built their careers through the Azov formations. They have progressed from commanding brigades of roughly four thousand troops to leading army corps of around twenty thousand personnel, and now command multi-corps groupings numbering approximately forty thousand to sixty thousand troops each. These formations have been deployed to what has become the most strategically important sector of the war, where Russia is expected to concentrate much of its remaining offensive power. Their task is to defend the heavily fortified cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, as well as the newly established defensive lines across Donbas. The scale of this reorganization is already causing concern among Russian military analysts, who are arguing that Russia has little chance of achieving a breakthrough against these reinforced Ukrainian defenses. Instead, they fear that the newly formed Ukrainian groupings will absorb the Russian offensive, inflict heavy losses, and gradually wear down the attacking forces.

Overall, the deeper problem for Putin is that time is not on his side, as every additional offensive consumes soldiers and equipment without guaranteeing a decisive result. Ukraine does not necessarily need to defeat Russia outright, it only needs to prevent a breakthrough long enough for Russia’s enormous costs to become unsustainable. This turns Putin’s deadline into a dangerous trap, as their situation on the battlefield will only worsen, and Putin grows more worried for his life.

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Today, Ukrainian army sources revealed a reported sabotage operation against a Russian military train carrying North Korean weapons that was targeted around six thousand kilometers from the frontline. According to Ukrainian military sources, simultaneous explosions destroyed a train transporting KN-Twenty-Three and KN-Twenty-Four ballistic missiles together with railcars loaded with artillery ammunition on the Trans-Siberian Railway. The attack occurred geographically much closer to North Korea than to Ukraine itself, and the resulting detonation destroyed the train, devastated part of the surrounding railway infrastructure, and halted traffic along the affected section. Official confirmation from Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate has not yet been released, but once confirmed, this would rank among the deepest Ukrainian operations conducted inside Russian territory.

According to operatives within Ukrainian intelligence circles, the operation was preceded by a lengthy intelligence effort. The reported shipment was allegedly tracked from the vicinity of the North Korean border as it moved westward across Russia. Such an operation would have required establishing the train’s timetable, identifying where it would slow down, and selecting terrain where repairs after an attack would be particularly difficult. Ukrainian operatives have also needed to determine exactly which convoy contained the strategic cargo before committing valuable assets. Local assistance cannot be ruled out, as some remote Russian regions have long complained of economic neglect, potentially making discreet cooperation with outside intelligence services more feasible. Ukrainian agents would have also exploited the well-known corruption among the Russian administration, as such officials with access to railway schedules or cargo manifests could be bribed to reveal when a valuable shipment would pass a specific location. According to the reports, remotely controlled explosive charges were allegedly placed beneath the railway tracks and near critical points of the train before being detonated as it entered a difficult section of the line. Choosing such terrain aims to maximize destruction while making restoration substantially more complicated.

The effects of the explosion were dramatic, as they triggered a chain reaction that detonated the missile warheads and the accompanying ammunition cargo. The KN missiles carry a warhead weighing roughly five-hundred kilograms, meaning even a single detonation is capable of causing severe destruction. The exact number of missiles reportedly aboard the train has not been established yet, but the combined explosion reached the equivalent of dozens of tons of TNT, excavated a crater more than fifteen meters deep, and completely incinerated both the locomotive and the convoy. Burning fragments from solid-fuel rocket motors ignited surrounding vegetation and railway infrastructure.

The consequences extend well beyond the destroyed shipment, even though a Ukrainian intelligence source stated that the objective was to ensure none of the missiles intended for attacks on Ukrainian cities survived the operation. However, the Trans-Siberian Railway is Russia’s main east-west rail artery, stretching roughly nine-thousand-three-hundred kilometers from European Russia to the Pacific coast and connecting industrial centers with trade routes toward China, Mongolia, and the Korean Peninsula. It carries tens of millions of tonnes of freight annually, making it one of Russia’s most important logistical networks. Disrupting even one section can create delays of up to several weeks while damaged track, electrical systems, and wreckage are cleared and repaired.

Overall, the reported sabotage represents a direct Ukrainian response to the expanding North Korean military assistance to Russia, which includes missiles, launchers for them, artillery shells, and personnel for both the delivered systems and infantry. Destroying a huge single shipment would deny Russia valuable weapons immediately, while simultaneously damaging the railway itself could delay subsequent deliveries, increasing the logistical cost of relying on long-distance military support from North Korea.

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Today, there are dangerous updates from the Russian Federation.

Here, Russia is facing an extraordinary plague outbreak in Siberia after a young laboratory worker died from a mysterious, severe pneumonia, and nearly two hundred potential contacts were placed under medical observation. Daria Shipilova, twenty-eight years old, worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute and deteriorated rapidly after falling ill. The whole hospital was quarantined, public events were canceled, and Russia’s top public-health official Anna Popova traveled thousands of kilometers from Moscow to coordinate the response. Yet Russian authorities insist the regional situation remains stable, and that is where Russia’s story becomes increasingly strange.

According to the officially reported version, the lab official accidentally broke a test tube containing live plague bacteria while working. But Russian epidemiologist Mikhail Favorov publicly questioned that explanation, arguing that specialists handling dangerous pathogens work in protective equipment and describing infection through such an accident as unlikely. He also argued that the immediate arrival of the highest-ranking health officials in Russia indicates authorities were treating the situation extremely seriously, despite trying to project calmness to the public.

Russian authorities subsequently contradicted themselves and their own official laboratory-accident story, as they changed their version and stated that the woman died from pneumonia of unknown etiology, that testing found no microorganisms connected to her work, and that an investigation discovered no laboratory emergency involving dangerous pathogens.

Yet the precautions have been extensive, as nearly two hundred contacts were identified, several medical facilities introduced quarantine measures, preventive restrictions appeared elsewhere, and authorities launched an investigation. Meanwhile, officials initially avoided publicly identifying the suspected disease. One of the local leaders, Alexei Tsydenov, initially wrote that the woman had died from plague before subsequently modifying the statement to say she possibly had.

That combination has inevitably produced accusations of a cover-up, with the discrepancy obvious, as Moscow publicly minimizes the danger while simultaneously implementing measures appropriate for a potentially serious infectious incident.

The Kremlin has powerful reasons to prevent panic, as a genuine outbreak spreading beyond isolated contacts could force quarantines of whole towns, disrupt transportation and industrial production, consume medical resources, and create serious public anxiety at a time when Russian society is already on high alert as it feels the economic consequences of Putin’s campaign in Ukraine.

These consequences can become even more dangerous, as the Russian war machine depends upon enormous logistical networks moving soldiers, equipment, and ammunition across the country. A major infectious outbreak affecting transportation hubs, military facilities, or mobilization centers could interfere with troop rotations and training. Quarantines could remove personnel from duty, while outbreaks among tightly concentrated soldiers could temporarily disable entire formations, ending Putin’s war earlier than expected, as large-scale health restrictions would create another demand on government finances and manpower precisely when Moscow needs both elsewhere.

Overall, for the Russian government, controlling information may therefore become almost as important as controlling the medical situation. Russia has a long history of secrecy surrounding major disasters, from the nuclear power plant disaster in Chornobyl during the Soviet Union to the Kursk submarine sinking catastrophe, which Putin tried to hide at the beginning of his reign twenty-six years ago. Whether the event in Irkutsk ultimately proves to be a plague outbreak, another more common infection, or an isolated laboratory incident without major consequences, the conflicting explanations have already created precisely what the Kremlin would want to avoid: suspicion that the official story is concealing something considerably more serious. Something that could be the final nail in the coffin not only for Putin’s war against Ukraine but also for his regime.