That’s nice. If the Senate takes up the question and passes their own bill, perhaps a law authorizing the president to urge India will pass. In the meantime, here are two American politicians Pakistan is paying attention to.
[Dawn] A bipartisan resolution moved in the US Congress urges India to end the restrictions on communications and mass detentions in Indian Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... e as swiftly as possible and preserve religious freedom for all residents.
Resolution 745 was jointly moved on Friday by Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat, and Congressman Steve Watkins, a Republican. Born in Madras (Chennai), Ms Jayapal is the first Indian-American woman to serve in the US House of Representatives. She is also a prominent human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... activist. Mr Watkins is a veteran of the Afghan war and conducted combat along the Afghanistan-Pakistain border.
The movers resolve that the Houses recognises the dire security challenges India faces in Jammu and Kashmir, including "cross-border terrorism," but rejects arbitrary detention, use of excessive force against civilians, and suppression of peaceful expression of dissent as proportional responses to security challenges.
The resolution urges India to ensure that any actions taken in pursuit of legitimate security priorities respect the human rights of all people and adhere to international human rights law.
It also urges India to lift the remaining restrictions on communication and to restore internet access across the occupied valley as swiftly as possible. The Indian government has been urged to refrain from the use of threats and excessive force against detained people and peaceful protesters and release detained people. It urges the Indian government to refrain from conditioning the release of detained people on their willingness to sign bonds prohibiting any political activities and speeches.
New Delhi has been urged to allow international human rights observers and journalists to access the occupied valley and operate freely throughout India, without threats; and condemn, at the highest levels, all religiously motivated violence, including violence targeting religious minorities.
The resolution reminds India that international human rights law holds that all people have the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including freedom to practice, worship, or observe one’s own religion.
The movers note that on Aug 5, the Indian government cut all telephone service and internet access in the occupied valley.
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congress should consider shoving their resolutions u their ass
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We have a LOT more pressing problems in this country without Congress grandstanding over Kashmir (which I bet 99% of Americans couldn't find on a map if their life depended on it.)
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I suspect the Indian congress party may have had something to do with this. They share the same ancillary support organizations as your DNC, and the same globalist agenda. It could be, they're paying Jayapal a lot of money for this. From the current HoR, I can expect this.
They are not moving a resolution to stop the IMF from aiding the 'Stain, which would be easier. They are trying to drive a wedge between two nationalist leaders fighting terror, and just make trouble for both.
[AlMasdar] Sudanese Prime Minister ’Abdullah Hamdouk said this weekend that the 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... i conflict cannot be solved militarily, but only through political dialogue between the rival parties.
Hamdouk further said that the Sudanese military is currently present inside Yemen, pointing out that there are thousands of soldiers in the country, Sputnik Arabic reported.
However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Hamdouk did specify that the total number of Sudanese soldiers in Yemen did not exceed 25,000.
The President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan, Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, last month touched on the participation of the Sudanese forces in the Yemen war.
In an interview with al-Jazeera, al-Burhan said that the Sudanese forces are present in Yemen at the request of the legitimate government, and that his country’s forces are not carrying out missions.
"The Sudanese forces will remain in Yemen until the goal for which they participated is achieved," he said.
Sudan has been participating in the Arab coalition-led war in Yemen since March 2015. While the total number of Sudanese soldiers killed is unknown, there have been reports of several casualties throughout the war.
And terribly effective they’ve been there, too. Without them there in all their martial glory, who knows what would have happened.
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[Jpost] A report issued by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) given to the Norwegian parliament has led to calls by the ruling coalition to withhold funding for the Paleostinian Authority (PA).
The ruling coalition announced on Thursday, December 5, that it will instruct the government to "reduce or withhold financial support to the Paleostinian Authority if they do not provide satisfactory improvements in school materials within a reasonable time."
The ruling coalition added in a statement that the decision was due to "examples of content in the school books include references to violence, martyrdom and terror. The coalition considers this to be devastating to the grinding of the peace processor and the development of democracy in the region, as well as being an expression of irresponsible pedagogy, and finds it unacceptable that Norwegian funds support a school system that promotes such destructive values."
Norway is a major funder of the PA Ministry of Education, and the decision to without funds will cost approximately NOK 55 million in direct transfers to Paleostinian education authorities. The IMPACT-se report and the subsequent reactions was published in a leading Norwegian news, Aftenposten, leading to a public debate on the country’s funding of PA Ministry of Education.
The controversy was also featured in the country’s top comedy show.
The Paleostinian Deputy Minister of Education defended the education curriculum, claiming that they actually changed the textbook material already. The Deputy minister also criticized the Israeli curriculum for alleged racism and attacked the IMPACT-se report.
IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff responded to the criticism by PA authorities in a statement on the situation: "Norwegian politicians reached the only possible conclusion when shown the extremism in the current Paleostinian textbooks. Why would they want their taxpayers to be complicit in the radicalization of a generation of children or in encouraging them to acts of violence? "It was a mistake by the Paleostinian Deputy Minister of Education and the others in their organized campaign to lie about the content of the textbooks in the press. These things can be easily checked, and no politician likes to be purposefully misled."
A serious round-up on the current state of ISIS support in Europe.
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As I pointed out here sometime ago - you cannot destroy ISIS because ISIS is the essence of Islam. You want to defeat ISIS in Europe - deport every single Muslim.
[Dawn] MUZAFFARABAD / RAW ... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man... ALPINDI: British national Usman Khan was laid to rest in his family’s ancestral village in a southern district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... (AJK) on Friday.
The body of the 28-year-old London Bridge attacker was brought by his family from Islamabad airport to Kijlani village in district Kotli where the funeral took place at 4pm, following which he was buried in a local graveyard.
His family members refused to speak to the media, saying they had already given their statement through the London police on Tuesday.
Talking to Dawn, PIA’s General Manager Public Relations Abdul Hafeez said that Usman Khan’s body was shifted to Islamabad from London aboard a PIA flight PK-792. Later, it was handed over to his family.
The official said it was the PIA’s policy that it carried bodies on the basis of genuine documentation, including foreign-origin card of the dear departed and Pakistain High Commission’s letter.
The body was handed over to his relatives after passing through immigration and customs process.
The relatives drove the body to the town of Kotli for burial as Khan’s family didn’t want to bury him in the UK. His funeral prayers were earlier offered in a Birmingham mosque.
Khan stabbed two people to death and left three others injured in an attack in London on Friday. He had been residing in the Staffordshire area of UK.
According to media reports, he was part of a gang of nine turbans, mostly of Bangladeshi origin, who were sentenced in February 2012 after being convicted. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... he was released in December 2018, but was required to wear a GPS (electronic tag).
After the London Bridge attack, Khan was rubbed out by security personnel.
The Foreign Office front man was asked whether any special permission was required from the government for bringing the bodies of foreign nationals to Pakistain for burial or it was allowed for the people of Pakistain origin, and if any permission was granted in the case of the London Bridge attacker.
He replied through WhatsApp: "Is his body in Pakistain? I have no confirmation of this."
According to The Telegraph, Khan — a British citizen born in the UK and of Pakistani origin — left school with no qualifications after spending part of his late teens in Pakistan, where he lived with his mother when she became ill. On his return to the UK, he started preaching extremism on the internet and attracted a significant following.
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so they had too ay too ship this piece of shit too kashmir
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They were gonna bury him at sea, but we don't hav a toilet that big.
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Commodious was his commode,
Ever high, never low as it flowed,
And the size of its tank
Almost busted the bank,
But it choked on the monstrous load
Of that odious Islamist toad.
Pulling punches as usual. Because shying away from coarse language always works with limericks. Sigh.
[Jpost] Sanctions against Qais al-Khazali target the leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq (AAH) militia that has targeted the US and threatened Israel.
Qais Khazali once enjoyed a leisurely trip to southern Leb. It was December 2017, two years ago. Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias in Iraq were enjoying the height of their fame after having helped defeat ISIS and linking up with Syrian regime forces on the Syrian border of Iraq. They were cheering. Khazali was dreaming of larger plans: An attack on Israel using Iraqi Shi’ite, Iranian IRGC forces, Hezbollah and other elements from across the region.
On December 6, 2019 the US sanctioned Khazali along with other pro-Iranian elements in Iraq, accusing them of various abuses, including killing protesters and working with Iran’s IRGC. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Aassets Control (OFAC) designated Khazali along with Laith al-Khazali and Husayn Falih Aziz al-Lami under an Executive Order that enables the blocking of those involved in human rights
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[AlMasdar] The U.S. aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Harry Truman, is passing through the Strait of Gibraltar and heading towards Syrian waters, the Russian aviation publication Avia.Pro reported on Saturday.
"An American aircraft carrier strike group led by the U.S.S. Harry Truman nuclear carrier has passed the Strait of Gibraltar and is currently heading straight for Russian military bases along the Syrian coast. Experts do not exclude that provocations directed against Syria and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... may be the key purpose of the appearance of the largest aircraft carrier here," Avia.Pro reported.
"The U.S.S. Harry Truman aircraft carrier group (ACG) includes a missile cruiser, several destroyers, and a Tomahawk cruise missile nuclear submarine from the sixth fleet of the U.S.," they said.
According to reports, the carrier with escort ships will be off the coast of Syria for some time with uncertain tasks, after which it will go to the Persian Gulf, where it will be replaced by the U.S.S. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which, due to the unfavorable situation with the state of the U.S. carrier fleet, is in the Middle East longer than planned.
It is not clear what the purpose of this mission will be and the U.S. Navy has not commented on the deployment of the U.S.S. Harry Truman.
Possibly it will include killing those people and breaking those things in need of it. Certainly by looming over the landscape it will provide a credible threat of both. Question: Is Saudi Arabia within reach of a carrier group hanging out near Damascus? Depending on what we learn about that Saudi 2nd lieutenant and his little friends, decisions may have to be made, none of which any longer depend on the Saudis continuing to pump oil.
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Are they doing a "Freedom of Navigation" exercise because of the recent annexation of the Eastern Mediterranean by Turkey? Greece is not happy about Turkey's accord on sea boundaries with Libya.
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) graduated a new class of recruits in the Deir Ezzor Governorate after they completed rigorous training exercises.
In a video released on their official YouTube channel, the new graduates can be seen participating in military exercises in the Deir Ezzor countryside.
[IsraelTimes] Assistant head of country’s Atomic Energy Organization says ’50 new achievements’ will be revealed next year
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is set to unveil at least 50 new nuclear-related "products," including new centrifuge systems and a heavy water power plant in 2020, boasted an Iranian official on Saturday.
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[Jpost] The United States and Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... each freed a prisoner on Saturday in a rare act of cooperation between two longtime foes whose ties have worsened since President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... took office.
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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
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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.
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
[AlMasdar] Sudanese Prime Minister ’Abdullah Hamdouk said this weekend that the 
[Jpost] A report issued by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) given to the Norwegian parliament has led to calls by the ruling coalition to withhold funding for the Paleostinian Authority (PA). 
[Dawn] MUZAFFARABAD / 
[AlMasdar] The U.S. aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Harry Truman, is passing through the Strait of Gibraltar and heading towards Syrian waters, the Russian aviation publication Avia.Pro reported on Saturday.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
[IsraelTimes] Assistant head of country’s Atomic Energy Organization says ’50 new achievements’ will be revealed next year
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
