On 23 August 2021, Pakistan’s External Publicity Wing tweeted a statement from Pakistan’s National Security Adviser, Moeed Yusuf, stating, “We have made it absolutely clear that we are with the international community on where this goes.” Previously General Bajwa stated,

A few thousand, poorly armed, Afghan resistance fighters are now stationed on the outskirts of Kabul, poised to bury the arrogance of a third colonialist power in the graveyard of empires, under soil irrigated by the pure blood of legions of martyrs, from the time that Islam first graced our region

In the period of the Second Khaleefah Rashid, Umar (ra) al-Farooq, the Great Companions (ra) selected the start of the Islamic calendar as the year that the Islamic State was established in al-Madinah al-Munawarrah, after the Hijrah of the Messenger of Allah (saw). Indeed, after the Prophetic Hijrah to Madinah

On 30 July 2021, the Sindh Chief Minister announced a sudden nine-day lockdown for Karachi, the world’s largest Muslim city, with a population estimated at well over twenty million, claiming that it was aimed at controlling the spread of the Coronavirus Delta variant. The lockdown included the closure of all markets and businesses,