[SAHARAREPORTERS] The PDP has set the stage for its tactics ahead of the elections in 2015 and its simple- bomb parts of Nigeria and indeed Nigerians and place the blame on the door of the opposition APC. Men like Femi Fani-Kayode are being used to attack them in the press and various online media as sponsors of terror. Isn't it queer that days after Fani-Kayode accused the APC without proof of having a militant terror wing and an evil character in Musiliu Obanikoro accusing Bola Tinubu and his friends as starting Boko Haram that suddenly Ile-Ife was bombed?
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[Dhaka Tribune] In the verdict on the Ramna bombing case, a judge has commented that the Qawmi madrasa system is teaching a curriculum that renders Qawmi madras students both unemployable, and also alienated from Bengali culture. We agree with this assessment.
The Qawmi madrasa system should not be allowed to continue in its current form. It would serve its students better by making them more employable. The Alia madrasa system already teaches a government-approved curriculum. Qawmi madrasas should be persuaded to adopt a government-approved curriculum.
We urge the government to negotiate with the Qawmi madrasa boards to update their curricula. As has been seen from previous attempts to integrate the Qawmi system into the mainstream, this will not be easy. Last year, Hefazat chief Shah Ahmad Shafi threatened civil war if the government passed a law enabling the state to take control of the Qawmi madrasas.
Nevertheless, there have been others within the Qawmi system who were willing to work with the government to reform the curriculum. The prudent course of action would be for the government to state clearly that it will only recognise the certificates issued by Qawmi madrasa boards which agree to adopt a government-approved curriculum. Madrasas do have the right to exist, but it is important to bring them under a common standard.
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[Iran Press TV] US presidents have become the worst enemies of the American nation in the 21st century due to their negligence of the citizens' rights, an analyst writes for Press TV.
"In the 21st century, Americans' worst enemies are not al-Qaeda, Iran, Russia, and China. America's worst enemies are our own presidents," Paul Craig Roberts wrote in an article for the Press TV website.
He said the American presidents claim that the right to declare "war on terror" empowers them to violate the "civil liberties guaranteed to every citizen by the US Constitution."
"Having stripped US citizens of their civil liberties, executive branch agencies are now stocking up vast amounts of ammunitionâ¦. Congress and the media are not interested in why the executive branch is arming itself so heavily against the American people," Roberts wrote.
He said US President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... 's appointee to the Court of Appeals, David Barron, recently wrote memos "fabricating a legal justification for the Office of President to murder US citizens without due process of law."
Roberts added that the civil liberties are "sacrificed" in the United States under the pretext of fighting al-Qaeda.
"The executive declares a state of war, even a war that is not conducted against another country or countries but a vague, undefined or ill-defined war against a vague stateless enemy such as 'al-Qaeda', with which the US is currently allied against Syria," the analyst wrote.
He said the office of the president's "illegitimate power" poses a threat not only to "every American but also to every living being on Planet Earth."
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How's that "cozying up" to Iran working for you Obumble?
[DAWN] "Hell," as Sartre observes so pithily, "is other people".
This, it seems, is increasingly our fate in Pakistain as door after door shuts on us. Sri Lanka was one of the few countries that issued Paks visas on arrival at Colombo airport. No longer, alas. I feel personally deprived as I have been going to the lovely island regularly for some 15 years, and spending much of the winter there.
This change in policy has been caused by the hundreds of Paks who have claimed political asylum in the country. Ahmadis and Christians, suffering from violence and persecution in Pakistain, have been driven to this extreme measure, and who can blame them?
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Check the source article and the comments. Very interesting self-reflecting...
[DAWN] A PICTURE generating optimism is emerging now that former army chief Gen Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... 's reported procrastination is no more and the North Wazoo operation's ground phase has been launched following weeks of 'softening' of targets via air strikes. The honest truth, though, is that it is too early to say if this optimism is valid.
But what isn't early to say is that there are elements in the defence forces that need serious reorientation training if there are to be lasting gains from the sacrifices of the soldiers — and civilians about 10 of whom have died for every soldier killed — as the forces of Evil have pursued their bloody campaign.
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There is a defined need for a scorecard for these offshoot terrorist groups. On the other hand,does it really matter?
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For the most part, imho, offshho terrorist groups are little more than present-day mobsters with AK's and a willing press looking for the latest "bad-boy" story.
Dangerous? Yes, but to some degree, motivated by their vanity. See Al Capone, etc.
[DAWN] PAKISTANIS may not be aware but the nefarious designs of faceless myrmidons who wish to isolate Pakistain from the rest of the world seem to be working. Unknown to us, the creeping delinking of Pakistain from the global economy has intensified in the last few years. Evidence corroborating this finding is quite strong and is discussed below.
Pakistain is widely perceived and projected in the Western world as "the most dangerous country in the world" or as "the epicentre of global terrorism". More recently, Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... has been described as the "world's most violent megacity" where the state seems to have "ceded its authority to thuggish politicians, ethnic and religious bigots and exceptionally brutal criminals". This negative perception has nurtured a feeling of hostility against the country.
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Descent began in '47. Nation on life sport. Who, but themselves, is to blame?
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For those who are always chipping away at our Constitution, the 4 freedoms that are under assault and have to be defended are of little concern. They are always trying to find ways to circumvent it; not live by its principles. The supremacy notions of our enemies are certainly brought out in this article.
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[Iran Press TV] US presidents have become the worst enemies of the American nation in the 21st century due to their negligence of the citizens' rights, an analyst writes for Press TV.
[DAWN] "Hell," as Sartre observes so pithily, "is other people".
[DAWN] PAKISTANIS may not be aware but the nefarious designs of 
