The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) does almost nothing to eradicate drug production in Afghanistan, and this drug-trafficking problem will likely worsen in the near future, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated.
The NATO security mission – which will pull out of Afghanistan in 2014 – has failed to bring stability to the region, Putin said at a meeting of the Russian Security Council on Wednesday.
“There are all grounds to believe that we may face an escalation of the situation in Afghanistan in the short term,” the president said.
“The foreign military contingent, whose backbone is American forces, has not achieved a breakthrough in the fight against terrorist and radical groups as yet. On the contrary, their activity has been particularly increasing lately,” Putin explained.
There has also been “a drastic increase in drug production in the territory of Afghanistan and the creation of stable drug-trafficking routes to other countries, including – unfortunately – to Russia,” he said. Putin also noted that the ISAF does little to address the problem, while Russia’s proposals on the matter have so far been ignored.
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There has also been "a drastic increase in drug production in the territory of Afghanistan and the creation of stable drug-trafficking routes to other countries, including -- unfortunately -- to Russia," he said.
Could be that's what you call a feature, not a bug.
[Tolo News] The provincial tribal elders of eastern Nuristan province early Tuesday met with the governor asking him to launch a military operation in Barg-e-Matal district of the province, local officials said.
The meeting took place today morning and the tribal elders met with governor Tamim Nuristani asking for the military operation in the district, as the bully boyz have become active targeting civilians, provincial front man Zahir Bahand said.
The tribal elders told the governor that nearly 100 civilians have been killed by the bully boyz in the past nine months in the district, Bahand said.
He said that the provincial governor "promised to tribal elders to refer the issue to the Ministry of Interior, Defence and very soon a military operation will be launched to clear the area of myrmidons."
Barg-e-Matal district is bordered by Pakistain and the bully boyz have frequently targeted the local security forces in the area.
Previously, the Afghan cops have several times launched military operations in the district to clear myrmidons, but bully boyz still control most of the areas.
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[Tolo News] Hundreds of Afghans have launched anti-Pakistain protest in southern Kandahar province early Tuesday, asking the governor to react over Pak military attack on Afghan cops, local officials said.
The protest took place in Kandahar city at about 08:00am and continued for three hours in the area and the demonstrators chanted anti-Pak slogans "death to Pakistain," "Pakistain is behind all problems in Afghanistan", "long live Afghan forces."
The protestors asked President Karzai to order the Afghan border forces to react to Pakistain's move over building of the military check-posts and recent festivities with Afghan border police forces.
The protestors said that they were with Afghan forces and "they are ready to fight against Pak forces in the border."
"We are asking President Karzai to order the Afghan forces to react to Pakistain's move. If he can't, we will be ready go to and help our forces and fight against Pakistain," said the protestors.
Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... the provincial governor's front man Jawid Faisal said that the protest has ended peacefully in the area and "we will support it."
"The Afghan cops were in the area and the protest ended peacefully. We support such a protest and it is people's right to do so," Jawid Faisal said.
The protest comes a day after the Afghan and Pak forces resumed festivities in Ghosta district of eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province early Monday, inflicting heavy casualties on Pak forces.
The festivities broke out yesterday, when the Pak military forces tried to rebuild the gate of the check-post in Goshta district of Nangarhar, the provincial governor front man Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said.
The festivities ended at about 10:30am and there were no Afghan border police casualties, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said.
More Afghan cops have been deployed in the area and they are put on alert, he added.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the coconut cream... the Afghan border officials said that at least 30 Pak forces were killed or maimed in the festivities. There are no exact figures of how many Pak forces were killed and how many got maimed.
The Afghan forces have destroyed a Pak military tank and removed two of Pak check-posts during the festivities in which both sides used heavy weapons, the Afghan commanders said.
The Pakistain government has not yet commented about today's festivities.
Afghanistan and Pakistain have had strained relations since Pakistain was formed in 1947, at the end of British colonial rule over India.
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Gadzooks folks the Afghanis and the Pakis are going to give it a go.
So maybe Afghanistan and Pakistanarchy will go the way of Syria with lots of jihadists with their hair on fire having gun sex and blowing things up?
Does either side have a competent military leader? I didn't say leaders, I said leader. And No they will not let Musharraf off for bad behavior to lead the charge.
As long as they don't drag India into it, I will bet this will be nearly as interesting as late night in Damascus.
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At least the locals are waking upto who the main enemy is not Nato/US.
[An Nahar] Libya's defense minister resigned on Tuesday but then changed his mind and the army chief of staff was sacked, as a political crisis deepened over gunnies besieging government ministries.
"I find myself compelled, despite opposition from my colleagues in recent days, to present (my resignation) voluntarily and without hesitation," Mohammed al-Barghathi said, quoted by the official Lana news agency.
"I cannot accept the policy of force used by gangs in our new state," he added.
But just hours later, the government issued a statement saying Barghathi had changed his mind after Prime Minister Ali Zeidan asked him to stay on.
"The chief of the government asked the defense minister to rescind (his decision) and the minister said he understands, given the circumstances the country is going through, that he should continue in office," a statement said.
Separately, members of the National General Congress (NGC), said it had sacked army chief of staff General Yusef al-Mangoush, who has long been accused of delaying the formation of a proper army.
Other deputies said Mangoush would stay on for another month until a replacement is named.
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Civil War in post-Uncle Muammar Libyuh, + Civil War in Iraq.
[Xinhua] Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi swore in nine new ministers in a partial cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, including some key economic portfolios.
Morsi described the reshuffle as a new step to complete the development of the public performance in Egypt and aims at injecting new blood to improve the standards of services provided to citizens.
In a presidential statement, he urged citizens to give an opportunity to the reshuffled government to work on meeting their demands and to face up to the challenges.
MORE ISLAMISTS INTO CABINET
The reshuffle brings more Islamist-oriented members into the cabinet, including Finance Minister Fayyad Abdel-Monem Hassanin, a professor of economics at Al-Azhar University, and Minister of International Cooperation and Planning, Amr Darrag, who is a senior member of Moslem Brüderbund (MB)'s political arm the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP).
Both ministries are important in handling negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a 4.8-billion-U.S dollar rescue loan which is believed to be crucial to the revival of Egypt's ailing economy.
New faces in the 35-member cabinet also include Investment Minister Yahya Hamed, a MB member; Ahmed al-Gizawi, an FJP member which will lead the Agriculture Ministry; and Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Sherif Hadara, an engineer believed to have close ties with the MB's group.
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[An Nahar] Armed rustics have kidnapped two Egyptian technicians working at a cement factory in southern Yemen, a local official said on Tuesday.
"The two men were intercepted as they left the cement plant in Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... on Monday night and were taken off to a mountainous region," the official told Agence La Belle France Presse, asking not to be named.
He said the kidnappers belonged to the Marakisha tribe and were demanding the release of a member of their tribe tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! seven years ago on murder charges.
A tribal delegation is trying to negotiate the release of the two Egyptians, the source said.
Hundreds of people have been kidnapped in Yemen over the past 15 years, almost all of who have been freed unharmed.
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[An Nahar] President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... said Tuesday that La Belle France was taking seriously a call by al-Qaeda's north African wing for Musselmens worldwide to launch attacks against the country's interests over its military operation in Mali.
An AQIM leader called on Musselmens to "attack French interests everywhere" in a video message posted online.
"We are taking seriously the threat by AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb)," Hollande told news hounds.
He said that despite considerable losses inflicted on Islamist groups by French-led forces since they first went into Mali in January, AQIM cells still exist outside the country and "the terrorist threat has not disappeared".
"So we believe we must continue the operation in Mali for as long as it takes -- even if we reduce our presence -- and stay vigilant around Mali to continue the fight against terror."
Hollande said he had ordered measures to protect French installations abroad.
The AQIM threat comes after a boom-mobileing at La Belle France's embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... last month, which maimed three people. No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
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Gee, why would you do that?
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a call by al-Qaeda's north African wing for Musselmens worldwide to launch attacks against the country's interests over its military operation in Mali.
Kurdish rebels are due to begin their much-anticipated withdrawal from Turkey into their stronghold in northern Iraq on Wednesday, a major step towards ending a decades-long conflict that has left tens of thousands dead.
The pullout will be the first visible sign that months of fragile talks between the state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) could succeed in ending 29 years of guerrilla war.
Around 2 000 rebels are expected to begin leaving Turkey on foot, travelling through the mountainous border zone to reach their safe haven in the inhospitable Qandil mountains in northern Iraq.
There they will join another 5 000 fellow militants at the command base which has been used as a springboard for attacks against Turkish security forces.
"The withdrawals are expected to take three or four months to complete," said Selahattin Demirtas, a pro-Kurdish lawmaker who has been part of the budding peace process.
On Tuesday the Kurdish rebels said they would not renege on their promise to withdraw on the orders of their imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan.
A succinct recap of a very bad example of Obama "Leadership"....
"(Incidentally, Gaddafi was on the verge of invading Benghazi in 2011, 4 years after the West Point report cited Benghazi as a hotbed of Al Qaeda terrorists. Gaddafi claimed -- rightly it turns out -- that Benghazi was an Al Qaeda stronghold and a main source of the Libyan rebellion. But NATO planes stopped him, and protected Benghazi.)"
[Dawn] Law enforcement agencies investigating the killing of FIA special prosecutor in the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... murder case have no record of the outfit believed to be behind the attack, sources told Dawn on Monday.
The prosecutor, Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali, was rubbed out at Sector G-9/1 when he was going to office on May 3.
An Urdu pamphlet found at the scene of the crime and purportedly written by Mujahideen-e-Islami stated: "Those who help punish the Mujahideen would meet the same fate."
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the police and intelligence agencies have no record or details about the organization.
The sources said there was a possibility that the killers had used the name of the outfit only to divert the Sherlocks to a wrong direction.
It is premature to establish whether any bad boy organization was behind the killing or there was some other motive.
The joint investigation team (JIT) is probing the murder from all angles, including personal enmity, rivalry and any dispute.
An officer close to the investigation said the accused persons in the Benazir murder case would not get any benefit from the killing of the public prosecutor who had already cross-questioned all the suspects and completed the court proceedings in 2010.
In the meantime, the Sherlocks are facing difficulties to trace the taxi (Suzuki FX) in which the attackers had escaped after killing the prosecutor.
The excise and taxation authority has no record of the registration number. Normally, the registration number of a vehicle used in such an activity is replaced, said sources in the police.
"However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the excise and taxation offices in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and Gilgit are checking the numeric number of the registration plate to trace the whereabouts of the vehicle," the sources said.
They added that the first two alphabets of the registration number were matching with the ones issued by ETO Gilgit and Karachi.
Another officer close to the investigation said chances of survival of one of the attackers injured from the firing of Mr Ali's gunman -- a Frontier Constabulary personnel -- were meager.
"We found excessive bleeding at the spot and in such a condition the survival of an injured is impossible," he said.
Shortly after the escape of the attackers, all the hospitals in the twin cities and nearby towns were alerted with the instruction to inform the capital police if they received any patient with bullet injuries, the officer said.
But no such person was brought to any hospital since Friday.
"There is a possibility that he has died or got medical assistance in hiding," he added.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the Sherlocks collected blood samples from the spot and sent them for DNA test.
Similarly, a Sindhi cap found at the spot along with a mobile phone and a pistol was also sent for the DNA test.
The Sherlocks are hopeful that the DNA test will help them establish the race of the attackers, he added.
The sources further said the JIT was working on the mobile phone to trace the attackers.
However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... it did not carry much detail, they added.
It seems that the attackers had bought the mobile and SIM recently, they said.
The JIT also found two eyewitnesses, a policeman and a civilian person.
The policeman helped the JIT in drawing sketches of the attackers. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the sketches do not match with the ones available in the police record.
The other eyewitness was reluctant to help the police in fear of being targeted.
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[Dawn] During Tuesday's hearing of the treason case against former military ruler Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... , a counsel representing the ex army strongman told the Supreme Court that the entire judiciary and lawyer community was biased in their opinion of him, DawnNews reported
A three-judge bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, was hearing a set of petitions seeking the initiation of a treason case against Musharraf.
During the hearing, Musharraf's counsel Ahmed Raza Kasuri told the bench that the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. High Court (PHC) had imposed a life-time ban on the retired general, barring him from contesting polls for the national and provincial assemblies as well as the Senate. He added that ineligibility could only be declared for five years and accused the judiciary of being anti-Musharraf.
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[Dawn] The vast majority of Paks are unhappy with their country's direction and a growing number see the domestic Taliban as a threat, said a survey released on Tuesday ahead of elections.
The poll by the Pew Research Center found that 91 per cent of Paks were dissatisfied with the direction of the country and that a mere 14 per cent saw President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... favorably.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... , seen as a front-runner in Saturday's election, was viewed favorably by 66 per cent of Paks and 60 per cent held positive views of Pak cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... .
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91 per cent of Paks were dissatisfied with the direction of the country
A meaningless result given that it lumps together both those who think Pakistain needs to stop sucking and those who think it needs to suck more. It does have the advantage of sounding accurate and important. NINETY ONE PERCENT!!11!!! Can you say 'error bars'?
[Dawn] Senator Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. of the PPP presented the media on Monday documentary 'proof' of the alleged money laundering by the Sharif brothers and said he had requested the Supreme Court to look into the matter.
"There have been 40 or so scams, including the money laundering and corruption committed by the Sharif brothers. I have written to the SC registrar for investigation into the billions of rupees of corruption as there is also a confessional statement of (PML-N leader) Ishaq Dar in this regard," the former interior minister said at a presser.
The PML-N's Senator Pervaiz Rashid rejected the claim and said it was a propaganda against the PML-N leadership.
Mr Malik said the chief justice should take notice of the money laundering of the Sharif brothers to the UK and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . He said the PPP might move the international court in this regard. He said the Sharifs should go to the apex court against him if they were innocent. "If I fail to prove the charges against them (Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and Shahbaz Sharif) I will quit politics," he said.
He criticised the Election Commission (ECP) order for stopping an electronic media ad about a conversation between retired Justice Abdul Qayyum and Saifur Rehman.
"When it comes to the PPP, the ECP does not play its impartial role," he said, adding that when the Sharifs learnt that he (Malik) was bringing more video tapes against them they used their influence to stop them.
Accompanied by Faiza Malik and Omar Sharif Bokhari, Mr Malik said Ishaq Dar in his confessional statement in 2000 had revealed that he had laundered billions of rupees abroad on the orders of Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif.
He also provided details of fake accounts through which the Sharif brothers had laundered the money and the names of other people involved in the scam. He said the Sharifs should apologise to the nation for their 'bad deeds'.
Rehman Malik said he had investigated the scams and if they had the courage they should prove him wrong in the court. "The Sharifs are threatening that after coming to power they will arrest me. But they cannot intimidate me," he said.
Mr Malik said he had also written a letter to the defence ministry asking it to take action against the army officials named in the Asghar Khan case for their involvement in doling out funds to politicians in the 1990s, but to no avail. He alleged that the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad had been formed in 1990 to prevent the PPP from coming to power and now an alliance of forces of Evil had been formed for the same purpose.
Despite all odds, the PPP would win the elections and form the government, Mr Malik expressed the hope.
PML-N's Pervaiz Rashid said when Rehman Malik was in the FIA he had instituted fake cases against the Sharif brothers. "These are false as neither the Musharraf government nor that of the PPP could prove anything against the PML-N leadership," he said.
APP adds: Rehman Malik claimed that the documents proved that Qazi Masood said the Sharif brothers had fooled him and allegedly opened bogus accounts on his passport and details of misuse of Ghani Musa Trust were also available in the documents. "It is also in the documents that Ishaq Dar said he had done it because the Sharif brothers asked him to do so," he added.
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The Sharifs and Imran Khan looklike being the most popular in recent elections.
The Sharifs from memory are close to the extremist punjabi parties and Imran says good things about the Taliban.
No chance of PPP winning.Not looking good re the drones/Afghanistan unless we keep the Pak Army funded/on board.
[Dawn] The PML-N would bring about a revolution, rather than a change, in the country on May 11, Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... said on Monday.
"Earlier my party's government brought about an atomic revolution and this time it would usher in an economic revolution," the PML-N chief said at a public meeting in Faisalabad ...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after... Promising to end loadshedding, he said the outgoing government unfairly held Shahbaz Sharif responsible for loadshedding. "President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... should be called to account for the agony," Mr Sharif said.
Educated and skilled workers would be provided loans to start their own business and several banks would be established, he said, asking the youth to work with him to make Pakistain prosperous.
Unemployment, terrorism and lawlessness would be rooted out to provide relief to people, Mr Sharif said.
About local problems, he said dysfunctional factories would be made operational and metro bus service would be launched in Faisalabad and Islamabad.
Asking people to vote for the PML-N, he urged them not to remain idle and endeavour for its success in the elections. People would not allow anyone to hatch a conspiracy against the party, the PML-N chief said.
A large number of people from different walks of life thronged the meeting and listened to Mr Sharif's speech, many of them waving PML-N flags.
Addressing a similar gathering in Kabirwala, near Multan, he said the PPP could not be seen anywhere during the electioneering and added that even if President Asif Ali Zardari came out of the presidency, he would not be able to save the party from defeat.
Mr Sharif said May 11 was not a day for rest and recreation but for deciding the fate of the country. "The nation has no room for a mistake on that day."
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[Dawn] Chief of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability... Maulana Fazlur Rehman Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ... has said that Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... chairman Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... wants to implement western agenda in the country in the name of new Pakistain but his party will block his way to the prime minister house.
"Imran is following Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent... to get to the PM house and he wants to implement the Zionist agenda in Pakistain in the garb of his anti-America stunt, but my party will restrict his way as we are working for the enforcement of Sharia in the country for the last many decades," said Maulana Fazl while speaking at a public gathering here on Monday.
The JUI-F amir asked the countrymen to get rid of ethnic and regional biases, which, he said, were threatening the existence of the county.
"If we don't get rid of sectarianism and ethnic divides, we cannot root out terrorism and lawlessness from the country. Punjabis should feel the pain of Sindhis and Sindhis should feel the pain of Mohajirs and Mohajirs should feel the pain of Baloch and Pakhtuns," said Maulana Fazl.
He said his party only wanted implementation of Islamic ideology in the country which, he added, could end deprivation, class difference and ethnicity and also bring the economy of country on the right track.
He said Imran Khan was speaking against the America just to gain popularity.
He said that for the last six and half decades successive rulers plundered the country and ruled for personal benefits as a result of which there was poverty and hunger in the country.
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He said his party only wanted implementation of Islamic ideology in the country which, he added, could end deprivation, class difference and ethnicity and also bring the economy of country on the right track
When has Islam ever brought the economy back on track?Eygpt?Afghanistan?
[Dawn] POLICY is set by the elected government, it is to be followed by the army. In an election dominated by talk of voters' immediate needs, corruption and change, it has fallen to Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... to underline what is perhaps the most fundamental of all fault lines in Pakistain: the civil-military divide. That Mr Sharif has been the first to speak out on the need for civilian control this election season is unsurprising given his history with the army leadership over the past decade and a half -- first suffering at the hands of Gen Musharraf and then accusing the Gen Pasha-led ISI of supporting the PTI in a quest to undermine the PML-N. Just because the history is personal, however, does not detract from the legiti-macy of what Mr Sharif said on Sunday in an interview with an Indian TV channel.
From the days of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto ...9th PM of Pakistain from 1973 to 1977, and 4th President of Pakistain from 1971 to 1973. He was the founder of the Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP). His eldest daughter, Benazir Bhutto, would also serve as hereditary PM. In a coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq, Bhutto was removed from office and was executed in 1979 for authorizing the murder of a political opponent... , through to the two terms of Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... and Mr Sharif's own bitter experiences, civilian leaders have been taught over the decades that whoever among them desires to make the army submit to civilian control, that leader will suffer personal and political harm. That unhappy history has shifted slightly over the past five years for two reasons. One, for the first time the government of the day and the opposition, both in parliament and outside, have been in agreement that an elected, civilian-led dispensation is the only rightful choice for Pakistain. Two, the army leadership itself has accommodated shifting public and political opinion in allowing a non-military-sponsored, elected dispensation to try and learn to stand on its own feet.
With the gains of the last five years being real but slight, post-May 11 the need will be to press ahead with the project of righting what is euphemistically known as the civil-military imbalance. For that, all political parties should consider endorsing or reiterating Mr Sharif's comments in the last days of campaigning -- a sober and rational endorsement or reiteration rather than provocative statements that can be interpreted as unnecessarily antagonising the army. The greater task will fall to the next parliament and government, in that the civil-military imbalance will only be righted if the civilians themselves are more assertive in matters of national security, defence and foreign policy. That would require both engaging the army meaningfully and quelling its anxieties that a civilian-determined national security strategy would somehow damage the national interest. It can be done and after the election is the time for the civilians to finally start doing it.
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The Palestinian mufti Sheikh Muhammad Hussain was detained for questioning today by Israeli police after disturbances yesterday at a holy site in JerusalemÂ’s Old City.
Chairs were thrown from the site at a visiting Jewish group yesterday, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said by phone. “He is suspected of involvement,” Rosenfeld said.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called for the muftiÂ’s immediate release in a text message to journalists from the official Wafa news agency.
The shrine, known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, houses two major Muslim mosques and is holy to Jews as the site of their ancient temples. It is located in the eastern sector of the city that Israel captured in 1967 and the Palestinians claim for a future capital.
Israel is working on joining an anti-Iran defense alliance with a number of moderate Arab states
... for a very oddly defined meaning of moderate that means something else altogether, with the addition of loosely allied with the U.S....
that would involve sharing Jerusalem's newly developed anti-missile technologies, a British newspaper reported Sunday.
The plan would see Israel join with Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to create a Middle Eastern "moderate crescent," according to the Sunday Times, which cited an unnamed Israeli official. Israel does not currently maintain formal ties with Riyadh or Abu Dhabi, and relations with Ankara have been strained since 2009. According to the report, Israel would gain access to radar stations in Saudi Arabia and the UAE and in exchange share its own early warning radar information and anti-ballistic missile defense systems, though it's not clear in what form. The report details that Jordan would be protected by Israel's Arrow long-range anti-missile batteries.
The so-called 4+1 plan is being brokered by Washington, and would mark a sharp shift in stated policy for the White House, which has insisted the US is not interested in containing Iran but rather stopping it before it reaches nuclear weapon capability.
The Sunni states of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Jordan are all opposed to Tehran shifting the regional power balance. Though Turkey maintains strong trade ties with Iran, it has found itself opposed to Tehran over the issue of Syria.
The FBI's counter-terrorism team is investigating a local Lebanese concert promoter for allegedly being involved in kidnapping Syrians in Beirut, The Detroit News has learned.FBI agents are probing whether Dearborn resident Saeb Mokdad helped relatives abduct two dozen people in Lebanon last year, according to federal court records. The kidnappings were in retaliation for a Mokdad relative being taken hostage by Syrian rebels.
The investigation was revealed in a search warrant that was inadvertently unsealed in federal court. The News obtained the search warrant before it was re-sealed by a federal judge.
The kidnappings last summer sparked a wave of fear about violence in Syria spilling into Lebanon and prompted several Gulf Arab countries to warn residents against traveling to Lebanon.
The tit-for-tat kidnappings between the Syrians and Mokdad's relatives have more in common with a fabled American feud than terrorism or war, one expert said.
"If you wanted a good analogy, compare it to the Hatfields and McCoys," said Aram Nerguizian, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic & International Studies in Washington D.C. "This has a lot more to do with criminality in Lebanon in ungoverned spaces."
This week anyway. But the week is half over, so there's time to reverse course again.
[An Nahar] U.S. President Barack Obama Because I won... said Tuesday he had both a moral and a national security obligation to stop the slaughter in Syria, but warned he could not just act on a "hope and a prayer."
Obama defended his government's actions in sending large quantities of humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees, providing non-lethal help to rebels and isolating Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... in the international community.
"I think that understandably, there's a desire for easy answers," Obama said, referring to domestic critics who are demanding a more proactive U.S. role, including an operation to arm rebel groups and a no-fly zone.
"My job is to constantly measure our very real and legitimate humanitarian and national security interests in Syria, but measuring those against my bottom line, which is, what's in the best interests of America's security."
Obama said that he could not make decisions "based on a hope and a prayer, but on hard-headed analysis in terms of what will actually make us safer and stabilize the region."
"I think that we have both a moral obligation and a national security interest in, A, ending the slaughter in Syria but, B, also ensuring that we've got a stable Syria that is representative of all the Syrian people and is not creating chaos for its neighbors," he said.
The president spoke as political critics complain that he has not acted more quickly on reports that Syrian forces had used chemical weapons, an action he had previously said would infringe a red line and be a game-changer.
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Be a little more specific, O. I do not know what you really mean. (Maybe he does not know, either...)
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Nations have INTERESTS. The "morals" are usually another word for BS.
WHAT are the US Interests in Syria? I see Moslems killing Moslems. I can watch that all day.
That the Syrian situation will "de-stabilize" the region? The region ( all of it that is Moslem and what part ,except, Israel isn't) is one big toilet bowl of de-stabilised feces ALREADY.
NOTHING the US does in Syria is going to do anything but get it splashed on your shirt and then you get to WEAR the smelly shirt.
I wouldn't be in any big hurry to wear a crap smelling shirt.
Arming the "rebels"? The stinking Rebels are Moslems. Let's give the Moslems guns....and PAY for it ourselves? Here YOU wear that shirt. But go stand over there downwind,
Will they be our "friends" if we pay for their guns? Moslems ?
Who wants "friends" like that? You ARE deluded.
Obama is a coward. And he doesn't like the United States anymore than Assad does and he wouldn't fight for the United States, he never has. Obama won't DO anything but move his mouth. Do you doubt that for even a single second?
The leader of the United States was elected by people who want to let some uneducated soldier who lives in a trailer and can't find any "real" job ( ASK: Kerry ) do the heavy lifting while they spit on him.
Would YOU be willing to die for some Moslem s#*%hole? IN a Moslem s#%hole?
Salute the flag. Bend over. There IS no "moral obligations" to BE a Sucker.
Buy a gun, the Banana in Chief wants to make sure you can't.
Am I lyin' to 'ya?
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I have serious doubts that anyone writing policy on the middle east for the empty suit have a clue what they are talking about.
I see a lot of wishful thinking and social science gobble deegook in their theorizing about the middle east.
When someone comes out and admits the end game for the Moslems is world domination under their religion, convert or die, I would say we are making progress. As long as the PC crowd has the media by the throat and the Anti-American crowd has control of academia, that is not going to happen.
I think these guys running policy are the poster children for Lenin's "Useful Idiots."
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I disagree, sir. I don't think we owe the Syrians a damn thing.
[An Nahar] Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi held talks with Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Despoiler of Deraa... on Tuesday and said it was time to dissuade Israel from carrying out attacks such as its air strikes on Syria over the past week.
"The time has come to dissuade the Israeli occupier from carrying out such aggression against the peoples of the region," he said, quoted by Syrian television after his arrival in Damascus on a previously unannounced visit.
"Iran stands at the side of Syria in the face of Israeli aggression, whose aim is to damage the security of the region and weaken the axis of resistance," said Salehi, whose country is a close ally of Damascus.
The visit follows Israeli raids on Friday and Sunday against military targets near Damascus, including sites which Israeli sources said held arms from Iran bound for its Hizbullah allies in Leb, a claim denied by Tehran.
Assad, also quoted on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, said the Israeli attacks were clear proof of "the implication of Israel and regional and Western countries" in the armed revolt in Syria.
"The Syrian people and their valiant army are capable of confronting the Israeli adventures, which are one of the faces of terrorism targeting Syria everyday," Assad added.
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See DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND > [NYT] HEZBOLLAH TAKES RISKS FIGHTING REBELS IN SYRIA.
and
* FARS NEWS AGENCY > ISRAEL [ + Allies, Orgs]CONTINUES CRIMES TO DELAY FINAL COLLAPSE IN 2025, AS PREDICTED BY THE US CIA, + former POTUS Nixon SecState Henry Kissinger.
Just in time for the extinction of the GOP-Right + a Russian Asteroid-Comet???
[An Nahar] Russia and the United States agreed at top-level talks on Tuesday to push both the Syrian regime and rebels to find a political solution to their conflict and to hold an international peace conference, the Russian foreign minister said.
"We agreed that Russia and the United States will encourage both the Syria government and opposition groups to find a political solution," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after talks with U.S. counterpart John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... in Moscow.
Lavrov added they agreed on the need to try to hold "as soon as possible" an international conference on Syria to convince both sides to accept the terms of the Geneva accord agreed by world powers in June last year for a peaceful solution in Syria.
He said if possible the conference should take place by the end of this month.
The Geneva agreement, which was reached by world powers on June 30, set out a path toward a transitional government without ever spelling out what Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... 's fate should be.
The accord was never implemented because the temporary ceasefire for which it also called was never put in place.
"We believe that the Geneva communique is the important track to end the bloodshed in Syria," said Kerry, describing the agreement as a roadmap to a "new Syria".
Kerry hailed a "very productive, very warm and friendly discussion" with President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... earlier which he said "has contributed significantly to our ability to map a road ahead."
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FARS NEWS AGENCY > RUSSIA NOT TO TOLERATE FURTHER ISRAELI ATTACKS ON DAMASCUS. May mil respond.
Russ PM Putin gives Israeli PM Netanyahu a dressing down in Shanghai = "Shanghai Surprise".
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I heard Drudge had a report midafternoon yesterday that Kerry was kept waiting for about three hours - can anybody confirm that, link to the story, etc.?
If you don't want something to happen, send it to a committee (or in this case, a 'Conference').
I'm sure that this was the Russians' idea and not JF*nK's.
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So Jawn and Lavrov had a talk and agreed to have more talks about talking with both sides in Syria about holding an international peace conference, AKA yet another talk. That pretty much sum it up?
A new magazine called Al Qaeda Airlines hit the Internet last month and includes how-to guides for those interested in conducting terrorist attacks, according to a Wednesday presentation on Capitol Hill by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The 676-page magazine seeks to inspire lone-would terrorist attack like those carried out at the Boston Marathon by two radicalized ethnic Chechen brothers.
The publication provides tips on how to create homemade devices that can cause mass casualties. These include recipes for chemical devices and other easily made gadgets such as the pressure-cooker bomb that was used by the Boston bombers to kill four and wound more than 200.
The magazine was discovered circulating around the Internet in April, according to experts at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who delivered a presentation on the proliferation of terrorist handbooks at the Rayburn House Office Building.
The Obama administration's handling of the aftermath of the Benghazi terror attack has long sparked outrage from Republicans on Capitol Hill and fueled conspiracy theories on talk shows and across the blogosphere.
And those sparks are likely touch off fireworks Wednesday, when three current State Department employees are expected to contradict their leadership in testimony before Republican Rep. Darrell Issa's oversight committee.
Since announcing the hearing, Issa has trickled out testimony from the whistle-blowers -- who allege the Obama administration did not do enough in response to the attacks -- in an apparent attempt to build anticipation for the meeting. The testimony of Greg Hicks, a former top U.S. diplomat in Libya, has been Issa's hallmark. Hicks is expected to discuss how the American military could have done more to protect those stationed in Benghazi.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[An Nahar] Russia and the United States agreed at top-level talks on Tuesday to push both the Syrian regime and rebels to find a political solution to their conflict and to hold an international peace conference, the Russian foreign minister said.
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...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
