[NATION.PK] After about three years of constant efforts, Pakistan has ultimately completed the construction of a massive trench in Balochistan alongside its porous border with Afghanistan to keep separatists, smugglers and militants from sneaking into the country.
Flood it and bring in the alligators...
“Excavation work on several-hundred-kilometre-long trench on Chaman-Kandhar border has been completed,” Deputy Commissioner Chaman Khuda-e-Dad Aga told media.
The strategic project of 1,100-kilometre-long trench with the cost of Rs14 billion was initiated along Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan by Frontier Corps in 2013.
The 11-foot-deep and 14-foot-wide ditch on the entire stretch of the border is contributing in efforts by the security forces to have a proper border management, an official of the provincial Home Department said.
In the next phase, the project will be extended to the entire over 2,400-kilometre-long border and after its completion, travel between the two countries will only be allowed through officially-designated crossing points.
The FC, at the beginning of the project, had maintained that the trench would “not only help in effectively controlling the movement of drugs, arms and ammunition smugglers but will also help in stopping the intrusion of terrorists and illegal immigrants”.
“Proper management on all of our international borders is an essential need for a peaceful Pakistan,” Balochistan government’s spokesperson Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said. “In accordance with our laws, we are making our efforts to discipline cross-border travelling withAfghanistan and other countries.”
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And the U.S. calls Pakistan a third-world country! They seem to have this border-thingy figured out!
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Balochistan = Afghanistan's corridor/gateway to the sea + sea trade. Islamabad fears a POTUS Trump will do what the Bammer covertly desires + but is too PCorrect to do at this time, i.e. separate Balochistan from Pakistan, + merge or coop wid Afghanistan.
The so-called “Benghazi Defence Brigades” (BDB) have warned villages and towns between Ajdabiya and Benghazi not to get involved in the fighting or likewise stand in their way towards Benghazi, otherwise they will be destroyed.
Claiming that they are fighting under the authority of Sadiq Ghariani and the Dar Al-Ifta in Tripoli, the BDB also today denied that they had been forced to retreat by units of the Libyan National Army (LNA), claiming instead they were still firmly in control of areas of that they had taken yesterday.
"Lies! All lies!"
However, despite their claims and reports that they had managed to capture a tank, four armoured vehicles and ammunition from the LNA, the Libya Herald has been told that they were forced out of the centre of Ajdabiya and are now south of the town.
They're just more selective in the towns they occupy...
This newspaper had also been informed that a number of Libyans from Tripoli have joined the unit. It is also reported that four LNA soldiers were killed today in fighting with the unit.
[Al Ahram] A Cairo court rejected on Monday an appeal by Egypt’s prosecution on rights campaigner Mina Thabet’s release order, confirming that he will be let out of jail on EGP 10,000 bail.
The activist is being investigated, among other charges, on accusations of inciting protests against redrawing Egyptian-Saudi maritime borders, inciting violence to overthrow the regime and change the constitution, inciting attacks on cop shoppes, joining a terrorist organization and disturbing social peace.
Thabet, who is the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms' minorities and marginalised groups programme director, was locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! on 21 May from his home during a raid by plainclothes police, according to the NGO.
The documents found with Thabet include papers on the socialist political party Bread and Freedom, documents about minority rights relating to international law, the civil and political rights of minorities, in addition to a poster that says that the islands of Tiran and Sanafir, that lie in the Red Sea off Sinai, are Egyptian.
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[Al Ahram] Kuwait's foreign minister said Monday that a deal to grant thousands of stateless people in the Gulf emirate Comoran nationality had not been struck despite recent reports.
Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Sabah, in comments published in the Al-Qabas daily newspaper, denied rumours circulating in Kuwaiti media on the agreement.
"If we sign an agreement with any country, the foreign ministry is obliged... to complete the necessary legal procedures in accordance with the constitution," the minister said.
Comoran External Affairs Minister Abdulkarim Mohammed said in Kuwait last month that his country was ready to consider taking thousands of stateless people denied citizenship there.
Local media in Kuwait recently suggested that a deal was in the works and reported scams involving large sums charged for assistance in obtaining Comoran citizenship.
More than 110,000 stateless people, locally known as bidoons, have been living in Kuwait for decades claiming the right to citizenship in the oil-rich emirate and the generous welfare benefits that accompany it.
But the government describes them as "illegal residents" and says only 34,000 qualify for consideration for citizenship.
Impoverished Comoros consists of three islands in the Indian Ocean with a population of just under 800,000 people, nearly all of them Sunni Moslems.
Despite the country's distance from the Middle East and North Africa, it is a member of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... as well as the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... Several years ago, Comoros offered thousands of bidoons in the United Arab Emirates citizenship in exchange for generous aid packages in a deal similar to the Kuwait proposal.
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Impoverished Comoros consists of three islands in the Indian Ocean with a population of just under 800,000 people, nearly all of them Sunni Moslems.
i.e.: Muslims without oil
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"Stateless"?
Is that an euphemism for Palis that have worn out their welcome?
[ABCNEWS.GO] Bahrain's government on Monday stripped a leading Shiite holy man of his nationality, a move that brought hundreds of protesters into the streets and prompted warnings of unrest.
The Bahrain News Agency quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that Sheikh Isa Qassim had played a key role in creating an bully boy sectarian atmosphere and had formed groups that "follow foreign religious ideologies and political entities," an apparent reference to Shiite-majority Iran.
The move was welcomed by Bahrain's Sunni-led allies but condemned by Shiites, and could serve as another flashpoint for regional sectarian tensions stoked by the rivalry between Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and Iran.
After the decision was announced, several hundred of Qassim's supporters gathered outside of his house in the mostly Shiite village of Diraz, carrying posters and chanting religious slogans. Sayed al-Wadaei, director of advocacy at the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, said in a statement that the decision will escalate tensions and may lead to violence.
The tiny island nation off the coast of the Arabian Peninsula has been in turmoil since a 2011 uprising backed by majority Shiites demanding greater rights from the Sunni-led monarchy. Bahrain crushed the protests with the help of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Sunni allies suspicious of Iran and opposed to growing Shiite influence in the region.
Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... said the decision to strip the holy man of his citizenship "takes Bahrain into the darkest days" since the 2011 crackdown.
[Al Ahram] The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned Bahrain's government of armed struggle, after the Gulf kingdom stripped the spiritual leader of its Shia Moslem majority of his citizenship.
"The Al Khalifa (rulers of Bahrain) surely know their aggression against Sheikh Isa Qassim is a red line that crossing it would set Bahrain and the whole region on fire, and it would leave no choice for people but to resort to armed resistance," said Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force, the elite special forces arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, in a statement published by Fars news agency.
"Al Khalifa will definitely pay the price for that and their bloodthirsty regime will be toppled," he said.
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[Breitbart] Why is the Obama administration hiding the truth about the terrorist 9-1-1 phone calls?
The White House feigned ignorance that President Barack Obama had anything to do with the redaction of the transcripts.
"The decision about the release of the transcripts is one that was made solely by Department of Justice and FBI officials," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said to reporters during the daily press briefing.
He insisted that Obama had no role in the decision to redact the text of the text to distract from the motives of the attacks.
The text of the transcripts used the text [omitted] in the place of the shooter's references to the Islamic faith, being an Islamic soldier and replaced the word "Allah" with the word "God."
Earnest said that the Justice Department and the F.B.I had decided to redact the transcript "consistent with their assessment about the best way to advance the investigation."
He said that he hadn't seen House Speaker Paul Ryan's call for the administration to release the full underrated text so that Americans could have a clear-eyed understanding of the threat posed by radical Islamic terrorists.
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F.B.I had decided to redact the transcript "consistent with their assessment about the best way to advance the investigation"
Josh Earnest's statement above is as stupid as the original deliberate deception (redaction/edit).
While the FBI is all sorts of jacked up already on this crime. The local police killed Mateen, not the FBI (one of the local police was shot in the head doing so). The FBI shows up late, after interviewing this guy twice, and further - fails to follow up on the gun store owners report, seizes the 911 tape and not only redact it, but edits (changes Allah to God) the transcript of the tape? I don't buy it - even a first year FBI agent knows that editing a transcript is an intentional deception/lie and will get them fired - it kills an investigation, it does not advance it. It is obvious that DOJ directed this mess.
Ignorance, Incompetence, not buying that either - this was deliberate deception. Lynch should be fired for directing this edit to happen, stupidly propagating it, and for blaming it on the FBI. Same pattern of conduct at DOJ as deliberately deceiving the Judge on Obama's deportation amnesty policy. The head of this fish is rotten.
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But FBI is ignorant & incompetent, Tennessee. Did you know that after 9/11, when they got orders to investigate/detain people from ME, they detained several Israeli students?
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But FBI is ignorant & incompetent, Tennessee. Did you know that after 9/11, when they got orders to investigate/detain people from ME, they detained several Israeli students?
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While there are excellent individual agents and analysts...In regards to the FBI as an institution - I agree with you. When they refuse to learn the language of the threat, do not study the culture of the threat, and do not cultivate the authorities to address it...then they will remain mired in incompetence, ignorance and ineffectiveness...and we will continue to pay the price for this indifference.
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So now terrorists have to call 911 to tell their intent before hand so it will be clear to the lefties that a white guys is not doing the attack. Terrorists are tired of middles aged white guys getting all the credit. They now know the comprising POS in office will change the narative. They now need to call three news stations so their message will get our accurately.
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"FBI is ignorant & incompetent" - a long tradition of that in the US government, from 1812 when federal authorities couldn't be bothered to notify their military officers on the frontier that war had been declared against Great Britain, to February 1941 when the Martin-Bellinger assessment / prediction of the Dec 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was consigned to the round file so thoroughly that even modern historians don't mention it.
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WH directly involved? No need. The FBI et al know perfectly well what the boss wants and that maintaining plausible deniability is paramount. In this case, Justice didn't think it through and made the Administration look bad. Consequences will follow at the appropriate time.
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Everyone knew what was in the transcripts from news reports so even suggesting you would redact them was incredibly stupid, it just caused folks to read the transcripts looking to find what was so worth censoring.
h/t Gates of Vienna
Under pressure from Republican leaders, the Justice Department on Monday afternoon reversed itself and released a full, uncensored transcript of the Orlando terrorist's 911 call on the night of the massacre, calling the morning’s furor over omissions in the document "an unnecessary distraction."
An earlier version of the transcript had deleted the word "Islamic State" and the name of ISIS leader "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi." Omar Mateen made the 50-second 911 call in which he claimed responsibility for the terror attack and pledged allegiance to Islamic State's leader at 2:35 a.m. The call came just over a half hour into the June 12 slaughter at gay nightclub Pulse.
[Iraq Sun] South Korea’s Intelligence agency has said that the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) Death Eater group has gathered information on 77 U.S. and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... air force bases and has asked its followers to attack them.
According to reports, the National Intelligence Service has said that information on people from 21 countries has also been released by ISIS which includes personal information of one South Korean welfare organization employee. The person is now under protection.
The NIS has reportedly said that the United Cyber Caliphate, which is ISIS’ hacking organization, has collected information on U.S. air base in South Korea including Osan Air Base.
They have also reportedly collected addresses and Google map details and released them through the Telegram messaging service.
According to reports, U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), in a statement on June 20 said, "Through constant vigilance and regular exercises with our South Korean counterparts, we remain prepared to respond at any time to any emerging threats. USFK remains committed to ensuring the highest degree of security on the Korean Peninsula."
According to NIS, in the last five years, 50 people suspected of being part of terrorist organizations have been deported from South Korea.
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[DAWN] Federal 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... on Monday termed Hindu faceless myrmidons organizations the biggest hurdle in Pak-India peace dialogue.
"In our eyes, the biggest hurdle is Hindu Death Eater organizations and their influence and relations with the current government," said Nisar.
The interior minister also termed Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj’s statement regarding Pak-India ties as ’surprising’.
"If the Indian government is serious about mending ties with Pakistain, than they should declare exactly what forces do not want better ties between the two countries," said Nisar in a statement released by the interior ministry.
Nisar also stated that the prime minister’s good relations with any other head of state are linked to our national interest.
"The Indian minister should not take it as the PM’s personal interest," he elaborated.
"Indian seriousness over the issue can be gauged by Prime Minister Modi’s speech to the US Congress."
Pak and Indian foreign secretaries were scheduled to meet to discuss modalities regarding the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue agreed upon during Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj's visit to Islamabad for the Heart of Asia conference in December.
The Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue stalled following the attack on Indian Air Force's Pathankot base.
The dialogue was to take on matters related to peace and security, Jammu and Kashmire, Siachen, Sir Creek, Wullar Barrage, Tulbul Navigation Project, economic and commercial cooperation, counter-terrorism, narcotics control and humanitarian issues, people to people exchanges and religious tourism.
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If we can only get rid of all the people who wouldn't bend over and spreed it for Islam...
A record 65.3 million people were uprooted worldwide last year, many of them fleeing wars only to face walls, tougher laws and xenophobia as they reach borders, the United Nations refugee agency said on June 20 for the occasion of the World Refugee Day.
I've said it before and I say it again: the best place on the planet for Syrian refugees is in Syria. The best place for Libyan refugees is Libya. It's their home, their land, their culture, their faith. It would be far smarter for the West to set up displacement camps in these countries, protect them by any means necessary, and let the hard boys fight it out. Once they're done (and we could help with the killing of hard boys) then we could send all the good people back to their villages and cities.
But moving them to Germany? Norway? Minnesota? That doesn't make a bit of sense. They don't particularly like us Westerners, they don't particularly fit in, they don't have the language or training to get jobs, and so they'll not do well. Their kids will be radicalized, and we'll have problems.
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I've said it before and I say it again: the best place on the planet for Syrian refugees is in Syria
To be candid, after Israel been a subject to intense international (fueled by petrodollars and led by Euros) pressure for two generation re "Palestinian Refugees"*, I'm kinda happy West Europeans have an opportunity to study the subject at first hand.
* See Joan Peters: (1) Arab emigration under Perfidious Albione, (2) Population exschange.
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I adopt an HIV model for modern world.
People who have HIV don't die of it. They die of some other infectious disease - because they no longer have an immune system.
In my view, Islam is some other infectious disease. TransNational Progressivism (which rules over EU) is HIV.
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You get what you tolerate. You gave colonialism a bad name even though in most cases it follows the old Monty Python skit - what have the Romans ever done for us. It dragged stone and bronze age cultures into the 19th and 20th Century. It wasn't 'perfect', however it did avoid the hell all so often the places reverted to after decolonization. Another gift of the Left.
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So the best place for Mexicans is Mexico?
Yeah, I agree. Configure migratory settlement neutral areas managed by the UN with funds washed through the IMF. Each member nation would pay a fee per refugee head for their citizens of record.
Wait, why does this sound a whole lot like reservations for the American Indians? What a failed dismal relocation solution that was/is.
[RUDAW.NET] In an expected development, the largest political bloc in Kirkuk’s provincial council rejected on Sunday efforts to establish a semi-independent region in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... voting in favor of a reintegration with the Kurdistan region.
The Brotherhood bloc, with 26 seats of the 41-seat provincial council, officially announced its opposition to the proposal, originally put forward by Kirkuk’s Kurdish governor Najmadin Karim.
Karim has said the registered voters of the disputed province will have three options at the long anticipated referendum; staying with the Iraqi government, reintegration with the Kurdistan region or simply becoming a semi-independent region.
According to the Iraqi constitution a province can become a semi-independent region if it wins two-third of the votes at the provincial council even without a public vote.
"Supporters of a semi-independent region now can only hope for a referendum which could be called for when they have the signed support of at least 10 percent of the registered voters within two months," said Bokan Abdulla, a legal scholar in Kirkuk.
But the voter consent for a referendum will unlikely to be needed as the Kurdistan region is up for a public vote, most probably before the end of this year, in which also residents in Kirkuk will have the opportunity to make their voice heard.
"We are committed to the constitution article 140 and returning to the Kurdistan region," said Muhammad Kamal, a veteran member of the provincial council in Kirkuk addressing a presser. The constitutional article 140 addresses the so-called disputed territories across Iraq.
Though roughly over half of Kirkuk’s population currently consists of Kurds, the Turkmen and Arab communities are relatively sizeable in the disputed city, which ultimately makes their vote crucial to any referendum.
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"It is not the whole population, but sometimes when there is a specific form of terrorism, you can seek out Islamic terrorism only among Muslims." We live in a World there this is not a pleonasm
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Pleonasm (pliːənæzəm); Greek: πλεονασμός, pleonasmos, from πλέον, pleon, "more; too much") is the use of more words or parts of words than is necessary or sufficient for clear expression: examples are black darkness, burning fire, or people's democracy. Such redundancy is, by traditional rhetorical criteria, a manifestation of tautology. That being said, people may use a pleonasm for emphasis or because the phrase has already become established in a certain form.
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Profiling is a major part of any police work. He looked suspicious so I pulled him over. He was driving a low rider car in Beverly Hills, it will get you pulled over. Driving a low rider truck anywhere in Florida will get you pulled over. It's profiling. So what. The police are charged with looking for something out of the ordinary and investigating it. It's all good.
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I remember wearing long hair in the 60's. Boy, that'd get you pulled over. But then, if you weren't breaking any law there was no problem.
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media says Muhammad Rashid arrived with Kurdish delegation, met with Israeli officials and Syrian rebels
Deceased Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat’s former money man Muhammad Rashid visited Israel on June 12 and held meetings with Israeli officials as well as figures connected to Syrian rebel groups, the official newspaper of the Paleostinian Authority, Al-Hayat al-Jadida, reported.
According to the report, Rashid traveled on a Canadian passport, arrived with a delegation of bigwigs from Iraqi Kurdistan, and stayed at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. During the visit, Rashid, who is a runaway from the PA, where he has been convicted of embezzlement, was said to have met with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and an IDF intelligence officer.
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[Breitbart] Why is the Obama administration hiding the truth about the terrorist 9-1-1 phone calls? 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
