[Tolo News] The Ministry of Interior on Tuesday said Taliban and Daesh [Islamic State] fighters are being trained in Pakistain and then sent to Afghanistan to fight security forces.
Interior Minister Noorulhaq Olomi said holy warriors are recruiting the youth and are continuing their attacks on Afghanistan while giving orders from Pakistain.
Speaking at an event on Tuesday which saw security forces destroy 19,000 kgs of drugs along with a large amount of alcohol, Olomi said drugs are one of the main revenue sources for holy warriors.
Olomi said: "Taliban and Daesh [Islamic State] fighters as always are being trained in Pakistain. They are equipped and financed there and are then sent to Afghanistan. They [insurgents] are being given hope while in Pakistain of achieving their goals in Afghanistan."
He went on to say: "Drugs are one of the main sources of income for holy warriors in the region. They continue their attacks and are recruiting our youth through drugs."
Meanwhile the Counter-Narcotics Minister Salamat Azimi said the problem of drugs is a major challenge for Afghanistan.
He said: "The drug problem is a serious challenge for Afghanistan and the international community."
"In order to overcome the problem, we need the joint cooperation of the international community."
The counter-narcotics department under MoI recently announced its achievements in fighting the scourge. Since January they have seized over 100 tons of drugs in 1,135 operations.
They also said the department had seized over 400 vehicles, 240 weapons and 244 mobile phones from drug pushers and smugglers.
The seizure of drugs increased by 16 percent this year and alcohol by 36 percent.
Security force members from the unit meanwhile tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! a total of 1,876 people -- including 20 coppers, 29 soldiers, 26 women and two foreigners - a Kazakhstani and an Iranian -- for dealing and smuggling drugs.
Of the total, 227 were king-pin drug smugglers, 49 were middlemen and 1,600 were dealers.
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[Tolo News] The Ghor parents of a 25-year-old woman voiced their distress on Tuesday over the recent conviction of their daughter by a Taliban court which has allegedly sentenced her to death by stoning.
The woman was accused of having run away with a security force member, before being captured by Taliban murderous Moslems.
Their kangaroo court hearing was reportedly held in Ghalmin area in Ghor province four days ago.
The woman was found guilty and allegedly sentenced to be buried alive under a pile of rocks.
The woman's mother said: "They have taken my daughter four days ago and they want to sentence her to death."
While her father said: "He [security force members] kidnapped my daughter and gave her to the Taliban. She has been sentenced to death."
The woman sentenced to death has four children. One of them was with her at the time of her capture. This child is allegedly being held by the murderous Moslems, said her parents.
Two of her other children have meanwhile appealed to government to step in and prevent their mother from being killed.
One of them said: "The Taliban want to stone my mother and I urge government to stop them."
Meanwhile Ghor police chief Ghulam Mustafa Mohseni said the allegations are baseless and that the woman was taken by a security force member and police are still trying to find her.
He said: "We are trying to find the woman. We will return her to her family where ever she is."
However a number of tribal elders said the Taliban's decision to stone her to death is confirmed and if government does not step in and stop this from happening she will be stoned in the same area where 19-year-old Rokhshana suffered the same fate.
Rokhshana was stoned to death last month after having been found guilty by the Taliban of eloping with a man.
One tribal elder Haji Nek Mohammad said: "They say they are going to stone the woman to death. Her uncles went to get her but they were not successful."
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[Tolo News] Religious leaders from Afghanistan and Indonesia came together on Tuesday in Kabul where they strongly condemned terrorism and called for acceptance and moderation among Muslims.
Why Indonesia?
Delegates, attending the 2015 Annual Forum for Promoting Peace, Respect to Human Rights and Countering Radicalism,
...to which no Rantburg moderator received an invitation...
Oh dear. I would be devastated, but I've been taking extra naps to recover from Thanksgiving.
said Muslims should treat the followers of other religions as well as all Muslims with respect.
One religious scholar Faziulghani Kakar said: "The lives and properties of those who are not Muslim and are living in a Muslim country should be safe. These are human rights introduced to Muslims by the Prophet 14 centuries ago. This was the message of the Prophet for real Muslims who want to live in harmony with all people."
Meanwhile the Indonesian Ambassador to Kabul Anshory Tadjudin said that Islam and modernization go hand-in-hand in Indonesia and that is why his country is improving.
He said: "Our people live together alongside followers of other religions and as I said during my speech Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and Hindus all live in an accepted environment in our country."
"This is the way we obey the issue of human rights in Indonesia. We respect each other," he said.
Minister of Hajj and Religious Affairs Faiz Mohammad Osmani said it is important for religious scholars to take a stance against insurgent activities in the country.
He said: "We need to be more active than we were in the past. We should not stay calm. In such sensitive situations where innocent children are being killed under the flag with the Tawhid, and our religious scholars are being beheaded, we should stand up against this."
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Well if no MODs were invited perhaps Bangkock Billy can crash the Buffett.
[Tolo News] NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said at a presser on Tuesday that after 2016 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) mission will focus only on training and mentoring in Afghanistan and that bases will be located in only four provinces in the country.
The two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers began on Tuesday in Brussels at the organization's headquarters.
NATO Secretary-General said on the sidelines of the meeting that Afghanistan is an important country for NATO, which will not allow the country to become a safe haven for Death Eaters as Afghanistan's insecurity was in turn a big threat to the security of NATO countries.
"We are in Afghanistan to prevent that Afghanistan again becomes a safe haven for international terrorists. It is also in our security interests to make sure that doesn't happen. So we are in Afghanistan of course to support Afghans but we are in Afghanistan also to support ourselves because if Afghanistan becomes a safe haven for international Death Eaters that will also be a threat to us," he said.
Stoltenberg said he supported the grinding of the peace processor by the Afghan government and asked the neighboring countries to help with the process.
"We welcome efforts by all parties to further an Afghan-owned and an Afghan-led inclusive grinding of the peace processor. Good noble relations and regional support and cooperation remain essential for a stable Afghanistan that we all want to see," he added.
These comments come on the heels of earlier statements that NATO will keep 12,000 troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2016.
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[REUTERS] The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... allies decided on Tuesday to hold alliance troop levels in Afghanistan steady at about 12,000 next year and launched a campaign to fund the 350,000 Afghan forces it hopes can some day secure the country against Talibs.
Fourteen years after the United States first sent troops to Afghanistan, NATO governments have doubts about the ability of its army and police to defend against Taliban fighters, who briefly took over the northern city of Kunduz in September.
As a result, the 28-member Western alliance is abandoning plans to slash its troop levels by the end of this year.
"We are in Afghanistan to prevent that Afghanistan again becomes a safe haven for international gunnies ... that is also in our security interest to make sure that that doesn't happen," NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.
Excluding U.S. counter-terrorism forces, NATO will have about 12,000 troops in Afghanistan for most of next year, made up of about 7,000 U.S. forces and 5,000 from the rest of NATO and its partners such as non-NATO member Georgia.
At Tuesday's meeting, allies also launched a campaign to raise about $3 billion euros to help pay for Afghanistan's state security forces from 2018.
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International and national pressure is mounting on Puntland leader Abdiwali Mohamed Ali Gaas to sign a peace deal to end Galkayo fighting with his Galmudug counterpart Abdikarin Hussein Guled. UN envoy for Somalia Nickolas Kay, EU ambassador, diplomats and Somali prime minister Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke held a meeting with Puntland leader in northern Galkayo on Tuesday.
On Monday, president Abdiwali Mohamed Ali Gas has declined to ink the peace deal proposed by Somali premier and the country’s regional leaders, saying he would not sit down with Galmudug leader on the negotiating table.
Mr Gaas insists that his admin has an ample evidence that show the Somali National Army sided with Galmudug state troops and engaged to attack Puntland forces in northern Galkayo on 22, November.
Puntland and Galmudug forces battled over the construction of a road, which Puntland is trying to build in northern Galkayo’s Garsoor village that divides the two states.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has dismissed the country's security minister after an ISIS-claimed suicide kaboom killed 12 members of the presidential guard last week.
Secretary of State for Security Affairs Rafik Chelly lost his job Tuesday after the third bombing claimed by ISIS this year, following deadly attacks at the Bardo Museum in Tunis and in the resort of Sousse.
A government statement didn't specify a reason for Chelly's dismissal, merely noting that he is being "called to other duties."
In recent weeks, Tunisia's government has said that security forces dismantled several radical jihadi cells planning attacks against tourist sites and public figures.
It says that dozens of suspected bully boyz have been placed in durance vile Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! and three weapons depots in the north, central and south were discovered.
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Arab coalition forces and their Yemeni allies will pursue a military campaign to end an Iranian-backed coup until the rebels agree to join UN-sponsored peace negotiations; the coalition spokesman was reported on Tuesday as saying.
“Halting the military operations is up to the Houthis and their allies…if they want to end this war and go to the negotiating table, then it will end…otherwise the operations will continue until security and stability in Yemen and its neighbors is achieved,” Brigadier Ahmed Assiri said, quoted by Rotana Gulf satellite TV channel.
He said the war, which has entered its ninth month, has dragged on because the insurgents have strong military capabilities.
But he stressed that the Saudi-dominated coalition as well as the national Yemeni army and the resistance would not stop the war before the rebels agree to peace terms.
“We are in a war against a large force which has a large number of men and large military capabilities…we are fighting the Houthis and their allies, including part of the Yemeni regular army and the Republican Guards, and the Central Security Forces…they are trained forces and have capabilities that surpass those of some Arab countries,” the Saudi army general said.
“But the military operation we launched early this year will continue until the other party reaches a conclusion that they must abide by UN Security Council Resolution 2216.”
[ARABNEWS] The Ministry of Education has banned all schools, libraries and resource centers from using 80 books of writers linked to the outlawed Moslem Brüderbund organization.
The writers include Hassan Al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb and Yousuf Al-Qaradawi ...crackpot Egyptian Islamist theologian. He is best known for his program Shariah and Life on Al Jazeera, with an estimated audience of 60 million kindred souls worldwide. He is also well-known for IslamOnline, which occasionally advocates things like slavery and thumping the old lady with a rod no thicker than an inch, and has published more than 120 books, including Islam: The Future Civilization. Joe has long had a prominent role within the intellectual leadership of the Moslem Brüderbund. Some of his views have been controversial in the West, though less so among the rubes of the Mysterious East, and he was refused entry to the United Kingdom in 2008. In 2004, 2,500 Muslim academics from Saudi Arabia, Iraq and from the Palestinian territories condemned Qaradawi, and accused him of giving Islam a bad name.... , reported an online publication on Tuesday, quoting a circular issued by the ministry.
The circular stated that these books should be handed to the ministry within two weeks. The ministry has also warned education departments and schools not to accept any gifts other than those given by the ministry.
The banned books include "Allah and the Islamic Faith," and "The Ten Principles" by Hassan Al-Banna, "The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam" by Yousuf Al-Qaradawi and "Shubhaat Hawl Al-Islam" by Sayyid Qutb.
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"Panjandrum, the Bros are Koranning!"
"And as for yourself? No, keep fanning.
'Tis quite a conundrum --
The cause of their tantrum's
The one tome I cannot be banning."
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Zenobia, serious question, did you start this as a child? Did either of your parents have this compulsion gift? I mean I have a Leslie Gore problem,, but it only occupies a few CPU cycles, but your stuff must really keep your brain occupied, if it doesn't, well, that's scary! :)
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Shit CrazyFool, its one thing to send agents to politically hoist Morsi of the Brotherhood through the elections so vigorously warrants of arrest were issued for those agents, and the end result of Morsi nearly taking to the country to war against Israel and Ethiopia and in general stinker the people revolted against the Brotherhood, with much violence, that the organization had to be banned.
[ARABNEWS] Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh has called on preachers in the Kingdom to fight deviant thoughts and values that are not Islamic.
"This is in keeping with the significant role you play in contemporary Saudi society in view of various attempts to destabilize security and Islamic teachings and values," Al-Asheikh said. He made the call during a meeting with preachers and workers in Badiah district.
Al-Asheikh said that guiding Muslims along the right path in accordance with correct teachings and values is part and parcel of their Islamic duties and responsibilities.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... he said: "While you go about your task in disseminating Islamic thoughts, you're at the same time expected to exercise tolerance to achieve the desired goals." He urged preachers to be focused and exercise patience in the pursuit of what is right and proper, and to keep their links and associations with scholars.
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Looks sorta like dental hygiene is one of those deviant ideas...
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When he's not eating or wafting on his hookah, he can play Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1.
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"While you go about your task in disseminating Islamic thoughts, you're at the same time expected to exercise tolerance to achieve the desired goals."
Man, talk about you self contradictory instructions.
In case Mufti Sheikh doesn't realize it Islam means submission, tolerance is NOT part of that package.
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What deviant thoughts aren't Islamic?
The very idea is comic --
They've got 'em all covered,
Of evil, a cupboard,
Served up in one... Umm economic. /uptalk
"Imam, why are Muslims in crisis?"
"Our bloodlines are braided like ficus.
We're truly deceitful,
Unruly, not peaceful,
But mostly, 'cause kafirs don't like us!"
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The global holy warrior network of al-Qaeda has warned the government of 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... of consequences in case the planned mass execution is carried out.
Rooters news agency reports that the group's affiliate in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000... (AQAP) said it was aware of Saudi intentions to execute its members in Saudi prisons and pledged to carry out attacks in response.
"We swear to God, our blood will be shed before the blood of our captives, and their pure blood will not dry before we shed the blood of the soldiers of Al Saud," according to Rooters, the group said in a statement which was posted on Twitter and dated Tuesday. "We will not enjoy life unless we get the necks of the Al Saud rulers."
Okaz newspapaer which has close links with the Saudi Interior Ministry recently reported that Saudi government is going to execute 55 men convicted of terrorism offences, among those, reportedly some members of al-Qaeda.
The mass beheadings are believed to take place in a single day in several cities across the kingdom, most likely after Friday prayers.
Amnesia Amnesty International, an organization which focuses on human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... has expressed alarm over the report saying that given the spike in executions this year, it has no option but to take the reports very seriously.
According to Amnesia Amnesty International, Saudi Arabia has executed at least 151 people this year while last year a total of 90 people were executed.
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IIRC, as per DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS earlier this AM Yemeni Govt. Officios are claiming that Al-Qaeda = Al-NUSRA BOYZ is now in charge of all Anti-Houthi/Shia/Iran Govt-Army forces???
* Also, BHARAT RAKSHAK > [GulfNews] ERDOGAN: TURKEY TO "ESTABLISH MILITARY BASE IN QATAR".
Just another reason among many in Iran's mind for KSA + Turkey rival + OWG Co-Superpower SHIA IRAN to destabilize or attack Base-Too-Far QATAR.
[FOXNEWS] The U.S. State Department says it is "troubled" by Russia's decision to ban two of liberal billionaire George Soros' pro-democracy charities and label the organizations a threat to national security.
"Today's designation of the Open Society Foundations and the Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation as so-called 'undesirable' organizations will only further restrict the work of civil society in Russia for the benefit of the Russian people," State Department front man Mark Toner said Monday. "This action is yet another example of the Russian Government's growing crackdown on independent voices and a deliberate step to further isolate the Russian people from the world."
A spokesperson from Russia's Prosecutor General's Office said the activities of the fund are threats to state security and the Russian constitution, Radio Free Europe reports.
The Open Society Foundations said in a statement on its website that it was "dismayed" by the decision.
"Contrary to the Russian prosecutor's allegations, the Open Society Foundations have, for more than a quarter-century, helped to strengthen the rule of law in Russia and protect the rights of all," the statement read.
Prosecutors started investigating the charity fund in July after Russian senators flagged a list of 12 groups that required a closer look over their supposed anti-Russian activities, RT reports.
Other groups on the list include the National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, the MacArthur Foundation and Freedom House.
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Dammit! Yet another situation where I find myself in complete agreement with the Russians.
Also known as an oxymoron - with the emphasis on the moron.
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Let's see. Soros is PNG in Hungary, Georgia, the Balkans, and I believe has been charged with currency manipulation in France and Kazakhstan. Quite the boy, our Georgie.
[BLOOMBERG] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... 's Cabinet approved deploying warplanes over Syria in the fight against 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.... , signaling solidarity with La Belle France after the terror attacks in Gay Paree.
Merkel and senior ministers agreed at a special meeting last Thursday to send Tornado surveillance planes, a frigate to help protect La Belle France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, aerial refueling for French fighter jets and satellite data. The full Cabinet backed Germany's contribution on Tuesday, according to a government spokeswoman, who asked not be identified in line with official policy.
The mission requires approval by Germany's lower house of parliament, which may hold a vote as early as this week. About 1,200 German troops will be deployed, General Volker Wieker, the head of the armed forces, was quoted as saying by Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
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Recon and a frigate?
Can't have to many of both I guess.
[ARABNEWS] Former President George W. Bush and a raft of senior US officials from his administration should be investigated for conspiracy to torture and for other crimes, Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... said Tuesday.
In a scathing report,
...they do enjoy scathing, especially if a substantial tea is laid on for restoring strength afterward...
...only when it's safe to scathe. They don't want to lose their heads over the scathing...
the international rights group decries the lack of prosecutions of those involved in the Central Intelligence Agency's secret program to torture detainees in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
It said there is enough evidence for the attorney general to order criminal probes.
The 153-page report outlines evidence to support the main criminal charges that could be brought against those behind what is referred to so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques, and challenges claims that prosecutions are impossible.
"US officials who created, authorized and implemented the CIA program should be among those investigated for conspiracy to torture as well as other crimes," the report summary states
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Certain circles are appreciative of the efforts.
ISIS shows you true barbarianism and yet you have time for this crap. Do they even understand what fundamental 'Human Rights' are? Maybe a luncheon at a fine Paris restaurant with service provided by ISIS could focus their attention.
[DAWN] LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday tossed in the slammer Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! a man involved in printing fake visas.
"The FIA arrested Sajjad alias Naumi from Bilal Ganj and recovered fake visa printing machines and fake visa stickers," FIA Deputy Director Lahore Muhammad Ahmad told the media.
He said the accused had been printing fake visa stickers for different countries, including the USA, Canada, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Dubai.
He said the FIA had got information about Sajjad through some agents arrested during its ongoing campaign against human smugglers.
He said a good number of agents of different areas used to come to buy fake visa stickers from the suspect.
A case has been registered against him.
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Personally I think in addition to whatever time you get for counterfitting visa's you should also serve time for every crime committed by one using your counterfit visa. Someone gets a life sentence and they used your visa to get into the country, well that's a life sentence buddy. Suck it up.
Such a move would reduce the number of opportunist.
[DAWN] KARAK: Serious differences have surfaced in the ranks of Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...a pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution... -F as the local chapter of its central executive committee has expressed no confidence in the person of district general secretary Maulana Zahoor Ahmad.
Addressing a presser here on Monday, the committee members, including Mufti Kifaytullah, Maulana Mohammad Khan Qasmi and Qari Mohammad Aslam, alleged that the district general secretary was undermining the party's cause in Karak.
They said that the elements violating the party discipline and damaging its cause would be removed from the party.
They accused Zahoor Ahmad of spoiling the party's reputation in the district, saying that they had already submitted their vote of no confidence against him with the district vice-president Qari Jehanzeb and provincial general secretary Maulana Shujaul Mulk.
The JUI-F leaders insisted that they had the support of 311 members of the executive council out of 496. They resolved to work according to the party's manifesto and take every step to strengthen it in the district.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday granted pre-arrest bail to Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... leader Rauf Siddiqui in a case registered against former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain.
A two-judge bench gave him interim bail before arrest in the case in the sum of Rs200,000.
The MQM leader submitted in his bail application that the North Nazimabad police had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Dr Asim, a close aide to former president Asif Ali Zardari, for allegedly treating and sheltering terrorists.
He said that he learnt that he was also named in the FIR while he had nothing to do with the case.
The applicant MQM leader said that he never phoned Dr Asim for the medical treatment of anyone.
He said that he was prepared to face the charges, but he apprehended his arrest.
The applicant requested the court to grant him pre-arrest bail so that he could approach the trial court to defend himself.
The bench gave him pre-arrest bail for four days directing him to approach the trial court.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: A baby boy kidnapped from outside the National Institute of Child Health over two months ago was finally safely recovered by police in a raid on a hideout of kidnappers in Malir.
The police tossed in the slammer Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! three kidnappers, Gulfam, Rizwan Khan and his wife Rani, during the raid conducted in Jaffer-e-Tayyar Society, said Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... -South DIG Dr Jamil Ahmed while speaking at a presser at his office.
He said the police also recovered the three-month-old Mohammad Umer who had been kidnapped at the age of one month from outside the children's hospital on Sept 17.
The DIG said that one of the suspects, Rizwan, was a police constable of the prison department.
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[DAWN] PESHAWAR: A total of 1,816 people have registered themselves with the HIV treatment centres in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Among them, 1,349 are men, 391 women and 76 children.
The statistics were shared by organisers with participants of a seminar held at the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. Press Club to mark the Dec 1 World AIDS Day.
The health department had organised the event to raise public awareness of HIV/AIDS, where people from different walks of life, including government officials, representatives of partner organizations and civil society activists were in attendance.
According to the statistics, most of the HIV cases registered with the province's treatment centres i.e. 298 are from Peshawar followed by 140 from Bannu, 101 from Lower Dir, 94 from Charsadda, 84 from Swat, 61 from Upper Dir, 60 from Swabi, 58 from Lakki Marwat, 50 from Nowshera, 47 from Hangu, 56 from Mardan, 41 from Kohat, 31 from Buner, 22 from Malakand, 15 from Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... , 15 from Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... , 14 from Karak, nine from Chitral, seven from DI Khan, five each from Shangla and Tank districts, four from Batagram, and one from Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... district.
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[DAWN] Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan said the federal government has decided to lodge an FIR in Dr. Imran Farooq murder case in Pakistain.
Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Tuesday evening, Nisar said that in the light of report of the Joint Investigation Team including British Scotland Yard, the Pakistain government will lodge an FIR in Dr. Imran Farooq murder case.
He said Imran Farooq was a Pak national and that is why Pakistain extended full cooperation to Britannia in investigation of the case and shared all information.
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[ARA News] DUHOK – Although the Peshmerga forces and allied local fighters, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, have recaptured the Yezidi district of Sinjar (Shingal) and the surrounding villages in northern Iraq from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS), the displaced Yezidi civilians are still reluctant to return home.
Some displaced Yezidis complained about the ISIS-led mass destruction of the towns and villages in Shingal, while others expressed their concerns about explosives and land-mines left behind by the terror group.
Speaking to ARA News in Shingal, Arif Khalil, one of the few Yezidis who revisited the region after its liberation, said: “On my way back to my house, I was struck by the scale of devastation that hit the villages and towns of the area. In Shingal, some houses were destroyed completely, while others half destroyed.”
“Many houses in the region have been looted and robbed,” he added.
Khalil pointed out that Shingal needs an intensive reconstruction campaign “after this devastating war”.
Salim Akhdar, a displaced Yezidi man, spoke to ARA News in the Duhok camp for Yezidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan, saying the land-mines planted by the terror group in Shingal region hinder his return with his family to to their hometown.
“Shingal had been under ISIS’s control for more than 15 months, and we are quite aware of the brutality of this group. The displaced civilians are reluctant to return home for fear of deadly accidental explosions,” he said.
Akhdar pointed out that life in “impossible” in the Shingal (Sinjar) region at the moment; “people’s return may take a long time due to the risky obstacles”.
“Shingal’s infrastructure has been destroyed due to the heavy shelling and bombings. Without rebuilding the basic infrastructure people would not be able to live in the region at all,” Hakim Kalash, another Yezidi refugee, told ARA News.
“Life will return to the Yezidi region but very slowly because the military operations are still ongoing, and many families have lost confidence in the return of stability and safety to Shingal following ISIS’s atrocities against innocent civilians.”
“ISIS still poses a threat to Shingal,” Kalash concluded.
The Shingal region had been under ISIS control for more than a year, where thousands of Yezidi civilians suffered from the atrocities of the extremist group.
The anti-ISIS operations started when the Peshmerga forces blocked most of the group’s supply lines in the area, breaking into the western neighborhoods of Shingal.
Shingal town and its environs enjoy a strategic location, and it connects the cities of Raqqa in eastern Syria with Mosul in northern Iraq –both held by ISIS.
In August last year, ISIS extremists had taken control of Shingal, causing a mass displacement of nearly 400,000 people to Duhok and Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. Tens of thousands of Yezidis remained trapped in Mount Sinjar, suffering mass killings, kidnappings and rape cases.
On November 13, The Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Iraqi Kurdistan announced the liberation of the entire Yezidi district of Shingal (Sinjar) in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh after fierce battles with ISIS extremists.
The ex-wife? Now that's a level of depravity I have not seen for some time
Al Qaeda's Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, released 16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen held captive since August, 2014 on Tuesday in a Qatari-mediated deal that also secured freedom for a jailed ex-wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Hmmm, I think I'm beginning to see a way to stop the ISIS hard boyz from kidnapping and beheading. Of course Human Rights Watch won't agree with me...
The Nusra Front seized the Lebanese during an attack on the border town of Arsal mounted together with the Daesh group which is still believed to be holding nine soldiers captured in the incursion.
Live TV footage from the border area between Lebanon and Syria showed the Lebanese captives in vehicles accompanied by masked men armed with assault rifles and waving the Nusra Front flag before they were released to the Red Thingy Cross.
Thirteen militants in Lebanese jails, including Saja Al Dulaimi, the ex-wife of Baghdadi, were also released. Dulaimi, fully veiled, was shown in live TV footage from the area with her three children who were with her in prison. Nusra Front fighters were shown kissing and hugging the sons of Dulaimi, who was arrested by the Lebanese authorities a year ago. Speaking to Al Jazeera, she said her wish was to return to Beirut and then to leave to Turkey.
"We accomplished the entire agreement with Nusra. We received our heroic soldiers and we are on our way back to Beirut," top Lebanese security official Abbas Ibrahim, who oversaw the swap, said by telephone.
"This joy not complete until the return of those kidnapped by Daesh. We are ready to negotiate with Daesh if we find someone to negotiate with," he said.
The Nusra Front fighters chanted "God is great" as they arrived with the captives in preparation for the swap. One of the captives, interviewed by Al Jazeera, said the group had treated them well. Nusra has killed four of the captives.
"Praise be to God. The joy cannot be described," another of the captives told Al Jazeera.
The exchange began with the Nusra Front releasing the body of one of the Lebanese soldiers it had killed in captivity, Mohamed Hamieh.
I would have released the body of a Daesh deader in reply. If I didn't have one handy I'd make one...
Qatar has been involved in efforts to mediate the release of the captives for a year or more. A previous effort to secure their release broke down a year ago after one of the captives was killed.
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[FOXNEWS] Russia has expanded its military operations in Syria to include a second airbase as well as other posts, according to a U.S. official briefed on the latest intelligence from the region -- even as President B.O. expresses muted optimism that Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... eventually will "shift" his strategy and work with the West.
Moscow's presence has grown to a total of four forward operating bases, including recently added bases in Hama and Tiyas. But the most concerning to the Pentagon is the second airbase in Shayrat which can support fixed-wing aircraft, greatly expanding Russia's capability for Arclight airstrikes, which began on Sept. 30.
"The Russians are operating helicopters out of Shayrat airport, but they are making [preparations] to land fixed-wing aircraft," another U.S. official confirmed to Fox News.
Shayrat is located 25 miles outside of the Syrian city of Homs, an hour drive from neighboring Leb.
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On the bright side- If russia is making trouble in syria, they are not doing it elsewhere. We get a clear, unobstructed view of some of their latest EW/ELINT and related capabilities.
We also get to make snarky comments on any mistakes they make while having a clear view.
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AND we maybe get to see those S-300s in action.
They are S-400's,(SA-21 GROWLER) IIRC. And we most assuredly will. In fact, I suspect we are now, if any components are in country and are in the process of setting up.
Between us and the Israelis, I suspect there will be very little we won't know about anything the Russians deploy to Syria.
I suspect there will be a lot of updating of libraries soon-ish.
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I still don't understand why this is concerning the pentagon. Let the russians take care of this problem.
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Onthe bright side- If russia is making trouble in syria, they are not doing it elsewhere. Posted by Nguard
Never let old fashioned pragmatism and common sense taint the method in which the Obama regime reacts to international events. Their 'Arab Spring' narrative is at stake here.
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OTOH see BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Al-Arabiya] ARABS CAUGHT BETWEEN TURKEY'S SULTAN + RUSSIAN TSAR.
Wahtzabout IRAN's SHAH = SUPREME AYATOLLAH???
EGYPT???
Wid all of these variable, competing OWG "Sphere(s) of Influence" mixing it up in the ME = Muslim World, you just know something's gotta explode!
PRAY HARD + KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSSED [like Eddie Murphy in "The Golden Child"],BECUZ IFF THE OWG GLOBIES MISCALCULATE, THE PRICE MAY LITERALLY BE THE HEADS OF THE ENTIRE NON-MUSLIM WORLD.
As the Muslim World = OWG Caliphate is Armed + Nuclearized, etc. by the Judeo-Christian World.
Anti-Secular, pro-Sharia Muslim Theo-Socialists empowered by the Secular Marxists-Commies-Socialists + Globalists.
"WE GOT OWG + SOCIALISM ALL RIGHT, JUST NOT THE KIND OF OWG + SOCIALISM, ETC. THE WESTERN LEFTIES WANTED".
* CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER = Say wid me again, Amerika, OOOOOPPPPPPPPSSSSSSS!
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I once worked for a lawyer who was also an M.D., tw. He had me keep on the lookout for both lawyer and doctor jokes. When he spoke to a group of lawyers, he used doctor jokes, and vice-versa. Great guy. :-D
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Seems a tad hypocritical to me. I deliberately murdered a bunch of you, but it would be wrong to murder me? Bah, O Brave Lion of Islam.
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Sorry, but no. It's the duty of a lawyer - any lawyer - to defend his client, no matter how evil the scumbag is. And no, I'm not a lawyer.
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12/02/2015 17:12 Comments ||
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Over in the States, lawyers are officers of the court. While they represent the accused, they are also responsible to uphold the law. Thus, if the lawyer knows that the law is being broken, they have a duty to the court to report it as such. Thus the old movie meme "Don't tell me. I don't want to know". Unfortunately, when they do know and don't act, they themselves become accessories to the fact. If they discover culpable information about their client, they may asked to be recused and lawyer-client privilege kicks in. See - Lynne Stewart.
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I think that in this case, there was almost no doubt that Tsarnaev was guilty. What she is trying to do is to minimize his sentence from death to something less. Like maybe time served or something. After all, he did lose his brother.
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Exactly right, EC. However, a lawyer can withdraw from representation if the scumbag is just too evil. Clarke probably does it because she enjoys the limelight, and perhaps gets a thrill from privileged personal access to all of these Hannibal Lechters.
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She's a San Diego Atty. I apologize to history/humanity, even though I'm not her
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No way, Jose', NOT in the wake of the Russian Airliner [Sinai] + San Bernardino alleged "domestic terror" event + those still to come.
* FYI LUCIANNE > [PJ Media] NEW ISIS THREAT [Video]: "TOMORROW IT WILL BE WASHINGTON {+ later NYC + Moscow]" UNLESS JIZYA TAX PAID.
VIDEO = "The Revenge has Started, Blood will Flow" ...
YESTERDAY TUESDAY [Guam time].
Iff the ISIS/ISIL goes after the Bammer, they may end up turning an Anti-US US POTUS into a MARTYR on several levels???
* SAME > [CNN] ISIS VIDEO CLAIMS BEHEADING OF [IS-alleged] RUSSIAN SPY, THREATENS RUSSIAN PEOPLE.
ISIS threatens to kill Russia's Sons + burn down Russian homes.
TODAY WEDNESDAY [Guam time].
ANTI-US US, ANTI-AMERICAN AMERIKAN OWG GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA + ANTI-US GLOBALISM ASIDE, WE LEARN ONCE AGAIN, LITTLE VIRGINIA, WHY PUTIN = RUSSIA ANNEXED THE CRIMEA + IS NOW BOMBING THE HARD BOYZ IN SYRIA-IRAQ.
[FOXNEWS] America's top-ranking military officer found himself at odds Tuesday with the nation's commander-in-chief over his claim that 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.... was "contained" -- an assertion President B.O. had made before the Gay Paree terror attacks.
Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a dim assessment when asked during a House Armed Services Committee hearing whether that's the case.
"We have not contained ISIL currently," Dunford told Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va.
The answer runs counter to the claim made by Obama last month in an ABC News interview when asked about the status of the anti-ISIS campaign.
"I don't think they're gaining strength. What is true is that from the start our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them. They have not gained ground in Iraq. And in Syria, they'll come in, they'll leave, but you don't see this systematic march by ISIL across the terrain," Obama said.
The remarks were made a day before the Nov. 13 Gay Paree terror attacks, which were carried out by ISIS holy warriors, and later had to be clarified by the White House as the administration faced bipartisan criticism. White House Deputy Press Secretary Ben Rhodes said Obama was referring specifically to the group's geographic expansion in Iraq and Syria.
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an assertion President B.O. had made before the Gay Paree terror attacks
Much like the Benghazi video assertion he, et al. made immediately prior to the election.
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Tomorrow's headline: Obama announces new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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The man's got a problem. Congress is the authenticating authority to the appointment of the chairman. He can fire, he can't keep anyone in the chair unless the Senate OKs. At this point it would become interesting if the chiefs don't fall in line. If he sacks the lot it may well precipitate an issue his agents can't hide in an election year. Given the regard the public has in its uniform military vs the rest of the government and MSM, it's not a fight I'd take on. Even if he sacks them, they remain on the payroll. Only Courts Martial can 'fire' them, and then, by the law, that can only be done by other uniformed personnel. With an election just a year away, those who execute the dirty work will themselves face the same venue shortly thereafter. May we live in interesting times.
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
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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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a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south...
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
