The Afghanistan government Monday protested about unilateral construction of facilities by neighbour Pakistan along its eastern border, Xinhua reported.
"The recent construction of a gate and other facilities along the so-called Durand line took place without any coordination with Afghanistan," Afghan defence ministry spokesperson General Zahir Azimi told reporters during a joint press conference with International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) here.
"According to agreements between the two countries, before constructing any facilities close to border areas, the two sides must be informed," Azimi said adding that "Afghanistan will use all options to prevent such issues".
The ministry's comments came a day after President Hamid Karzai ordered the defence and interior ministries to take immediate action to remove a newly-constructed gate, checkpoints and other installations recently built by Pakistan along the border in Goshta district in eastern Nangarhar province, 120 km from Kabul.
The "ISAF continues to monitor the situation on the (Afghan-Pakistani) border and we remain in dialogue with the Afghan and Pakistani sides on the constructive way", said Brigadier General Gunter Katz, a spokesperson with the NATO-led ISAF, during the conference.
Earlier this month, the Pakistani side rejected the Afghan government's claim that the Pakistan military had started unilateral construction and was engaged in physical reinforcement activities along the border areas.
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[Dawn] A delegation of Afghan army officials, headed by Director General Military Operations (DGMO) Afghan National Army Major General Afzal Aman, visited General Headquarters (GHQ) and met Major General Ashfaq Nadeem Ahmed, DGMO Pakistain Army for talks over border coordination issues.
The meeting was held in a cordial environment, said a statement issued by the Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR).
All ongoing cross-border coordination issues including construction of a border post in Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... were discussed and amicably resolved.
Both sides agreed on continuation of such bilateral interactions to enhance bilateral border coordination and reduce space for detractors.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... hundreds of Afghan university students in the eastern city of Jalalabad also erupted into the streets on Monday to protest the building of the Pak military gate in what the Afghan defence ministry says is inside Afghanistan.
The incident is the latest in rising tensions between the two sides, whose attempts to lure the Taliban to the peace table have stalled amid their feuding.
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[An Nahar] Chad's parliament voted overwhelmingly Monday for a gradual withdrawal of troops from Mali where 36 have died in a French-led campaign to oust armed Islamists from the north of the country.
Lawmakers were nearly unanimous in asking government to withdraw its 2,250 troops "within a reasonable timeframe".
Speaking at the session, Prime Minister Dadnadji Djimrangar said: "We paid a heavy price for this noble mission."
Experienced soldiers from the regional military heavyweight Chad who are used to fighting in harsh desert terrain played a key role in helping French troops battle Islamists snuffies in northern Mali.
La Belle France in January swept to the aid of Mali's ill-disciplined and poorly trained army and, with the aid of other African troops, has largely succeeded in driving Islamist snuffies from the north.
However pockets of resistance remain, particularly in the Gao region. At least three Chadian soldiers died Friday in a suicide kaboom in Kidal, northeast of Gao.
In addition to the 36 dead and 74 maimed, Chad spent 57 billion CFA francs (87 million euros, $114 million) for its three-month contribution to the campaign, Djimrangar said.
Chadian President Idriss Deby told French journalists on Sunday: "The face-to-face war with the jihadists is over. The Chadian army has no real competence to confront an unknown. The Chadian soldiers will return to Chad; they have accomplished their mission."
He noted that Chad would contribute troops to a U.N. force in Mali if asked.
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[FOXNEWS] La Belle France has circulated a draft U.N. resolution that would authorize a U.N. peacekeeping force to stabilize key towns in northern Mali and help promote a return to democracy and extend government authority throughout the conflict-wracked country.
The draft resolution, obtained Monday by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, would authorize French troops to intervene to support U.N. troops "under imminent and serious threat." It makes no mention of counter-terrorism operations, currently being carried out by La Belle France, which is likely to continue doing so under an agreement with the Malian government.
The draft would authorize a U.N. force comprising 11,200 military personnel and 1,440 international police to take over from African troops now in Mali on July 1. But it says the transfer could be delayed if snuffies pose a major threat.
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[Guardian Ng] BAUCHI State governor, Mallam Isah Yuguda, has labelled those kicking against the amnesty package extended to Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... as criminal and politically-motivated members of the sect.
Hence, it is left for the government to deal with such members when the real Boko Haram have accepted the amnesty proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau...
Yuguda told journalists in Lagos on Saturday that the real members of the sect, who have various problems agitating their minds, would accept the amnesty offer.
The governor also addressed other issues in the polity, denying there was crisis in the Nigerian Governors Forum and that the ruling Peoples Democratic Party would win 35 of the 36 states in the next elections.
On the matter of Boko Haram, the governor said that no true Mohammedan would pick up weapons and kill a fellow man.
He urged the government to look into joblessness and illiteracy that might have prompted the sect members to embark on unholy attacks against the people.
Maintaining that there were criminal elements among the sect pushing for rejection of the amnesty offer, the governor said: "On the issue of Boko Haram, amnesty has been given to the real Boko Haram and I believe they are willing to accept that.
"That is my belief but you know there is the criminal Boko Haram and there is the real Boko Haram. But the criminal and the political Boko Haram are the armed robbers and that arm of politicians that call themselves Boko Haram and they go about attacking people.
"Maybe, it is the criminal Boko Haram that are responding to say that they don't want amnesty because they have a different intention.
"Some of them are gunrunners, some of them are armed robbers and some of them are doing that on behalf of politicians. So, they just hide under Boko Haram and perpetrate evil."
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Except that violence and lawlessness is ever the southern Yemen condition.
[Yemen Post] Security official confirmed on Monday that at least three soldiers were maimed in the southern province of al-Dhali when they were attacked by Haraki Islamic fascisti(Southern Separatist Movement).
According to preliminary reports, the armed Islamic fascistiwould have attacked a military compound in al-Dhali as part of their armed resistance against Sana'a central government.
Security officials explained the men opened fire on the compund and hurled hand-held grenades at buildings and soldiers.
As a result three soldiers were severely injured.
"Armed confrontations are still going on between army soldiers and secessionist gunnies around the government compound," reported Xinhua, quoting security source.
Despite renewed calls for calm and Dr. Yassin Noman's injunction to join the National Dialogue Conference, in-factions of al-Harak, notably one that it is led by former South Yemen President ali Salem al-Baidh have grown increasingly violent in their calls for secession.
While a great majority of southerners translated President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi's latest round of presidential decrees as proof state promises had some depth and meaning again (President Hadi fulfilled his commitment to the nation and the GCC-brokered transition of power agreement by demoting Gen. Ahmed Ali Saleh and Ge. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar from their positions); some radical separatist groups are still very much determined to engage in violence rather than dialogue.
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[Yemen Post] Gen. Tarek Mohammed Saleh, former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... 's nephew and former Commander in Chief of the Presidential Guards denied recent allegations made by the press he had any involvement in Friday Massacre.
Back in March 2011, at the very heart of the Yemeni revolution the security forces opened fire onto protesters, killing in one single day over 40 unarmed civilians. Hundreds more were sent to hospital, injured.
Rights activists and Youth groups have been campaigning ever since to see the culprits brought to justice. It is widely believed that those closest to former President-for-Life Saleh ... exemplifying the Arab's propensity to combine brutality with incompetence... , ordered the state security apparatus to ruthlessly kill off the revolution.
Both Gen. Yehia Mohammed Saleh and Gen. Tarek Mohammed Saleh, respectively the former Head of Yemen Central Security Forces and Presidential Guards were singled out by revolutionaries and accused of war crimes.
Last week both Emirati-based and Yemeni-based newspapers alleged officers had during an official inquiry admitted having received their order directly from Gen. Tarek Saleh.
The general is now categorically rejecting the allegations.
Although the transition government promised justice would be served and all deaths avenged, activists fear President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi's latest decisions to appoint former President Saleh's closed family members to diplomatic posts abroad will prevent the judiciary from doing its work.
And indeed, it would be legally impossible for any judge to indict any former officials,no matter the amount of proof brought forward if they are covered by diplomatic immunity.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Local Jamaat-Shibir men, including Bhujpur union parishad Chairman Shafiul Alam Nuri, were involved in Thursday's attacks on law enforcers and an Awami League procession in the union, according to primary police investigation.
Nuri and 34 others of more than 5,000 accused in the case filed in connection with the attack were produced before a Chittagong court yesterday.
Investigation officer (IO) of the case Khandaker Babul yesterday told The Daily Star that they would seek 10 days' remand for each of the arrestees produced in the court.
As of yesterday, 47 people have been incarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! in the upazila in connection with the attack.
Asked about the progress of the investigation, acting officer-in-charge (OC) of Bhujpur Police Station Aong Sha Thowai said Jamaat-Shibir men were directly involved in the attack.
"From footage, local sources and witnesses, we have confirmed that Jamaat-Shibir men, particularly the Bhujpur union parishad chairman, and its member Taskeer, were involved in the attack," he said.
Jamaat leaders Nuri and Taskeer were picked up after the incident.
Mohammad Farid Uddin, additional superintendent (ASP) of Chittagong police (North), said, "According to evidence, the duo played a vital role in the attack. Chairman Nuri was comparatively more aggressive and one of the criminal masterminds."
The ASP said police had not yet found any connection of Hefajat-e Islam with the attack. They, however, suspect Hefajat supporters might have been involved in it.
On Thursday, alleged Jamaat-Shibir men, joined by several thousand villagers, attacked an AL motor procession and law enforcers following a rumour that the marchers had killed a madrasa teacher and were about to attack the Kazirhat mosque and a Hefajat-run madrasa.
Three people were killed and more than 100 people, including 15 coppers, four fire fighters and two border guards, were maimed in the attack. The attackers also set fire to around 100 vehicles, including 50 cycle of violences and a fire-fighting vehicle.
Local AL leader ATM Peyarul Islam said they were preparing to file a case with Bhujpur police in connection with killing of their three party men.
Contacted, Ameer of Fatikchhari unit 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... Maulana Habib Ahmed denied the allegation of Jamaat's involvement in the incident.
"Jamaat's hold in Bhujpur is weak; the area is rather a stronghold of Hefajat-e Islam," he said, adding, "Hefajat men could have been involved in the mayhem."
Despite repeated attempts, no leaders of Bujpur unit Hefajat-e Islam could be reached for their comments.
On Friday, police filed a case against more than 5,000 people, including 100 named, for swooping on law enforcers, obstructing their duty, committing arson and vandalism and creating anarchy at Kazirhat area on Thursday.
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Former NBA star Dennis Rodman says he will visit North Korea again in August
...assuming it's still there...
and spend time with leader Fat Boy Kim Jong-un. The eccentric former athlete invited derision in February when he went to Pyongyang leading an acrobatic basketball show team right after the North conducted a third nuclear test.
He spent some time gladhanding and joshing with Pudgy Kim and his wife Ri Sol-ju, a first for an American.
"So Ri, how'dya end up with a stiff like the Fat Boy here?"
"Oh Mistuh Lodman you such a cald!"
Rodman told the Miami Herald last Friday that he and Kim "have no plans really, as far as what we're going to do over there, but we'll just hang and have some fun!"
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Beginning to look like this clown is carrying someone else's water.
North Korea has denied its alleged involvement in a cyberattack against South Korea that paralyzed major broadcasters and banks in March.
Oh, so it must have been the Somalians...
Pyongyang's state-run media announced Friday that Seoul's accusation is seen as a "deliberate provocation," quoting the spokesperson for the General Staff of North Korea's People's Army.
After weeks of investigation, the South Korean government said Wednesday that North Korea's Reconnaissance Bureau, a division which specializes in training hackers, was likely behind the March 20 cyberattack.
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North Korea on Sunday dismissed as a "cunning ploy" President Park Geun-hye's offer of talks to ease tensions.
A spokesman for the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland was quoted by the official KCNA news agency as saying Sunday the offer of dialogue is "a cunning ploy to hide the South's policy of confrontation and cover up its responsibility for putting the Kaesong Industrial Complex into a crisis."
The spokesman added the offer is an "empty shell" and dialogue "would be meaningless." He added it is entirely up to South Koreas attitude whether or not talks take place.
A Unification Ministry official played down the snub as a "preliminary response" and added Seoul intends to "monitor the situation further."
But in a late night briefing, Joo Choel-ki, senior presidential secretary for foreign and security affairs, told reporters that the government "sincerely regrets" North Korea's response. He added that South Korean businesses in the inter-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex are experiencing "indescribable hardships" due to North Korea's blockade of the industrial park.
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[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... pushed a message of dialogue with North Korea at the end of an Asia tour on Monday, as Pyongyang kept the world guessing over an expected missile launch.
The North has a habit of linking high-profile military tests with key dates, and expectations had been high of a mid-range missile test to coincide with Monday's celebrations marking the birth of its late founding leader Kim Il-Sung.
But unlike the centennial birth anniversary last year, there was no muscular military parade through the center of Pyongyang and officials in Seoul said the "missile watch" could drag on for days.
North Korea and the soaring tensions on the Korean peninsula dominated Kerry's whirlwind tour of South Korea, China and Japan, with the top U.S. diplomat stressing a willingness to "reach out" to Pyongyang.
Kerry, who met with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the final leg of his trip in Tokyo on Monday, said Washington was open to "authentic and credible" negotiations.
"But the burden is on Pyongyang," he said, adding that the North had to take "meaningful steps" to show it would honor past commitments.
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See TOPIX > [Lucianne = Commentary Magazine] IS US FOLDING ON NORTH KOREA?
US SecState Kerry's statements, although appearing to be quite reasonable on the surface, IS MORE LIKELY TO BE INTERPRETED AS DE FACTO US
"WEAKNESS" BY NOKOR, IRAN, + LIKE, + TREATED OR HANDLED BY THEM AS SUCH.
versus
* SAME > [Japan Herald] NATO CHIEF WARNS OF COLLECTIVE DEFENSE IFF NORTH KOREA ATTACKS THE US.
NATO's got the Bammer's six.
* SAME > NORTH KOREA SAYS IT WON'T WARN SOUTH ON ATTACK.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Chosun Ilbo = Xinhua] MAOS'S GRANDSON [Mao Xingu] CALLS ON NORTH KOREA TO ABANDON NUKES.
IIUC, iff the DPRK disses Mao Xingu it will be interpreted by China as serious disrespect of Mao Zedong/Tse-Tung's = China's military intervention [ + lives lost, maimed]on behalf of the DPRK back in November 1950 agz MacArthur's Boyz. HILARITY BETWEEN CHINA + NORTH KOREA MAY NOT ENSUE.
Personally, I'm interpreting this as potens worsening relations between Pudgy + Beijing, + increasingly the risk of Chinese + PLA takeover of the North. AGAIN, CHINA STANDS TO TAKEOVER THE DPRK DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY REGARDLESS OF TYPE/KIND OF COLLAPSE SCENARIO, + GIVEN ITS PRESENT STANDOFF VEE JAPAN OER THE DISPUTED SENKAKUS/DIAOYUS WOULD ONLY SERVE TO PLACE THE PLA THAT MUCH CLOSER TO JAPAN = US MILBASES ON OKINAWA, + TAIWAN + NORTHERN PHIL.
["RETURN OF THE JEDI" BATTLE OF ENDOR = "ITS A TRAP"! here].
FYI China has once again violated Japan's 12-mile territorial limit around the disputed Senkakus/Diaoyus.
HISTOIRE' SAYS CHINA IS "PREPPING THE COMING BATTLEFIELD", + IS GETTING READY TO OPEN FIRE ON JAPAN + JSDFS AT A TIME OF ITS CHOOSING.
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Nice, but ultimately may prove to be irrelevant.
E.g. COLD WAR USSR + WARSAW PACT [then-Commie Eastern Europe] = what matters in the end is whom controls the Govt(s), andor the Country's or the Alliance's Conventional-Nuclear Forces.
THE ONE THAT CONTROLS THE NOKOR ARMED FORCES = STRATEGIC ROCKET FORCES, ETC. IS N-O-T NORTH KOREA OR PUDGY HIMSELF, BUT CHINA = BEIJING + ITS NOKOR-ASSIGNED PLA TOP EGG(S).
The US + other have known this for a long time already, albeit the same still has to "go thru the motions" + pretend that NOKOR is actually in charge of itself.
That's Mr Haroon Aswat, ...the British national suspected of links to the July 7 London terror bombings and also wanted by US authorities over attempts to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon...
according to the text.
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Yeman, Euro, what's the difference? Maybe not being invited to fancy international confabs or sending the kids vacationing in Saint-Maurice or Saint-Tropez. Darn.
WASHINGTON Nuclear power plants in Massachusetts and New Hampshire have increased security after two bombs exploded in Boston on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens. The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and the Seabrook Station in Seabrook, New Hampshire, heightened checks of vehicles, materials and individuals entering the plants.
Pilgrim, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) south of Boston, was already shut down for refueling when the explosions occurred. Seabrook is about 45 miles (72.4 kilometers) north of Boston in Seabrook, New Hampshire.
Eliot Brenner, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said federal officials have not ordered changes in security at other US nuclear reactors in the wake of the Boston explosions.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUM Artic says that the tote death toll from the Boston Marathon terror blasts is up to 12, BUT THIS HAS NOT YET BEEN OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED BY AUTHORITIES, NOR MENTIONED ON THE MSM-NET.
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] The head of an hard boy Jordanian Moslem Salafi group said early Tuesday that he was "happy to see the horror in America" after the kabooms in Boston.
"American blood isn't more precious than Moslem blood," said Mohammad al-Chalabi, who was convicted in an al-Qaeda-linked plot to attack U.S. and other Western diplomatic missions in Jordan in 2003.
"Let the Americans feel the pain we endured by their armies occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and killing our people there," he said early Tuesday.
Al-Chalabi served seven years in prison for his part in the foiled attack. His group is outlawed in Jordan.
A Mideast counterterrorism official based in Jordan said the blasts "carry the hallmark of an organized terrorist group, like al-Qaeda." He did not give actual evidence linking al-Qaeda to the bombing.
"From the little information available, one can say it was a well-coordinated, well-targeted and near-simultaneous attack," he said. "Luckily, the amount of explosives used is small, judging from the casualty figure and kaboom area."
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[Dawn] Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has moved India's top court for more time before going back to jail for possessing arms supplied by plotters of the deadly 1993 Mumbai blasts, his lawyer said Monday.
Dutt was sentenced to five years in jail for possession of illegal weapons in the long-running case linked to the 1993 Mumbai bombings. The court had given all accused four weeks to surrender.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the Bollywood star had said he would seek clemency in the matter.
In his plea on Monday, Dutt asked the court to keep the punishment in abeyance until the governor decides on pardon, said a report by the Hindustan Times.
The court had upheld Sanjay Dutt's conviction under the Arms Act in the terror attack for illegal possession of a 9 mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the court reduced the sentence from six years to five years, effectively reducing Dutt's jail time to three years and six months as he has already undergone 18 months imprisonment.
Dutt, the son of Bollywood legends Nargis and Sunil Dutt, has films like the Zanjeer remake, Policegiri, Munna Bhai 3 and P.K. in the works.
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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... (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hassan ... The funny-looking Amir of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined the National Students Federation (NSF), a lefty student body, and was elected its President in 1959. He came into contact with the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi, The Great Apostasizer. As a result, he joined IJT in 1960 and soon he was elected as President of its University of Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistain in 1992-93, and became Secretary General in 1993. After years of holding Qazi's camel he was named Amir when the old man stepped down in 2009... Monday presented a 29-point party manifesto for the upcoming general elections.
The main points of the manifesto are that the JI wants to make Pakistain a model state similar to Medina, where everyone enjoys equal rights.
Sovereignty of the country was among the top priorities of the JI manifesto, whereas elimination of terrorism and lawlessness was also included.
The manifesto also stressed upon the agricultural amendments by eliminating feudal system adding elimination of unemployment and power crises.
The JI in its manifesto also expressed determination to activate industrial sector in every area of the country and introduce a revolutionary industrial programme.
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[Dawn] Pakistain has strongly condemned the US-led drone strike in North Wazoo tribal region which killed at least four people on Sunday.
According to a statement issued by Pakistain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday such unilateral attacks are in contravention of international law and counter-productive to the stability of this country. The Government maintained its position that drone strikes violate its territorial integrity and illusory sovereignty.
Such attacks also set dangerous precedents in the inter-state relations, added the Foreign Office's statement.
The Government of Pakistain calls upon the US Government to stop such attacks based on mutual respect and established international norms.
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[An Nahar] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday Israel would not give in to "subhuman terrorists," as the Jewish state honored its slain soldiers and civilians killed in bad turban attacks.
Netanyahu, at a ceremony at the Mount Herzl national cemetery, pointed to the case of Israeli toddler Adele Biton, still at death's door after being hurt in a stone-throwing attack on her mother's car in the West Bank a month ago.
"As if anyone needed it we got a reminder that a stone is a lethal weapon," he said.
"The terror of stones thrown in an ambush joins the terror of petrol bombs, the terror of knives, the terror of shots and missiles, bombs, boom-mobiles and suicide kabooms," Netanyahu said.
"But we shall not retreat, not surrender, not give in ... Terror is not a blow from above, it is the work of humans, or subhumans. We shall defeat them."
In a Memorial Day ceremony at a military cemetery in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said that peace was nowhere to be seen on Israel's horizon.
"Terrorist attacks, the firing of rockets at civilian populations and delegitimization campaigns are the challenges which stand before us in the years to come, they will accompany us for the foreseeable future and they will force us to respond with a firm hand," Yaalon said.
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I wish that our president would say that and mean it. And back up words with real deeds.
I wish that Congress would take its responsibilities and quit doing things like write up a 1500 page piece of drivel immigration amnesty bill.
I am sick to the very depths of my soul on the absolute incompetency of this Congress and Administration. They are getting people killed.
I wish I could see a way out of this. I am not in a good mood tonight. Somewhere anger and despair. This has not been a good day to be an American.
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Somewhere between anger and despair.
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Alaska Paul I know exactly how you feel --- I felt exactly the same way after Oslo. So, nil desperadum.
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
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Mohmand Agency
[Guardian Ng] BAUCHI State governor, Mallam Isah Yuguda, has labelled those kicking against the amnesty package extended to 
[Bangla Daily Star] Local Jamaat-Shibir men, including Bhujpur union parishad Chairman Shafiul Alam Nuri, were involved in Thursday's attacks on law enforcers and an Awami League procession in the union, according to primary police investigation.
North Korea
Syed Munawar Hassan
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