Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, First Vice President, said Thursday during his visit to Jawzjan province that Aqcha, Khaniqa and Mingajik districts have been cleared of Taliban insurgents.
Dostum said that large-scale operations have been conducted in different parts of the province.
He said the operation will continue until the complete elimination of insurgents from the province.
"The situation was not good here hence I came to Jawzjan, then I will go to Faryab and Sar-e-Pul provinces and I will go to any place where necessary but of course I will first get the permission of the president," said Dostum.
Afghan forces in the area strengthened with the arrival of the First Vice as additional forces from Kabul joined them. They are now making good progress in Khaniq district.
"There is a village called Sabz Poshan where the enemy is located. They have seized the village," said Satar Khan a commander.
"It is many nights we have not seen Taliban but a few nights ago they [Taliban] were coming and taking men and then they left," said Noor Mohammad a resident.
"Taliban have not fired a single bullet, they [Taliban] are afraid and fled the area and the forces captured the area," said Rahmatullah Kohistani Jawzjan police chief.
After the failure of his first experimental explorations around Vicksburg, a committee of abolition war managers waited upon the President and demanded the General’s removal, on the false charge that he was a whiskey drinker, and little better than a common drunkard. “Ah!” exclaimed Honest Old Abe, “you surprise me, gentlemen. But can you tell me where he gets his whiskey?” “We cannot, Mr. President. But why do you desire to know?” “Because, if I can only find out, I will send a barrel of this wonderful whiskey to every general in the army.”
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has suspended a number of senior police officials following the deadly suicide kaboom in capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... on Tuesday.
Sediq Sediqi, front man for the Ministry of Interior (MoI), the police chief of 1st Police District has been suspended and has been introduced for investigation.
He said a number of other officials including the Head of the Criminal Investigation Department for PD1, and Head of Counter-terrorism were also suspended.
At least 64 people were killed and 347 others were maimed in the attack on the Directorate of Security for Elite Government officials.
The Taliban group grabbed credit behind the attack which comes amid rampant insurgency led by the group since they announced their spring offensive.
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[AA.TR] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... froze assets of Yemen’s ex-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... and four former senior Yemeni officials Thursday in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions until Feb. 27, 2017, according to the country’s official gazette.
The decision entered into force after it was published in the gazette Thursday following approval of the Turkish Council of Ministers.
The ex-president’s son Ahmed Ali Saleh, Abdullah Yahya al-Hakim, Abd al-Khaliq al-Huthi, Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh and Abdulmalik al-Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... are among those affected by the freeze.
The UN Security Council on Feb. 24 renewed sanctions on the former Yemeni officials for allegedly threatening peace in the impoverished country.
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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... has remained in turmoil since September 2014, when the Houthis and their allies overran the Yemeni capital Sanaa and other parts of the country, forcing President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and his government to temporarily flee to Saudi capital Riyadh.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US President Barack Obama Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.... on Wednesday defended the Iran nuclear deal his administration had long lobbied for, but also pledged vigilance against Tehran at a summit attended by Gulf leaders in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
"We will remain vigilant to make sure Iran fulfills its commitments, just as we fulfill ours," Obama said at the close of the meeting with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Obama’s administration lent its weight for the deal, signed in July last year with the Islamic republic and six world powers, to use diplomacy in order to block pathways for Iran to develop a nuclear arm, an allegation Tehran has long rejected.
Gulf states have long expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s over Iran’s interference and meddling in the region, a worry Obama has tackled in his Riyadh visit when he said Iran must be held "accountable" and that the US is going to work to stop Iran from backing the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militia group in Yemen.
Need for talks However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... he said there is a need for a "dialogue" as well, highlighting his administration’s keenness for diplomacy.
Citing Iran’s "destabilizing activities" in the region, he said: "Even with the nuclear deal we recognize collectively that we continue to have serious concerns about Iranian behavior."
But he added: "None of our nations have an interest in conflict with Iran."
While concerns remain over Iran and economic issues, including the collapsed oil prices, he also described the GCC monarchies as united in their commitment to defeating ISIS and soothing other regional conflicts.
"We remain united in our fight to destroy ISIS," he said, using another acronym for ISIS, at the close of the summit.
Obama, finishing his brief trip to the kingdom, said he and the Gulf leaders had agreed about ways to move forward in campaign against ISIS, with members of the GCC states agreeing to "increase their contributions to the fight."
He also said "the United States and the GCC will launch a new high-level economic dialogue with a focus on adjusting to lower oil prices, increasing our economic ties and supporting GCC reforms as they work to provide jobs and opportunities to their young people and all of their citizens."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Talks aimed at ending Yemen’s civil war opened in Kuwait on Thursday, with Kuwait’s foreign minister appealing to both sides to "turn war into peace" after more than a year of conflict which has killed 6,200 people and caused a humanitarian crisis.
The talks, bringing together the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... group and its General People’s Congress party allies with the Saudi-backed government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, were originally scheduled to start on Monday.
They were delayed over alleged truce violations and disagreements over the agenda for the negotiations.
Kuwait’s foreign minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah, in an opening speech, urged Yemenis to "turn war into peace and backwardness into development."
The talks are based on UN Security Council resolution 2216 which calls for the Houthis to withdraw from areas they seized since 2014 and hand heavy weapons back to the government, UN special envoy to 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. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said.
"The choice today is one of two options: a safe homeland that ensures security for all of its citizens... or remnants of a land whose sons die everyday," Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in an opening speech.
The talks are expected to focus on creating a more inclusive government and restoring state authority over the country, which is now divided between the Houthis and Hadi’s administration.
The crisis began in September 2014 when the Iran-allied Houthis seized the capital Sanaa. A Saudi-led Arab alliance intervened last year, launching a campaign of mostly air strikes against the Houthis in support of Hadi’s forces.
The Houthi group and the GPC had accused the Saudi-led coalition and Hadi supporters of failing to honor a truce that began on April 10, and refused to send their negotiators to Kuwait until the truce was consolidated.
They agreed to join the talks following intervention by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon.
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[NYT] LONDON -- For Kevin Nakache, the breaking point came last year. First, one of his friends was gunned down in the attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris a few days after the Charlie Hebdo massacre. Then, in October, Mr. Nakache’s former Hebrew teacher barely escaped a knife attack in Marseille, his hometown in southern France, where violence against Jews is on the rise.
Fed up, Mr. Nakache decided last fall to follow many other French Jews and leave the country. But rather than going to Israel, an increasingly popular destination for those choosing to leave France after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, or the United States, Mr. Nakache chose to emigrate to London, joining a growing stream of French Jews who see the British capital as a convenient and less threatening option as France grapples with the radicalization of young Muslims and a rise in anti-Semitism.
"When people around you get attacked, it’s frightening," he said. "You start thinking you’re next."
Watching the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo unfold, "I just knew that the next victims would be Jews," he said. He was right. Four Jews, including his friend, died in the kosher supermarket in Paris after being taken hostage with 25 other shoppers by a militant claiming allegiance to the Islamic State. More recently, after Mr. Nakache left, a rabbi in Marseille was nearly hacked to death by a supporter of the Islamic State.
"For goodness sake," he said, "why do they have to kill us just because we’re Jews?"
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yep. I'm pretty sure they're also not on the refugee asylum list at the White House this go around again. I seem to recall there was another 'D' occupant of that address the previous time too.
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London, the US, Francophone Canada -- probably in that order in terms of numbers of Frenchmen who've left France since Hollande became president, which includes French Jews. The Jews just add Israel to the list.
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"For goodness sake," he said, "why do they have to kill us just because we’re Jews?"
If snakes were more like bunnies or crows like songbirds,
I would kill fewer snakes and crows I suppose.
Social isolation and early indoctrination define behavior.
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China's Defense Ministry on Friday denied reports that Chinese troops were massing on the North Korean border, ahead of a possible fifth North Korean nuclear test, saying its deployments there were normal. "No, no! They're tourists"
The Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said earlier this week that China had sent 2,000 troops to the border, a story picked up by Russian and Iranian news outlets, among others. The decision was made ahead of the expected testing of North Korea's fifth nuclear device, the report said, in violation of U.N. sanctions.
"The relevant report does not accord with the facts," the Defense Ministry said in a short statement. "The Chinese military maintains normal combat readiness and training on the China-North Korea border."
It did not elaborate. "I can say no more"
Reports periodically surface about unusual troops movements on the border, which are hard to verify independently and generally quickly denied by the Chinese government.
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They probably average more troops than that INSIDE North Korea over the last decade.
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I'm more inclined towards refugee interdiction, what with the relatively warmer weather coming on.
Spot on! The Chinese certainly understand national sovereignty and are building a wall with AK-47's. Something to be learned here, something to be learned.
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A wall of AK-47s. That's such a good line I'm going to borrow it.
I do wonder if refugee interdiction is the only interest here: the same gun-wall would also tend to cut smuggling into Nork-Land (or at least make the local military cadres wealthy).
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are building a wall with AK-47's. Something to be learned here, something to be learned.
The AK is no longer standard issue with PLA regulars, although their AK copies are issued to militia units.
[AnNahar] A U.S. Army captain in Iraq helped crack a plot to bomb a Danish school after gleaning crucial details from documents recovered from bully boys, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Army Captain Bradley Grimm, who is based at Al-Asad airbase in Iraq's Anbar province, had "helped develop a system to speed the flow of intelligence from here on the ground to various national capitals," Baghdad-based front man Colonel Steve Warren said.
Grimm gleaned "actionable intelligence" from "captured documents" belonging to imported muscle with ties to Denmark, Warren said.
"Brad's work likely saved the lives of Danish citizens," Warren said, without providing additional details of the plot itself.
For his work, Denmark awarded Grimm the Danish Defense Medal for Special Meritorious Effort.
The intelligence-sharing system he helped develop contributed to the arrest of a suspect in the school plot and the confiscation of some homemade explosives.
Denmark is an active member of the approximately 65-nation coalition conducting operations against 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.... fighters in Iraq and Syria.
Danish politicians on Tuesday approved a plan to commit several F-16 warplanes, a transport aircraft and 400 military personnel to expand the country's fight.
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It's called 'document exploitation' or DOCEX. Hat tip to the Captain. Too bad they had to release his name. Not as bad as Naylor's book Relentless Strike, but still too bad they mentioned his name.
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Army Captain Bradley Grimm, who is based at Al-Asad airbase in Iraq's Anbar province, had "helped develop a system to speed the flow of intelligence from here on the ground to various national capitals
Developed his own Foggy Bottom lite 'home brew server' did he? Thinking outside the box, he'll not go far.
[FRANCE24] Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in November’s Gay Paree attacks, has been charged with attempted murder in Belgium during a police shootout in Brussels three days before his arrest, prosecutors said.
Abdeslam, who is due to be extradited to La Belle France in the next few weeks over his part in the attacks in Gay Paree by 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.... gunnies that killed 130 people, appeared before a Belgian judge on Thursday.
Four coppers were maimed and an Islamist gunman was killed in the shootout at a suspected holy warrior safe house in the Brussels district of Forest on March 15.
Investigators found fingerprints of Abdeslam, who was born in Belgium to Moroccan-born parents, at the scene.
"He was charged with attempted murder over the shooting in Forest," a front man for Belgium’s federal prosecutors said, adding that he did not believe charging Abdeslam would delay his extradition to La Belle France.
Abdeslam has told a magistrate he had planned to blow himself up at a sports stadium in Gay Paree on Nov. 13 but backed out at the last minute.
He has also told Sherlocks he arranged logistics for the Gay Paree attacks.
Abdeslam’s elder brother Brahim, a Brussels barkeeper, went kaboom! outside a Gay Pareeian cafe on the night of the attacks.
Salah Abdeslam’s lawyer has said his client has admitted being in Gay Paree during the attacks but has given no further details.
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An alleged member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who was a suspect in the Ankara bombing that killed 103 people on Oct. 10, 2015, has been caught in the eastern province Elazığ. The suspect, Nihat Ürkmez, was detained in Elazığ before he was taken to Ankara, where he was arrested on April 21.
He's not gonna feel so good shortly...
Photos obtained from the computer of Yunus Durmaz, the so-called “emir” of the jihadist group who is on Turkey’s red list for “wanted terrorists” with a 4 million-Turkish-Lira reward offered for intelligence leading to his capture, was sent to a provincial security directorate.
The police in the eastern province of Bingöl then determined that Ürkmez, who was with the courier of the attack, Halil İbrahim Durgun, had moved to Elazığ from Bingöl.
The Ankara attack was the deadliest carried out in Turkey by ISIL, killing 103 people. The attack occurred when two suicide bombers linked to ISIL targeted a large group of people outside the capital’s main train station on Oct. 10, 2015.
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[FRANCE24] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s appeals court has overturned coup plot convictions imposed in 2013 on a retired military chief and other senior figures in a case then regarded as clipping the wings of the secularist and military establishment, state media said on Thursday.
The ruling closes the final chapter in a nine-year legal drama whose twists and turns have tracked the shifting balance of power at the heart of the Turkish establishment.
In August 2013, ex-military chief General Ilker Basbug was sentenced to life in jail for his role in the "Ergenekon" plot to overthrow then-Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted government.
Politicians, lawyers and journalists were also among 275 defendants in the case, which emerged in 2007 when an arms cache was discovered in a house in an Istanbul suburb.
It was at the time championed by Erdogan and his supporters as a battle against anti-democratic forces and to tame a military that had seen itself as the guardian of secularism, carrying out three coups and forcing a fourth, Islamist-led government from power in the second half of the 20th century.
In Thursday’s ruling, the appeals court said there had been no "Ergenekon terror group", and that evidence had been collected illegally, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Sledgehammer
After the 2013 convictions, the case became entwined in a power struggle between Erdogan and U.S.-based Muslim holy man Fethullah Gulen, whose influential followers in the judiciary had been seen as key to the Ergenekon convictions.
Erdogan accused Gulen of using his influence within state institutions to try to unseat him in a coup plot. As their feud deepened, the Ergenekon defendants were released in March 2014, with the government suggesting they too may have been unfairly treated and the victims of a Gulenist plot.
Another trial over an alleged 2003 plot against Erdogan, the "Sledgehammer" case, ended with acquittal for more than 200 military officers in March last year.
The prosecutor who led the Ergenekon investigation, viewed as close to Gulen, fled to Armenia in August as an arrest warrant was issued for him over his role in a separate investigation of alleged corruption in Erdogan’s inner circle.
That corruption inquiry was thrown out by the courts and the judiciary and police subjected to a systematic purge of suspected Gulen supporters.
Police operations have subsequently targeted thousands of supporters of Gulen, accused of leading what prosecutors described as a "Gulenist Terror Group" trying to overthrow Erdogan. Gulen denies the accusations.
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Congress is required to act when the defense of this nation is in jeopardy. The president, as much as I despise him, is not the problem here. Congress is stealing money from American, filtering it from our defense budget and playing hide the monkey blaming it on the POS in the White House. The true rats are living in congress. They are supposed to be the balance to his power, but instead they are fleecing America.
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instead they are fleecing America
to assure the continuance of their own power cults.
[DAWN] As gangster Ghulam Rasool, alias Chotoo, and his men surrendered to the Pakistain Army after three days of deliberations with elders and influentials of Rajanpur district, the military said on Wednesday that it would remain in the riverine area till it was completely cleared of all outlaws.
"This area would not be vacated till all dacoits surrender or action against them is completed. They have to be captured alive or dead," chief military front man Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa said. "We will clear all no-go areas wherever they are existing."
Lt Gen Bajwa, the director general of Inter-Services Public Relations, was briefing the media on Operation Zarb-e-Ahan after the Chotoo gang leader and his 12 accomplices laid down their arms and surrendered to military troops.
All 24 coppers held hostage by the gang were also safely recovered.
He said that Chotoo and his men surrendered "unconditionally". They were taken into custody and would be investigated by intelligence agencies. The gangsters would remain with the agencies till the probe was completed, he added.
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[DAWN] DERA GHAZI KHAN: The anti-criminal Zarb-e-Aahan operation in the riverine area of Punjab's Rajanpur district continues on Thursday, even as notorious gangster Ghulam Rasool, alias Chotoo, and his 13 men surrendered before the Pakistain Army a day earlier.
Five gangs operating in Kacha Jamal, the riverine sanctuary between Rajanpur and Rahim Yar Khan, did not surrender and have been putting up resistance against the security forces, police sources said.
The gangs which did not surrender are named by sources as Pehwan gang, Attaullah Pat gang with at least 20 members, Bilal Jakha gang, Baga gang and Khuda Bukhsh Lound gang.
Over 50 outlaws belonging to different gangs are suspected to be holed up inside the dense forest of Kacha Jamal, which remained besieged by security forces for around 24 days when the operation was commenced.
District police officer Ghulam Mubashar Maken told Dawn that some gangs had not surrendered as yet and put up resistance against security forces, but maintained that forces would soon get success in clearing the area.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... on Thursday said no one will be allowed to create hurdles in the way of stability and development of the country.
Chairing a special meeting of federal ministers, advisers and special assistants at PM House, he said, "With God's grace our hands are clean. We have faced ruthless accountability in the past too, with success."
"The nation is focused on economic progress and prosperity, and we will not let anyone create any obstacle in the way," Nawaz said.
The prime minister said the development processes that were launched three years ago to steer the country out of darkness, improve economy, and remove flaws from the system will continue.
He said those who want to hamper development and welfare of people will not succeed in their designs.
"PML-N always prefers values over power and takes decisions on the national issues in consultation with other political parties," the premier added.
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Govt won't allow anyone to destabilise country, asserts Nawaz
"We got a monopoly on dat!"
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[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: In an unprecedented move, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... dismissed six army officers, including two generals, from service over alleged corruption, an authoritative source confirmed on Thursday.
Earlier media reports said 12 officers, including some JCOs, were dismissed, but the source said that this was mere speculation.
However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... no one from the military's media wing was willing to confirm any of these figures on record.
A lieutenant general, major general and three brigadiers are said to be among those dismissed from service, said an intelligence official speaking to DawnNews on condition of anonymity.
The dismissed officers have reportedly served with the Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations.... (FC) Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and were charged for corruption during their service with the paramilitary force.
The others dismissed were junior commission officers who worked with those named above, said the intelligence official.
Following the investigation conducted by then Adjutant Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat on the orders of the army chief, the charged officers were asked to return all earnings accumulated through corruption, the official said, adding that all perks and privileges had been withdrawn from the officers except their pensions.
Lt Gen Obaidullah also served as IG FC from 2010-2013, after which Maj Gen Ejaz Shahid was appointed IG FC, intelligence sources said.
There has been no official confirmation regarding the move.
The development comes two days after the COAS said "across the board accountability is necessary for the solidarity, integrity and prosperity of Pakistain", adding that the war against terror cannot be won unless "the menace of corruption is uprooted".
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Kinda funny, considering the ISI has long used the Frontier Constabulary as a money laundering agent for its insurgency projects in Afghanistan and "Kashmire".
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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... chief Nabil al-Arabi called Thursday for a special criminal court to be set up for Israel, at a meeting to condemn an announcement that it will never return the Golan Heights.
Delegates to the 22-member Arab bloc based in Cairo are expected to pass a resolution denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge Sunday that the occupied Golan Heights would remain Israeli "forever."
Israel occupied the Golan during the 1967 Middle East war with Syria, Egypt and Jordan, and annexed it in 1981, in a move never recognized by the international community.
Israeli media have reported that Netanyahu organized a cabinet meeting in the Golan -- where he made the pledge -- amid fears Israel could come under pressure to return the area as part of a future peace deal for its war-torn neighbor.
Israel was acting like "a country that is above the law and accountability," Arabi told delegates at the start of the vaporous Arab League meeting.
He demanded "a special criminal court for the Paleostinian cause," along the lines of international tribunals set up to try ex-officials of "the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Cambodia and Sierra Leone."
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... ’s ambassador in Cairo and delegate to the Arab League, Ahmed Qattan, accused Israel of trying to profit from the conflict in Syria.
"The Zionist entity is exploiting the years of crisis in Syria," he said.
With Syria suspended from the League, its 21 other members on Thursday unanimously approved a resolution condemning Israel and asking the UN Security Council to force Israel to submit to international law and UN resolutions.
The text of the resolution referred to Netanyahu’s "aggressive statements" on Sunday and "Israel’s repeated attempts to impose the status quo in order to annex" the Golan.
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Having given up on the Five Triumphant Arab Armies thingy after losing all those wars, and seeing that the nations of the world find Israel's products for the most part too useful to shun, they are now trying for a trial over the Golan? Oh dear.
[Iran Press TV] Iran’s foreign minister says the country refuses to recognize a recent ruling by the US Supreme Court, which authorizes the transfer of around USD two billion of frozen Iranian assets to the families of the victims of a 1983 bombing in Beirut.
Mohammad Javad Zarif made the remarks on Thursday in New York, where he has been staying since Monday to attend a UN debate on Sustainable Development Goals and the signing ceremony of the Gay Paree climate change agreement as well as to meet foreign officials.
"As we [already] said, we do not recognize the court’s ruling and the US government knows this well," he said, adding, "The US knows this well too that whatever action it takes with respect to Iran’s assets will make it accountable in the future and it should return these assets to Iran."
On Wednesday, the tribunal ordered the sum be paid to the families of the victims of the kaboom, which targeted a US Marine Corps barracks in the Lebanese capital, and other attacks blamed on Iran.
The assets belong to the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), which have been blocked under US sanctions.
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Do what he always does, USN. Defer to Iran. NOTHING is more important to him than his precious Iran deal - not US citizens, not justice, not Supreme Court rulings. Nothing.
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Well, it was great until they started laughing at us.
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ValJar will make the call on this one, lots of bluster and thinking/meetings/analysis, but not followup - like Fast and Furious, IRS investigation, Benghazi, email scandal, Bergdahl...the slow roll to nobody cares
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
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, First Vice President, said Thursday during his visit to Jawzjan province that Aqcha, Khaniqa and Mingajik districts have been cleared of Taliban insurgents.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has suspended a number of senior police officials following the deadly 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[DAWN] Prime Minister 
