[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Police in Islamabad, capital city of Pakistain, claim that they have made progress in the kidnapping case of Afghan politician who went missing in the city on Friday.
During a high-level meeting on Saturday, Islamabad police informed Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... that the law enforcers had achieved a key breakthrough in the case during the past 24 hours. They assured the top security czar that Wahidi would be recovered soon, Pakistain's The Express Tribune news reports.
Wahidi who had visited Islamabad along with his family for acquiring visas to UK from the British Embassy was shopping at a market place when unknown gunnieskidnapped him.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs while expressing grave concern over the incident urged Islamabad to take immediate actions for releasing Wahidi.
"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan expresses its grave concern in connection with the kidnapping of Mr. Sayed Fazalullah Wahidi former governor of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... Province, which took place yesterday afternoon in Islamabad, Pakistain," stated a statement released by the ministry on Saturday.
"Given the fact that Mr. Wahidi was kidnapped in Pakistain, the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan wants the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Pakistain to take immediate and serious action through its security agencies using all possibilities in identifying the kidnappers and to release of Mr. Wahidi."
Wahidi has served as the governor of eastern Kunar and western Herat provinces of Afghanistan.
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[Libya Herald] Cyrenaica federalists protested in Benghazi yesterday against the new constitution proposed by the Constitutional Drafting Assembly (CDA). The latest 110-clause draft was released by the CDA earlier this month.
The protests coincided with a number of CDA members meeting in Tunis which looked at further consultation on the draft -- "to listen to additional inputs and opinions" as a blurb put it -- ahead of the final version being published. CDA president Ali Tarhouni and 22 other members took part in a roundtable session on Wednesday and Thursday which also included lawyers and 17 representatives of Libya civil society organizations.
The main aim, however, was to "explore the challenges that may still lie ahead" in getting the next constitution approved and activated.
At a presser yesterday, Tarhouni indicated that the main challenge was the division and lack of stability in the country. Until that was ended there certainly could be no referendum, whatever the constitution proposed.
He also called on those boycotting the CDA to assume their responsibilities and to return and finish the task.
Tuareg and Tebu members started a boycott in August claiming that the rights of Libya's minorities were being deliberately ignored. There are other divisions that have affected the work of the assembly.
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[Libya Herald] Hopes of creating a national unity government by Monday were in disarray today as deputy prime minister-designate Fathi Majberi followed Ali Gatrani in again walking out of Presidency Council discussions, prime minister-designate Faiez Serraj cancelled his departure to the Munich Security Conference, and a number of members of the Libya Dialogue left Skhirat, deciding there was no point staying . . .
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[REUTERS] Seeking to ease tightening liquidity in the banking system, 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... 's central bank has raised the ratio of deposits which commercial banks can lend out to 90 percent from 85 percent, industry sources said on Sunday.
No comment was available from the central bank outside office hours.
Liquidity has tightened over the past year as low oil prices have reduced inflows of new state revenues and prompted the government to issue bonds to banks to cover a budget deficit that totalled nearly $100 billion last year.
That threatens to slow economic growth; the three-month Saudi interbank offered rate has jumped to 1.73 percent, the highest level in seven years, from below 0.80 percent in mid-2015.
By making more money available for lending, the rise in the loan-to-deposit ratio could at least temporarily prevent corporate loan rates from rising further, benefiting Saudi companies.
The loan-to-deposit ratio is designed to limit risk in the banking system by preventing banks from lending too generously. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... raising it by 5 percentage points is unlikely to prove dangerous, analysts said.
"In fact 85 percent is a conservative level compared to regional banks in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , which allow the level to reach more than 100 percent," said Said al- Sheikh, chief economist at National Commercial Bank.
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Slovenia said Sunday it would clamp down on the number of migrants allowed to enter the country, ahead of tougher measures set to be announced by neighbouring Austria later this week to slow down the influx. The two EU member states, which also belong to the passport-free Schengen zone, have become key transit nations for migrants and refugees trekking up through the Balkans to reach western Europe.
Austria, which has hardened its stance in recent weeks, will in the coming days announce a daily cap on the number of migrants allowed to enter the country via its main border crossing with Slovenia. The country of nearly nine million people last year received 90,000 asylum claims, one of the bloc's highest rates per capita.
In anticipation of Vienna's move, the Slovenian interior ministry said it would also begin limiting the arrivals to avoid becoming a bottleneck. State TV reported the tougher controls would start Monday morning and see the number of people allowed to cross the Sentilj checkpoint into Austria restricted to 1,000 per day.
Slovenia said in a statement released by its interior ministry it had informed neighbouring Croatia, the next country along the migrant trail, of its decision to bring in tougher border controls.
Hermann Muhr, the spokesman for Austria's Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, confirmed to AFP Sunday that "a series of tougher measures will be announced in the course of this week including a daily quota of migrants, in line with what Germany is already doing".
Last month, Vienna already warned it would cap this year's number of asylum claims at 37,500 and deport at least 12,500 people.
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EU member states on Friday gave Greece a three-month ultimatum to remedy "deficiencies" in controlling the influx of migrants or effectively face suspension from the Schengen passport-free zone. The decision -- taken by ministers over Greek objections -- is the culmination of weeks of pressure on Greece, the main gateway for the million refugees and migrants who entered Europe last year, stoking the continent's biggest such crisis since World War II.
Austria's foreign minister Sebastian Kurz then warned Macedonia that it should be ready to close its border to migrants, saying that Vienna may also begin turning refugees away in coming months as it struggles to cope with the surge from Greece through the Balkans.
A report adopted 10 days earlier by the European Commission, the EU executive, found Greece was failing to properly register and fingerprint migrants during inspections at the Turkish land border and several islands in the Aegean Sea last November.
"It is of utmost importance that Greece addresses the issues identified in the report adopted by the Commission as a matter of priority and urgency," EU ministers said in a document containing 50 recommendations published on the European Council website.
The document gave Greece, which is already struggling to emerge from a massive debt crisis, one month to "establish an action plan to remedy the deficiencies." After a further two months, Greece must report back on how the scheme is being implemented.
If Greece fails to remedy the problems by mid-May, Brussels could authorise other member states to exceptionally extend border controls within the EU's cherished Schengen area, including with Greece, for up to two years, instead of the normal six months. Such a scenario is outlined under article 26 of the Schengen border code.
Germany, which along with other member states introduced such border controls late last year, on Thursday extended the measures until May, the limit under current Schengen provisions.
An EU source told AFP that Greece voted against the ultimatum, while Cyprus and Bulgaria abstained.
In a document published on the European Council website, Greece rejected the report's contention that it was responsible for "serious deficiencies" in border control and denied it was "seriously neglecting its obligations."
Greece also said it had taken a number of measures at "substantial national financial and social cost" and reminded Brussels that the massive influx on its borders would put any member state under "severe pressure." However, it said it would continue cooperating with the EU and its institutions in dealing with the crisis.
The council website said Greece had to take action on registration procedures, sea border surveillance, border checks, risk analyses, human resources and training as well as equipment and international cooperation.
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Police in Sweden arrested a man on Sunday on suspicion of stabbing a man to death during a brawl at an asylum centre, in the latest in a string of serious crimes linked to refugees.
According to Sweden’s Expressen newspaper, the man is suspected of attacking his victims after a conflict with another resident at the centre in Ljusne on Sweden's east coast, flew out of control on Saturday afternoon. He has also been charged with the attempted murder of three other men, all of whom were seriously injured in the fight.
A further three men arrested on Saturday night have since been released, although they are all still viewed as suspects.
“We believe that most of those involved are in their 20s,” Christer Nordström from the local Gävleborg police told Expressen. “But several of them left the area before we got to there, so now we are now working to establish the identity of everyone involved and established who did what.”
Police did not yet know what weapon had been used in the attacks, but said that the deceased and three injured had suffered stab wounds.
Maybe it was a knife?
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Sweden's Migration Agency has told The Local that the suspect accused of killing Alexandra Mezher at a home for unaccompanied refugee children is actually over 18. When police arrested the suspect last month, it was widely reported that he was born in 2000. But Sweden's Migration Agency has now suggested that he is at least three years older.
At least...
Johanna Måhlen, a press spokesperson for the agency told The Local that "the applicant did not make it probable that he was under 18" when he applied for asylum in the Nordic nation, despite ending up at accommodation for refugee children.
Regional newspaper Göteborgs-Posten first reported on the discrepancy, suggesting that the suspect, who was previously understood to be 15, had applied for a work permit in Sweden, where pupils don't typically leave school until they are at least 18.
"The migration agency's decision that he is an adult is also relevant in the criminal case," prosecutor Linda Wiking told the paper, suggesting that he might now be tried in an adult court.
On Wednesday a district court upheld her request to extend detention of the suspect, with the next hearing in his case due to take place on February 25th.
"The detained man is still on probable suspicion of attempted murder. This suspicion is strengthened by the investigation," said Wiking.
Mezher, 22, was stabbed to death at the asylum accommodation in Mölndal near Gothenburg in January. Her killing stoked far-right sentiment, with a violent march and a demonstration organised days later in the Swedish capital.
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"welfare" states encourage the rampant use of lying, and massive pressure to not improve your own situation.
Turkey’s Ahmet Davutoglu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke Sunday about the situation in Syria, the prime minister’s office said, Anadolu agency reported. The telephone conversation came in the wake of Turkish shelling of Kurdish group YPG’s positions in northern Syria, amid a fresh wave of civilians forced from their homes by a Russian-backed Syrian government and Kurdish offensive in Aleppo province.
In a statement, Davutoglu’s office said Merkel voiced her willingness to provide humanitarian and technical aid to help deal with tens of thousands of people who have fled their homes.
“The two PMs decided to continue their exchange of ideas on this issue on February 18 at like-minded EU countries’ meeting on migration in Brussels,” the statement said.
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[DAWN] GHALANAI: Tribesmen of 25 disputed villages and elders of Aman Tabar, Hafeez Kor, Mazi Khel and Burkhan Khel tribes here have boycotted the upcoming anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... drive in protest against what they called vaccination teams consisting of non-local people.
Jalil Khan, a local tribal leader, told Dawn that rustics of disputed villages had boycotted the last three polio drives, and it would be the fourth time that they would boycott the campaign in protest against hiring of non-local people in the polio drives instead of the local rustics.
He urged the government to include local people in the polio teams instead of hiring people form Charsadda and other districts. The elders complained that there had been no development works in the disputed villages for last 25 years, adding schools and health units were in need of repairs.
They said they would not cooperate with polio teams and police in carrying out their responsibilities. The rustics made it clear that they would only accept the writ of the Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... political administration.
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[Daily Excelsior] The holy warriors along the Line of Control (LoC) in Pakistain Indian Kashmiree (PoK) are desperate for infiltration as Army last year received over 600 inputs about infiltration into Kashmire.
General Officer Commanding (GOC) of Srinagar-based Chinar Corps, Lt General Satish Dua, told a news conference here that the terrain along the LoC is such that infiltration does take place but the Army has been able to limit the numbers.
"The terrain is such that infiltration does take place. I will not deny that. In 2015, there were more than 600 inputs of infiltration.
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[Daily Excelsior] Chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has denounced the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... for "promoting terrorism" in the name of Islam.
Farooq, during his recent stay in the national capital, met the Shahi Imam of New Delhi's Jama Masjid Syed Ahmad Bukhari, Jamaat Ulama-e-Hind President Moulana Mahmood Ahmad Madani and other Muslims leaders and exchanged views on ISIS and Al-Qaeda, besides Kashmire.
After a series of meetings, the Mirwaiz said in a statement: "Groups like ISIS, who are promoting terrorism in the name of Islam, in reality have no regard for Islamic teachings and values. These people are just maligning the great religion for their own personal benefits."
He said, "Islam and terrorism are two opposite poles as the great religion of Islam is meant for the welfare of the entire humanity."
The Mirwaiz's statement followed a recent interview of self-styled 'Wali', which in Arabic means custodian or protector, of Khurasan, Shaykh Haridh Said, in 'Dabiq' magazine, a mouthpiece of ISIS, in which he criticised Pakistain and terror outfit LeT.
In his criticism of Pakistain and LeT, he said, "The apostate factions and agents of Pakistain, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , do not have control over any territory in the regions of Kashmire because they proceed in accordance with the orders of the Pak intelligence as they are the ones who direct their work, pushing them forward when they wish and pulling them back when they wish.
"They also conceal their work when they wish, depending on the local and global atmosphere and based on personal material interests, without any consideration for the interests of the Muslims in Kashmire," he had said.
The self-styled Wali said there are specific arrangements and the Muslims will soon hear "pleasant news" about the expansion of Caliphate to those lands.
The Mirwaiz rejected suggestions that ISIS or Al-Qaeda had any role to play in Kashmire and said any such attempts were made only to malign the movement in the State. "Kashmiris want an amicable solution to the problem and that can be possible if India and Pakistain come together and take into confidence the people of the State," he said.
Noting that the struggle of the Kashmiri people is peaceful and political, based on principle of truth and justice, he said "Kashmire's resistance movement has no link with Daesh [Islamic State] (ISIS) or Al Qaeda".
Hardliner separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani had also rejected the claims of ISIS, saying the chances of global terror outfit expanding its operations to Kashmire were "next to zero". He had questioned the credentials of the group, saying "If it had any planning and sincerity, they would have liberated the Al Aqsa mosque in West Asia."
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[Reuters] U.S. Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday he would subpoena 10 U.S. sailors to testify about their brief detention by Iran if the Obama administration does not provide the findings of an investigation into the incident by March 1.
"It's an option that I do not want to exercise," McCain, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters as he was returning to the United States from an international security conference in Germany.
The sailors were detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after their two patrol boats strayed into Iranian waters on Jan. 12. U.S. officials later blamed a navigational problem.
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It was pretty clear to me that the boats in question were seized after they had finished delivering some sensitive cargo somewhere. All the indignities that they endured were endured for the benefit of safeguarding the "package" that they had recently delivered. Not fun, but necessary. I just hope that the package was not compromised.
Best to leave remaining stones un-turned. I can just imagine the living hell that the enlisted sailors have to suffer - in silence - and if they are men (and woman) enough to endure the slurs, and keep secrets safe that need to stay safe - they have my utmost respect.
For the Naval Academy OIC of that fateful encounter - let's hope that Ernest E. Evans is up there somewhere, nodding his approval.
Driving the price of oil lower still. Are they making as much from total oil sales now as they were before the price drop?
[IsraelTimes] Country's deputy oil minister says shipment is first in five years, calls it 'new chapter' in Iran's oil industry
Iran's official news agency says the country has exported its crude shipment to Europe for the first time since it reached a landmark nuclear deal with world powers last month.
Sunday's IRNA report quotes Deputy Oil Minister Rokneddin Javadi as saying the shipment was the first after five years. He called the shipment "a new chapter" in Iran's oil industry but did not elaborate.
IRNA said several western tankers have loaded Iran's oil in recent days.
Iran plans to add one million barrels to its oil production following implementation of the nuclear deal, which lifted international sanctions in exchange for Iran restricting its nuclear activities.
Iran expects an economic bonanza after the lifting of sanctions, which will allow it to access overseas assets and sell crude oil more freely.
The lifting of sanctions from Iran following the implementation of a nuclear deal signed between Tehran and world powers in mid-July last year is seen, however, as one of the factors contributing to a drop in the price of crude oil.
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Buying Iranian oil is a choice. Europe could just say no.
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Europe could just say no.
From an economic perspective diversifying suppliers is the right thing to do, especially given Russia's history of cutting off supply in the depth of winter.
[Iran Press TV] The recently announced Syria truce deal was achieved in the light of Russia's "successful" air campaign in the country which brought the West to the negotiation table, says an American political analyst.
After days of negotiation, diplomats from a group of countries in Munich, including the US, Russia, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , 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... and Iran, agreed on Friday to seek a temporary "cessation of hostilities" in Syria within a week.
The International Syria Support Group (ISSG) also agreed to "accelerate and expand" deliveries of humanitarian aid to various besieged Syrian towns.
"We are now sitting on pins and needles after the Munich meeting," Jim W. Dean told Press TV on Sunday. "We have not really a ceasefire but something called a cessation of hostilities which is kind of preliminary to a ceasefire."
According to the Veterans Today columnist, this is good news for civilians who have been under terrorists' siege in several Syrian towns.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... Dean noted that the main reason behind the deal is Russia's military campaign in Syria, conducted upon a request by Damascus since September last year.
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RUSSIA = IRAN = CHINA, OTHER? = the US is "subordinate" = "POTUS Obama must bow" to its new OWG Co-Superpower Siblings widin their particular Region-based OWG "Union(s)" + Peripherals.
Here 'tis SYRIA, + likely safe to say or infer IRAQ [Syria-Iraq = SYRAQ] as well???
Post 9-11, OWG Amerika's focii or sphere is restricted to CONUS-NORAM + the NORTH AMERICAN UNION [NAU], the NAU-N-Only-The-NAU, + Littorals/ Peripherals ["near-abroad"], where the "American Dream" is now the "North American Dream" + the "Amerikan Dream", + ordinary Americans = Amerikans are now also ALL MEXICANS, CANADIANS, + GREENLANDERS IN ALL OUR ANTI-SOVEREIGN, ANTI-NATIONALIST, PRO-SOCIALIST MARXIST-GLOBALIST GLORY.
[Iran Press TV] A senior Iranian air force commander says Iran is prepared to defend Syria's airspace if Damascus calls for it. Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, the commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base, made the remarks during an interview with the Tasnim news agency on Sunday.
After praising the government and people of the Arab country for their five-year battle against foreign-backed Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorism, he stressed that any military presence in Syria without the approval of Damascus would end in nothing but "defeat."
The remarks were made in the wake of reports that The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 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... were preparing to launch joint military operations on Syrian soil.
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Can the Bammer handle a CHINA + IRAN two-front war???
[NY Post] By now, Daniel had been in Afghanistan two months. It was July 2012, his third tour of duty and his first with Oogie, his military working dog. They were leading their platoon on yet another patrol, clearing a no-name village with maybe 15 houses and one mosque, when they began taking fire.
"The first thing that went though my mind," he says, "was, 'S-â-t. My dog's gonna get shot.'â"
It was a perfect L-shaped ambush, bullets coming from the front and the right, the platoon pinned down in a flat, open landscape. Along the road were shallow trenches, no more than 14 inches deep. Daniel grabbed ÂOogie, squeezed him in a hole, then threw himself over his dog.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
Slovenia said Sunday it would clamp down on the number of migrants allowed to enter the country, ahead of tougher measures set to be announced by neighbouring Austria later this week to slow down the influx. The two EU member states, which also belong to the passport-free Schengen zone, have become key transit nations for migrants and refugees trekking up through the Balkans to reach western Europe.
[DAWN] GHALANAI: Tribesmen of 25 disputed villages and elders of Aman Tabar, Hafeez Kor, Mazi Khel and Burkhan Khel tribes here have boycotted the upcoming anti-
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[Daily Excelsior] Chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq has denounced the 
