[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) said Saturday that the newly-appointed governor of Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... province started work, replacing the former governor Abdul Jabbar Taqwa and acting governor Mahboobullah Mohibi.
A statement by IDLG said Eng. Akram's appointment was approved by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. Ghulam Jilani Popal, the director of the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG), said changes and replacements in the government are key support effective governance.
He urged the Kabul residents to cooperate with Eng. Akram in maintaining security and fighting corruption considering the importance and geographical location of Kabul province.
The newly-appointed governor Eng. Akram promised to use all efforts to utilize the present capacities and opportunities for development and better governance in line with the IDLG policies.
Possessing higher education and experience in governance, Eng. Akram has previously served as head of protocol at the Presidential Palace.
In the meantime, head of the provincial chief for Kabul, Abdul Rahman Hashemi, urged Eng. Akram to put all efforts to create an appropriate environment for all sectors in this province.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] New testimonies have emerged regarding the Taliban violence, particularly against women, in the historic provincial capital of Kunduz province which was overrun by the group late last month.
Methodically targeting a host of female rights workers and journalists just hours after seizing control of the city, are the latest testimonies emerged recently.
The barbaric killing of a close relative of a local female radio host is one of the latest testimonies emerged after the Afghan cops retook the control of the city last week.
According to the female radio host who spoke on the condition of anonymity , a group of Taliban bully boyz knocked her door, saying "We know a woman in your house works in an office."
"When my uncle denied it, he was taken outside and rubbed out. His body lay in the streets for days -- no one dared to go out and get it," she told AFP.
Besides the murders, rape or sexual assault, kidnappings, the Talibs included attack on women's shelters as one of their main targets.
Such shelters give refuge countrywide to runaway girls, domestic abuse victims and those at the risk of "honour killings" by their relatives, which the Taliban have often denounced the shelters as dens of "immorality" and labelled the women who seek shelter there as "sluts".
Haseena Sarwari, the Kunduz director of Women for Afghan Women, a NGO which ran a shelter housing 13 women, told AFP that she received an abrupt phone call from the head of the Taliban's vice and virtue department soon after they took the city.
Right before the city fell to Taliban control, Sarwari had received an astonishing letter, wrapped in a wedding card, warning her that she would be married off to a Taliban capo.
Sarwari who managed to flee the city in a burqa said the threat could not be dismissed lightly as in some areas overrun by the Taliban, the bully boyz are known to have married off wives of government officers to their cadres, treating the women as spoils of war.
She also recalled seeing a band of thickset bully boyz wrapped in bandoliers of ammunition at Taliban checkpoints, rifling through women's purses for any government IDs and scrolling through mobile phones for contacts.
The latest testimonies further confirm the atrocities committed by Talibs after overrunning the city despite the group rejects the reports as baseless.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) also released its report on Thursday, confirming earlier reports regarding the group's atrocities in Kunduz city, including murders, rape, kidnappings, use of civilians as shields, looting of public and private properties.
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[Tolo News] New figures from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) released on Saturday reveal that more than 1,900 people -- including security force members and civilians -- were maimed in the recent Kunduz battle - which is still ongoing in parts of the northern province.
The ministry said that over 50 people were killed in the festivities, adding that the toll is of those who died in hospitals.
"According to the latest information, at least 1,920 civilian and military people were maimed in the festivities in Kunduz, in different districts including Dashte Archi and a district from Takhar," said Dr. Qamaruddin Seddiqi, adviser to the Deputy Minister of Public Health.
According to the ministry, the deadliest single incident was the Arclight airstrike on MSF hospital.
"There is no exact information about casualties of the attack on MSF. Primary reports reveal that 10 visitors were killed and nine others, including maimed patients, are still unaccounted for. At least 12 of the MSF health staff were killed and two staff members are missing," he continued.
The MoPH officials said the information has been collected from 63 hospitals and health centers, and that those maimed that were not hospitalized have not been included in this toll.
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And the media concentrates on the fake hospital with doctors treating Daesh members and stashing arms with no marking struck by American fire.
[Tolo News] Former Afghan 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... on Saturday criticized the decision of U.S President Barack Obama teachable moment... to delay the draw down in troops and maintain current levels through 2016.
In a statement issued by Karzai he said the presence of foreign troops had not only failed to stamp out terrorism but is in fact adding to the problem in war-ravaged Afghanistan.
Karzai said the Afghan people have had 14 years of foreign troop presence in their country and hoped for lasting peace and the elimination of terrorism but that this has not happened. Instead insurgency has strengthened.
In reference to the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) signed between the Afghan government and US in September 2014, Karzai said the security deal did not help overcome insecurity but instead it has intensified the war -- with fighting now in numerous provinces that were previously secure.
He also said that the Taliban's effort to step up the war in villages and cities has provided the opportunity for further presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan.
Karzai however said that the Afghan people will accept the US military presence on condition that they consider some issues, including elimination of terrorism, an end to war, maintaining a lasting peace, supporting national unity and respecting the national illusory sovereignty of Afghanistan.
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Krazy Karzai.
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[Tolo News] Baghlan police chief Abdul Jabar Purdeli on Saturday said the bodies of scores of Taliban fighters who were killed in the Kunduz battle by security forces have been handed over to their families.
He said holy warriors killed were mostly from Baghlan and that key figures and commanders of the Taliban were among the dead.
Purdeli said the highest casualty toll recorded during the battle was of turbans.
"Most of whom were from different districts of Baghlan," Purdeli said.
"According to our latest information, bodies of 90 hard boyz from different parts of Baghlan including Pul-e-Khumri city, Baghlan-e-Markazi district and other parts were sent to their families," he added.
He said four holy warriors were also recently enjugged Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! during festivities in Kunduz, adding that at least eight Taliban fighters were killed and 12 others were maimed in recent festivities in Baghlan.
This comes after the Taliban carried out a well-orchestrated attack on Kunduz city three weeks ago. They manage to hold the city for three days until troops moved in and cleared the area.
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[Tolo News] The Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Saturday said thousands of troops will be sent to Kunduz, Takhar and Badakhshan provinces in order to prevent any threat by myrmidons.
The MoD said the deployment will be permanent and they will be a supporting unit.
"They will number in the thousands. We hope to equip them as much as possible so they have no need to rely on reinforcement troops if needed. It will be a powerful unit," said Mohammad Rahman Afzal, deputy chief of MoD public affairs department.
President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. visited Kunduz city on Friday where he vowed to clear the northeastern parts of myrmidons.
"My order and the decision of the national security council is to fully clear the northeastern parts of bandidosbandidos Lion of Islams and save your [Afghan forces] achievements," Ghani told Afghan troops in Kunduz.
"If they do not do this [clear the northern parts of myrmidons] they will face huge problems and there will not be any security in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... or its northern parts. I hope they keep their word and realize that the country is facing a crisis," said Amanullah Paima, an MP from Badakhshan.
The Afghan cops managed to retake full control of Kunduz city after 10 days and are now busy clearing Kunduz's districts of myrmidons.
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is scheduled to meet U.S President Barack Obama in Washington as part of his state visit to the United States. Sharif's visit starts on Sunday.[Tolo News] Deeply concerned by Pakistain's controversial role on the war against insurgency, the Afghan government on Saturday repeated its call to Islamabad to take practical steps against terrorist groups carrying out attacks from within the neighboring country.
The government of Afghanistan is clear that Pakistain needs to fight insurgency and stop providing a safe haven to these groups, said Sayed Zafar Hashemi, a deputy presidential front man, on Saturday at a presser.
His statement comes a day before Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to meet U.S President Barack Obama in Washington as part of his state visit to the United States. Sharif's visit starts on Sunday.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The U.N. Security Council on Saturday threatened to impose sanctions on those who block a peace deal for Libya that has run into hurdles over the formation of a unity government.
U.N. envoy Bernardino Leon has put forward proposals for the power-sharing government, but both Libya's internationally recognized parliament and the Islamist-backed assembly have balked at the appointments.
Libya has had two administrations since August 2014, when a militia alliance that includes Islamists overran the capital, forcing the internationally recognized government to take refuge in the east of the country.
Security Council members said the "Libya sanctions committee is prepared to designate those who threaten Libya's peace, stability and security or undermine the successful completion of its political transition," according to a statement.
The council "urged all Libyan parties to endorse and sign" the political deal and "work swiftly towards the formation of a government of national accord."
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Around 6,000 Sudanese troops have landed in Aden to join the Saudi-led collation in Yemen, Arab media sources reported on Saturday. The Sudanese troops will reinforce and cement the Arab coalition troops and will give them a quantum leap in their march to liberate the rest of Yemeni land, commented writer Jamal Al Duweiri .
The deployment of Sudanese troops implies how determined the Arab coalition is in maintaining and preserving the national security of the region. It also reflects the Sudanese army's seriousness about the security, safety and stability of the region, the sources said.
"Due to Yemen's strategic location, the Arab military forces have to move on," Jamal pointed out.
The participation of the Sudanese troops at this stage will boost the achievements of the Arab collation in its effort to restore Yemen's legitimacy, he added.
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[REUTERS] Yemen's Saudi-backed government said on Saturday it was studying an invitation from the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... to attend talks aimed at ending a war between a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... gunnies who control much of the country including the capital.
"The Yemeni government confirms that we're always ready for and committed to peace," front man Rajeh Badi told Rooters from the Saudi capital Riyadh.
"We value the role of the United Nations and thank its special envoy to Yemen, who has exerted great efforts toward achieving a peaceful resolution," he said, adding that his government would respond to the call within 48 hours.
There was no immediate response to the call from the Houthis, a predominantly Shi'ite group allied to Iran and backed by forces loyal to veteran former president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , whose departure 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... helped to broker.
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[IsraelTimes] So-called 'national coalition' to support local initiatives, campaigns and charitable organizations that counter radicalization
Britannia's Prime Minister David Cameron ... has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ... on Sunday pledged £5.0 million to root out the "poison" of Lions of Islam like 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.... that target the alienated and vulnerable in British communities.
The funds ($7.7 million) will support local initiatives, campaigns and charitable organizations this year in a so-called "national coalition" against radicalization.
"We need to systematically confront and challenge extremism and the ideologies that underpin it, exposing the lies and the destructive consequences it leaves in its wake," Cameron said on Sunday.
"We have to stop it at the start -- stop this seed of hatred even being planted in people's minds and cut off the oxygen it needs to grow."
The pledge came on the eve of the launch of the Conservative government's counter-extremism strategy, which will also include a broader crackdown on myrmidon content online.
The strategy is widely expected to include closer working between Internet companies and police to remove online propaganda, using systems currently employed against child abuse images.
There is also set to be a clampdown on extremism in prisons and universities, and incentives for schools to integrate pupils better.
The new strategy will set out "our new approach to tackle this poison", Cameron said.
The plan will target "violent and non-violent" extremism, support mainstream voices, and address the segregation and feelings of alienation that provide "fertile ground" for radical ideologies.
The premier warned however that the scale of the challenge was "immense".
"At the core is building a national coalition of all those individuals and groups who are united in their determination to defeat extremism and build a more cohesive society.
"We will do everything we can to support them -- through my new community engagement forum and with practical support and funding to tackle these deep-rooted issues.
"The scale of the task is immense and that is why we need everyone to play their part."
The strategy will also establish a joint industry and government group to tackle the proliferation of myrmidon content online.
According to recent research by British-based think-tank the Quilliam Foundation, the Islamic State produces 38 unique pieces of high-quality propaganda every day -- which spread on social networking websites and target IS sympathizers and supporters across the world.
"The past 18 months has seen a big change in the way that Lions of Islam use the Internet to target their radical ideology directly at young minds," the government added in Sunday's statement.
Cameron had already vowed earlier this year to "de-glamorize" IS snuffies and clamp down on Lions of Islam in Britannia.
SEOUL -- North Korea pledged Sunday to take "the toughest counteraction" against a proposed U.N. resolution targeting North Korean leader Kim Jong-un over the North's dismal human rights record.
South Korea, the United States and their like-minded partners began drafting a new resolution last Tuesday, calling for the referral of the highest official responsible for North Korea's human rights violations to the International Criminal Court. The highest official to be included in this year's resolution means North Korean leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un, a diplomatic source said last week.
Last year, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a similar resolution that called for the U.N. Security Council to refer the North's human rights abuses to the ICC. The resolution led to the Security Council adopting the issue as an official agenda item for the first time.
North Korea "will foil the hostile forces' reckless 'human rights' hysteria against it with the toughest counteraction," an unidentified spokesman for North Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a comment carried in the country's official Korean Central News Agency.
The spokesman denounced the draft as a mean plot of the U.S. and its followers, claiming that the U.S. is the world's worst human rights abuser and a human rights tundra and criminal state.
President Park Geun-hye and U.S. President Barack Obama held a summit last week and pledged to work with the international community to improve North Korea's human rights record and ensure accountability for human rights violations.
"Given the horrific treatment of the North Korean people by their government, our two nations will continue to expose abuses and call for accountability for human rights violations," Obama said.
North Korea has long been accused of grave human rights violations, ranging from holding political prisoners in concentration camps to torture and carrying out public executions. The North has denied any rights abuses, describing the accusations as a U.S.-led attempt to topple its regime.
If only...
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When Saudi Arabia says that your human rights are bad
Then, either: you're Israel or you been trading nuclear tech to Iran.
[AnNahar] Fears are growing that "shabiha" gunnies accused of committing some of the most barbaric atrocities against Syrian civilians for Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's regime are arriving incognito in Europe and getting asylum.
The prospect has sent shivers downs the spines of Syrians who fled the war-torn country, as indications pile up that thugs who tortured on behalf of Assad have slipped into the flow of refugees arriving in Europe.
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[DeutscheWelle]. An independent candidate to be mayor of Cologne has been severely injured in a knife attack. Police said four other people were hurt at the scene, and a suspect was taken into custody.
Police on Saturday morning said mayoral candidate Henriette Reker had been attacked at a political information stand in the city.
According to a spokesman, Reker was set upon by an individual wielding a knife who also attacked four other people at the scene, including a man - beleived to have been a part of Reker's campaign team - who was also seriously hurt.
The other three people were also said to have required medical treatment, but their injuries were not described as serious.
Police said a 44-year-old man had been arrested at the time of the incident, which took place at a political information stand for the Christian Democrats (CDU) in the Braunsfeld district of the city.
There was no initial indication of the motive for the attack, and it was not immediately clear how serious the injuries were.
However, "Focus" magazine reported that the man's act was meant at protesting the CDU's policies on refugees, according to Germany's KNA news agency.
Is the CDU for or against Chancellor Merkel's open borders policy?
The city elects a new mayor on Sunday and the 58-year-old year old lawyer was on the campaign trail at a weekly market. Reker's candidature has the support of a broad political base, with the CDU, the Greens and the Free Democrats all giving her their backing. Outlaw knives? Create "Sporks Only" safe spaces?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... would not hesitate to shoot down military aircraft violating its air space, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday, a day after the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... member shot down an unidentified drone close to the border with Syria.
"We downed a drone yesterday. If it was a plane we'd do the same. Our rules of engagement are known. Whoever violates our borders, we will give them the necessary answer," Davutoglu told a rally of his ruling AK Party in the central city of Kayseri.
A U.S. official told Rooters Friday that Washington suspected it was a Russian drone, but said the information was still preliminary and declined to give any more details.
Turkey had already complained of Russian warplanes violating its airspace and is still investigating where the drone came from on Friday.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... the Russian defence ministry in a swift reaction said on Friday that all its planes in Syria had safely returned to base and all its drones were operating "as planned" after Turkish warplanes shot down the drone.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's Dogan Group has said Star media outlet chair Murat Sancak's accusations that the Dogan Group was also behind a recent armed attack targeting him were "irrational and pathetic."
In a statement by Dogan Group Vice President Responsible for Corporate Relations Ahter Kutadgu, the group said Sancak voiced his accusations two months after the incident and after various reports were published about the incident.
"We consider commenting on this irrational, remorseless and pathetic statement that mocks the average human intellect as a waste of time and do not take it seriously," read the statement.
"We hand over Murat Sancak to Allah, but first to the supreme Turkish judiciary, and leave him alone with his own conflicts and dilemmas," it added.
Sancak was caught in crossfire on Aug. 20 along with his bodyguard and driver in Istanbul's Hadimköy district at around 12:00 p.m. According to the police investigation, a total of 21 bullets hit their car, but Sancak and his bodyguards managed to survive the attack and no casualties were reported.
One of the six suspects transferred to court in the case was incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! on Oct. 16 on charges of "attempted voluntary manslaughter."
Although the Star media outlet initially portrayed the incident as a "terrorist attack to silence the media," the suspects in the case have been found out to be members of a criminal gang and had no links to any terrorist group.
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A Murdoch like news organization was behind a hit? Sounds like Tomorrow Never Dies.
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Musician Lauryn Hill and actor Danny Glover appear in a video equating the situation of Palestinians under Israeli rule with that of blacks in the United States -- and protesting both.
The short video, entitled "When I See Them I See Us" and uploaded to YouTube on Wednesday, also features Angela Davis, Cornel West, Alice Walker, Omar Barghouti and other prominent black and Palestinian academics and activists. Is it just me, or is there actually a lot of cross-pollination between Paleos and "African Americans"?
[DAWN] As Pakistain takes its battle against Lions of Islam to its logical end in its tribal borderlands, another virulently violent and deadly threat is rearing its head on the country's western borders in Afghanistan, where local residents and journalists say the self-styled 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.... or Daesh [Islamic State] has gained a toehold to spread its influence on both sides of the borders.
The group has resources and manpower and found safe havens in the foothills of the White Mountain (Speen Ghar) on the other side of the Durand Line, where it has virtually established its writ.
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'breeding ground for IS'
I propose it's not the breeding as much as the birthing.
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from one of the foreign policy articles Wretchard quoted on FB. The real reason for Pakistan’s nuclear expansion isn’t India — it’s for blackmailing the United States. So fearful has Washington been of Pakistan’s nukes being sold, stolen, lost, sabotaged, or accidentally used that during George W. Bush’s administration, it reportedly spent as much as $100 million trying to secure the arsenal. Since 2001, the Pakistan Army has also received more than $20 billion in military support from the United States, even as it has continued to support groups like the Haqqani network that have killed hundreds of Americans. This is the greatest shakedown in history.
[DAWN] LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday fixed Oct 28 for framing charges on 88 suspects involved in lynching of two men at Youhannabad in retaliation for suicide kabooms on churches.
The court directed the prosecution to produce all the suspects before it on next hearing for their indictment in the case.The prosecution had already submitted challan ... list of charges ... against the suspects.
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[DAWN] TAXILA: On the recommendation of the special branch, the local administration has banned the entry of four firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... holy man in Taxila and Wah Cantonment for 60 days.
According to a notification, the step has been taken to maintain peace during Muharramul Harram.
The notification revealed that there were reasons to believe that they will give inflammatory speeches or indulge in activities prejudicial to public safety and maintenance of good order in the city as well as district.
Their speeches and even presence may promote hatred among different sects and thus posing problems for law and order.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... on the directives of the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government, Taxila police have mounted a watch on the activities of the persons included in Fourth Schedule list.
The provincial government has directed the police to take foolproof security arrangements for Muharram processions and congregations.
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Firebrand clerics banned for 60 days.
Not long enough.Execute them all, and watch your nation (and religion) improve greatly.
Lithium in the water will help too.
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I wonder how that is working out.
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[IsraelTimes] UNESCO proposal, which also condemns Israeli excavations near Temple Mount, to be submitted by Arab states in coming days
Six Arab states are set to submit a proposal on behalf of the Paleostinians to the UN's cultural body to officially claim the Western Wall as part of Al-Aqsa Mosque compound (the Temple Mount), Israel's Ynet news website reported Friday.
The proposal will be submitted in the coming days to the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, known as UNESCO, by Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, Ynet said. The Paleostinians are not members of the body's executive council, and therefore rely on one of the 58 member states to submit the proposal.
Ynet quoted senior Israeli sources as saying that the Paleostinians are also seeking to submit the proposal in parallel to the UNESCO plenum, where they are recognized as a state.
The proposal also calls for the international community to condemn Israel for urging "its citizens to bear arms in light of recent terror wave," as well as recent actions by Israel and the IDF in Jerusalem. The document, a copy of which was obtained by Ynet, refers to Jerusalem as "the occupied capital of Paleostine."
In addition, the Paleostinians seek condemnation of ongoing Israeli archaeological excavations near the Temple Mount and the Old City in Jerusalem, as well as for the "aggression and illegal measures taken against the freedom of worship and access of Muslims to Al-Aqsa Mosque and Israel's attempts to break the status quo since 1967."
According to Ynet, Israel is trying to convince as many countries as possible to oppose the proposal, or abstain. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the report said, the proposal will likely be approved as there is a Muslim and Arab majority on UNESCO's executive council.
The Paleostinians claim that Israel plans to change the status quo at the site, which is holy to Jews and Muslims but where Jews are allowed to visit but not pray. Israel has repeatedly denied the accusation, which has been a key factor in the ongoing violence.
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The Palestinians flat out deny there is any Jewish historical connection to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, let alone to the Holy Land. This is consistent with that, and with the Muslim tradition of erasing evidence of a pre-Islamic past in the lands they conquer. Even in Arabia, the Saudis have been busily destroying buildings and shrines connected to the life of their prophet Mohammed and all else connected to that period, not to mention all traces of history before. If Allah continually reinvents the universe to reflect his whim, Homo muslimus is duty bound to reflect that in his own actions... or at least to remove proof supporting the claims of those who reject Islam.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Italia said Saturday that UNESCO has approved its suggestion to have the United Nation's famous Blue Helmets protect heritage sites around the world from attacks by Islamist hard boys.
Soon to come to a newsstand near you: Blue Helmet Guys Taken Hostage by ISIS...
"UNESCO has said yes to the Cultural Blue Helmets," Culture Minister Dario La Belle Franceschini said in a statement, adding that 53 countries voted in favour after the destruction of sites including Palmyra in Syria by 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group.
"Faced with ISIS terrorist attacks and the terrible images of Palmyra, the international community cannot stand back and watch," he said, adding that the permanent members of the security council had supported the idea.
United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... peacekeepers, known by their distinctive blue helmets, would be able to profit from the expertise of Italia's cultural and heritage police, "who carry out training missions around the world", he said.
The idea is aimed at "important sites at risk from terrorist attacks, or in war zones, or zones hit by natural disasters, where the international community will be able to send Cultural Blue Helmets to protect them or defend them before they can be destroyed".
La Belle Franceschini called for the U.N. to "immediately define the operational aspects of this international task force".
ISIS seized control of Palmyra in May and has realised international fears by destroying some of the most prized sites in the UNESCO World Heritage listed ancient city.
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"UNESCO has said yes to the Cultural Blue Helmets"
Might I suggest they start asking for volunteers from various university departments? I'm sure there's enough archeologists in the world to form a brigade.
Then, if there's not enough volunteers, start drafting them.
[Rudaw] The chairman of the security committee of Kirkuk Provincial Council is rejecting an idea to send Hashd al-Shaabi to the oil-rich, disputed Kirkuk province.
Azada Jabbari told Rudaw on Thursday that the Iraqi government should send weapons to the Peshmerga; not bring in the Shiite militia, also known as Popular Mobilization Forces.
"Instead of sending Hashd al-Shaabi forces, let them send weapons to the military force that had been protecting Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... (the Peshmerga)," Jabbari said.
The security chairman said they will not agree on sending Hashd al- Shaabi forces or any other forces to Kirkuk except Peshmerga.
"Every area of Kirkuk province will be protected by Peshmerga, and Kirkuk does not need any other forces," he said, adding that he has not and will not waver from the hardline stance.
Iraqi officials have held recent talks about sending Hashd al-Shaabi to the Kirkuk province, but Kurdish officials have strongly rejected the idea.
The Hashd al-Shaabi rose up last year following a call from Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest Shiite holy man in Iraq, to fight back 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.... , which overran much of the country's western territory.
The militia took the lead in the liberation of Tikrit earlier this year. Some accused the group of marginalizing Sunni residents in the area.
On June 8, Naman Ibrahimi, of the Ziqar province security committee, said, "At least 15,000 volunteers from Ziqar province and the capital city of Nasiriya have joined the Hashd al-Shaabi and will take up arms against ISIS."
Iraqi police and military commanders in the Hashd al-Shaabi are currently training the arrivals, said Ibrahimi, and there are enough weapons for all the volunteers. He did not specify if the volunteers will be paid for their service.
[DAWN] Israel on Friday rejected Paleostinian calls for a protection force to be deployed in east Jerusalem to quell violence around the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque.
"Let me be crystal clear --Israel will not agree to any international presence on the Temple Mount. Such a presence would be a change in the status quo," Israeli Deputy Ambassador David Roet told the UN Security Council.
The 15-member council met in an emergency session to discuss weeks of escalating violence between Israel and the Paleostinians in Jerusalem and the territories.
UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the "reprehensible" attack at Joseph's Tomb in the city of Nablus and called for those responsible to be brought to justice.
No doubt that will happen, at which point the world will fuss about the many Palestinians and Israeli Arabs housed in Israeli jails.
Two weeks of violence have left 39 Paleostinians dead and hundreds more maimed in festivities with Israeli forces. Seven Israelis have been killed and dozens maimed.
...ratios that will become ever more tilted in Israel's favour, now that the citizenry are armed and and aware.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran is to step up its military support for the Syrian regime in the form of advice on fighting terrorism, Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Saturday.
Abdollahian, quoted by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
, denied that his country had fighters on the ground in the Syrian conflict.
"We have military advisers in Iraq and Syria at the request of the governments of the two countries ... We are going to step up our aid to Syria in the form of advice on the fight against terrorism," he said.
On Friday, a U.S. official said as many as 2,000 fighters from Iran and its regional allies were supporting Syrian army's offensives against rebels in coordination with Russia.
Iran is a key ally of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... and has stood by since an uprising against his regime broke out in 2011.
A senior Iranian official said Thursday on a visit to Syria that Tehran would consider sending fighters if Damascus requested them.
"If Syria makes a request (for Iranian forces), we will study the request and make a decision," said Alaedin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament's national security and foreign policy committee.
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Iran is to step up its military support for the Syrian regime in the form of advice on fighting terrorism, Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said Saturday.
A war of words is it?
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Well, Iran is a 150 billion $ richer. It can afford to.
Here again is how the New York Times reported the response to this incident:
"In Washington, several current and former senior administration officials acknowledged that the attack and the abductions by the Nusra Front took American officials by surprise and amounted to a significant intelligence failure. While American military trainers had gone to great lengths to protect the initial group of trainees from attacks by Islamic State or Syrian Army forces, they did not anticipate an assault from the Nusra Front. In fact, officials said on Friday, they expected the Nusra Front to welcome Division 30 as an ally in its fight against the Islamic State.
"'This wasn't supposed to happen like this,' said one former senior American official, who was working closely on Syria issues until recently, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential intelligence assessments."
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Continued an unnamed official, speaking on the condition of anonymity,
"The creatures we trained and released
Are, oddly enough, all deceased,
Or, suddenly riled
On return to the wild
Middle East, joined the cannibal feast."
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It's come to this: they are prepared to war against us because of the CALENDAR we use.
When will we understand? When will we learn?
Mike
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"Leap years are Unislamic"
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"they are prepared to war against us because of the CALENDAR we use"
Then we need to be prepared to war against them because they're nuckin' futz.
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If imitating the infidel is haram, can we expect the Muzzies to throw down their cell phones, antibiotics, internal combustion engines and firearms?
It is worth noting that in the US, we have Amish populations that eschew modern things like electricity and the telephone, but they don't make a nuisance of themselves while doing it.
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Unlike the Vietnam- and Post-Vietnam-Era DemoLeft, the IS + aligned have no problems wid antiquated or archaic "Nation Building", or "National Reconstruction", or Mass Beheadings, to "win the Hearts-n-Minds", ETC. of Enemies to Islam.
As for the Islamic State, etal. being at war wid any Each + All Non-Islam ... ...
* TASS.RU > RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY: ISLAMIC STATE PLANS EXPANSION INTO EUROPE, RUSSIA, + [Central-SE] ASIA.
Russian Deputy DM Anatoly Antonov, whom also argues that the IS has stable sources of revenue for its activities, + a well-equipped army.
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [NCB News[ WHY RUSSIA FACES ANOTHER ISLAMIC TERROR FRONT: AFGHANISTAN.
Vee Afghan-Taijik border regions.
* TOPIX, BIGNEWSNETWORK > AL-NUSRA STILL FORCIBLY RECRUITING MEN TO FIGHT IN SYRIA [+ elsewhere] ON THREAT/PAIN OF DEATH.
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OOOOPPPSIES, forgot DRUDGEREPORT > [Russia Today] "ISIS WAS [originally = primarily] CREATED AGZ RUSSIA": KADYROV.
President of the Pro-Russia Chechen Republic ROMAZIN KADYROV, whom as per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS repor is asking Putin to allow the notorious = dreaded Chechen infantry to fight in Syria.
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[Tolo News] Baghlan police chief Abdul Jabar Purdeli on Saturday said the bodies of scores of Taliban fighters who were killed in the Kunduz battle by security forces have been handed over to their families.
David Cameron
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
[DAWN] 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
Here again is how the New York Times reported the response to this incident:
