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India.com
18-05-2025
- Business
- India.com
From Pakistan to Bangladesh via Turkey... who is this close friend of Donald Trump's family busy in striking deals after..., he is now...
New Delhi: India launched a fearless attack on nine terror bases in Pakistan and PoK on May 9 to avenge the killing of innocent tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam. Under 'Operation Sindoor', the brave Indian Armed Forces destroyed the main terror camps operating in Pakistan and killed over 100 dreaded terrorists. On May 12, both India and Pakistan announced ceasefire, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting that India has only 'paused' military action and will retaliate on its own terms if another terror attack occurs. 'We will be monitoring every step of Pakistan,' PM Modi said, ruling out any dialogue unless it pertains to terrorism or the return of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. 'Terror and talks can't go together. Nor can terror and trade,'| he added. Gentry Thomas Beach's name started gaining traction after Operation Sindoor and the shocking yet balanced statement by US President Donald Trump regarding Pakistan. It has now raised questions about the Trump family's potential ties to Pakistan's 'deep state.' Who is Gentry Thomas Beach: Beach is an investor from Texas and a college friend of Donald Trump Jr. Reports suggest that after Trump became president, Beach maintained close links with countries like Pakistan, Turkey, and Bangladesh from the very beginning. The first surprising fact is that Beach visited Pakistan just 10 days after Trump's inauguration. On January 30, he was in Islamabad. Claiming to be a 'close associate of Trump,' he arrived there with a team of potential investors. This team came under the banner of a company called White Bridge Global. Shocking Claim by Pakistani Media Beech met with Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and said that the United States cares about Pakistan, according to the reports. 'You are our front face in this entire region, very important,' he stated. Beech committed to invest billions of dollars to transform the face of Karachi and Islamabad. His next move was even more intriguing — signing a deal with a Pakistani company called Apex Energy. The purpose of this deal was to explore and develop the placer gold reserves found along the banks of the Indus River. According to local reports, the estimated value of this gold is said to be 50 trillion dollars. Coincidentally, a few months ago, Pakistan's National Engineering Services claimed they had discovered a massive placer gold block worth Rs 80,000 crore near the Indus River in Attock. After Islamabad, they reached Dhaka, and then… Gentry Thomas Beach reached Dhaka after Islamabad. There, they met with Bangladesh's Chief Advisor Mohammad Yunus, leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, and officials from the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority. During the visit, they expressed interest in investing in the energy and mineral sectors through their second company, Highground Holdings. On Tuesday, their company White Bridge Global signed another major deal in Dubai, this time a fifty-fifty partnership with Turkish company Terra Holdings. This has formed a new triangular axis that is concerning for India — Türkiye, Pakistan, and the new Bangladeshi regime.
Time of India
16-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
The Beachline: Trump Jr's friend cuts a curious path from Pakistan to Bangladesh via Turkey. Who is he?
New Delhi: Who is Gentry Thomas Beach ? This question looms large over US President Donald Trump puzzlingly even-handed remarks on Pakistan following Operation Sindoor , in turn, putting the spotlight on his family's dealings with Pakistan's deep state. Beach, a Texas-based investor and a college friend of Donald Trump Jr, it appears, was there right at the start - Pakistan, Turkey and Bangladesh . On January 30, within 10 days of Trump's oath-taking, Beach was in Islamabad projecting himself as a 'Trump associate'. He brought with him a team of potential investors under the umbrella firm White Bridge Global . He met Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif, as reported in Pakistan media, and told him: "America cares about Pakistan... You are our front face in the entire region, very important." Beach went on to pledge "billions of dollars" to recast the skyline of Karachi and Islamabad. "Through White Bridge Real Estate, we are prepared to invest in and develop landmark projects that meet global standards." Then, he went on to sign a deal with Pakistan company Apex Energy for exploration and development of placer gold deposits estimated at $50 trillion, as per local reports. Incidentally, a couple of months ago, the National Engineering Services of Pakistan claimed that they have located a vast placer gold block, apparently worth Rs 80,000 crore, near Indus river in Attock. The scientific logic is that these are gold deposits off the Himalayas, mixed in the sediments of the Indus and now deposited in the lower reaches of the river. Placer mining is the excavation technology to separate gold from its sediments. Plus, Beach's two-day visit also saw Pakistan exploring the possibility of joint mining for critical minerals that can somehow get Islamabad into US Defence Department's Trusted Partner Programme. This visit was organised through the Pakistan's Special Investment Facilitation Council . Formed in 2023, it's led by the Pakistan PM but has Pakistan army chief Asim Munir as member of the apex committee. The National Coordinator, a key member of both the apex and the executive committee, is also an army officer, Lt Gen Sarfaraz Ahmed, and so is the Director General, SIFC, Maj Gen Tabassum Habib. Such was Beach's confidence in his Trump credentials that he even clarified to Pakistan media on US Special Presidential Envoy Richard Grennel's support for Imran Khan. "He may have been misled on Pakistan," he reportedly said. From Islamabad, Beach went to Dhaka, where he met Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Younus and the Jamaat-e-Islami leadership along with officials of the Bangladesh Investment Development Authority. As per some reports, there he fronted his other company Highground Holdings to express interest in investing in Bangladesh's minerals and energy sectors. Interestingly, White Bridge Global's other big deal was inked on Tuesday with Turkish firm Terra Holdings to set up a 50-50 joint venture in Dubai, completing a worry-for-India arch connecting Turkey, Pakistan and the new regime in Bangladesh. Beach and Trump Jr were together at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, in the 1990s. Both hit headlines recently in the course of a decades-long trial and retrial of a case between Beach and his former employee Touradji Consultants. A raft of emails surfaced in the proceedings, essentially exchanges between Beach and Trump Jr that conveyed racial slur. The former has since moved an application in the court to redact those mails on grounds that they have little relevance to the case at hand. Either way, the association runs deep and the nature of the quick South Asia trip, right after Trump became president is likely to raise questions in the light of his remarks post-Op Sindoor as well as the recent cryptocurrency deal between World Liberty Financial, which has links with Trump's family, and Pakistan's hurriedly created Crypto Council. Meanwhile, a web page has been launched called White Bridge Pakistan ( It says: Launching Soon.
