[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Ashraf GhaniPresident Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said Monday that Afghanistan is facing the menace of terrorism from the terror networks including al-Qaeda, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Taliban group, acknowledging that the poverty rate has surged to 49 per cent.
During his speech at the Special Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) Meeting in Kabul, President Ghanis said the terror groups are continuously targeting Afghanistan.
Emphasizing on the creation of framework to fight the terror groups, President Ghani said the insurgent groups are attempting to destroy the world’s culture and history, insisting that the groups do not have any borders.
President Ghani reiterated the government’s stance towards the militant groups, saying there are no good or bad terrorists and hailed the Afghan forces for fighting the militant groups who tried to topple the government.
He acknowledged the growing poverty in the county during the past two years and said the main motive behind a surge in poverty is the withdrawal of the foreign forces.
According to President Ghani, the poverty has increased from 46 per cent to 49 per cent from 2013 to 2014 but insisted that the government is committed to bring reforms in a bid to increase revenue and tackle corruption.
He said the government will continue to bring reforms in various sectors including the judicial sector and improve good governance but the government’s top priority is peace and stability as the terror groups threatens the country.
The remarks by President Ghani comes as major international conferences are due to take place to discuss the situation in Afghanistan amid hopes that the Afghan government will attract the international community support for the coming years.
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The Taliban group has appointed Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob as the group’s military commission chief for 15 provinces of the country.
Mullah Yaqoob is the son of the Taliban group founder and former supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar whose death was confirmed last year.
Taliban said Mullah Yaqoob was appointed for the post during an extraordinary meeting organized by the Taliban leadership on Monday.
A statement by the group said Mullah Omar’s brother Mullah Abdul Manan Omari has been appointed as Taliban’s chief for religious affairs and invitation as well as the Taliban leadership’s member.
No further details were given regarding the exact location where the extraordinary meeting was organized as the Taliban’s main council is based in Quetta city of Pakistan.
The latest appointments come amid growing tensions among the Taliban leadership following the confirmation of Mullah Omar’s death last year.
Meanwhile, earlier reports suggested of intense tensions among the Taliban group leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor and Mullah Omar’s son and brother over the appointment of Taliban supreme leader successor.
According to the reports, Mullah Yaqoob and Mullah Manan Omari were forced to accept Mullah Mansoor as the new supreme leader of the Taliban group despite Taliban said the two relatives of the late founder of the group pledged allegiance to Mullah Mansoor.
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And OSAMA BIN LADEN'S son, the "Crown Prince"???
While I'm at it, that of AYMAN-THE-Z-MAN = ZAWAHIRI + YOUNGER MEMBERS OF OSAMA'S INNER CIRCLE???
The national government has recruited an additional 500 Kenya Police Reservists (KPR) who will serve in terror-prone areas in Lamu and Garissa Counties.
The 500 KPR officers will serve in areas where the multi-agency Operation Linda Boni is ongoing and is in its seventh month. The operation is meant to flush out Al-Shabaab elements suspected to be hiding inside the vast Boni Forest.
Linda Boni Operation Director James ole Serian has confirmed that 300 KPR officers have been recruited in various parts of Lamu while 200 others were recruited in Garissa County. Mr ole Serian said the move was taken to strengthen the security of the citizens at the grassroots particularly in areas covered by the ongoing Operation Linda Boni.
Speaking to the Nation by phone, Mr Serian said the names of the recruited individuals have already been sent to the Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinett for approval.
Mr Serian said the 500 KPRs will start work immediately after their approval.
He said more security patrols had been enhanced by an increased number of security forces conducting the Linda Boni operation adding that the additional 500 KPR officers will greatly boost the Linda Boni activities aimed at protecting the citizens and eliminating Al-Shabaab elements in the region.
He appealed to locals to cooperate with the security agents including the newly recruited KPR officers and be ready to give information that will aid in eradicating criminals in the region.
Commenting on the same, Lamu County Commissioner Joseph Kanyiri said he was happy with the government’s efforts in ensuring citizens are protected. He said the 300 KPR that were recruited in Lamu will occupy vacancies left by those who had retired and also the ones who opted to quit the service.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In its first days in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , Libya’s UN-backed unity government has tried to impose its authority swiftly by ordering a freeze on ministry budgets and securing the prime minister’s office with the help of a powerful armed brigade.
A violent reaction by hostile militias has so far not materialised as feared. And from a heavily guarded naval base, the new government’s leaders have begun charting the sprawling North African state’s economic recovery in conjunction with the central bank and the National Oil Corporation (NOC).
But they still face a daunting task as they strive to unify and rebuild fractured institutions, boost oil production, and disband or absorb armed brigades that have established power bases while drawing on public salaries.
Those steps will be crucial not only to the government’s survival, but also to countering ISIS bully boyz that have seized some pockets of Libya and to rescuing an economy in free fall due to reduced oil output and crude prices.
The unity government’s leadership, or Presidential Council, arrived in Libya last Wednesday without securing the formal approval of either of the country’s rival parliaments based in Tripoli and in the east of the country.
It has relied instead on the support or acquiescence of armed brigades that have controlled the capital since 2014, and earlier backed the self-declared National Salvation government.
But that same support risks stiffening opposition to the unity cabinet in Libya’s east, the base of the National Salvation government’s political adversaries and powerful anti-Islamist military commander Khalifa Haftar ... served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all... They may fear a western coup by their armed, Islamist-leaning rivals in Tripoli and the powerful port city of Misrata.
Aguila Saleh, president of the eastern parliament, hinted at such concerns when he said on Saturday that statements by some members of the Presidential Council "suggest they are not comfortable with the military".
"We will not allow the unity government to be under the control of militias in Tripoli," he said.
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[IN.REUTERS] Saudi Arabia has suspended licenses granted to Iran's Mahan Air to fly through its air space or land at its airports due to violations of local safety rules, the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said on Monday.
Aviation sources said in January that around 150 direct flights between Iran and Saudi Arabia that carry thousands of pilgrims every month had been halted after Riyadh severed diplomatic relations with Tehran.
The GACA said in a statement that several violations related to airline safety had been committed by flights operated by Mahan Air to the kingdom, "prompting the suspension of licenses granted to the company".
"This decision comes in the context of the GACA (regarding)the safety of passengers and to preserve their lives," the statement said. There was no immediate official comment from Iranian officials.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Reuters in January that the kingdom had halted trade and flights with Iran as part of a diplomatic response to Iranian protesters storming the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after the execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric by Riyadh.
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North Korea can mount a nuclear warhead on a medium-range missile, a South Korean official said on Tuesday in a new assessment of the capability of a country that conducted its fourth nuclear test this year.
"We believe they have accomplished miniaturization of a nuclear warhead to mount it on a Rodong missile," said the South Korean official, who has knowledge of South Korea's assessment of the North’s nuclear program. The official spoke to a small group of reporters on condition of anonymity.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said last month that his country had miniaturized nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles. It was his first direct statement of a claim often made in state media though never independently verified.
The Rodong missile can fire a 1 tonne (1,100 lb) warhead a distance of up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles), the official said. That would put all of South Korea, most of Japan and parts of Russia and China in range.
"We believe they have the ability to mount a nuclear warhead on a Rodong. Whether they will fire it like that is a political decision," said the official.
There was no direct evidence that the North has successfully mounted a warhead on such a missile, the South Korean official said, declining to discuss the basis for the change in assessment.
The United States, South Korea's staunch ally, concurred.
"We know that they've said they have that capability, and we have to take them at their word," Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said at a briefing for reporters on Tuesday. "But we have not seen them demonstrate it, so we don't share that assessment necessarily but we do accept what they say as a threat we need to take as real."
For decades, North Korea and South Korea have faced off against each other. An armistice ended the fighting in the Korean 1950-53 civil war but there was no peace treaty.
The South's conservative president, Park Geun-hye, has reversed a policy of trying to engage the North in dialogue and has instead adopted a hard line against it, particularly since the North conducted its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 and a month later launched a long-range rocket putting an object into space orbit.
The test and launch prompted the U.N. Security Council to impose new sanctions.
South Korea has previously said North Korea had made progress in its efforts to miniaturize a nuclear warhead but the capability was incomplete. South Korea's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday that assessment remained the military's position.
Rodong missiles, developed from Soviet-era Scud missiles, make up the bulk of the North's short- and medium-range missile arsenal with an estimated stockpile of 200.
Experts have predicted that the delivery vehicle for the North's first nuclear warhead would be the medium-range Rodong missile, rather than an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which the North has yet to test.
Despite threats to strike the mainland United States, the North is seen as several years away from building an ICBM that can carry a nuclear warhead.
Experts have previously said a functioning mid-range nuclear missile would need the technology to overcome the stress of launch and re-entry and to strike the target with precision, which requires repeated testing.
The North fired a Rodong missile in March. It flew about 800 km (500 miles) into the sea, in the first such launch since two Rodongs were fired in 2014.
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See also WORLD NEWS > [Daily Mirror.UK] NORTH KOREA COULD NUKE RUSSIA, JAPAN, AND CHINA AT ANYTIME SAYS SOUTH KOREA.
* Also from SAME > NORTH KOREA CLAIMS ITS ATTACKS ON US WILL KILL MORE AMERICANS THAN [died] ON 9-11 IN LATEST CHILLING VIDEO.
* WORLD NEWS, BIGNEWSNETWORK > NORTH KOREA SAYS UNDER "LENINGRAD-STYLE" SIEGE FROM US-LED FORCES.
Or, in alternate, under siege from same like 1960's "Caribbean Crisis" = Cuban Bay of Pigs + Missle Crises???
VERSUS
* TOPIX > [USNI.Org] ANALYSIS: US-PHILIPINES BASING DEAL [EDCA] HEAVY ON AIRPOWER, LIGHT ON NAVAL SUPPORT [Naval Forces].
Airpower or Air Forces can't seize-n-hold territory - ADVANTAGE: CHINA + MOTHERLY PLA AIRBORNE.
* NATIONAL INTEREST > CHINA EXPECTS THE US TO ROLL OVER. WILL WASHINGTON PLAY DEAD?
ARTIC > 4 SCENARIOS AS PER A FUTURE CHINA.
MAHA-RUSHIAN "HISTOIRE'" + 1960'S-1970'S GUAM TAOTAMOANS SAY TO PICK THE SCENARIO WHERE CHINA WILL BE STRONG + MILITARILY AGGRESSIVE, WHILE THE US MAY BE WEAK IN IN MILPOL OR GEOPOL RETREAT.
Again, OWG-NWO or no OWG-NWO, "Pro-US" or "Anti-US" US-led Globalism, etc = THE "GREAT GAME" DOESN'T STOP OR END JUST BECAUSE THE US ANDOR THE WORLD WANTS TO BEGIN EXPLORING-N-COLONIZING DEEP SPACE.
* POLIFACT > DONALD TRUMP WEIGHS IN ON CHINA ISLAND-BUILDING IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.
TRUMP = argues that CHINA IS BUILDING A MILITARY FORTRESS ON THESE DISPUTED ISLANDS BECAUSE IT HAS NO RESPECT FOR POTUS OBAMA ANDOR THE OBAMA-LED WEAK = WEAKENING US.
Put another way, CHINA WILL "GO FRO BROKE" VEE THE PERT, MSM-NET VERIFIED "WEAK/DECLINING" US ASAP AMAP ALAP - CHINA AT THIS TIME IS WILLING TO SHARE 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC WID THE US, BUT IFF THE US CAN'T DEFEND GUAM-WESTPAC ANDOR HAWAII-EASTPAC CHINA WILL TRY TO UNILATERALLY TAKE IT JUST
BECAUSE IT CAN.
"GREAT GAME" > "1/2 of the Pacific = no different or is the same as 2/3rd or 3/4, Higher? of the Pacific WHEN IT COMES TO WHO RULES, VERSUS WHO DOESN'T.
Lest we forget, TRUMP > "NO MONEY = NO HONEY" = IFF US OVERSEAS ALLIES CAN'T OR WON'T PAY FOR US MILITARY PROTECTION OR SECURITY, A POST-OBAMA POTUS TRUMP MAY JUST PULLOUT ANY + ALL US TROOPS + MILASSETS, ETC. FROM THEIR COUNTRIES + LET THEM DEFEND THEMSELVES AGZ THEIR ENEMIES.
To paraph a famous 1970's Guam political slogan, POTUS TRUMP = "IFF YOU DON'T PAY ME, WE BOTH LOSE".
An official North Korean website has released a new propaganda video portraying a multiple rocket attack on South Korea's presidential Blue House and other government buildings in Seoul. I think we need to put together a video of Pyongyang on the receiving end of similar treatment on a day when there is very little wind. Including imagery showing the misery that follows. And how any leaders would get strung up and eaten or fed to dogs.
It was uploaded on Monday to the DPRK Today website, which had released another video 10 days earlier depicting a nuclear attack on Washington.
The new 88-second video entitled "If the ultimatum goes unanswered" shows rockets fired from mobile launchers in the North destroying the buildings in a ball of fire.
It ends with the warning: "Everything will turn into ashes". Magically, North Korea gets spared in this fairy tail, of course.
Tensions have been rising on the Korean peninsula ever since the North conducted its fourth nuclear test on 6 January.
Over the past month, Pyongyang has issued repeated threats of strikes against Seoul and Washington, largely in response to annual South Korea-US war games that kicked off in early March.
The ongoing joint exercises have been larger than usual and included a special operation to "decapitate" the North Korean leadership in the event of a full-scale conflict.
Pyongyang took that as a direct threat to leader Kim Jong-un, and the Korean Peoples Army (KPA) recently issued an "ultimatum" demanding South Korean president Park Geun-Hye apologise and punish those who formulated the strategy.
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This in Sydney Australia where the laws have a huge hole allowing the religious to do what they like. Islamism rolls on and we are just being crushed
[AlAhram] Around 45 kilograms (99 pounds) of ammunition were found in an apartment in the Dutch city of Rotterdam that has been linked to a foiled terror attack on La Belle France, prosecutors said Monday.
That's meant to sound a dreadful amount. Is it?
French suspect Anis Bahri was tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! at the flat in the southern port city on March 27 at La Belle France's request. He is suspected of planning an attack in La Belle France for 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.... group along with Reda Kriket, another suspect arrested near Gay Paree a few days before him.
"We have found around 45 kilos of ammunition, including two types of bullets which can both be used with Kalashnikovs," Wim de Bruin, a front man for the national prosecutor's office said.
He said no explosives or any arms had been found.
No doubt they're buried in the nearby woods, well greased and wrapped in oil cloth -- just like the Resistance did in the old days.
Bahri has been fighting extradition and is in jug until Dutch authorities take a decision on whether to send him to La Belle France.
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TW, last time I bought 7.62 ammo, I bought a crate. The UPS guy made it out to be pretty heavy. The wooden crate, metal "spam can" insert, and accompanying 1240(?) rounds of ammo was about 60 lbs. My ciphering (remember to carry the two) puts 45 kilos at somewhere betwixt 2000-3000 rounds max. While here in the U.S., the media would portray this as truly only an amount of ammo of apocalyptic scale, other firearm enthusiasts might say "meh, a typical weekend at the range with friends". Hope this helps. Oh yeah, the crate in question I had delivered was about 30" x 18" x 8" so not really all that big.
[Iran Press TV] Armed security forces dressed as civilians will be patrolling passenger trains in La Belle France as one of a series of new security measures in the country, the head of the national railway operator SNCF says.
Guillaume Pepy said on iTele TV on Sunday that the plain-clothes officers, chosen from the SNCF's 3,000 security agents, will be allowed to use their weapons if necessary.
At present, guards patrolling the trains wear navy-blue uniforms embellished with the company logo, and carry visible weapons.
Among other measures, a team of special agents will monitor some of the 40,000 train station cameras for suspicious behavior, and arms and explosive detectors will be installed in some train stations.
Pepy also said that the SNCF has increased its security budget by 50 percent to around €400 million (USD 455 million) to finance its new security measures. "The SNCF is changing. We will no longer take the train in the same way. Everyone should be able to take the train without having to worry."
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[NYTIMES] They had braved risks and hardships to get to Greece,
...the poor dears, as TW would say...
having crossed the narrow strait from Turkey in flimsy rafts like nearly a million others last year — with hundreds dying along the way.
But on Monday, Greek and European Union officials sent them back — 202 migrants — beginning a central part of a deal worked out with Turkey last month to stem the flow of people making the perilous journey to European shores.
If they really wanted to stem the perilous journey they would permit the migrants to make direct flights from Istanbul to Berlin Templehof -- about 60 Euros one way. But the 'perilous' part isn't the issue, now is it...
In this port on the island of Lesbos, as the sun rose over the Aegean Sea, more than 100 officers from the European border agency, Frontex, marched 136 migrants onto two ferries bound for the Turkish town of Dikili. Once there, the migrants were taken into tents for processing and then loaded onto buses — to where, Turkish officials would not say.
Mauritania?
An additional 66 migrants were deported from the island of Chios, where riots broke out last week among asylum seekers fearing deportation. In all, Greek officials said those deported were mostly Pakistanis and Afghans, though they also included two Syrians, who had not asked for asylum, the officials said.
The deportations were a significant step for the European Union in its effort to curb the migrant crisis. The deal with Turkey means that those landing here illegally will now be returned to Turkey.
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[Iran Press TV] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has pledged to continue operations against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Death Eaters, saying there remains no room for peace talks with the Death Eater group.
Erdogan said in a speech in the capital, Ankara, on Monday that PKK holy warriors should either surrender or they will be "neutralized" by Turkish security forces.
The PKK abandoned a ceasefire with Ankara in July 2015, about two years after it was clinched between both sides to end a conflict that has killed 40,000 people since 1984.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has been involved in a large-scale campaign against the PKK since last July in the country’s southern border region. It has also been conducting offensives against the positions of the group in northern Iraq.
According to government figures, some 400 Turkish soldiers and coppers were killed in the operations. Opposition political parties say between 500 and 1,000 civilians were also killed.
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Here's another one:
Why do I have the feeling that I'm looking on at the "outside" world circa 1914?
Sometimes, if luck is on your side, you can get a free trip through the quick and painless lane of airport security. At around 100 airports, TSA agents armed with iPads ease congestion by randomly selecting folks to hop in the magical PreCheck lane. Running that lotto may seem like a simple process, but the app that does this picking didn't come cheap. In fact, it cost some $1.4 million.
Curious about the app, web developer Kevin Burke filed a Freedom of Information Act request to try and discern the total cost. What he ultimately got several months later was a copy of a contract between the TSA and IBM that lists an award amount of $336,413.59 for the project. That sound like a lot of money for an app that's basically just a random number generator with a big arrow icon on it? Sure seems like it, but that's not even the whole bill!
As Partheek Rebala points out, a summary of the whole project is actually publicly available and is made up of nine different transactions, of which Burke's is just one. In total, the cost of the project is really $1,444,315.
[AnNahar] The Pentagon on Monday announced the transfer of two Libyan inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention center to Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , the latest move under President Barack Obama If you have a small business, you didn't build that... 's contentious plan to shutter the notorious jail.
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[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... chief Sirajul Haq ...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that... has demanded of the federal government to allocate funds for the students enrolled in religious seminaries like those studying in schools and universities in the next budget.
The students of religious seminaries also have the right on the national kitty to have their share like those enrolled in the universities and schools in the country.
According to a statement, the JI chief expressed these views while speaking as chief guest at an event at Al-Markaz-e-Islami here on Sunday. He said that Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar should realise his responsibility and allocate sufficient funds for the religious seminaries as those studying and teaching in seminaries could play an effective role against corruption and all kinds of evils in the society.
He said that neither the existing problems could be solved nor the country’s economy could improve unless Khilafat system was enforced in the country. He said that corrupt rulers always fled the country whenever they faced any challenge while the students of seminaries and religious scholars served the nation in all times.
Mr Haq said that JI had already rejected the women rights bill approved by 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 as it was not in the interest of Pak women. He claimed that the bill was, in fact, a part of the western agenda and opposed by women in Punjab province.
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[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: A team of the Rawalpindi police will leave for 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... on Monday to arrest four men suspected of attacking singer-turned fashion designer and evangelist Junaid Jamshed at the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... International Airport on March 27. Jamshid had the bad luck to be the target of a blasphemy charge. He tried to apologize, but blasphemy in Pakistain gets you the rope. No apology accepted.
According to police sources, the police team would be headed by Sub-Inspector Raja Arshad. They will arrest and bring back the suspects who allegedly belonged to Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... .
The police investigating officer told Dawn that the accused had come to Rawalpindi from Karachi to participate in the chehlum of Mumtaz Qadri.
Raja Arshad, who is leading the investigation into the incident, said one of the four suspects, Mohammad Akhtar Munshi, had been identified as the prime accused. He owns a garment factory in Karachi. Another suspect, Zainul Abideen, runs a medicine business, he added.
He said after the arrest of the four suspects, it would be easy for the police to track down the others.
Police had sought the verification of the suspects from Nadra after taking their CCTV footage from the airport authorities.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... has directed the city police officer Rawalpindi to register a case on the complaint of Junaid Jamshed and arrest the accused.
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[DAWN] The army has claimed to have made massive gains in the ongoing operation against bully boyz in Shawal area of North Wazoo Agency. How many Haqqanis have been killed?
Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Sunday that since the launch of the last phase of Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... military operation in February, troops had cleared an area of 640 square kilometres in the mountainous region adjacent to Afghanistan.
Mana, Gurbaz, Lataka, Inzarkas and Magrotai areas which were the main hubs of bully boyz have now been cleared.
According to the ISPR, 252 bully boyz have been killed and 160 injured. Eight soldiers bit the dust and 39 suffered injuries in festivities with bully boyz in the areas. The battle to clear the last pocket of bully boyz in the border area is continuing.
The ISPR said that during the operation launched in June 2014, security forces had cleared 4,304 square kilometres area and restored the writ of the government.
"The ongoing operation is being conducted in extremely hostile terrain and harsh weather conditions. All heights over 9,000 feet have been cleared, snuffies Marakaz (hideouts) destroyed and huge cache of arms and ammunition recovered."
The army said there was virtually no communication infrastructure in Shawal when the operation was launched in February. In the extremely treacherous terrain troops have made 150km of tracks while fighting the war.
Shawal heights are fully covered with snow and visibility there is quite poor.
The statement said that return of temporarily displaced persons (TDPs) was progressing in accordance with the plan and 37,012 families (36 per cent of TDPs) had returned to their homes.
In the first and second phases of operation in North Waziristan, 94 development projects of different types were completed and work on 153 projects is under way in Phase-3.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
An official North Korean website has released a new propaganda video portraying a multiple rocket attack on South Korea's presidential Blue House and other government buildings in Seoul.
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Sometimes, if luck is on your side, you can get a free trip through the quick and painless lane of airport security. At around 100 airports, TSA agents armed with iPads ease congestion by randomly selecting folks to hop in the magical PreCheck lane. Running that lotto may seem like a simple process, but the app that does this picking didn't come cheap. In fact, it cost some $1.4 million. 
[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: A team of the Rawalpindi police will leave for 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
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