[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Minister of Interior Wais Ahmad Barmak on Saturday with a number of Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group members in Kabul as the officials are saying both the government and the Taliban group have so far adhered to the ceasefire announced ahead of Eid al-Fitr.
Barmak reportedly met with the Taliban group members during the second day of Eid as he was travelling in the outskirts of the city.
Photos emerging on social media show Barmak and Taliban members are holding talks on a roadside in the capital.
The Ministry of Interior has not commented regarding the meeting so far but reports indicate that Minister Barmak met the Taliban group members in Company area of the city.
In the meantime, Barmka has told BBC’s Afghanistan service that he was patrolling on Kabul-Maidan Wardak highway when he came across with the Taliban group members.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials are saying that both the government and the Taliban group have fully adhered to the declared ceasefire so far.
The officials also added that the Afghan national defense and security forces have also greeted each other in some provinces of the country on the occasion of Eid A-Fitr.
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[PRESSTV] French special forces are present on the ground in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... supporting the ongoing Saudi-led military operation on the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, Le Figaro newspaper has reported.
The Saturday report cited two military sources but provided no further details as 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... claimed that forces under its command had entered the airport in Hudaydah.
La Belle France, along with the United States and Britannia, backs Saudi Arabia in the Yemen conflict and provides weapons to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The French Defense Ministry said on Friday that La Belle France was studying the possibility of carrying out a mine-sweeping operation to provide access to Hudaydah once Saudi Arabia and the UAE had wrapped up their military operations.
The ministry stressed that La Belle France at this stage had no military operations in the Hudaydah region and was not part of the Saudi offensive.
Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... front man Mohammed Abdulsalam, however, said British and French warships are on standby on Yemen's western coast to launch missile and aerial attacks.
Abdulsalam told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that the Hudaydah assault is an American-British operation as the aggressor states - Saudi Arabia and the UAE - are not capable of launching such a campaign.
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[DAWN] The family today was alerted to the presence of an unidentified individual in the hospital room of Begum Kulsoom ─ who, according to Maryam Nawaz, remains unresponsive.
Hussain Nawaz, quoted by Geo TV, said: "This man fooled security and managed to reach Begum Kulsoom's room."
Hussain said he didn't know who the man was, adding: "Even if he is a doctor, it does not mean that he can enter a place he has no concern with."
The former prime minister's son said that the family was already worried, and that this incident had caused further distress to them.
In a video shared on Twitter, the man identified himself as Naveed. He told DawnNewsTV that he is a doctor with a medical practitioner's ID card.
He had allegedly been spotted in the vicinity of the clinic at 9am and went in around 10am when it opened this morning.
Hussain said he had immediately alerted security, who then called the police.
The man, his identity and the circumstances of his entry into the clinic, were inquired into by the police. He was let off with a warning after his medical practitioners' ID card was scrutinised and police did not find him guilty of a criminal offence.
Naveed told DawnNewsTV that he wished to inquire after Begum Kulsoom "in his capacity as a Pak".
In the video, upon being questioned, he said: "I went to meet her [...] I haven't done anything wrong."
When questioned about this political affiliation, Naveed said that he was a former member of the 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.... , reiterating that he was there to "support the Sharif family".
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Angela Merkel’s government is fighting for its political life as a row over immigration and asylum policy threatens a historic split in the German chancellor’s conservative bloc.
Ms Merkel’s allies in the state of Bavaria, the CSU party, are pushing a new plan that would turn away more asylum seekers at Germany’s borders ‐ at odds with her welcoming refugee policy.
The CSU, which is traditionally more conservative than the CDU party that organises in the rest of Germany, lost ground to the far-right AfD in parliamentary elections last year and fears a repeat in regional elections in October.
The contentious new immigration policy, designed in part to head-off the AfD, was proposed by Ms Merkel’s CSU interior minister Horst Seehofer, but its publication has been suspended after an intervention behind the scenes from Ms Merkel.
The plan would see refugees turned away at the borders if they were already registered in another EU country or lacked the correct documentation. But the chancellor is loathe to take any action that is not coordinated with Germany’s EU allies and reportedly sees the country’s approach to asylum as a part of her legacy. Globalists fighting tooth and nail to try and outnumber and outvote Westerners in their own countries. Good luck to you in Germany, may sanity break out at last.
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The CSU and Mr Seehofer have a history of pouncing like a Bavarian lion and landing like a lion skin rug.
They're more likely than not to ultimately blink and submit to Merkel as they've always done.
I'm ready for a positive surprise, but I won't count on it.
Yes probably, but I can also see the following scenario:
CSU and CDU split. CDU forms a coalition with Liberals and Greens.
CSU fights a campaign as a conservative force to stop the rise of the AfD.
But yes, Seehofer has this tradition.
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CDU forms a coalition with Liberals and Greens.
This coalition has no majority.
Anyway, I expect Drehhofer Seehofer to fold. This would, of course, not be helpful for the CSU's electoral prospects and might thus trigger a reaction within the CSU.
[DAWN] An antiterrorism court has acquitted an accused in a case pertaining to alleged arson attack on a passenger bus 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... The ATC judge, who is conducting the trial in the judicial complex inside the Central Jail Karachi, pronounced the judgement after recording evidence and concluding arguments from both sides.
The judge found Ismail, alias Bhayanak, not guilty of the charges levelled against him by the prosecution.
The court noted in its order that the prosecution had failed to establish the allegations, as the evidence produced during the trial was not sufficient to connect him with the commissioning of the offence.
Therefore, the judge acquitted Ismail and directed the prison authorities to release him forthwith in case his custody was not required in any other case.
According to the prosecution, Ismail, alias Bhayanak, said to be a political activist, was involved in setting a passenger bus on fire in Orangi Town.
A case of the arson attack was registered at the Pakistain Bazaar cop shoppe in 2016.
During the trial, the police investigating officer said ample evidence was available on record to determine that the suspect was involved in the attack and spreading terror in the area.
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the defence counsel contended that there was no evidence to connect his client with the commissioning of the offence, as the prosecution had failed to record statements of eyewitnesses, including the bus driver and passengers, who were allegedly injured in the incident.
The lawyer claimed that the police had booked his client in the case with mala fide intentions and on the basis of personal enmity. Therefore, he argued that false allegations were levelled against Ismail, who may be acquitted of the charges.
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[PRESSTV] British charity Oxfam has reportedly announced that it will reduce some of its overseas aid programs and lay off a number of staff due to a drop in funding after the Haiti sex scandal.
The charity has faced a public backlash over claims that its staff exploited female victims in the wake of a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti in 2010. After the sex scandal emerged, thousands of people stopped making regular donations and the UK government suspended its funding to the charity.
According to an internal document seen by British paper The Guardian on Friday, Oxfam has told staff it will urgently need to make savings of about 21 million dollars a year and scale back the number of its aid projects abroad.
The seven-page document, which is marked confidential, said the aid organization would "have to save substantial amounts of money to put [us] on a more stable and sustainable footing."
The document circulated by the chief executive of Oxfam, Mark Goldring, also said, "It is clear ... that the size of our programs will be substantially reduced for this year and next ... this means making tough choices," adding that job losses were "inevitable."
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[ALMASDARNEWS] American actress and UN Refugee Agency Special Envoy visited West Mosul on Saturday, less than a year after the city’s liberation following years of self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIS/ISIL).
Jolie walked though the ruined buildings and streets in the Old City, meeting with displaced families as they try to piece their lives back together.
“This is the worst devastation I have seen in all my years with UNHCR,” Jolie said. “Yet they are so happy because the last Eid they were under occupation and suffering and this Eid they have nothing, but they are free.”
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[PRESSTV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thanked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her efforts in the approval of a more than one-billion-dollar deal to lease military drones from Israel.
Netanyahu said the approval of the accord – an estimated 1.2 billion dollars worth -- by Germany's parliament to lease Israeli-built surveillance drones for nine years would strengthen bilateral security relations between Berlin and Tel Aviv.
“I want to personally thank Chancellor Merkel, with whom I spoke only ten days ago on the subject. She told me she’d pass it on to parliament and she did,” the Israeli premier said.
"It's a huge deal. It has implications first of all on our defense industry and the Israeli economy, but also the continued strengthening security ties between Germany and Israel. Germany helps Israel and Israel also helps Germany," he added.
The leasing program is said to cover five Israeli-built Heron-TP reconnaissance drones capable of carrying missiles and will continue until European-built models are ready for operation around 2025.
The accord met with opposition last year from the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), who are partners in the ruling coalition, as the German military currently uses a different model of Heron drones that cannot be armed with weapons.
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The causes of the shortages are disputed....But Israel accuses the militants of diverting funds for public services to military activities, an allegation Hamas denies.
and that's all the hand-wringing "Journalist" can manage. No further discussion of why a militant terrorist shithole of Joo-hate has shortages of everything but attack tunnels, arms, rockets
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Besides, amputees can earn a living, sitting on the corner, begging for coins.
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They'll give an arm and a leg to kill jews.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian Human Rights Network head Ahmad Kazem has told Sputnik that US intelligence was preparing a provocation involving chemical weapons near al-Tanf, Syria, and that its purpose will be to drive a wedge between Damascus and Syria’s Kurds.
"Right now [at At Tanf] preparations are being made by US special services in coordination with ISIS (ISIS)* in the region to stage a provocation identical to the kind that took place in Douma," Kazem said.
"Kurds, including women and kiddies, are being prepared for the false flag operation," he added.
Kazem thinks there is an ’extremely strong’ probability for the provocation to be carried out. "It is being prepared with the goal of causing a collision between the Kurds and the Syrian army," he said.
On Monday, Russian Defense Ministry front man Igor Konashenkov said that the ministry has received information from numerous sources that Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... holy warriors and US special operations forces were preparing a false flag attack involving the use of poisonous substances in the eastern Syrian region of Deir ez-Zor.
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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.
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
[PRESSTV] British charity Oxfam has reportedly announced that it will reduce some of its overseas aid programs and lay off a number of staff due to a drop in funding after the Haiti sex scandal.
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