[Iran Press TV] The United States reportedly plans to provide thousands of advanced ''bunker-busting'' bombs to the United Arab Emirates. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday these bombs were designed to demolish bunkers, tunnels and other thickly reinforced targets.
The proposed package to the UAE is to be formally presented to Congress ''in the coming days," according to the newspaper. The package includes up to 4,900 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) and other weapons, the paper said.
The new report comes as Washington is increasing efforts to arm Middle East states and start a weapons race in the strategically important part of the world.
The administration of US President Barack I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money Obama has shored up Persian Gulf littoral states-- Soddy Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, UAE and Kuwait -- with major arms deals in recent years.
The arms deals include a record multi-billion plan to sell Soddy Arabia advanced F-15 aircraft, some 2,000-lb JDAMs and other powerful munitions.
The US government also approved the sale of a multi-billion terminal missile program to UAE.
Analysts believe supporting the despotic regimes and selling arms to them are against Washington's claims of backing democracy in the region.
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What good are bunker busters without a delivery system?
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Huh? Those would be useful only against a ground target. I can't even dream of a scenario where the UAE could use them. Do they want to play with them or something like that?
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The UAE can get 3 PAK planes for the price of one US F-16, perhaps even a few Russian "NIGHTHUNTER" attack choppers???
Meanwhile ...
* CHINA DAILY FORUM BLOGGER > THE IMPORTANCE OF STAYING PUT: WITHDRAWAL OF US FORCES FROM IRAQ WILL IGNITE REGIONAL WAR VIA RISE OF KURDISH SELF-DETERMINATION???
For a map, click here. To read the latest full Rantburg report on the growing Moreira debt scandal, click here
By Chris Covert
As many as 3 million voters in the Mexican state of Michoacan will cast their ballots for a slate of state and local candidates in the last state election until the 2012 presidential election next year.
The statewide election is considered to be so important as a last election that the leaders of all three mainstream parties, the Partido Revolucionario Institutcional (PRI), the Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) and Partido Revolucion Democratica have all taken up temporary residence in the state to oversee their respective campaigns.
The Michoacan election has national implications beyond being the last election before 2012: Mexican President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa's sister, Luisa Maria "Cocoa" Calderon Hinojosa is running under the PAN banner.
Other candidates running include Fausto Vallejo for PRI and Silvano Aureoles Conejo for the PRD. The governor of Michoacan, Leonel Godoy is a PRD governor scheduled to step down early next year.
Michoacan is a state that has been in the past beset with a massive security problems as it had been the center for La Familia drug cartel, which is a criminal organization the national government had claimed was all but wiped out in a series of gunfights and arrests with Mexican security forces almost a year ago.
Since that time, a new organization, Los Caballeros Templarios, or Knights Templars have begun drug trafficking operations in Michoacan formed partially from remaining elements of La Familia.
Competition among remaining elements of La Familia, Los Caballeros Templarios and Los Zetas have created a severe security situation so much so that only a few months ago 1,800 effectives with the Polica Federal (PF) were deployed to Michoacan along with undisclosed numbers of Mexican Army and Naval Infantry troops. To read the Rantburg report on the latest deployment of PF troops to Michoacan, click here.
The total of federal security troops in the state is reportedly more than 10,000.
The elections in Michoacan are also the first big test for PRI leader Humberto Moreira Valdes, the former governor of Coahuila who is suffering from attacks by several other political parties for his role in the ballooning the Coahuila's public debt. Attacks against him include charges of using proceeds from bank load to bankroll PRI political campaigns in other states including the critical Mexico state election last July.
In that election as well as in Coahuila, PRI crushed the opposition at the state and at the local levels as well. The string of victories in those states -- and in Guerrero and Nayarit -- Moreira has amassed in many ways mirrors the stunning success his predecessor, Beatriz Parades Rangel had in 2010, when the PRI under her control flipped or retained 11 of 14 statehouses.
Mexican electoral law, nationally as well as at the state level, limits the amount candidates can spend, however PAN's leader, Gustavo Madero, has launched into a strategy of making Moreira the issue with his profligate fiscal habits while governor of Coahuila, as an offset to the massive political advantage PRI has throughout Mexico.
PAN's fortunes are declining, suffering from constant attacks over president Calderon's security strategy, which the president defends constantly these days. Making Moreira a target is an inexpensive and legal way to blunt the power of PRI. For Madero, that strategy cannot backfire even if Coca Calderon loses, if PRI loses as well.
The polls close at 1800 hrs local time, 1900 hrs EST.
North Korea is grappling with a strain of the deadly lung disease tuberculosis that is resistant to conventional treatment. Humanitarian workers say the impoverished communist country, which already has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis outside of sub-Saharan Africa, is unable to cope with the outbreak. Most victims could die of the disease within years. But some help is coming from an outside foundation.
The disease is known as multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis. It resists treatment by the two most powerful front-line TB drugs.
Stephen Linton, chairman of the Eugene Bell Foundation in Seoul, recently returned from North Korea, which he has visited nearly 70 times for humanitarian work since 1979. "North Koreans have told me that tuberculosis is their number one, number two and number three primary public health concern," he said.
Conditions in North Korea are ideal for the spread of TB. The climate is cold. Most citizens live and work in small spaces, and lack proper nutrition to maintain a strong immune system.
Linton says his foundation is now primarily focused on combating the multi-drug resistant TB outbreaks in North Korea. It is treating 600 patients in the country at a cost of two thousand dollars annually per case. It is an intense multi-year regimen of several second-line drugs that produce severe side effects.
Linton says the prognosis is grim for those who cannot get access to the expensive program. "It's the fate of a resistant patient anywhere who doesn't get medication. I think their average life expectancy would be no more than five years. To make matters worse, there's a very good chance that they would pass this resistant form of TB on to their families, to their co-workers, whoever comes in contact with them," he noted. "So it becomes not only a personal tragedy but a serious social problem at the same time."
Linton, who suffered himself from TB as a child in South Korea, says it is difficult to know how widespread the epidemic is in the North.
"I don't think anybody knows because the primary research hasn't been done. And all we're doing is looking at it through these keyholes of six different institutions. But, for instance, the North Koreans can identify patients that they suspect are MDR. And when we test them 95 to 98 percent are MDR. They have enough patients already on waiting lists to double this program," said Linton. "So I would imagine that MDR patients in the thousands would be quite easy given their present situation."
As a South Korea-based American citizen devoted to assisting ill North Koreans, Linton tries to avoid the political sensitivities in all three countries that affect the aid flow. But his foundation does insist on visiting any facility in North Korea to which it provides assistance.
The authorities in Pyongyang, who tightly control visits to the country, have welcomed Linton perhaps more times than any other American citizen. However, even he has not been allowed to take up residence there to supervise his life-saving work. Linton says, instead, the foundation has focused on training North Korean caregivers to manage the program themselves.
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how long before the whole country just gives up the ghost? five years? holding in abeyance the morality of it -- what would happen if medical aid was cut off? what would kimmy do?
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Disease control in Nork is fractional. They regularly get epidemics of diseases the west almost never sees in quantity, such as scarlet and typhoid fever, typhus, chicken pox, measles, mumps, etc., etc.
Avian flu was the first disease their medical people were so terrified of that they forced the government to cooperate with the WHO.
But MDR-TB is hard to treat here. If they ever get XDR-TB going around, it would be wise to quarantine the whole country.
Man could face execution under Islamic rule; Saudi Arabia canceled the diplomat's passport after his sexual orientation was revealed.
The United States government denied political asylum to Ali Ahmad Asseri, the former first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, last week to avoid disrupting US-Saudi relations, according to a Saudi-American blogger and journalist based in Brazil.
Asseri argued that if he returned to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia he would face execution because the countrys radically fundamental form of Islam mandates the death penalty for same-sex relations.
The Saudi-American journalist and blogger, Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, appears to have been the first writer to report on the asylum rejection. The possible deportation of Asseri to Saudi Arabia has electrified blog observers of the case over the last few days.
The Jerusalem Posts e-mail and telephone attempts to secure on Saturday a confirmation and comment from the US State Departments Middle East press section were not immediately returned.
In an e-mail response to the Post on Saturday, Abou-Alsamh, the Saudi-American blogger whose personal website "Rasheed's World" first broke the story about the denial of the asylum application, wrote, "As far as I know the US government has not yet officially commented on Asseri's denial of asylum, but from comments that I have read after I wrote my post, it seems that political asylum cases are often denied in first instance and then approved later when the applicant appeals."
His initial interview with Homeland Security was very positive, but then they came back and grilled him for two days after they found out that he had worked in the public prosecutors office in Saudi Arabia, Alsamh continued.
He had been an inspector to make sure that judicial punishments, such as lashings, were carried out within the law not more, not less. They then accused him of participating in a form of torture, Ahmed said on Abou- Alamhs website.
Ahmed said that Asseri intends to appeal the denial of his application and the process could meander its way through the judicial process over the next few years.
Last year, the US news organization MSNBC first reported on Asseris decision to remain in the United States. According to an article from the MSNBC national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff: Ali Ahmad Asseri, the first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, has informed US Department of Homeland Security officials that Saudi officials have refused to renew his diplomatic passport and effectively terminated his job after discovering he was gay and was close friends with a Jewish woman.
In addition to his sexual orientation, Asseris friendship with a female Jewish Israeli appears to be a factor for concern if he returns to Saudi Arabia. Riyadh does not recognize Israels existence and there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries. The Saudi Kingdoms media and educational books are steeped in hatred of Israel.
Man could face execution under Islamic rule; Saudi Arabia canceled the diplomat's passport after his sexual orientation was revealed.
The United States government denied political asylum to Ali Ahmad Asseri, the former first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, last week to avoid disrupting US-Saudi relations, according to a Saudi-American blogger and journalist based in Brazil.
Asseri argued that if he returned to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia he would face execution because the countrys radically fundamental form of Islam mandates the death penalty for same-sex relations.
The Saudi-American journalist and blogger, Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, appears to have been the first writer to report on the asylum rejection. The possible deportation of Asseri to Saudi Arabia has electrified blog observers of the case over the last few days.
The Jerusalem Posts e-mail and telephone attempts to secure on Saturday a confirmation and comment from the US State Departments Middle East press section were not immediately returned.
In an e-mail response to the Post on Saturday, Abou-Alsamh, the Saudi-American blogger whose personal website "Rasheed's World" first broke the story about the denial of the asylum application, wrote, "As far as I know the US government has not yet officially commented on Asseri's denial of asylum, but from comments that I have read after I wrote my post, it seems that political asylum cases are often denied in first instance and then approved later when the applicant appeals."
His initial interview with Homeland Security was very positive, but then they came back and grilled him for two days after they found out that he had worked in the public prosecutors office in Saudi Arabia, Alsamh continued.
He had been an inspector to make sure that judicial punishments, such as lashings, were carried out within the law not more, not less. They then accused him of participating in a form of torture, Ahmed said on Abou- Alamhs website.
Ahmed said that Asseri intends to appeal the denial of his application and the process could meander its way through the judicial process over the next few years.
Last year, the US news organization MSNBC first reported on Asseris decision to remain in the United States. According to an article from the MSNBC national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff: Ali Ahmad Asseri, the first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, has informed US Department of Homeland Security officials that Saudi officials have refused to renew his diplomatic passport and effectively terminated his job after discovering he was gay and was close friends with a Jewish woman.
In addition to his sexual orientation, Asseris friendship with a female Jewish Israeli appears to be a factor for concern if he returns to Saudi Arabia. Riyadh does not recognize Israels existence and there are no diplomatic relations between the two countries. The Saudi Kingdoms media and educational books are steeped in hatred of Israel.
Pakistan, under pressure from the United States and Afghanistan, has agreed to resume using biometric (fingerprinting, photos and iris scans) of people using the roads between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The equipment for this was installed at border posts near Quetta (the capital of Baluchistan province, which forms Afghanistan's southern border) five years ago. But after a few days, thousands of armed, and angry, tribesmen forced the border posts to shut down until they got rid of the biometric gear. The Taliban, and drug gangs, knew that this biometric stuff was being used with great success in Afghanistan to identify and track Islamic radicals and all sorts of criminals. It is believed that this new attempt will be equally short-lived and unsuccessful. But the Pakistanis are under pressure to show the Americans and Afghans that they are not partners with the Taliban. Heh.
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Would the Taliban rather we plant microchips in them for tracking?
The US has apologised to former President APJ Abdul Kalam for subjecting him to frisking at New York's JFK Airport, an incident that had provoked sharp reactions from India which threatened retaliatory action.
In a written apology to Kalam and the Indian government, the US said, "Appropriate procedure for expedited screening of dignitaries had not been followed".
"We deeply regret the inconvenience that resulted for him (Kalam) as a result of the September 29 incident involving the security screening at JFK Airport in New York," a statement from the US Embassy here said, noting that it had the utmost respect for Kalam.
They also said that US was actively working to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future.
Taking serious note of the incident, India had threatened retaliatory action with external affairs minister SM Krishna directing Indian ambassador to US Nirupama Rao to take up the matter in writing at the "highest level" with Washington.
The US said that subsequent to the frisking incident, US Charge d' Affairs Peter Burleigh personally hand delivered a letter from the US transportation security administrator to Kalam and a similar letter was delivered to the government of India regretting the incident.
Maintaining that it "deeply values and appreciates" the strong relationship and partnership with India, the US said, "We are confident that despite this regrettable incident, we will continue working closely with India in the many areas of our strategic partnership".
80-year-old Kalam was frisked in New York on September 29 before boarding an Air India flight.
Sources said that even after Kalam had taken his seat in the aircraft, the US security personnel forced the crew to open the door and took away the jacket and boots of the former president to check for explosives since they had forgotten to do so before his boarding. The items were later returned to Kalam.
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"Appropriate procedure for expedited screening of dignitaries had not been followed".
Sounds like they mixed up the Indignitary and Suspect Traveler lists.
[Dawn] Although Afghanistan agreed to resume trilateral dialogue with Pakistain and Iran, President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... during a meeting here with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... on the sidelines of the Saarc summit called for Pakistain's meaningful cooperation in investigating the liquidation of Afghan peace jirga chief Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... .
The third trilateral summit meeting planned for October was postponed amid tension between Pakistain and Afghanistan in the wake of the liquidation of Prof Rabbani in a suicide kaboom on Sept 20.
According to a member of the Pak delegation, President Karzai adopted a rather aggressive posture at the meeting held at the Shangrila resort in Addu and "bombarded us with a number of demands laced with accusations".
His first demand was that all negotiations between the two countries would have to start from the scene of the crime where Prof Rabbani had been killed.
The Afghan president also alleged that Pakistain was not doing enough to stop cross-boarder attacks (meaning Taliban attacks) which he said reflected poorly on his government's performance in the eyes of the world.
Talking to Dawn, a federal minister said: "The meeting took place in a highly tense atmosphere as the Afghan president was not in a mood to listen to anyone."
He said: "Frankly speaking, Prime Minister Gilani was taken aback because he had expected a friendly gesture from the Afghan president."
After listening to President Karzai in his usual calm manner, the prime minister asked him to change his hostile public posture towards Pakistain -- his acrimonious statements since Prof Rabbani's killing.
Prime Minister Gilani said he had gone to Kabul to offer condolences over the death of Prof Rabbani because he understood the seriousness of the matter, but in response the Afghan government started pointing fingers at Pakistain.
"The prime minister told President Karzai that leaders from both sides had to understand each other's sensitivities and start working to find some common ground," the minister said.
Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said the Afghan leader had a number of reservations, but Prime Minister Gilani asked him to come up with whatever framework he had in his mind to go ahead with the grinding of the peace processor in the region.
Talking to news hounds at the villa where the meeting was held, Prime Minister Gilani said the government would support any process of political reconciliation initiated and owned by the Afghan government.
About the revival of a joint commission set up by the two countries that got derailed after Prof Rabbani's killing, he said the two chief executives had been in contact on the issue.
When asked about the strategic agreement signed by Afghanistan and India, he said the two countries had the sovereign right to reach such pacts.
When the same question was posed to President Karzai, he said Pakistain was an important country of the region and "we hope the agreement between India and Afghanistan will be beneficial to peace in the region".
He said Prof Rabbani's liquidation was a major setback for Afghanistan and he hoped Pakistain would cooperate in investigation into how and why the incident had taken place.
Prime Minister Gilani said his government was willing to offer every possible help in the investigation.
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"Don't you know WHO I am?"
/Yousuf "John Kerry" Gilani
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Unlike filmstars in India, Pakistani flmstars have to flee the police to save their honour as was reported in Jinnah Mira became proclaimed offender (ishtihari) after someone registered a case of kidnapping and torture against her and her mother. Actually she had to go into hiding because her brother was accused of kidnapping one Imran with the help of his two friends in the Defence Housing society where the actress lives.
Is Pervaiz Elahi next PM?
Chief Editor Jinnah opined that PMLQ leader Pervaiz Elahi might be the new prime minister if all the signs coalesce and a change is dictated. All the officers who became generals under Musharraf are either retired or are about to go while the new generals in place are promotees of General Kayani. But a change is on the cards.
Americans are shrieking in pain!
World famous strategist and ex-Army chief General (Retd) Aslam Beg told Nawa-e-Waqt that Americans were shrieking with pain in Afghanistan (cheekhain nikal gayeen) because the Taliban had squeezed them from all directions. He said Karzai was fearful about his own end after seeing the fate of the Americans but knew that the Taliban would hang him upside down (ulta latkana). Jews and Hindus were eternal enemies of Pakistan but there was no need to worry about Indo-Afghan strategic accord.
Rabbani killed by Afghan government
Former foreign minister and leader of PMLQ Khursheed Mahmud Kasuri stated in Nawa-e-Waqt that chief of the High Peace Committee Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed by the Afghan intelligence agency through a conspiracy because it did not want improvement of relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said relations with India were bad but if they became bad with Afghanistan, Pakistan would be in trouble.
Dengue virus spread by America?
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt carried the news that America could be behind the sudden spread of dengue disease in Pakistan. It said that in 1981 America caused 300,000 people to be stricken by dengue till President Castro complained about it. It was therefore possible that America was using the same weapon again Pakistan to make it suffer.
Two High Court judges will defend Qadri
Reported in Mashriq ex-chief justice of the Lahore High Court Khwaja Sharif will lead the defence of Mumtaz Qadri who as police guard killed governor Salmaan Taseer. As Qadri went in appeal against his death sentence, Khwaja Sharif will be assisted by another famous pious judge, Justice (Retd) Nazir Akhtar.
'American ship sinking in Afghanistan!'
Famous strategic mastermind and ex-ISI chief Hameed Gul told Express the American ship was sinking in Afghanistan and it is about to extricate itself from there. Oria Maqbool Jan said that the people of liberal persuasion in Pakistan were first allied with Russia but were today tied to America.
'I am a martyr!'
Jihadi publication Zarb-e-Momin reported that policeman named Qadri who killed Governor Taseer for blasphemy was sentenced to death by the court but he refused to accept his death as a criminal and said that it was not a death sentence but an announcement of eternal life (martyr) because Allah had accepted his love.
No hijab, no hajj!
Fublication Zarb-e-Momin reported that Saudi Arabia had told the airlines bringing hajj-performers to Saudi Arabia that they should see to it that all women were wearing hijab or abaya otherwise the offending airline would be fined 5,000 rial and the hajj of the offending person would be cancelled.
General Musa Khan, a great Hazara!
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir stated that General Musa was commander in chief of the Pakistan Army in the 1985 war against India. The Army gave a good account of itself and fought bravely, giving many heroes to the nation. General Musa was made governor of West Pakistan later and Pakistanis got to know that General Musa was a son of the Hazara community in Quetta. He was buried with great reverence in Mashhad in Iran.
End death penalty for blasphemy!
Daily Jinnah reported that World Churches Council had asked Pakistan to end the punishment of minimum death for blasphemy in Pakistan. It appealed to Pakistan to reconsider Article 295-C while Pakistan was busy defending the killer of Governor Taseer who had taken the law into his own hands suspecting the governor of having committed blasphemy.
Killing Hazaras in Quetta
According to Hamid Mir in Jang, the Hazara Shias began to be killed in Quetta under Musharraf. In 2003 police trainee Hazaras were ambushed and cruelly exterminated, killing 13. The same an imambargah saw 51 of them done to death. In 2004 on the Ashura Day 36 of them were killed. And not one terrorist responsible for this slaughter was ever caught and punished. In 2007 two terrorists were caught but they escaped from police custody.
Pakistani women have brittle bones
According to Jang, 90 percent of the women living in the cities suffered from brittle bones while 30 percent of those living in the rural areas of Pakistan suffered from the same deficiency. The reason was the urban woman not being allowed to come out frequently in the sun and remaining indoors.
Taliban getting Arab money
Federal interior minister Rehman Malik was quoted ion Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that the government had proof that Tehreek Taliban and Balochistan National Army were getting financial aid from outside Pakistan. He said in the unrest in Balochistan a neighbouring state was involved. He said a banned organisation of Jhang in Punjab was behind the killing of Hazara Shia in Quetta.
America will meet its end in Pakistan!
Respected chief editor of Jinnah wrote that if America came to Pakistan (ghussay tau sahi) Pakistan will become the graveyard of America and America will start breaking up from the inside. In fact America will go bankrupt and not Pakistan. America doesn't know the real power of Pakistan and will be defeated by Pakistan.
Jinns do live in graveyards!
Quoted in Jang a cleric named Mufti Abid said that he could not rule out the presence of jinns in graveyards but it was not necessary to observe special religious rights (chilla) in a graveyard. It was known that spirits as they left human body took some time going up to Heaven. He said that jinns too liked to be in the quiet of cemeteries.
Ahmadi teacher and pupils driven out of college
Daily Mashriq reported that in Hafizabad in Punjab 13 Ahmadi girl and boy students along with their Ahmadi teacher were driven out of a college. The only reason was found to b their faith and that included students up to the BA level. There were anti-Ahmadi slogans on the walls and Ahmadi teachers were intimidated into giving up their only outlet of tuition.
How can India be 'most favoured nation'?
Famous Justice (Retd) Raja Afrasiab Khan wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that Pakistan should not give India the most favoured nation status (MFN) because Bharat (India) had attacked Pakistan in the past and was keeping Kashmir which actually belonged to Pakistan. He said there was unmeasured (bay-hisab) poverty in India in contrast to Pakistan. Why should India then be declared most favoured by Pakistan? If Pakistan does this it would be against the national interest of Pakistan.
Unlike filmstars in India, Pakistani flmstars have to flee the police to save their honour as was reported in Jinnah Mira became proclaimed offender (ishtihari) after someone registered a case of kidnapping and torture against her and her mother. Actually she had to go into hiding because her brother was accused of kidnapping one Imran with the help of his two friends in the Defence Housing society where the actress lives.
Is Pervaiz Elahi next PM?
Chief Editor Jinnah opined that PMLQ leader Pervaiz Elahi might be the new prime minister if all the signs coalesce and a change is dictated. All the officers who became generals under Musharraf are either retired or are about to go while the new generals in place are promotees of General Kayani. But a change is on the cards.
Americans are shrieking in pain!
World famous strategist and ex-Army chief General (Retd) Aslam Beg told Nawa-e-Waqt that Americans were shrieking with pain in Afghanistan (cheekhain nikal gayeen) because the Taliban had squeezed them from all directions. He said Karzai was fearful about his own end after seeing the fate of the Americans but knew that the Taliban would hang him upside down (ulta latkana). Jews and Hindus were eternal enemies of Pakistan but there was no need to worry about Indo-Afghan strategic accord.
Rabbani killed by Afghan government
Former foreign minister and leader of PMLQ Khursheed Mahmud Kasuri stated in Nawa-e-Waqt that chief of the High Peace Committee Prof Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed by the Afghan intelligence agency through a conspiracy because it did not want improvement of relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He said relations with India were bad but if they became bad with Afghanistan, Pakistan would be in trouble.
Dengue virus spread by America?
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt carried the news that America could be behind the sudden spread of dengue disease in Pakistan. It said that in 1981 America caused 300,000 people to be stricken by dengue till President Castro complained about it. It was therefore possible that America was using the same weapon again Pakistan to make it suffer.
Two High Court judges will defend Qadri
Reported in Mashriq ex-chief justice of the Lahore High Court Khwaja Sharif will lead the defence of Mumtaz Qadri who as police guard killed governor Salmaan Taseer. As Qadri went in appeal against his death sentence, Khwaja Sharif will be assisted by another famous pious judge, Justice (Retd) Nazir Akhtar.
'American ship sinking in Afghanistan!'
Famous strategic mastermind and ex-ISI chief Hameed Gul told Express the American ship was sinking in Afghanistan and it is about to extricate itself from there. Oria Maqbool Jan said that the people of liberal persuasion in Pakistan were first allied with Russia but were today tied to America.
'I am a martyr!'
Jihadi publication Zarb-e-Momin reported that policeman named Qadri who killed Governor Taseer for blasphemy was sentenced to death by the court but he refused to accept his death as a criminal and said that it was not a death sentence but an announcement of eternal life (martyr) because Allah had accepted his love.
No hijab, no hajj!
Fublication Zarb-e-Momin reported that Saudi Arabia had told the airlines bringing hajj-performers to Saudi Arabia that they should see to it that all women were wearing hijab or abaya otherwise the offending airline would be fined 5,000 rial and the hajj of the offending person would be cancelled.
General Musa Khan, a great Hazara!
Writing in Jang Hamid Mir stated that General Musa was commander in chief of the Pakistan Army in the 1985 war against India. The Army gave a good account of itself and fought bravely, giving many heroes to the nation. General Musa was made governor of West Pakistan later and Pakistanis got to know that General Musa was a son of the Hazara community in Quetta. He was buried with great reverence in Mashhad in Iran.
End death penalty for blasphemy!
Daily Jinnah reported that World Churches Council had asked Pakistan to end the punishment of minimum death for blasphemy in Pakistan. It appealed to Pakistan to reconsider Article 295-C while Pakistan was busy defending the killer of Governor Taseer who had taken the law into his own hands suspecting the governor of having committed blasphemy.
Killing Hazaras in Quetta
According to Hamid Mir in Jang, the Hazara Shias began to be killed in Quetta under Musharraf. In 2003 police trainee Hazaras were ambushed and cruelly exterminated, killing 13. The same an imambargah saw 51 of them done to death. In 2004 on the Ashura Day 36 of them were killed. And not one terrorist responsible for this slaughter was ever caught and punished. In 2007 two terrorists were caught but they escaped from police custody.
Pakistani women have brittle bones
According to Jang, 90 percent of the women living in the cities suffered from brittle bones while 30 percent of those living in the rural areas of Pakistan suffered from the same deficiency. The reason was the urban woman not being allowed to come out frequently in the sun and remaining indoors.
Taliban getting Arab money
Federal interior minister Rehman Malik was quoted ion Nawa-e-Waqt as saying that the government had proof that Tehreek Taliban and Balochistan National Army were getting financial aid from outside Pakistan. He said in the unrest in Balochistan a neighbouring state was involved. He said a banned organisation of Jhang in Punjab was behind the killing of Hazara Shia in Quetta.
America will meet its end in Pakistan!
Respected chief editor of Jinnah wrote that if America came to Pakistan (ghussay tau sahi) Pakistan will become the graveyard of America and America will start breaking up from the inside. In fact America will go bankrupt and not Pakistan. America doesn't know the real power of Pakistan and will be defeated by Pakistan.
Jinns do live in graveyards!
Quoted in Jang a cleric named Mufti Abid said that he could not rule out the presence of jinns in graveyards but it was not necessary to observe special religious rights (chilla) in a graveyard. It was known that spirits as they left human body took some time going up to Heaven. He said that jinns too liked to be in the quiet of cemeteries.
Ahmadi teacher and pupils driven out of college
Daily Mashriq reported that in Hafizabad in Punjab 13 Ahmadi girl and boy students along with their Ahmadi teacher were driven out of a college. The only reason was found to b their faith and that included students up to the BA level. There were anti-Ahmadi slogans on the walls and Ahmadi teachers were intimidated into giving up their only outlet of tuition.
How can India be 'most favoured nation'?
Famous Justice (Retd) Raja Afrasiab Khan wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that Pakistan should not give India the most favoured nation status (MFN) because Bharat (India) had attacked Pakistan in the past and was keeping Kashmir which actually belonged to Pakistan. He said there was unmeasured (bay-hisab) poverty in India in contrast to Pakistan. Why should India then be declared most favoured by Pakistan? If Pakistan does this it would be against the national interest of Pakistan.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Thousands of Syrian and Palestinian youths in a petition to Damascus government expressed their readiness to conduct martyrdom-seeking operations inside Israel.
In a petition signed by 30,000 well-trained Palestinian and Syrian youths, they said that they are ready to infiltrate Israel and conduct any type of operation.
The call for infiltration into Israel came months after 5 young Palestinians who tried to carry out martyrdom-seeking operation on the Nakba Day were arrested in the occupied territories.
Nakba Day (day of the catastrophe) is generally remembered on May 15. For the Palestinians it is the anniversary of the day of their displacement that followed the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.
The petition said that those who signed it have passed military, combat and tactical trainings and are ready to tolerate the hardest conditions in Israel.
The move came after Israel intensified its war rhetoric against the Syrian government and its ally, Iran.
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Tell them to go stand on that giant "X" painted on the Golan Heights.
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Looks like a Second Nakba will be necesary ?
Will They never laern from their mistakes ?
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EoZ, These people are incapable of learning, period. Their mistakes, books, others mistakes, others successes (don't think they've had any of their own), a 2x4 upside the head, nada, zip, zilch, nothing can teach these troglodytes anything.
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this truly just breaks my heart. The hate that is propagated deep in their souls amazes me still.
Are these young people illiterate? If they've gone through training the brain washing must be deep entrenched.
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[An Nahar] Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. said on Saturday that he is ashamed of the Lebanese government position at the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... meeting, noting that the decision taken by the Arab foreign ministers will not affect Leb's security.
"I am ashamed as a Lebanese of the government's position in the Arab league and I ask the Syrian people not to consider this as the will of the Lebanese," Hariri said on Twitter fielding questions from his supporters.
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[Iran Press TV] The commander of Iran's Ground Forces says the damage Israel sustained during its offensives against Leb and the Gazoo Strip has rendered it incapable of "opening a new front" against Iran.
On Saturday, Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza Pourdastan said Tel Aviv was still convalescing from the 'indescribable blows' it received from the 33-Day War of 2008 on Leb and the December 2008-January 2009 Gazoo War, Fars News Agency reported.
"Today, the aggressor Israeli Army is a crippled one," he asserted.
Fighters with the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbullies defended Leb against the Israeli invaders during the 33-Day War and Tel Aviv was compelled to withdraw its troops without having achieved any of its objectives.
The Gazoo War also saw Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, preventing Tel Aviv from materializing its stated aims of destroying the Paleostinian resistance movement and halting rocket-firings at southern Israel.
Pourdastan, meanwhile, said, "the Armed Forces of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran are ready to respond to any threats," against the county.
On November 6, Israeli President Shimon Peres threatened that an attack against the Islamic Theocratic Republic was becoming 'more and more likely.'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Military Affairs Ehud Barak have also reportedly been lobbying the Israeli cabinet to approve of a military strike on Iran.
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[Iran Press TV] A popular Tunisian daily says the recent Israeli threats of a military strike on Iran stem from the Zionist regime's erroneous assessment of the regional and global conditions.
Israelis assume that since Arab countries are occupied with revolutions and their aftermath, they will not exhibit any serious reaction in case of a Tel Aviv attack on Iran, an editorial titled "A false and dangerous assessment" said as published in the Tunisian Assabah daily.
"This assessment by the Zionist regime and its US and European allies is utterly wrong," the editorial stressed.
"In the Arab revolutions, which led to the downfall of three Arab regimes and which threatened the existence of other Arab regimes, the main slogan of the people was the liberation of Paleostine and Quds (Jerusalem) as well as emphasis on Arab unity and Islamic solidarity."
The editorial went on to say that any adventurism on the part of Israel and an attack on Iran would enrage Arab and Moslem nations, leading to the entire region's engulfment.
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No. They would all breathe a sigh of relief. Then there would be the usual lip service to the anti-Jewish idols of mass-distraction. Then it would blow over.
[Iran Press TV] The Syrian envoy to the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... says the decision to suspend Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... is illegal and a blatant violation of the AL charter.
Yusef Ahmad called the move an order from the United States and Western countries, strongly condemning foreign meddling in Syria's internal affairs
On Saturday, the AL voted to suspend Syria until after the peace plan proposed by the Arab body and accepted by Damascus on November 2, 2011 has been implemented by the Syrian government.
The AL decision came during an emergency meeting at the league's headquarters in the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Ahmad, however, stressed that Syria is committed to the plan and despite the presence of foreign-backed armed gangs in the country has taken strides towards implementing it, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.
The meeting was held after the League reached the conclusion that Syria had failed to bring violence to a halt in line with the peace plan.
In addition, the AL also called for the imposition of economic and political sanctions against Syria and invited the Syrian opposition for transition talks.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March and according to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , over 3,000 people have been killed in the violence. Hundreds of Syrian security forces are among the dead.
While the Syrian opposition accuses the security forces of cracking down on what it calls anti-government protesters, Damascus blames the violence on outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups sponsored by foreign countries.
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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
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North Korea is grappling with a strain of the deadly lung disease tuberculosis that is resistant to conventional treatment. Humanitarian workers say the impoverished communist country, which already has one of the highest rates of tuberculosis outside of sub-Saharan Africa, is unable to cope with the outbreak. Most victims could die of the disease within years. But some help is coming from an outside foundation. 
Pakistan, under pressure from the United States and Afghanistan, has agreed to resume using biometric (fingerprinting, photos and iris scans) of people using the roads between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The equipment for this was installed at border posts near Quetta (the capital of Baluchistan province, which forms Afghanistan's southern border) five years ago. But after a few days, thousands of armed, and angry, tribesmen forced the border posts to shut down until they got rid of the biometric gear. The Taliban, and drug gangs, knew that this biometric stuff was being used with great success in Afghanistan to identify and track Islamic radicals and all sorts of criminals. It is believed that this new attempt will be equally short-lived and unsuccessful. But the Pakistanis are under pressure to show the Americans and Afghans that they are not partners with the Taliban.
Filmstar Mira absconding
TEHRAN (FNA)- Thousands of Syrian and Palestinian youths in a petition to Damascus government expressed their readiness to conduct martyrdom-seeking operations inside Israel.
