[ToloNews] The Ministry of Finance said on Twitter that on Saturday the export of Turkmenistan gas to Pakistan through Afghanistan has commenced, and was marked by a ceremony in the Shorandam area of Kandahar.
The Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Investment (ACCI) said that from now on, Turkmenistan's gas will be transferred from Herat's Torghundi port to Afghanistan and then exported to Pakistan via Spin Boldak in Kandahar.
The task of transporting gas from Turkmenistan to Pakistan was taken up by a private company, which pays the Islamic Emirate for transit.
In the first stage, 50 gas tankers were transferred from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to Pakistan.
"This is transit gas, which is specifically bought for Pakistan and shipped to Pakistan, so its benefit to Afghanistan is that it requires transportation and this creates jobs for people," said Atiqullah Saidal, the head of a gas transportation company.
The Chamber of Commerce and Investment said that Afghanistan plays an important role in connecting Central Asia with South Asia and the current government should help traders in the transit of goods.
"We want the transit through Afghanistan to go off without any problems and we also want our neighbors to cooperate in the transit to Afghanistan,” said the acting head of ACCI, Mohammad Younus.
In the meantime, Kandahar customs officials said they will provide more facilities to traders at customs.
“The Ministry of Finance and Customs Department has said this in every meeting that we are providing facilities for the people and businessmen, and we are still trying in this area,” said Mohammad Hamid Ahmad, head of the custom of Kandahar.
Kandahar customs officials ensure that the Spin Boldak border will soon be open 24 hours a day for the transit of commercial goods after Turkmenistan gas has been transported to Pakistan through Kandahar Spin Boldak.
[Independent] Kicking the Afghan fighter pilot out of the UK would be so ’contrary to British instincts’, says General Lord David Richards.
The British former commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan is urging the government to show "solidarity and friendship" towards an Afghan pilot being threatened with deportation to Rwanda.
Backing The Independent’s campaign, General Lord David Richards of Herstmonceux said it would be a "travesty of justice" if the airman, who arrived in the UK via small boat, was to be kicked out.
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The immigration process into the US, at least, seems slanted away from our Afghan allies and towards whomever can make it across the Southern border.
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[Shafaq News] Diyala's local government has devised a comprehensive plan to repopulate more than 20 villages that were evacuated by ISIS runover in 2014, Spokesperson Yaser Badr revealed on Sunday, but excluded people involved with the hardliner Sunni group.
"The local administration has completed preparations to repatriate the residents of 17 villages on the outskirts of Saadiyah sub-district, 60 kilometers to the northeast of Baqubah," Badr told Shafaq News Agency, "lack of services has impeded their return for years."
"Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) has mobilized troops to secure the territory. More than 500 million dinars were spent to reconstruct and rehabilitate the area," he added.
Badr revealed that the Iraqi government plans to repatriate the internally displaced people (IDPs) who left their homes in five villages in al-Miqdadiyah due to ISIS.
"The villages of Khailaniyah and Nahr Imam, in addition to the first and second Mithaq, have endured the atrocities of ISIS and its bloody massacres by the end of 2021," he explained, "the plan encompasses compensations and infrastructure in a bid to facilitate the people's return."
"Of course, this does not apply to the persons involved or collaborated with ISIS," he concluded.
[IsraelTimes] National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir approves measures that will make it easier to obtain a firearm license, as part of a controversial plan to fight rising violent mostly peaceful crime rates by arming more Israelis.
According to the Walla news site, any former IDF combat soldier discharged in the previous five years, as well as coppers, firefighters and active reservists, will receive an exemption from personal interviews when applying for a license.
This will significantly shorten the bureaucratic process, which will consist only of filing a health declaration and police approval.
The outlet quotes the far-right minister as saying armed civilians are crucial in thwarting many terror attacks, "and we will do anything we can to allow all those who meet the criteria to get gun permits."
Ben Gvir later confirms the report’s accuracy on his Twitter account.
[IsraelTimes] Republican Congressional leader brings bipartisan delegation of 20 politicians to Western Wall, will be first speaker to address parliament since Newt Gingrich ...former Speaker of the House, author of the Contract with America. Gingrich gave the country welfare reform and a balanced budget and the Publicans a landslide House victory in 1994. On the downside, he has a roving eye and a loose fly, he's opinionated, and he's abrasive despite his ability to work with the other side of the political aisle... in 1998.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy ...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's... called Israel "a blessed nation" in Jerusalem on Sunday, a day before he was set to address the Knesset.
"Israel you are a blessed nation," McCarthy wrote in the Western Wall visitors’ book after landing at Ben Gurion Airport, adding: "Our shared values unite a bond that will never break."
The Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Republican is leading a bipartisan group of 20 US congressmen, who joined Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch in prayer at the Kotel.
McCarthy placed a traditional note in the Wall, and said he was looking forward to the 75-year-old nation’s next 75 years.
McCarthy, who will become the second US House speaker to address the Knesset plenum, was greeted earlier Sunday at Ben Gurion Airport by his Israeli counterpart Amir Ohana of the Likud party.
The Knesset speaker had extended the invitation to Israel when he called McCarthy in January to congratulate him on being elected speaker of the House, after a bitter vote that saw the far right of the GOP revolt against him. McCarthy and Ohana’s offices held talks about the trip in the months that followed.
Only one other House speaker has given a speech in the Knesset plenum — Newt Gingrich in 1998.
McCarthy last month issued a statement of support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one day after US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... tore into the Israeli government’s effort to overhaul the judiciary and declared that the Likud leader would not receive a White House invite in the near future.
"Prime Minister Netanyahu is an Israeli patriot, statesman, and most importantly, a great friend of the United States of America," McCarthy said at the time. "Free societies have vigorous and open debate. Israel is no exception. I support Prime Minister Netanyahu, and America’s support for Israel’s strong, vibrant democracy is unwavering. Now is an important time for Americans to stand together in support of our long, mutually respectful, and important friendship with Israel."
McCarthy is one of several high-profile American politicians visiting Israel this month.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham ...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems... met with Netanyahu on April 17, passing along messages he received while in Riyadh last week regarding the potential for a US-brokered Saudi-Israel normalization agreement.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — who came under fire recently amid the uncovering of a 1990s op-ed he wrote defending Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan — led a delegation of congressional Democrats for meetings with Israeli and Paleostinian officials.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was in Jerusalem last Thursday in a visit widely seen as a precursor to his bid to become the Republican nominee in the 2024 US presidential election.
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There is something wrong here. This is like the Seinfeld episode where Jerry filled in too competently for Newman as a postal carrier. McCarthy is Paul Ryan’s best friend yet he appears not to be serving Democrat interests.
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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.
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
