[Al Arabiya Latest] President Hamid Karzai accused the West on Thursday of trying to ruin Afghanistan's elections, intensifying a showdown with parliament over whether foreigners will oversee a parliamentary vote this year. Perhaps we'll leave early so Hamid can run things to his liking until he becomes Najibullah.
Karzai's international reputation took a beating after a U.N.-backed fraud watchdog threw out a third of the votes cast for him in last year's presidential election. He is now wrangling with parliament and the United Nations over fraud protection measures for a parliamentary vote due in September.
"Foreigners will make excuses, they do not want us to have a parliamentary election," a defiant Karzai told a gathering of election officials. "They want parliament to be weakened and battered, and for me to be an ineffective president and for parliament to be ineffective.
"You have gone through the kind of elections during which you were not only threatened with terror, you also faced massive interference from foreigners," Karzai told the officials. "Some embassies also tried to bribe the members of the commission."
In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley rejected Karzai's accusations the West wanted to see the Afghan parliament weakened and for him to be ineffective.
"We do not accept that judgment," Crowley said.
What was important, said Crowley, was that Karzai be seen by his own people as governing effectively and that he take "measurable" steps against corruption. "Karzai has to step forward," Crowley told reporters.
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If was a terrible mistake to not have imposed a MacArthur (PBUH) constitution on Afghanistan. Even though we would have to train a new government from childhood, by now they would be almost ready to take over as a young, but uncorrupted, western style government.
Any and every one of their existing systems we tried to preserve out of a stupid idea of "cultural respect", was a bitter mistake, as *nothing* they had worked, or could be made to work.
WAFF > US LAWMAKER: ISI PROVIDING INTEL AND PROVIDING PROTECTION TO LeT, in exchange for LeT not attacking the PAK Army + Civilians.
ARTIC > Let is determined to to attacks or harm US-WESTERN INTERESTS ABROAD WID [Terror-led/centric] VIOLENCE. Many LeT Militants are cruited fromas far away as EGYPT + PHILIPPINES.
Sudan's main opposition parties have withdrawn from presidential elections, a senior member of one of the groups said on Thursday, a move that could wreck the looming vote and damage a faltering peace process.
"On the level of the candidates of the Presidency of the Republic, most of them (Sudan's opposition groups) decided to withdraw," said Mohamed Zaki, head of office for Sadeq al-Mahdi, leader of the opposition Umma party.
Zaki said only five independents and representatives of smaller parties were still in the race against incumbent President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in the oil-producing state.
Zaki said there was still a chance the main opposition candidates would review their decision if the government agreed to an overhaul of the country's National Elections Commission, and responded to their complaints of widespread fraud.
Sudan's presidential and legislative elections, due in less than two weeks, are central to the implementation of a 2005 peace accord that ended more than two decades of north-south civil war.
Thursday's announcement came a day after south Sudan's leading party, the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), withdrew its candidate, Yasser Arman, from the presidential poll, in protest against electoral irregularities and insecurity in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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[Dawn] Muslim scholars from around the world who met this week in Saudi Arabia's holy city Medina have denounced "terrorism" and appealed to "extremists" to repent, a statement said on Thursday.
No doubt the Saudi public school curriculum will be modified to reflect their position.
The four-day Islamic conference, sponsored by Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz and organised by the Islamic University of Medina, drew some 500 participants, according to press reports.
The scholars condemned "all acts of terrorism wherever they take place and whoever is behind them," said the concluding statement from the conference, which wrapped up late Wednesday.
For a given definition of terrorismm that means attacks against the right kind of Muslims. Attacks against the wrong kinds of Muslims, Jews, non-powerful Westerners, and all dhimmis within the Ummah are righteous and required by the laws of Islam, and therefore not terrorism. In case you, dear Reader, were confused. On second thought, perhaps the curriculum ought not be revised just yet -- this is a difficult concept for children to grasp.
The scholars also criticised "the harm inflicted on unarmed civilians and civilian facilities under the pretext of combating international terrorism."
For Allah's sake, stop shooting back at the bad guys!
The statement published on the organisers' website called on extremists to "return to their senses and follow the path of groups that have announced repentance and rejected acts of terrorism."
What groups would that be, then, and what happened after you turned your back?
"Hold on to moderate Islam and tolerance towards others," and "reject false interpretations of ... jihad (holy war)," it said, addressing Muslim youths.
The conference urged Muslim communities in non-Muslim countries to encourage their children "to adopt a moderate understanding of Islam, respect for others and to comply with (local) laws."
At least until they start trusting you again. Soft jihad, people, not hard jihad.
It also urged the governments of those countries to respect the rights of Muslims and "treat them equally with other members of the community."
And by equally we mean with special privileges due to the Master Religion.
Saudi Arabia has in recent years cracked down on what it regards as extremist groups.
What it regards. A tiny subset of what we regard.
Al-Qaeda, which has been blamed for killing between 150 and 200 people in the kingdom between 2003 and 2006, has in particular been in the firing line.
Saudi King Abdullah last month said the kingdom is determined to halt extremism and a campaign was under way to try dissuade youths from joining Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a merger of the Saudi and Yemeni branches of Osama bin Laden's network.
The other branches of Al Qaeda, aimed as they are away from the Homeland, are just fine. In fact, the other Al Qaedas are a lovely place to send the 10-25% of genetic defectives who oughtn't be married off anyway.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The government plans to deploy around 60 lakh Ansar and Village Defence Party (VDP) members countrywide to combat militancy and improve law and order.
"On the prime minister's directive, a process is now underway to make rules specifying the duties and jurisdictions of Ansar and VDP " Home Minister Sahara Khatun told the House yesterday in reply to lawmakers' queries.
There are 59.42 lakh Ansar and VDP members across the country, she said.
Responding to a query, the home minister said the government has also moved to purchase modern equipment including tele-monitoring system with data identification and analysis facilities, and set up a modern DNA laboratory for strengthening investigation and detection of criminals to improve law and order.
Purchase of arms and equipment for police is also in process to gear up activities of police.
The home minister said 155 closed-circuit cameras have been installed at 59 places in the capital to improve traffic situation.
And use of these cameras in phases to detect crimes and criminals is under consideration.
Moreover, the government has planned setting up more police stations and investigation centres, Sahara said.
Steps have been taken to purchase modern bomb disposal equipment for Rapid Action Battalion to strengthen its bomb disposal unit. Besides, modern equipment for its forensic laboratory is being purchased , she mentioned.
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Black Widow? Black Widows are called Black Widows because they kill their mates and then eat them. Not very descriptive of this demented, people-hating, crazy young killer.
Anyone recognize what kind of semi-auto she is holding?
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Black Widows are called Black Widows because they kill their mates and then eat them
JohnQC, I'm under the impression that the first of the Chechen bomber babes were actual widows of Chechen jihadis. Evil widows, hence the "black". Now they're teenage and barely adult girls who've been gang raped and drugged until they succumb to the brainwashing and agree to train for suicide, because adult women are harder to manipulate into that kind of vicious despair.
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You need to look a bit closer, she's NOT holding it, her boyfriend has his arm around her and HE's holding it.(Right hand)
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"I" need to look closer, they're BOTH holding.
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I didn't see any black widows in that picture, just a couple of mad dogs. Some people are just so bad it actually makes me sympathetic for the Russians.
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Now they're teenage and barely adult girls who've been gang raped and drugged until they succumb to the brainwashing and agree to train for suicide, because adult women are harder to manipulate into that kind of vicious despair.
trailing wife,
I think you are being too kind to her. She sought this guy out on a jihadi website on the internet and then married him.
She has hybristophilia..AKA "Bonnie and Clyde" syndrome. Remember those hags surrounding Manson?
It's quiet a common paraphilia, so much so that I would hazard a guess that the majority of people on the left suffer from it.
Witness the hero worship of mass murderers like Mao, Stalin, Castro etc.
Military insiders believe there is mounting evidence that the Navy corvette Cheonan was hit by a North Korean torpedo before it broke in two and sank in waters near the de-facto inter-Korean border.
Well gosh, isn't that an act of war, to be answered with... a war?
But the Defense Ministry and military authorities insist on the importance of establishing the exact cause of the incident before any conclusions are announced.
I guess they don't want to go to war against North Korea just now. Just what North Korea was counting on.
A senior military officer on Thursday said, "There is a 60 to 70 percent chance that the ship was hit" by a North Korean torpedo. But he added the question remains whether any evidence was left behind.
He based his speculation on indications that the ship was sunk by an external explosion and that a torpedo was in his view a more likely cause than an old mine from the days of the Korean War, a possibility that has also been floated.
When he visited Baeknyeong Island near the scene of accident on Tuesday, President Lee Myung-bak asked Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Kim Sung-chan whether there would be identifiable traces left behind in a mine explosion, and Kim said it is hard to tell but there is also the possibility of a torpedo attack. Kim added it is fairly certain that the ship's ammunition storage did not blow up.
At a recent session of the National Assembly Defense Committee, Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said North Korea has semi-submersibles that can carry two torpedoes and can fire them from a certain distance."
Right after the accident, the Second Navy Fleet Command elevated the maritime alert to the highest level, Grade A, and sent the Navy vessel Sokcho near the Northern Limit Line, the de-facto maritime border.
When an unidentified object appeared on the radar screen around 10:55 p.m. on March 26, the Sokcho believed it to be a North Korean semi-submersible and fired about 130 shells from 76 mm guns.
But other experts say that the North has no reason to launch such a reckless provocation with the approach of its leader Kim Jong-il's imminent visit to China and the resumption of the six-party nuclear talks.
But a retired chief of naval operations said, "In 2002 when the World Cup reached its climax, the North unexpectedly provoked the second battle of Yeonpyeong in the West Sea. The North has done many things that are inexplicable by common sense."
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I agree a war would give the Norks something they want - something to unite against. I suspect the 'Evil americans' and 'sea-of-fire' story is beginning to grow a bit stale after what - 50 years?
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Well gosh, isn't that an act of war, to be answered with... a war?
Hmmm...there wasn't a peace treaty to end the Korean War. There's an armistice with varying degrees of compliance. Technically, the 'war' is still on going.
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If it was a torpedo attack, the Skor response is a good one, as the Norks probably figured out that they would *benefit* from a US and China collision. This way, the Skor won't be forced into a war, but *can* retaliate, and with plausible deniability.
The obvious target would be to knock down a Nork hydroelectric dam, which were in all three major cases built to store up water and flood the South. While knocking down one of them would still cause flooding, it could be done when the water level was low.
This would eliminate the threat, knock out a big chunk of the North's electricity, and generally be a major pain in the butt to that regime.
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At a recent session of the National Assembly Defense Committee, Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said North Korea has semi-submersibles that can carry two torpedoes and can fire them from a certain distance."
Solve the problem. Make them permanently submerisable
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What a dilemma for the SKORs. If you retaliate, the tensions escalate, potentially helping unify the staving masses in the north, but avoiding actual War, you do nothing, NORKs are emboldened and act even more rashly (rinse and repeat above issues) or you actually go to War, huge casualties and destruction, and then you have to feed, house, clothe and employ the skeletal survivors of the NORK gulag-state, and no buffer with the ChiCOMS who still loom on your doorstep, and now don't have to prop up the NORKs. No wonder the SKORs are tiptoeing around this obvious act of War.
Maybe they could get some expert advice from Oblahblah or Billary?
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A senior military officer on Thursday said, "There is a 60 to 70 percent chance that the ship was hit" by a North Korean torpedo. But he added the question remains whether any evidence was left behind
Ummm"You mean something like two halves of a ship?
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Whoa, what a week, so Kimmie's Boyz allegedly sank an enemy SOKOR warship + blamed the US-SOKORS + stole their fish [missing SK fishing boat]???
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I should think that losing Seoul being all but a lock is a reasonable incentive to avoid all out war. What the Norks do or don't want likely have nil to do with the Souths response.
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I suddenly find myself not buying into the waiting to get evidence thing as much as I did before. I gotta think that if they really, really wanted to know what happened and wanted to know in a hurry, they could just send some divers down with cameras. They could have known if the explosion was of internal or external origin within hours.
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They could have known if the explosion was of internal or external origin within hours.
I'm sure THEY know, but unknown when WE will know.
Probably a secret until they figure the best thing to do, may or may not include publicity.
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They can always say it was a magazine explosion. Right before some Nork assets disappear.
The United States will announce Friday it plans to begin profiling US-bound passengers in a major shake up of air travel security measures, US media said.
Under the new measures to begin this month, and which will apply to US citizens as well, the level of screening of travellers will depend on how closely their personal characteristics match against intelligence on potential terrorists.
The measures will replace mandatory enhanced screening of all passengers travelling to the United States from 14 mostly-Muslim nations, put into place following a failed Al-Qaeda attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day.
It's much more tailored to what intelligence is telling us and what the threat is telling us, as opposed to stopping all individuals from a particular nationality,' said an unnamed US official quoted by The Washington Post.
The announcement to be made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) comes after a three-month review of security protocols, said the Post, citing a senior administration official.
It is much more surgically targeting those individuals we are concerned about and have intelligence for,' the official said, according to the New York Times.
The current no-fly' list is to remain in place under the new procedures, but supplemented by cross-referenced information that may see passengers subject to further screening even if their names are not flagged, the Wall Street Journal said.
Characteristics such as nationality, age, recently visited countries, and partial names will be used alongside the no-fly' list, the Journal said.
The move aims to avoid the intelligence failures that allowed the alleged Christmas Day bomber, Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, to board the Detroit-bound flight from Amsterdam wearing underpants rigged with explosives, even though US intelligence had been alerted to information on him.
Fragmentary intelligence on a possible attacker - a partial name, certain physical characteristics, or nationality - would be forward by the DHS to airlines and foreign governments, the Los Angeles Times said, and the information used as a guide on who would be screened.
This is not a system that can be called profiling in the traditional sense. It is intelligence-based,' said the official, quoted by the New York Times.
US government guidelines prohibit authorities from singling out people on the basis of race or ethnicity, but the Christmas Day plot swiftly recharged the delicate debate surrounding racial profiling.
In the wake of the botched bombing at least one lawmaker, Republican Peter King from New York, called for US authorities to be less hesitant on the issue.
The fact is while the overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding people, on the other hand 100 per cent of the Islamic terrorists are Muslims, and that is our main enemy today,' he told Fox News after Abdulmutallab was apprehended.
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"The fact is while the overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding people, on the other hand 100 per cent of the Islamic terrorists are Muslims, and that is our main enemy today,"
Outstanding? In what sense? We'd be doing ourselves all a favour by just sticking to the truth. Most muslims are not inclined towards acts of terrorism is truthful; the overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding people is barmy nonsense and unhelpful. Mostly outstanding my ***e.
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I thought profiling was so un-PC to this crowd. I thought profiling was owned by the vast right-wing conspiracy of racist, homophobe, rich capitalist, beer swizzlin, wrastlin-watching Tea Partiers--you know everyone who is not nearly as smart as Bill Maher,Keith Olbermann, and Rachel Maddow.
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The third factor which must be considered is that, while the vast majority of Muslims would not do such acts themselves, they do not, and will not, condemn other Muslims who do such acts.
Not just generically saying that "Terrorism is bad", as some of the wittier are wont to do; but to specifically condemn Muslims who commit terrorist acts as "bad Muslims who should be stopped and punished."
This is all the difference in the world, and entirely justifies profiling of ALL Muslims, on the theory that, "If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas."
On 9-11, Muslims around the world either celebrated or said nothing. This meant that they were either sympathetic or indifferent. So today, when they protest against being profiled, the western nations can shrug and say that we are indifferent as well to any inconvenience they must suffer because of their behavior.
In future, if they wish to be treated as civilized people, they must purge the uncivilized people from their ranks.
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First if they followed the friggin rules that idiot would never would have boarded the plane (xmas day bomber). I would not have been allowed to board the plane without and ID and passport. Also I think that if we give EVERY Arab and Muslim a little extra scrutiny it would go a long way toward security. Heck we might be able to keep our shoes on when we go to the airport and maybe not have to answer stupid question.
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I thought profiling was so un-PC to this crowd.
Republicans are stupid, JohnQC -- everyone knows that. So their profiling would a priori be bigotry enforced. But this profiling is scientific, surgically targetted, by an intelligent, coolly intellectual, Progressive regime, and therefore must be done.
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Just goes to show you how the left have zero principles. If W proposed this they would be screaming as loud as they were able but since it's one of their own, barely a recognition of the fact.
Don't ever believe any motivation from the left is anything but a play for political advantage and power.
How suicide-bombers are produced
Daily Express quoted a 13-year old girl Meena from Lower Dir in Malakand as saying that her father and brother had run an underground training school for suicide-bombers among the unwilling teenager youth who were given a drug to make them go smiling to their death. Her sister Naheed was forcibly made to go into Afghanistan and blow herself there after drugging. She was ordered to become a suicide-bomber but she refused after which she was beaten mercilessly. The girl along with her mother and sister sewed suicide-jackets for her brother and father whose business it was to supply them. The assassination of Benazir was celebrated by the family all night. Her brother caused the 2009 Khyber Bazaar explosion which killed over 50. He used to beat up local teachers and pupils saying anyone getting education was a friend of America. She said if she could find her brother she would kill him and then take her own life.
General Naseers heresy
Daily Jinnah quoted General (Retd) Naseer Akhtar as saying that the case of Aafiya Siddiqi should be resolved through negotiations because being emotional will hurt the interests of Pakistan. He said Aafiyas statements in the court were not in keeping with reality and any retaliation in the shape of stoppage of NATO supplies by Pakistan would be counter-productive.
Jihad is the only way
Quoted in daily Jinnah Majeed Nizami stated that Kashmir could only be taken now through jihad. He wanted the policy of the government changed to a war of a thousand years. Bharat will not give us Kashmir on a platter. The world community should be made to realise that if Kashmir was not resolved there could be risk of nuclear war. He insisted that only jihad and mujahideen would be successful in this war against India.
Send Imran Khan to America!
Chief Editor Jinnah wrote that Pakistan should tell President Obama that the only way out was to send Aafiya Siddiqi in parole to Pakistan or her sentence should be carried out in a Pakistani jail. Imran Khan should lead an official delegation to America asking Obama to free Aafiya because America needed Pakistan more than Pakistan needed America.
Give war ultimatum to India!
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Majeed Nizami said that ultimatum of war should be formally sent to India on the waters dispute asking it not to block Pakistans water. If India doesnt stop the building of dams on rivers in Kashmir then nuclear missiles should be used to destroy these dams.
Prof Rafiq, modern saint
Top columnist of Urdu Haroon Rashid wrote in Jang that Prof Rafiq Akhtar of Gujjar Khan was the great living man of God, especially if you want to know how Islam got to Southeast Asia without jihad. Prof Rafiq had a following of five lakh people including General Hamid Gul and Imran Khan. His life was a miracle and Haroon Rashid would want to write a book on him but had to wait till he got the permission. (The column was a preface to a book on Prof Rafiq Akhtar titled Siraj Munir).
Negotiations with India rejected
Quoted in Nawa-e-Waqt Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Said stated that any table of talks set on the corpses of Kashmiris would be overturned by him. He said India should be asked why it marched into East Pakistan which was a bigger crime than thousands of cases like the Mumbai attack. He said he had not yet forgotten the 1992 destruction of Babri Masjid.
Manzur Wattoo, KGB minister
Daily Jang quoted Prime Minister Gilani as telling a gathering dedicated to the Kashmir Cause that Mian Manzur Wattoo was a KGB minister. Later the shaken audience realised that he was in fact minister for Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan (KGB) affairs.
Justice as Israels spit
Famous TV personality Dr Amir Liaquat Hussain wrote in Jang that the New York jury that convicted Aafiya Siddiqi was doing the bidding of Israel, writing justice on the spit of Israel. He said America was like Nimrud who was arrogant beyond measure but the ghaleez keera (dirty insect) Nimrud was killed by a humble mosquito.
India and sectarian violence
Famous ex-senator Muhammad Tariq Chaudhry wrote in Nawa-e-Waqt that after seeing two Islamic revolutions in Iran and Afghanistan, Europe and India became deeply disturbed and had arranged the conflict between Shia and Sunni in Pakistan. They patronised terrorists who went into mosques and imambargahs and killed people there.
Blackwater bigger than police
Quoted in daily Islam Maulana Fazlur Rehman stated that there were 9,000 Blackwater personnel stationed in Islamabad, which number was larger than then the Islamabad police. The police in Islamabad numbered 7,000. He said if Taliban are criminal, so is Blackwater.
Nawaz Sharif will be caught
Writing in Jang Haroon Rashid said that soon Nawaz Sharif will be revealed as involved in money laundering while the nation already knew about Zardaris deeds in Switzerland. He said Chaudhrys of Gujrat too would soon be caught.
Good journalist wrong style
Famous columnist Haroon Rashid wrote in Jang that he disagreed with the extreme style of presentation cultivated by Dr Shahid Masud, Shaheen Sehbai, Kamran Khan and Ansar Abbasi -- all belonging to the same media group -- but they had revealed the evil underworld of financial crime. He said he disagreed with them over the one-sided way in which they attacked Zardari.
Urdu press represents Pakistan
Columnist Saleem Safi wrote in Jang that army chief General Kayani took care to communicate also with journalists of the Urdu press apart from the English press. This was wisdom on his part because the Urdu press was the real representative (haqiqi tarjuman) of Pakistani society. In contrast General Musharraf talked only to the English-language journalist.
Act like China and Iran!
Writing in Jang Salim Safi stated that both Iran and China had learned the lesson of how to stand alone without following the edict of America. But Pakistan was different, it had not learned this lesson yet. Pakistan had become a beggar at the door of America right after its independence and its leaders were used to this alms-giving by the Americans.
Judges and revenge
Columnist Abbas Athar wrote in Express that judges in the past were moved by revenge. Under Ayub, High Court judge Maulvi Mushtaq tried Bhutto in jail and decided in Bhuttos favour. He then expected to become chief justice after Bhutto came to power. When this was not done he was filled with revenge and told Ghulam Mustafa Khar in his chamber after the latter had fallen out with Bhutto that the only death was the solution to Bhutto.
Judges without due process
Writing in Express Abbas Athar stated that all other professions there is a process of induction on merit but in the case of High Court judges -- aside from those who rise from the sessions courts -- there is no procedure of merit. Anyone who fulfils the limit of years of practice can be nominated judge. In all other services, candidates are taken on merit based on competitive worth.
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[Geo News] Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Amir Maulana Fazlur Rehman said Thursday that he had foiled an attempt made to make amends in the Islamic clauses regarding supremacy of Almighty, system based on Quran and Sunnah, bar of Islam for the head of state and ban on religion in the politics.
He was addressing a public gathering at Fort Dheri area located in the outskirts of Peshawar.
Following the end of Soviet occupation, the United States launched an anti-Islam campaign. While Pakistan's secular forces also found it easy to create hurdles on the path of Islam under the patronage of America, he remarked.
Rehman said that the JUI-F had foiled the plot to remove Islamic clauses from the Constitution.
"The champions of repeal of 17th Amendment have retained almost all of its clauses except few."
The JUI-F chief said the nationalist groups have also accepted incomplete formula of provincial autonomy while renaming of NWFP as Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa was decided by Lahore instead of public or NWFP assembly.
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And as we all know, Pakistan needs more Islam
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[Dawn] Some 100 tribal elders from Pakistan's South Waziristan district said Thursday they were ready to go home after a military offensive against the Taliban.
Elders from Mehsud tribes gathered in Tank and told administrators that they intended to resettle in the spring, local government officials and a tribesman told AFP. The elders, during the meeting witnessed by journalists, said they would cooperate with the government and take responsibility for peace and order under the territorial responsibility law.
Chief of South Waziristan administration Shah Wali Shah read out a message from army chief General Ashfaq Kayani saying the government had cleared the area of "miscreants and terrorists."
"Today is the day to fulfil the promise. The back of cruel, selfish terrorists has been broken on the land of South Waziristan. Their hideouts have been destroyed and remaining terrorists have been compelled to flee."
"Inshallah (God willing) the coming spring will welcome South Waziristan's real heirs in their area," Kayani said.
The message said the government had allocated a "huge sum" for development projects and that work would soon start on improving and building new roads, agriculture, dams, power supply and education facilities.
A tribesman confirmed that the elders were ready to go home. But the elder told AFP on condition of anonymity that a six-man delegation of tribal elders, to which he belonged, held negotiations with the Taliban and that the militants are not ready to trust the government.
"The Taliban said that if the government carried out an operation against them, they will retaliate and it would impact the common people," said the elder who also attended the meeting in Tank.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] A leading Iraqi Shiite party said on Thursday it will not join any Iraqi government without Iyad Allawi, a move that could boost the chances of the election winner of becoming a prime minister.
Ammar Hakim, head of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (ISCI), said his party, with strong ties to Iran, was open to an alliance with Allawi's cross-sectarian Iraqiya list.
The close election results have promised weeks or months of difficult and potentially divisive talks to form a government. Iraqis had hoped the vote would stabilize the country after years of war.
ISCI is part of the Iraqi National Alliance (INA), which finished third in the March 7 parliamentary election. Anti-U.S. cleric Moqtada al-Sadr heads INA's other major faction. "Putting pressure on Iraqiya is putting pressure on a major part of our (Iraqi) people. We will not take part in any upcoming government without the Iraqiya slate being there," Hakim said in remarks made late on Wednesday and broadcast on Thursday on ISCI's television station.
Iraqiya finished first with 91 seats and the State of Law coalition of Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki trailed with 89.
Maliki's coalition is locked in merger talks with Sadr's faction. A deal could lead to the combined group forming the largest bloc in parliament and sidelining Allawi.
Hakim rejected allegations that Allawi, a secular Shiite who was prime minister in 2004-2005, had ties to former members of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath Party.
"I can't guarantee all the winning candidates for Iraqiya, but I can confirm that Iraqiya as a slate is not Baathist," Hakim said.
A de-Baathification panel has barred six Iraqiya candidates who won seats.
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[Ma'an] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has reportedly urged Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal to stop militants in Gaza from firing rockets against Israel.
The foreign minister made his request on Wednesday in a telephone meeting, which covered a variety of issues regarding the Middle East, the Israeli daily Haaretz quoted Russian news agencies as reporting.
Israel's army announced Friday that a projectile fired from the Gaza Strip landed inside Israeli territory late Thursday night. There were no reports of damage or injury, a military spokesman told Ma'an.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > ISRAEL WARNS OF ANOTHER IDF GAZA GROUND OPERATION IN AFTERMATH OF AIR STRIKES [IIUC may includ milstrikes agz HAMAS iff HAMAS, Gaza Militants FAIL TO STOP ROCKET BARRAGES].
* VARIOUS > EGYPT FINDS MASSIVE WEAPONS CACHE IN SINAI. Prob got the info scoop via repor Egyptian Muslim Kiddies, Tweens running away from School Detention? + espec tunnel-happy Egyptian Security forces wid big gun thingys???
Turkey's top religious authority has dismissed as incredibly meaningless' a conference held last weekend to review a 14th century legal verdict sometimes used to justify acts of extremist violence. It's incredibly meaningless for a group of people to gather after centuries have passed to try and invalidate a religious view given centuries ago,' Directorate of Religious Affairs President Ali Bardakoðlu said in remarks to the Anatolia news agency in regards to the Mardin: The Abode of Peace' conference held last weekend in Turkey's southeastern Mardin province.
Well-known religious scholars from across the Muslim world had spoken at the conference, focusing on Ibn Taymiyyah's well-known legal verdict, or fatwa, concerning Mardin and addressing the question of whether the city fell into the classical categorization of either dar al-harb (abode of war) or dar al-Islam (abode of Islam). The answer to this question was of critical importance when it came to the issue of jihad as warfare, including the determination of legitimate versus prohibited targets. Scholars at the summit contended that the fatwa could not be interpreted -- as some extremists have -- to condone violence or terrorism, saying that it rather emphasized that non-Muslims needed to be taken care of as opposed to attacked.
Associating contemporary terrorism and violence with Ibn Taymiyyah's Mardin Fatwa is to fail to understand the goings on in the world in our day. In fact, it even means holding Islam and Islamic scholars responsible for such happenings,' Bardakoðlu asserted. Just tying everything in the Middle East -- bloodshed, violence, tears, terrorism -- to the Mardin fatwa is a hapless approach that is truly blind, ignoring the true causes of events by associating Islam and Islamic scholars with negative occurrences such as violence and terrorism and holding Islamic scholars who lived centuries ago responsible for them.'
The conference had been sponsored by independent Muslim educational NGOs the Global Center for Renewal and Guidance (GCRG) and Canopus Consulting. While Bardakoðlu had criticized the event as an effort to repeal one fatwa with another, a conference organizer speaking with Today's Zaman after the event had said the declaration -- not a fatwa -- released upon the summit's conclusion aimed to reassure people of all faiths and none that Islam does not condone murder' and to challenge the mode of thinking of those who already knew of the original fatwa. The New Mardin Declaration' emphasizes that anyone who seeks support from [Ibn Taymiyyah's Mardin] fatwa for killing Muslims or non-Muslims has erred in his interpretation and has misapplied the revealed texts.' The full text of the declaration is available [here]. Rantburg had a post about this conference here.
Meanwhile, Bardakoðlu also commented on other recent events, including the Monday double suicide bombing of the Moscow subway system. Terrorism in Baghdad affects us as deeply as terrorism in the metros of Moscow, Tokyo, London and Spain. We oppose it all, but it's necessary to avoid associating terrorism and violence with any one religion, people or geography,' he said, also condemning terrorism and violence anywhere in the world, no matter who it is perpetrated by or against.
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Jihadwatch had a good commentary on the Mardin Declaration that the Turkish Iman doesn't like.
The Mardin declaration itself had considerable ambiguity in it.
Its also interesting to try to figure out what Ali Bardakoolu thinks is terrorism and what is not terrorism. Note that he left out New York and Israel in his list of terror targets.
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The jihadi takeover of Turkey is
a "fait accompli"...
Next is Germany.
They are already INSIDE the Gates of Vienna...
As the ancient Chineses used to say,
Europe is getting "interesting".
Teheran's top nuclear negotiator meets senior Chinese officials; Obama speaks on phone with Hu Jintao; following Israeli MI chief's trip to China, IDF's OC Planning Directorate heads to China next week.
[Iran Press TV Latest] As the US and its allies push for another round of sanctions against Iran at the United Nations Security Council, Russia and China have again voiced their dissent.
Earlier in Moscow today, Russia's foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko reaffirmed Russia's commitment to finding a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear dispute with the West, reported The Voice of Russia.
He further said that sanctions could occasionally be appropriate, but insisted that such measures should be well thought-out, intelligent and not hinder further dialogue.
Separately, in China, where Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili is on a visit, the foreign ministry's spokesman official spokesman Qin Gang said Beijing would seek a peaceful solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.
He further said that while China opposed nuclear proliferation, it defended Tehran's right to develop civil nuclear energy.
Qin Gang declined to comment on claims that the US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice that Beijing is ready to discuss sanctions against Tehran.
In a meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Iran's top nuclear negotiator said the West's efforts to prevent certain countries from acquiring nuclear technology could put global security in danger.
Jalili stressed that a full commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) by all countries was the best way to ensure peace and stability in the world.
Certain Western governments, led by the US, have accused Iran of seeking nuclear weapons capability and have imposed sanctions in an effort to force Tehran to stop its enrichment activities.
However, Iran counters that, as a longstanding signatory to the NPT, it has the right to possess full nuclear fuel cycle, insisting that the production of nuclear weapons has no place in its policy.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has carried out intrusive inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities for years, and has announced that there is no evidence of diversion of nuclear material from civilian to military applications.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM [Foreign Affairs] BILL CLINTON AND CIA BLUNDER GACE IRAN SECRETS TO NUCLEAR BOMB.
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.
[Al Arabiya Latest] President Hamid Karzai accused the West on Thursday of trying to ruin Afghanistan's elections, intensifying a showdown with parliament over whether foreigners will oversee a parliamentary vote this year.
