[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan nation will never forget the aid and cooperation delivered by the Indian people and government, Afghan National Security Adviser (NSA) Mohammad Hanif Atmar said Thursday.
In his statement released on the occasion of the Republic Day in India, Atmar said "On this auspicious occasion and important day, let me convey my best wishes and happiest moments for the government and people of India."
Atmar further added "This day reminds us our strong commitment for an evergreen friendship, cooperation, countering terrorism and getting rid of extremism."
"It makes us remember the hardships and sorrows the Great Mahatma Gandhi has tolerated for the illusory sovereignty of this great nation," he said, adding that "We all have to follow him, for peace, for prosperity, for the welfare of our people and for the harmony of whole mankind."
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan government assures that practical steps will be taken to arrest nine security guards of the Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum ...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier... over alleged kidnapping and sexual abuse of rival Ahmad Khan Ishchi.
President Ghani’s front man Haroon Chakhansuri told news hounds on Wednesday that the Afghan Attorney General and the judicial institutions continue to their work with transparency.
He said arrest warrants have been issued and the Ministry of Interior is obliged to take practical steps as per the warrants.
Chakhansuri further added that the Attorney General has more authorities to take further steps if the nine security guards of General Dostum were not tossed in the calaboose Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! Without providing further information, Chakhansuri said the media will be updated when further steps are taken.
The arrest warrants were issued on Monday after the men refused to appear before the Attorney General to respond regarding the alleged accusations.
The Vice President and his security guards have been summoned for at least three times by the Attorney General but neither of them has responded to the summonses.
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The Yemeni Minister of Endowments Dr Ahmed Attiya said this during a meeting that he held with the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia who is also the head of the Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Issuing Fatwas Abdul Aziz Al Sheikh yesterday in Riyadh.
The government news agency SABA quoted Dr Attiya as saying that “Houthi militias and those loyal to the ousted president Saleh” bombed more than 299 mosques, badly damaged 24 mosques and that 146 mosques were turned into military barracks for murder, destruction and the storage of weapons.
According to the agency, the Yemeni minister and the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia discussed strengthening the relationship between the two countries in the fields of religious guidance and advocacy, thereby contributing to a culture of tolerance, peace and moderation.
In other matters, Ethiopia confirmed its support for the efforts of the Yemeni government to end the coup carried out by Houthi militias and those loyal to the ousted president Saleh, and the establishment of peace in the country.
The Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Workneh Gebeyehu said during a meeting yesterday in Addis Ababa with the Acting Yemeni Ambassador in Addis Ababa Yahya Al-Iryani that he hoped stability and peace would return to Yemen.
[Al Jazeera] A Czech court has rejected a discrimination suit filed by a Somali refugee, who was banned from wearing her headscarf in a nursing school, the first case of its kind in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... state.
"The suit which the plaintiff lodged seeking an apology and 60,000 crowns ($2,350) in compensation was rejected," said Justice Daniela Cejkova, handing down the verdict in a Prague court on Friday.
Ayan Nuur filed a lawsuit against the school after she was not allowed to attend while wearing a headscarf.
The school argued that the young woman had never formally enrolled in the establishment. Ivanka Kohoutova, the school's principal, also argued that wearing a scarf covering the hair, ears and neck, and revealing only the face contravened its safety and hygiene standards.
Nuur, who was granted asylum in the Czech Republic in 2011, did not attend the trial, but was represented by her lawyer.
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Ivanka Kohoutova, the school's principal, also argued that wearing a scarf covering the hair, ears and neck, and revealing only the face contravened its safety and hygiene standards.
I've been going out of my way to draw attention to these walking *bags* when they appear in our public places. Such attire is a threat to public safety. I'm not making scenes, but I am calling them out to the employees of stores that allow them inside.
[Hurriyet Daily News] The co-owner of the Reina nightclub, which was attacked by 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) on Jan. 1, has said he no longer wishes to provide entertainment in a place in which a total of 39 people died and 65 people were maimed.
"Because of the villains, we sent bodies all over the world. I don’t want to sell entertainment in a place in which many people died. There are also many maimed people," Ali Ünal told daily Haberturk, noting that he could not host people and play music at the location again.
Dubbing Reina one of the biggest brands in the world, Ünal said the brand needed to live on.
"Yes, this brand needs to live, but no one told us to make it live," he said, criticizing authorities for not calling him.
"I don’t know if anyone called [the other co-owner] Mehmet Kocarslan, but no one called me. No one even called me from the Tourism Ministry," he said.
Ünal said he was at the door of the nightclub when the attack began.
"When I fell to the ground, [confessed attacker Abdulkadir Masharipov] thought I was dead. I lost my friends and customers there. I can’t do business [there]. I don’t know if Kocarslan can or can’t," he said.
During the interview, Ünal said he would not quit the entertainment business, but would not manage Reina in that area.
"I need to do my job. I’m doing this job and I understand it. I earn money from it. I do everything in the food and beverage sector. I do weddings and receptions. I can also run a buffet. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... I don’t want to run Reina in that area," he also said.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Prime Minister Binali Yildirim slammed the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) for "acting with the [Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party] HDP" in criticizing government-supported constitutional changes ahead of a key referendum this spring.
"They are exaggerating the constitutional amendment, saying ’it will lead to regime change,’ ’the apocalypse is coming,’ ’the country is slipping away.’ Who says so? The HDP takes a step and the CHP puts its foot in the same place," Yildirim said on Jan. 27.
"They did the same thing at parliament. Apparently they will join the ’no’ choir at rallies in squares," he added.
"What happened to Ataturk’s party? Is it right for Ataturk’s party to be arm-in-arm with those who want to divide the country?" Yildirim said. "," he said.
"I don’t understand why the CHP is opposing the change ... There is no issue of regime [change], nor is The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... at risk of division. On the contrary, in the presidential system the country will be embraced more and more, together with all its different sects and marches. It will make the national will become more dominant," he added.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Ankara will take "necessary steps" against Athens after a Greek court ruled not to extradite Turkish soldiers accused of involvement in last year’s July 15 coup attempt, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Jan. 27.
"There is a migration deal we signed, including a readmission deal with Greece, and we are evaluating what we can do, including the cancellation of the readmission deal with Greece," he said in an interview with TRT Haber.
Cavusoglu’s remarks came after the Supreme Court of Greece refused on Jan. 26 to extradite eight Turkish soldiers who sought political asylum after the failed coup.
"We gave Greece all the necessary documents, evidence and everything. We demanded that the eight soldiers be tried again. This is a political decision. Now Greece is in a position protecting and hosting coup plotters and terrorists. It also possessed forces of Evil like the DHKP-C and the PKK. It is also known that there are some DHKP-C camps in Greece." the minister said," in reference to two outlawed groups, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
The soldiers, including two majors, flew helicopters to Alexandroupolis on July 16, 2016, prompting the Greek authorities to begin legal and diplomatic proceedings on charges of illegal entry into the country. "Greece condemned the coup attempt in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on the very first day and the perpetrators are not welcome in the country," said the Greek Prime Ministry in a written statement. "However, a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package... the Greek judiciary is independent. The rulings are respected and binding," it said. The two countries play an important role in the handling of Europe’s worst migration crisis in decades, and the EU depends on Ankara to enforce a deal to stem mass migration to Europe.
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"Cyprus"
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President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries and he separately said he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there.
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GREAT news. The countries are: Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, Yemen, Iran, and Iraq
The new vetting would ban anyone who engages “in bigotry, honour killings, violence against women, or who persecute other religions, or who oppress members of one race, one gender, or sexual orientation,” according to a summary of the plan.
so that cuts out Islamofascists nicely while still allowing secular Muslims. But most importantly we should be giving priority to the non-Muslim victims of Islamist violence. GO TRUMP
important: it's not a #MuslimBan despite the twitter outrage
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good point alan c, and actually morocco moved to ban hijabs so they might be on the turn also.
Yes indeed chaos outbreak, hollywwird in meltdown, #muslimban trending on twitter even though it isn't...it's a reductio ad absurdum claim to demonise trump and promote civil unrest
if this is how hard it is to control the borders now, obviously Trump was voted in not a minute too soon. we nearly lost America, folks
[GEO.TV] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is reportedly all set to suspend the US refugee program for four months and halt visas for travellers from seven Moslem countries; Libya, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
In a recent interview by ABC News, David Muir asked newly-elected President Donald Trump about the countries who were not on the list, namely, Pakistain, 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 Afghanistan--asking why the natives from these countries will be allowed.
To which Trump said that some countries will face a close watch and extreme vetting.
"We're going to have extreme vetting in all cases. And I mean extreme. And we're not letting people in if we think there's even a little chance of some problem," he said in the interview.
Trump further said that some countries will be excluded, however, it will be very hard for the citizens to come in as right now the procedure is very easy.
In an earlier interview on ABC News, Trump denied that it was a ban on Moslems.
"No it's not the Moslem ban, but it's countries that have tremendous terror," Trump said.
"And it's countries that people are going to come in and cause us tremendous problems. Our country has enough problems without allowing people to come in, who in many cases or in some cases, are looking to do tremendous destruction."
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Wednesday aimed at launching the construction of a wall on the Mexican border and restricting illegal immigration, moving aggressively in his first week in office to fulfill major campaign promises.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Thursday convicted the sixth and last person involved in an attack on a vigil held by civil society activists to mark the fifth death anniversary of Punjab’s governor Salmaan Taseer in 2015.
The presiding judge, Muhammad Azam, sentenced Mumtaz Sindhi a collective imprisonment of sixteen-and-a-half years under five provisions of laws.
The court handed down five-year jail term to Sindhi under section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act, three-and-half-year imprisonment under section 365 of PPC, two years under section 149 of PPC and three years each under 153-A and 148 of PPC.
Previously, the court had awarded the same punishment to five accused in July 2015. They were: Adeel, Furqan, Kashif, Iftikhar and Wazir Ali.
Mumtaz Sindhi was declared proclaimed offender and police tossed in the calaboose Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! him at a later stage.
The Lahore High Court had already dismissed appeals of the five convicts against their sentence. Civil Society Network President Abdullah Malik, the complainant of the case, said the conviction of all accused was a victory of rule of law.
More than a dozen baton-wielding men had attacked the participants in the vigil held at Liberty Chowk to mark the death anniversary of Salmaan Taseer on Jan 4, 2015. The attackers tore the banners, pictures and posters displayed at the venue and also thrashed the activists besides chanting slogans in favour of Mumtaz Qadri, a former police guard who had rubbed out the governor in Islamabad.
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[GEO.TV] ISLAMABAD: The session of the National Assembly on Thursday became a battlefield as a scuffle broke out between the opposition and government politicians.
The NA session under Speaker Ayaz Sadiq turned quite chaotic as both the sides started slapping and pushing one another.
Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... ’s Shehryar Afridi earlier went up to the government’s benches and started a scuffle with Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who is the current Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources.
During the session, PTI politicians led by Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi started chanting ’thief, thief’ slogans in the house and stood up on their benches in protest.
The PML-N and PTI politicians started exchange of slogans, while the Speaker requested them to respect the prayer call.
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab tried to defuse the tension but to no avail.
Qureshi during his speech said that it is not a monarchy where a PM says one thing in the House and another in the apex court.
"The missing pages of an open book are filled up with Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i prince’s letters," remarked Qureshi.
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On Friday, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Syriac Military Council (SMC) confirmed in a statement the death of a 5th foreign volunteer as part of the anti-ISIS Raqqa operation–launched in November 2016.
On Thursday, the group Assisting Volunteers of Rojava suggested a US volunteer died in the operation, but this was not confirmed by the YPG forces.
“With great sadness we announce the passing away of our good friend Albert Avery Harrington, an American Volunteer who was injured in a bomb explosion a few days ago in Syria and passed away early this morning from his injuries,” the Assisting Volunteers of Rojava said. “Rest in peace brother Cekdar Rojava [Kurdish nickname of Harrington], you are loved and missed. Our condolences to Harrington family.”
On Friday, the YPG and the SMC released a statement to the family of Albert Avery Harrington (Cekdar Rojava) confirming the death of the US volunteer. The statement was also published on the official website of the YPG in Kurdish.
On 15 March, 2015, Harrington joined the YPG with the nickname Cekdar Rojava or Neshro Hiro.
“We have been honored by Albert’s participation in our forces: it has built on our own essential desire for freedom. Despite the geographical distance between us, we found common values in the interest of humanity,” the YPG told the Harrington family.
“Albert joined actively in our offensive against the terror threat that ISIS has caused upon Northern Syria. During the last two months Albert took active part with the YPG and with the Syriac Military Council in the Euphrates Wrath Operation to liberate Raqqa city,” the YPG said.
“Here, on the morning of 18th January, 2017, one group of SMC was attacked by two VBIEDS [car bombs] in Suwaydiya-Saghirah village – Raqqa,” the YPG said. “In this ISIS-led attack three fighters were killed and three were injured, including Harrington who died from his injuries later on the 25th of January.”
Last week on 22 January, the YPG confirmed the death of another US volunteer named Paolo Todd from Los Angeles, California who was also killed in the same village of Suwaydiya, where Harrington was injured.
On 16 January, the Kurds also announced that three Western volunteers (one British, one Canadian and one American) were killed as part of the Raqqa campaign.
In total, five Western volunteers have lost their lives so far in the Euphrates Wrath Campaign, that was launched on 6 November with support of the US-led coalition to take Raqqa, the de-facto capital of ISIS in Syria.
[Hurriyet Daily News] 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) jihadists have started to leave their positions and withdraw from the northwestern Syrian town of al-Bab following an intense military campaign conducted by the Turkish army and Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) elements, military sources said on Jan. 27.
Sources, citing intelligence from the region, stated that ISIS had relocated its headquarters and all other centers to the Tadif region south of al-Bab.
"In light of recent information from the region, it can be said that ISIS is preparing to withdraw from al-Bab as a result of the military operation of the Turkish Armed Forces," sources said.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... launched its Euphrates Shield Operation with the FSA on Aug. 24, 2016, clearing a 2,000-square kilometer area of ISIS jihadists. The TSK and the FSA have besieged al-Bab since late November but come up against stiff ISIS resistance.
A majority of local people in al-Bab have fled the town despite ISIS’s measures and the city currently has only 15,000 to 18,000 residents, according to sources, who say the jihadists are using civilians as "human shields."
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...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
[Hurriyet Daily News] Ankara will take "necessary steps" against Athens after a Greek court ruled not to extradite Turkish soldiers accused of involvement in last year’s July 15 coup attempt, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Jan. 27.
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