[DAWN] GUJRAT: As police investigation into the alleged murder of Samia Shahid, a Brit of Pak origin, continues in Jhelum, more details about the past of slain woman’s family have surfaced.
Some people of Pandoori (the native village of Samia Shahid in Mangla police precinct) told some newsmen on condition of anonymity that accused Chaudhry Shakil, a cousin and former husband of Samia, had a criminal record.
They said Shakil had faced 18-month jail on charges of firing and injuring Gul Zaman, a resident of Dhok Sahi near Pandoori. Their claim was confirmed by Mangla SHO Aqeel Abbas who said the shooting had taken place over a land dispute.
Shakeel had also contested the last local bodies elections for the slot of a general councilor of his village in November 2015 but lost.
The villagers said a paternal aunt of the dear departed woman had also died under identical circumstances nearly 25 years ago since she had also sought divorce from her husband which her family was not ready to accept.
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He has a wife and a 4 year old son. This should be treated as a failed suicide and the kid removed until such time the parents are no longer insane and suicidal. If I planned something this stupid, my wife would kneecap me.
Immigrants who want to enter the U.S. illegally can learn how and where to avoid the Border Patrol from an advisory on the agency's own website, which critics say is evidence of the Obama administration's "schizophrenic" approach to enforcement.
[NEWS.TRUST.ORG] Somalia's next government should ensure a law is passed banning all forms of female genital mutilation (FGM), a U.N. official said on Tuesday, describing the deeply entrenched practice as a "horrendous rights violation".
Somalia has the world's highest rate of FGM with 98 percent of women between 15 and 49 having been subjected to the potentially deadly ritual.
A bill on FGM is sitting in parliament but is unlikely to be debated until next year because of elections expected this month in the Horn of Africa country.
Jeremy Hopkins, deputy representative for UNICEF in Somalia, said the U.N. children's agency was optimistic a law would eventually go through, but the details in it would be crucial.
"Our approach for the legislation is to go slow. We don't want to risk this being politicised," he said in an interview in London.
"We promote total abandonment of FGM, whereas there is a large part of public opinion in Somalia which will promote a milder form of FGM," he told the Thomson Rooters Foundation.
Most women in Somalia have undergone the severest form of FGM, known as infibulation, in which the external genitalia are sliced off and the vaginal opening sewn up.
The cutting is usually done by traditional circumcisers, sometimes using rusty and unsterilised instruments.
Hopkins said there was evidence that families were moving towards "a milder form of FGM", but that this was not something UNICEF condoned.
"I would say there has been quite a big shift in recent years away from infibulation to this lesser form," he added.
It is not clear whether the alternative form involves a small nick or the partial removal of the clitoris.
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[LUCIANNE] In Spanish there is an old saying that goes something like this: "Tell me what you brag about, and I´ll tell you what you lack." In today’s Venezuela, the folksy saying seems confirmed. While the socialist government officials often rant about "equality," "austerity" and "anti-imperialism," the expensive watches Chavistas flaunt, along with their travels, tell a whole different story about what their priorities are after hours. Launched in 2014, the blog Relojes del Chavismo (Chavismo´s Watches) has posted more than 150 pictures of high-ranking officials wearing all sorts of expensive watches, mostly Swiss made.
The list of watch aficionados includes President Nicolas Maduro, Assemblyman Diosdado Cabello and Army General Vladimir Padrino Lopez, who was recently appointed financial czar to try and rescue the country’s collapsing economy.
All together, the watches on the blog add up to more than $500,000, according to the site administrator.
"I decided to create the blog after reading an article published on The Telegraph about bloggers protesting in China," said the site administrator, who wouldn’t reveal his name for fear of government retaliation.
"Their way of protesting was genius. They just exposed the dubious wealth of public officials by posting pictures," the blogger told Fox News Latino.
Something very similar is what the Venezuelan group is trying to accomplish in the South American country ‐ they hunt for pictures of recognizable Chavistas wearing noticeable watches and then go search those brands online and find out their retail prices.
One of the watches on the website is an IWC Pilots watch valued at $12,700 worn by Padrino Lopez. Two other photos show President Nicolas Maduro wearing different Tissots, one valued at $975 and the other at $595.
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Iraqi Air Force logo on the back. Pilot no longer needs it. Cleaned and serviced 8 years ago by 'Once Upon a Time, 25 W Beverley St, Staunton, VA 24401' Keeps excellent time.
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"The Soylent Corporation in conjunction with the government of Venezuela are proud to announce the ground breaking on the newest food processing facility in the country. We hope our joint endeavor will soon address the critical food needs of the people of Venezuela."
BLUF: [Breitbart] A snapshot of his now deleted website, as captured by the Wayback Machine which takes snapshots archiving various websites on the Internet, shows that as a lawyer he engages in procurement of EB5 immigration visas and other "Related Immigration Services."
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Or, just as it is, it's a picture of humma from the not-so-way-ahead machine...
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Yeah, Breitbart. Strange how none of the MSM would look into this. But I did notice that Mr. Khan only got a few seconds on ABC last night. Maybe now he's outlived his usefulness as a club to bash Trump and they're ready to let him be forgotten.
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Gonna have to and quickly, before a client list comes out.
I mean, be pretty embarrassing if a client ends up being someone like Omar Fateen's father or have plum positions in government/think tanks/lobby industry.
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This whole thing is an effort to keep the immigration superhighway open via the racism shaming tool. Looks like Trump was reacting to this, and he was more right than anyone else.
[CNN] Meg Whitman, a major GOP donor and former California gubernatorial candidate, said Tuesday she would support Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, making her one of the highest-profile Republican defections.
"Donald Trump's demagoguery has undermined the fabric of our national character," Whitman said in a statement. "America needs the kind of stable and aspirational leadership Secretary Clinton can provide."
Whitman, the president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, also said in an interview with the New York Times she would use her considerable resources to make a contribution to the Clinton campaign and its allied super PACs.
Clinton herself asked Whitman for her support, the businesswoman told the Times, which was the first to report the endorsement.
Whitman's comments came as Trump has clashed with members of his own party over a protracted dispute with the family of a Muslim US soldier who was killed in action. They also came on a day that saw the first sitting Republican member of Congress express support for Clinton as well as the top adviser to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and the former top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
The latter two defections mean Whitman's endorsement capped off a two-day period during which three Republican women said they would cross the aisle to back Clinton over Trump.
Whitman ended her statement endorsing Clinton by calling on all Republicans to follow her, saying: "I urge all Republicans to reject Donald Trump this November."
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And Hillary will do to the country what Meg has done for HP.
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Corporatism is just another word for fascism (see Benito).
This could be the realignment of politics into the oligarchy party (beltway party, insiders party, etc.) and some form of popular party that tries to return to the Constitutional form of gov't.
Personally I believe the beltway party will win out and the Clinton/Soros style of corruption will intensify.
[Breitbart] The Jerusalem Post reports: The Defense Ministry unveiled on Monday the IDF’s first wheeled armored personnel carrier (APC). Quite similar to the Badger, as pictured, but with a much more powerful engine and enhanced defensive systems.
The platform will soon enter service, joining the tracked Namer APC and eventually replacing the aging and vulnerable M113 platforms.
The Defense Ministry’s Tank Administration announced it had built the first prototype of the APC, dubbed Eitan, after completing the development stage.
The development process was informed by "lessons learned from Operation Protective Edge" against Hamas in Gaza in 2014, the ministry said.
The eight-by-eight wheeled vehicle will be powered by a 750-horsepower engine and will have an active protection system to intercept RPGs and antitank missile threats.
It can reach speeds of up to 90 kilometers per hour and ferry infantry soldiers from one battle sector to another while traveling along roads without the need for military trailer services. It can also travel through difficult terrain, according to the Defense Ministry.
The National Nuclear Security Administration has given the go-ahead for work on upgrading the B61 airborne nuclear bomb, as the Pentagon is eager to embark on a multi-billion-dollar scheme to improve the US nuclear arsenal.
The decision taken by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) authorized the program to enter a post-engineering phase, which comes after four years of work. This now means that the first upgraded bombs are set to roll out by 2020.
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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[LUCIANNE] In Spanish there is an old saying that goes something like this: "Tell me what you brag about, and I´ll tell you what you lack." In today’s Venezuela, the folksy saying seems confirmed. While the socialist government officials often rant about "equality," "austerity" and "anti-imperialism," the expensive watches Chavistas flaunt, along with their travels, tell a whole different story about what their priorities are after hours. Launched in 2014, the blog Relojes del Chavismo (Chavismo´s Watches) has posted more than 150 pictures of high-ranking officials wearing all sorts of expensive watches, mostly Swiss made.
