[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The main gate between Afghanistan and Pakistain reopened late on Saturday after an incident resulted to its closure on Friday.
The local officials in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province however are saying that issues still remain in the area close to the gate since hundreds of people and trucks were stranded over a period of 24 hours.
A statement by the provincial government said almost one thousand and five hundred people are still waiting to cross the gate and enter Pakistain from Torkham Township.
The mayor of Torkham Sarwar Pacha said the gate was closed at around 7 pm local time as per the normal schedule and hours after it was reopened.
Pacha further added that the gate will open at 7 am in the morning so that the traffic and people can move between the two countries.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] After a verdict was reached in the case of former president Mohammed Mursi conspiring with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , the Egypt’s Cassation Court asked the Attorney General to investigate the involvement of Hamad bin Jassim, the former prime minister of Qatar.
The sentence came as follows: "To the Attorney-General to take the necessary action to investigate and act regarding the acts and facts of the Chairman of Al Jazeera channel and Hamad Bin Jassim involving criminal offenses affecting the communication to a foreign country, harming the country's military, political, diplomatic and economic interests, and giving money in order to commit acts that harm the national interest of the country".
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Jeddah – Human Rights Minister in the legitimate Yemeni government Dr. Mohammed Askar accused the Houthi insurgents of committing grave violations against children in the war-torn country.
Since they seized Sana’a in 2014, the violations have ranged from kidnapping to murder to recruitment for fighting. They have even reached the extent of forcing children into drug abuse, he told Asharq Al-Awsat.
He said that in the first month alone of the coup, back in 2014, the Houthis committed 37 violations against children.
He based his allegations on a report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor that documented a series of violations against educational institutions in Sana’a that were committed during the coup.
One of these violations included the recruitment of child soldiers, under the age of 18, and their deployment at checkpoints throughout the capital.
The recruitment of children is barred by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989.
Askar revealed that 1,529 cases of child recruitment by Houthi militias were documented in 2017. The majority of these recruitment processes took place in poor areas.
As for pushing them to into drug abuse, he explained that children are given hallucinogenic drugs to deal with the violent acts that they are forced to commit.
[Al Jazeera] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... has signed an agreement to buy 24 Typhoon fighter jets from Britannia, the second major defence deal signed by Doha during its lengthy diplomatic dispute with its Gulf neighbours.
Qatar's defence chief Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah and his British counterpart Michael Fallon signed a "statement of intent" for the UK to sell the planes, according to statements released by London and on social media.
"This will be the first major defence contract with Qatar, one of the UK's strategic partners," Fallon said. "This is an important moment in our defence relationship and the basis for even closer defence cooperation between our two countries.
"We also hope that this will help enhance security within the region across all Gulf allies."
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Interesting they are buying Typhoons. Is that because no one else will sell them fighters?
[Al Jazeera] Germany's leading right-wing party will press for Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany and the impetus behind Germany's remarkably ill-starred immigration program. Merkel used to be referred to by Germans as Mom... to be "severely punished" for her immigration policies once it assumes a place in parliament, its leader said on Sunday.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is projected to win up to 12 percent of the vote during Germany's federal election on September 24 and become the third-largest party in the Bundestag, polls show.
Alexander Gauland, co-founder of the AfD, told Rooters news agency the party would push for the creation of a new committee to examine Merkel's track record on refugees and migrants colonists entering the country.
"We want Merkel's policy of bringing one million people into this country to be investigated, and we want her to be severely punished for that," he said.
"We're gradually becoming foreigners in our own country."
It was unclear what Gauland meant by "punishment".
Founded in April 2013, the AfD narrowly missed out on the five percent share of the vote required to win representation in parliament during the federal election in September of the same year.
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[DAWN] The Pakistan Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has increased the civilian share in the senior hierarchy of the country’s premier intelligence agency ‐ Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI).
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sept 15, 2017 approved a proposal to increase the number of directors general (DGs) ‐ the highest civilian post in the agency ‐ from one to four.
The post of civilian DG in the ISI is a grade 21 position, equivalent to a serving major general of the armed forces.
Previously, there was only one civilian DG post in the intelligence agency.
PM Abbasi approved the summary sent to the PM Office by the Defence Ministry, proposing four civilian DGs in the ISI.
In addition, the prime minister has also enhanced the number of deputy directors general (DDGs) from eight to 15. The same summary recommended the creation of seven additional DDG posts for civilian officers in grade 20.
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[DAWN] Former 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... assailed Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday over his remarks about banned outfits, saying that comments on sensitive and important matters must be based on facts and record and not on assumptions and riddles.
In a statement issued by his front man, Chaudhry Nisar pointed out that 26,000 people laid down their lives while over 70,000 sustained injuries in the war on terrorism. He said that Pakistain also suffered a loss of over $100 billion as a frontline state in the war.
Mr Asif in a recent TV interview had stressed the need "for putting our own house in order" and keeping tabs on banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations, including Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , admitting that the groups were operating from within Pakistain. In another interview he said that he stood by his words.
Chaudhry Nisar regretted that despite the sacrifices, some people not only criticised and pointed fingers at Pakistain, but also made it a target of derision. "The reason is that we provide the world an opportunity to ridicule us and put the blame of their failures on us, due to our irresponsible attitudes and statements," he noted.
He said it was quite strange that at a time when the army chief was asserting that Pakistain had rendered enormous sacrifices and the world must acknowledge this and should ’do more’, the foreign minister and the interior minister were taking the position that Pakistain should do more.
He said that these two persons had been ministers for the past four and a half years. "Did they ever express these views in the meetings of the cabinet or National Security Committee? Does the minister realise how much his statement was played up and publicised in India and how it was used by that country to substantiate its baseless claim that the problem is with Pakistain?" he asked.
"This is also a fact, unfortunately, that such statements are made to criticise our intelligence agencies and armed forces. But if this is the case then one should have the moral courage to do plain talk rather than asking riddles," Chaudhry Nisar said.
He said that of course there were some weaknesses and shortcomings vis-à-vis national security but these issues should be addressed through consultation, hard work and consensus. "One should not make fun of it before the entire world through statements. National security issues are very sensitive and one should consider national interest before speaking about such matters."
He asked if there was not a visible improvement in the internal security situation today as compared to the one that the country faced in 2013-14. "What made this possible were joint efforts and not under any coercion or help from outside." Federal and provincial governments, arm-ed forces, civil armed forces, and intelligence agencies contributed to the joint efforts, he added.
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[Al Jazeera] The annual United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... confab of world leaders in September usually starts with a push on some lofty goal, such as tackling poverty or climate change.
That is not on the cards for the first UN General Assembly (UNGA) for United States President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Instead, the focus on Monday will be the dour topic of UN reform - part of Washington's drive to cut some flab off the world body and reduce the multi-billion dollar price tag it pays each year to keep the blue flag flying in midtown Manhattan.
Trump proposes cuts in UN funding Trump has previously written off the UN as a "club" for "people to have a good time", prompting fears that tightening purse strings would leave needy people in South Sudan, Congo, and other hotspots without aid and blue-helmet backup.
Though UN reform is the centrepiece, delegates will inevitably get side-tracked by more urgent headaches: the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Myanmar, North Korean nuclear arms, and the rift between Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... and its Arab neighbours.
All the while, paparazzi will hunt Trump and his counterparts from La Belle France, Emmanuel Macron, and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... Every eye-roll will be captured, not least when Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu share the room.
A lot hangs on how Trump behaves, said Courtney Smith, a New Jersey-based UN specialist at Seton Hall University.
The billionaire's "unpredictable" and "inconsistent" diplomacy has left foreign statesmen wondering whether "America First" puts them last.
"Will it be a Trump who wants to engage the UN and talk about issues that can be solved together, or a Trump who's confrontational and critical?" Smith told Al Jazeera.
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[REUTERS] Aid officials in Iraq said they were "gravely concerned" about the fate of about 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected 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.... Death Eaters relocated by Iraqi authorities, who did not warn aid organizations.
The families had been held by Iraqi authorities since Aug. 30 in the Hammam al-Alil transit camp, south of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... "We are gravely concerned about these families," said Melany Markham, spokeswoman for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Iraq. The NRC is one of several aid groups that have provided humanitarian services to the families.
"We weren’t informed where the families would be taken to, and we don’t know if they will have access to assistance and protection," Markham said. "They are a very vulnerable population."
None of the aid groups supporting the families, including the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... , were given advanced warning by Iraqi officials about the move, according to Markham.
The families were moved to Tal Keif, a town north of Mosul, an Iraqi police intelligence source confirmed. They are being housed in buildings rather than camp sites, under the supervision of Iraqi coppers.
During a visit to the Hammam al-Alil camp earlier this week, several women told Rooters that they were terrified of leaving the camp and being taken under the exclusive control of Iraqi forces.
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[Haaretz] After Netanyahu endorses Kurdish independence, Turkish pro-government outlets launch media blitz about 'secret' Israel-Kurdish deal to settle Kurdish Jews in new state
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The Kurds are either one of the Lost Tribes of Israel or Gulenists. I've kinda lost track.
[Iran Press TV] Thousands of Rohingya Moslems in northwestern Myanmar are pleading for safe passage from two remote villages besieged by Buddhist bully boys.
Media reports said the situation was particularly dire in the village of Ah Nauk Pyin and the nearby Naung Pin Gyi, where any escape route to neighboring Bangladesh is long and arduous.
Maung Maung, a Rohingya official in Ah Nauk Pyin, said the villagers were resigned to leaving, but authorities had not responded to their requests for security. "We’ll starve soon and they’re threatening to burn down our houses," he told Rooters by telephone. "We’re terrified."
Another Rohingya, who asked not to be named, said bully boy Buddhists came to the same village and chanted, "Leave, or we will kill you all."
Elsewhere in his remarks, Maung Maung, said he had called Myanmar's police at least 30 times to report threats against his village.
On September 13, the Rohingya official said he had received a call from a Rakhine villager he knew. "Leave tomorrow or we’ll come and burn down all your houses," the man on the phone had said. When the Rohingya official protested that they had no means to escape, the man replied, "That’s not our problem."
Maung Maung also said the village elders had sent a letter to Rathedaung authorities on September 7, asking to be moved to "another place". They had yet to receive a response, he said.
On August 31, Myanmar's police convened a roadside meeting between the two villages. Rohingya residents who attended the meeting said that instead of addressing the Rohingya complaints, the Rakhine officials delivered an ultimatum.
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Good lord. What do you have to do to piss off Buddhists?
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What do you have to do to piss off Buddhists?
The same thing you've to do to piss off Jews, or Christians, or Agnostics - be a good Muslim
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Good lord. What do you have to do to piss off Buddhists?
Buddhists aren't a bunch of lotus-eating navel gazers. Thailand was a fairly aggressive military power for part of its history. Ditto with Vietnam, Burma, Cambodia, Tibet, Mongolia and China. What they have in common with Hinduism is the idea of reincarnation. When they kill someone, he's not really dead - at least not for eternity. He'll come back as something else. What they do have in common is a pre-modern view of war in general and rebellions in particular.
Civilians that are suspected of providing support for the rebels will be punished. That can mean imprisonment, torture or outright massacre. Think the treatment of Lidice after Heydrich was assassinated, but applied as comprehensive policy rather than as isolated tactic. That is why few rebellions last all that long in the Orient. The locals may or may not love the victors, but they definitely fear it, and for good reason.
The main exceptions were Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia during the Cold War and the Philippines today. But all four were profoundly influenced by their Western sponsors, and a precondition of that aid was that they refrained from large-scale killings that would pacify the land, but lead to howls of outrage from (typically lefty) Western journalists that would lead to the end of that aid. Large scale killings did occur, but they were perpetrated by the Laotian, Vietnamese and Cambodian communist victors, whose Chinese and Russian sponsors had few qualms about breaking eggs to make omelettes, as long as those eggs were somebody else's.
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Considering the basic premise of Moonhammy's death cult is to submit to the moon goddess.
Convert, enslavement to Dhimmitude or genocide. It's not hard to understand why they want to remove the porKoranimals.
But there are regional attacks on Christianity too.
Lao Authorities Threaten to Jail Christians For Practicing Their Religion. www.rfa.org/.../laos/authorities-threaten-to-jail-christians-for-practicing-their-religion-...
Sep 10, 2015 - A Lao boy prays in a Christian church in Vientiane in a file photo. ... Christians make up about 1.5 percent of Laos' predominantly Buddhist ...
We have a Laotian Buddha monastery near by. The do not want to chat about their nation's treatment of Christians. There is an element of nationalism in play too.
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So there's me, seething and grumbling about the PBS thing ("faw faw deceitful omission/manipulation of context blah blah"), and the next thing I read is ZF's post above. Restored faith, etc. Big thanks.
[BBC] Myanmar's top general has blamed Rohingya people for the crisis that has led to hundreds of thousands crossing into Bangladesh.
Gen Min Aung Hlaing said the Rohingya "has never been an ethnic group", and accused "extremists" of trying to form a stronghold in northern Rakhine state.
His army is accused of targeting civilians in an offensive there, forcing Rohingya to flee.
Myanmar denies this, and says it is responding to deadly turban attacks.
The UN has warned that offensive against the Rohingya - most of whom are Moslems, while Myanmar is 90% Buddhist - could amount to ethnic cleansing.
On Saturday UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi had "a last chance" to halt the army offensive before the situation becomes "absolutely horrible".
In a Facebook post on Sunday, Gen Min Aung Hlaing urged people and the media in Myanmar to unite over the "issue" of the Rohingya.
He said the military operation began after 93 festivities with "extremist Bengalis" - referring to Rohingya holy warriors - that began on 25 August.
The violence, he added, was an organised attempt to build a stronghold in Rakhine state.
"They have demanded recognition as Rohingya, which has never been an ethnic group in Myanmar. (The) Bengali issue is a national cause and we need to be united in establishing the truth," his post said.
Rohingya holy warriors did attack police posts in northern Rakhine on 25 August, killing 12 security personnel.
But Rohingya who have fled Myanmar since then say the military responded with a brutal campaign, burning villages and attacking civilians in a bid to drive them out.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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