@StateBank_Pak “proposed a barter mechanism" for commerce ministry as an alternate for trade settlement. The trade ministry says it is in touch with Afghanistan to finalise barter propose. Trade ministry hasn't been able to come up with a solution for barter trade with #Iran.
New York Times- more than one million Afghans have fled in recent months, but a record 1.2 million people returned (or were deported) from Iran and Pakistan in the fall of 2021.
UPCOMING REPORT | Al Shabaab's Arsenal: From Taxes to Terror
Hiraal Institute conducted a 4 -month study into al-Shabaab’s acquisition of lethal material. Stunning revelations on the group’s annual expenditure on arms.
The #US lifts a ban on imports of Mexican avocados, with exports to resume starting February 21, ending a week-long suspension triggered by a threat against a #food inspector that halted America’s primary supply of the produce.https://t.co/yemfAx7wEy
A German woman is indicted on charges of child endangerment, breaching her duty of care as a parent and breaking arms control laws through joining #ISIS in #Syria. @cmoc_sdf#AANEShttps://t.co/5IwcLL9Itf
Federal prosecutors in Germany charged a German woman of traveling to Syria with her young son to join the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... Organization (ISIS).
Verena M., whose surname was not released for privacy reasons, was also indicted on charges of child endangerment, breaching her duty of care as a parent and breaking arms control laws, the prosecutors added.
In a statement released yesterday, federal prosecutors accused her of leaving Germany for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... with her son in 2015, against the father’s wishes. She then traveled to the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , where she joined ISIS, later moving to Raqqa in Syria.
During her time with ISIS, M. is alleged to have benefited from financial and housing support the group provided. In return she allegedly ran the household for her new husband, an ISIS member, and educated her son according to the ISIS’ radical ideas, abcNEWS reported.
Prosecutors also accuse her of possessing two assault rifles.
Verena M. was captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in 2019 and brought back to Germany two years later.
The U.S. National Counter-Terrorism Center did not use all available DoD data to fully vet evacuees from Afghanistan before their arrival in the U.S, a new report says.
At least four dozen of the roughly 80,000 evacuees have "derogatory information" in their record and are in the U.S. and cannot be located, according to the Defense Department’s National Ground Intelligence Center.
According to the DoD Inspector General report, as of Dec. 13, 2021, an information-sharing agreement had led to NGIC personnel reviewing approximately 58,455 of the 80,404 records it received. The report anticipated that the review of the remaining evacuees would be complete around next month.
The report, released Feb. 15, says that "derogatory information" is defined as information "that potentially justifies an unfavorable fitness or access determination," requiring further investigation or clarification.
The issue was investigated in the wake of the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer. The report found that the inability to fully vet Afghan evacuees resulted from an international agreement between DoD’s NGIC and "foreign partners," which prohibits DoD from sharing data with other U.S. government agencies.
As of Sept. 17, 2021, DoD’s NGIC identified 31 Afghans in the U.S. who had "derogatory information" and could only locate three Afghans. While this represents a fraction of the approximately 80,000 Afghans brought to facilities in the U.S., the 31 Afghans were identified prior to full information sharing began between agencies on Sept. 30, 2021.
Further, as of Sept. 29, 2021, 1,236 Afghans left bases in the U.S without completing the health screening, while another 1,358 left upon completion. There is no information in the report indicating that these individuals completed security screenings.
NGIC personnel also said that as of Nov. 2, 2021, 50 Afghan personnel were in the U.S. with information in DoD records that "indicate potentially significant security concerns." The report did not indicate the current status or location in the U.S. of these Afghans.
Whether the number of Afghans with security concerns or derogatory information has changed remains unclear. DoD would not provide further details and suggested Military Times submit a Freedom of Information request.
Given the large amount of Afghans brought to the U.S., the numbers with questions about them or who cannot be found is not a huge issue, said one of the people who has been helping rescue Afghan allies.
"I don’t think it’s a scandal," Shawn Van Diver, founder of AfghanEvac told Military Times. "I think we’re lucky it’s not a scandal. Derogatory information doesn’t mean they’re terrorists. It means there are questions."
Van Diver, a Navy veteran, has been working feverishly for months to bring Afghan partners and allies to the U.S. He says it’s important to keep this report in context.
"I think you’d be hard-pressed to find in a group of 80,000 Americans 31 that only had derogatory information," he said.
Once again, Van Diver says, context is key.
"I understand security screening, I know security screening," Van Diver said. "I know that behind every corner there isn’t a ’boogeyman.’"
DoD does "not have a role in enrolling, screening, or overseeing" Afghan parolees housed at temporary facilities within the U.S., according to the report, which also notes that Afghan parolees "have the right to leave" at any point after completing compulsory vaccinations and health screenings.
Evacuees from Afghanistan are admitted into the U.S. in two categories: those issued a Special Immigrant Visa and those granted Humanitarian Parole.
Those granted an SIV must have worked on a U.S. base in Afghanistan or have served as a translator or interpreter off base for at least one year. They must also demonstrate an "ongoing threat" due to their employment by the U.S. According to the report, approximately 34,500 SIVs have been provided under this program since 2014.
"Parolees" are not enrolled in the SIV program but are admitted into the U.S. for two years for "urgent humanitarian reasons." The report contains no data on the number of parolees admitted into the U.S. during an evacuation that flew some 120,000 people out of Kabul during the waning days of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.
While Afghans who entered the U.S. during the evacuation from Kabul were not fully vetted before their entry, interagency partners took steps to mitigate this issue once it was fully identified. Beginning on Sept. 30, 2021, the NGIC entered into an information-sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol to "complete the review."
"I’m glad they figured this out," Van Diver said. "It sounds like by the end of March they’re going to get through everybody, and that we’ve solved the problem now."
Pakistan 🇵🇰 was about to establish “very stable” relations with Russia 🇷🇺 , like the ties it enjoys with neighboring China 🇨🇳. An inter-governmental agreement for a flagship gas pipeline project will be carried out by Russia to link Punjab province with the Karachi port city. https://t.co/KxhxmE6m0i
The spillover of high tech modern weapons and advanced night vision devices left over by Americans in Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul in August 2021 is now finding its way towards Indian Union Territory of Jammu & 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.... via Pakistain through the Line of Control (LoC), said Major General Ajay Chandpuria, General Officer Commanding (GOC) 19 Infantry Division stationed in Baramulla of North Kashmir in an exclusive conversation with this journalist.
19 Infantry Division under the 15th Chinar Corps oversees the counter-terror grid and security preparedness along some crucial areas of Line of Control with Pakistain in North Kashmir.
"Afghanistan situation has a profound impact for the security situation for our country and specially in Jammu & Kashmir. It’s no secret that the various terrorist groups which were fighting the Americans in Afghanistan are now idle", says Major General Chandpuria.
"Coupled with that there are thousands of pieces of modern weaponry, night-vision devices and other modern equipment which was just left behind by the Americans. Lot of it as per the reports is getting proliferated towards Pakistain and some of it has gravitated closer to the Line of Control (LoC)", he further says.
After the fall of Kabul, as per reports, several turbans lodged in Afghan prisons were released by the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the Haqqani Network and sent to freedom in Pakistain.
Many of those veteran fighters from Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... and other terror groups have reached various camps and launch pads in Pakistain Occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Over the last year a ceasefire has been achieved between India and Pakistain, restricting the "cover" fire usually given by Pak troops to make terrorist infiltration into India possible through the Line of Control.
"As per our inputs, we are at the peak of winters with a lot of snow which really restricts infiltration attempts here and since last one year since the ceasefire understanding we have more than 6 such infiltration attempts being made which were neutralised", says Major General Ajay Chandpuria.
"At any point of time we have around 100 to 130 turbans believed to be at launch pads opposite our area. In the infiltration attempts that have been neutralised, we have had recoveries of modern American assault rifles, modern generation thermal imaging night vision devices and such like equipment", he says.
While 2021 has mostly remained peaceful at the LoC, there are apprehensions after fresh recoveries and multiple agency reports that have indicated a rise in activities in Pakistain Occupied Kashmir suggesting a possible infiltration plan for the summer of 2022.
"I think that apprehension of the fighters who operated in Afghanistan from these terrorist groups along with the modern weapons and the equipment would certainly be present at the Line of Control and endeavour to infiltrate in the coming summers", Major General Ajay Chandpuria confirms.
The eerie calm after the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5th 2019 in Jammu & Kashmir had resulted in a downward terror graph in the valley.
Latest inputs about the Afghan war veteran fighters with modern American equipment reaching the Line of Control to infiltrate into India however is a serious development in the wake of Pakistain’s attempts to internationalise Kashmir yet again after several recent debacles.
Amusingly Pakistani Islamists are very angry that Pakistani Navy is taking part alongside Israeli Navy in the US-led naval drills. Pakistan-Israel cooperation is a good thing and I wish to see more of it. Too bad for people who don't approve of it. There's a lot more to come.
Israel's interaction with Arab & Muslim militaries is part of a growing trend whereby Israeli, Arab & Muslim militaries find themselves quietly working together in multilateral exercises facilitated by Western partners. Excellent article by @_AhmedQuraishihttps://t.co/Z17sFO3yMR
How much better off we would be if our nat-sec'y establishment were run by realists instead of the venal liberal globalist morons who given us our current nightmare. Sigh
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We don't need a national security establishment. We need a handful of grim, career diplomats who will communicate the message that "You may hit us. We will hit back in such a way you will never be around to see it. You will have no ancestors. Your "culture" will be not just forgotten but essentially obliterated."
And a gummint that backs them up. All the way.
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And if you don't hit us we don't really give a fvck. Because we need to start protecting our own border and save our own troubled nation from the sh!tty fascists who are hell bent on destroying it from within.
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Actually, the annual "making an extreme example" could be a clarifying ritual for the entire human race.
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"We only vaporized Ottawa. It was not clear that anyone outside there was really committed to their nonsense. Everyone else seems to be coming around quickly."
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While Dawood Ibrahim amuses himself supporting Pakistan’s jihad against India, his brother takes care of the family’s gangster business back home.
[OneIndia] Enforcement Directorate (ED) took custody of gangster Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar from Thane jail in connection with an alleged money laundering case. He will be produced before a special PMLA court in Mumbai today.
Kaskar, already lodged in Thane jail in connection with multiple cases of alleged extortion, was taken into custody in the fresh case.
The probe agency is expected to seek his custody for questioning in the newly registered case against him, runaway gangster Ibrahim and others linked to the Mumbai underworld.
The ED on Tuesday conducted multiple searches in Mumbai as part of a money laundering probe into the operations of the underworld and linked illegal property deals and hawala transactions.
About 10 locations, including those linked to 1993 Mumbai blasts' criminal mastermind Dawood Ibrahim's late sister Haseena Parkar, his brother Iqbal Kaskar and a brother-in-law of gangster Chota Shakeel's in Maharashtra's capital city, were covered.
The action was undertaken under sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The ED case is based on an FIR filed recently by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) against Ibrahim, a runaway gangster, and others.
The NIA had filed its criminal complaint under sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
The anti-money laundering agency is understood to have recovered documents related to these alleged illegal property deals with links to Indian businessmen operating here and in Dubai, the sources said.
Some political links to these shady deals are also under the scanner of the agency.
A Canadian woman held in a camp in northeast Syria on charges of links with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) may never leave the camp, CTV news said yesterday.
Kimberly Polman, now 49, was arrested in Baghouz town, eastern Syria, in 2019 and was sent to Roj Camp that holds many ISIS member families in northeast Syria.
However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Polman insists she never supported ISIS and that she was lured into ISIS by a boyfriend, who promised to marry her picturing for her that she was going to help Syrian children.
Polman admits it was a mistake to go to Syria and join ISIS and that it was a stupid thing to do. Now suffering physical and mental health problems including hepatitis and post-traumatic stress disorder, Polman appealed the Canadian government to take her home.
Peter Galbraith, a former US diplomat, has recently offered to escort Polman out of the camp, but Canada withheld his cooperation, according to CTV news.
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Another liberal woman blinded by her emotions. It just felt SO GOOD to be with him. She'd do anything to keep that feeling going. And she did.
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but Canada withheld his cooperation
"IF there was just some proof she killed someone, like Khadr. Bad luck, eh?"
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Probably afraid to go back to the Frozen Gulag...
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She has her own Wikipedia page, which claims the dual American-Canadian turned to Islam after being brutally gang raped, leaving three adult children behind when she left for Syria, presumably in Vancouver.
Canada apparently also is not interested in getting her back.
[IsraelTimes] TV network cites Israeli security officials warning that revived agreement won’t take into account the nuclear gains Tehran has made since Trump withdrew from the accord in 2018
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The IAEa is incapable of enforcing even plain vanilla inspections. And the parties involved, except for the US Senate and Israel, don’t want to enforce anything — they just want a piece of paper that says Peace in our Time, so they can get to the champagne toasts stage of the proceedings before moving on to activities that don’t involve pretending to care about that shitty little country, Israel.
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.
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
