[Dawn] Afghanistan on Tuesday accused Pakistain of refusing to cooperate with investigations into the killing of Kabul government peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani. ... the murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... "Today we received a message from the embassy of Pakistain saying that since this issue has arisen in media, we cannot cooperate and we apologise for that," said Mohammad Yasin Zia, deputy head of the National Directorate of Security.
Rabbani's killing in Kabul on September 20 has prompted Karzai to reconsider his strategy for talking peace with the Taliban.
The NDS, Afghanistan's intelligence service, said it had handed evidence in Rabbani's killing to Pak officials to take action last Thursday.
It has also alleged that the killer was a Pak and the attack was planned in the Pak town of Quetta.
Pakistain has questioned the evidence provided to its embassy in Kabul, and described Rabbani as a great friend of Pakistain, who was widely respected in the country.
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[Dawn] India and Afghanistan on Tuesday signed a strategic partnership agreement deepening their economic and security ties, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.
Singh reached the deal with Afghan president Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... during talks in New Delhi in a move likely to raise suspicion in Pakistain, which is already wary of the relationship between its two neighbours.
The deal is the first such pact signed by Afghanistan as it eyes alliances to help guarantee its security as international troops begin withdrawing from the war-torn country after more than a decade of fighting.
"My discussions with President Karzai have once again underscored the importance of a strong and broad-based partnership between India and Afghanistan," Singh said.
Singh explained that the strategic partnership agreement would cover security cooperation, trade and economic ties, as well as social and cultural exchanges.
The two leaders also signed two separate deals increasing links in mining and energy.
The agreements come at a time of severely strained ties between Pakistain and Afghanistan.
Karzai has accused Pakistain of supporting bully boy networks in his country and of having links to the recent liquidation of peace envoy and former president Burhanuddin Rabbani. ... the murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... "Afghanistan recognises the dangers that this region faces through terrorism and radicalism that is being used as an instrument of policy against our citizens," he said in a veiled reference to Pakistain.
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IOW Pakistans ISI kicked Karzai in the nose and Karzai kicked back. Perhaps Karzais' finally figured out that the Pak's are as trustworthy to deal with as a murderous kleptomaniac with no conscience.
Clearly they don't need the $2billion a year we're giving them. Cut 'em off.
An Egyptian official said on Wednesday morning that the Egyptian government had no intention of releasing accused spy Ilan Grapel during a visit by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... , Army Radio reported. Grapel, a 27-year-old US-Israeli dual citizen, was jugged in June on charges of spying for Israel.
The denial came as Egyptian media sources speculated Tuesday that Israel may release a number of Egyptian prisoners in exchange for the release of Grapel, A-Shams reported. That report could not be confirmed, however.
CAIRO, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of Egyptian Christian Copts staged a sit-in on the road in front of the state TV building in downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening, demanding Aswan provincial governor Moustafa el-Sayed step down and a church be rebuilt in Marinap village in Aswan province.
Copts rebuilt an old occasion building in the village and transferred it into a church with no official permission, angering the village's Muslim residents who attempted to destroy the building. The incident caused new tension between the two religious groups.
A group of Muslims after finishing Friday prayers had moved to the church and started to demolish the whole building, but the security forces interfered and just a small wall and two cement pillars were destroyed.
Copts were angry about el-Sayed recent statements which said the number of Copts in the village is very few to build a church for them and there is another church two kilometers faraway, protestors said.
The protestors demanded Sayed be held accountable for his statements that will help stir sectarian clashes.
"We need our rights," they chanted. "We need a decisive reaction from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) concerning several controversial issues, top of which is to put the same criteria for building religious houses," one of the protestors said.
Walid Weisah, a 34-year-old protestor, told Xinhua that "it is an open sit-in until the church will be rebuilt".
The roads leading to the TV Building were closed and surrounded by police security forces. But no clashes erupted.
Copts account for about one tenth of the total population of Egypt. There has been sporadic tension between Coptic Christians and Muslims over the building of churches or other affairs in the Muslim-dominated country.
(Xinhua) -- Hundreds of Egyptian Christian Copts staged a sit-in on the road in front of the state TV building in downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening, demanding Aswan provincial governor Moustafa el-Sayed step down and a church be rebuilt in Marinap village in Aswan province.
Copts rebuilt an old occasion building in the village and transferred it into a church with no official permission, angering the village's Mohammedan residents who attempted to destroy the building. The incident caused new tension between the two religious groups.
A group of Mohammedans after finishing Friday prayers had moved to the church and started to demolish the whole building, but the security forces interfered and just a small wall and two cement pillars were destroyed.
Copts were angry about el-Sayed recent statements which said the number of Copts in the village is very few to build a church for them and there is another church two kilometers faraway, protestors said.
The protestors demanded Sayed be held accountable for his statements that will help stir sectarian festivities.
"We need our rights," they chanted. "We need a decisive reaction from the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) concerning several controversial issues, top of which is to put the same criteria for building religious houses," one of the protestors said.
Walid Weisah, a 34-year-old protestor, told Xinhua that "it is an open sit-in until the church will be rebuilt".
The roads leading to the TV Building were closed and surrounded by police security forces. But no festivities erupted.
Copts account for about one tenth of the total population of Egypt. There has been sporadic tension between Coptic Christians and Mohammedans over the building of churches or other affairs in the Mohammedan-dominated country.
[Tripoli Post] Salem Jouha, reportedly a military commander from Misrata is to be assigned the ministry of defence in the new Libya interim government it has emerged. He has reportedly been named for the portfolio Sunday by Mahmoud Jibril, the intrim prime minister and chairman of the National Transitional Council, who also named other members of the cabinet.
Jibril, who has been heavily criticised both locally and by the international media, will keep his post as prime minister for the next eight months. Ali Tarhouni, the former oil minister, will be elevated to deputy prime minister, Al Jizz reported.
Jouha's appontment is bound to please Islamist factions. It was thanks to Misuratis, who displayed great courage in the seven months of the conflict. They put up fierce resistance during the fighting and perceived military prowess. Misuratis have also become a powerful political force in the new Libya after Al Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years... .
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[MSNBC] Families flowed out of Moammar Qadaffy ...Megalomaniac dictator of Libya, admired everywhere for his garish costumes, funny hats, harem of cutie bodyguards, and incoherent ravings. As far as is known, he is the only person who's ever declared jihad on Switzerland... 's besieged hometown Tuesday, exhausted and battered by weeks of hiding from shelling and gunbattles with no meat or vegetables or electricity -- but unbowed in their deep distrust of the revolutionaries trying to crush this bastion of the old regime.
The fleeing residents were a sign of how resistance to Libya's new rulers remains entrenched among those who benefited from Qadaffy's nearly 42-year rule. Many of those fleeing Sirte said that the stiff defense against revolutionary fighters who have been trying to battle their way into Sirte for three weeks is coming not from Qadaffy's military units but from residents themselves, volunteering to take up arms.
"This so-called revolution is not worth it," said Moussa Ahmed, 31, who sat in a line of cars waiting to go through a checkpoint of fighters searching those exiting the city. "But we can't say anything now; when we meet the revolutionaries we have to hide our feelings."
The battle for Sirte, on the Mediterranean coast 250 miles (400 kilometers) southeast of Tripoli, has become the focal point of the campaign by Libya's new rulers to break the last remnants of Qadaffy's rule. More than six weeks after the then-rebels swept into Tripoli and ousted the longtime leader, Qadaffy remains on the run, his whereabouts unknown, and his supporters remain in control not only of Sirte but also the city of Bani Walid and parts of the desert south.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ...current SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993.... said Tuesday that the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... air mission over Libya can't end and the political process can't begin until Sirte is taken. Libya's de facto Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said Monday that Sirte must fall before the transitional leadership can declare victory and set a timeline for elections.
The fight has been grueling. After three weeks, revolutionary forces have managed to get just over a mile (two kilometers) into the city. Heavily armed Qadaffy loyalists are holed up in the Ouagadougou Conference Center, a grandiose hall built by Qadaffy in the city center for international summits, and in the city hospital, revolutionary commanders said.
On Tuesday, fighters eased shelling to allow residents to escape, and hundreds of cars filled with men, women and kiddies lined up at checkpoints at Sirte's eastern exit. Mothers carrying babies in blankets stood by the side of the road, their children clutching their robes, as revolutionary fighters rifled through their cars, searching through mattresses, clothes and other belongings for hidden weapons.
"We haven't had vegetables or meat to eat for over a month," said one of the mothers, Attiya Mohammed. "The water is polluted, and forget about electricity -- it's been out since the middle of August."
The city was a war zone, she said, buildings pockmarked with bullet holes and parts of the main hospital demolished.
Like many, she had been afraid to step outside her home. "The city was our prison," she said. "If you left your house you risked being shot and killed."
There was a palpable dislike between those fleeing and the fighters searching through their belongings, though there was no visible harassment and families said they were well treated, some given food and water. During his rule, Qadaffy turned Sirte into virtually a second capital, pouring in investments and giving residents prominent positions. As a result, support for the regime ran high -- and many of those fleeing were dismayed at the fall of the old order.
Many of the fighters besieging Sirte are from the neighboring city of Misrata, which rose up against Qadaffy early and was brutalized under a bloody, weekslong siege by his forces during the revolt that began in mid-February. As a result, there is little love lost between the two cities.
One Misrata revolutionary at the checkpoint, al-Hussein al-Sireiti, said they find four or five cars a day with hidden weapons.
"We also check for people with bullet injuries, because that means they likely were fighting for Qadaffy," he said. They also search for those on a list of known Qadaffy loyalists wanted for interrogation, he said.
Among those fleeing, Fatima al-Qadaffy -- from the same tribe the ousted leader -- bent her head over her five-month old baby girl and sobbed softly.
"They wanted a revolution -- so do it in Misrata and leave the rest of us alone," she said.
Wearing a black headscarf, her face freckled from the sun, she said she had never met revolutionary forces before Tuesday as she exited Sirte. She told one fighter to stop shooting his rifle so near her family's car, but he refused.
"He said Moammar used to do worse than this, but I never saw anything bad from the old regime. We lived in safety and peace always," she said.
Halima Salem, 44, sat patiently in her son's pickup truck while he showed their papers to fighters at the checkpoint. The truck bed was filled with blankets, appliances and clothes. In the seat behind her, four birdcages were filled with colorful love birds and canaries chirping away oblivious of sound of shelling.
"I couldn't leave them behind, they're like one of the family," she exclaimed, smiling at her birds.
She said she had been reluctant to abandon her home because gangs have been looting houses -- she wasn't sure what side they were loyal to, if either. During shelling, she hid under the bed in her master bedroom, clutching the youngest children. Finally, after bad shelling the night before, her sons forced her to pack up.
"How can it be that Libyans are doing this to us? Aren't we the same people?" she lamented, shaking her head. "I feel bad for our (former Qadaffy) army ... They were honorable men with high morals. And now this chaos."
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(Ma'an) -- Egyptian authorities on Saturday jugged three men attempting to smuggle fuel into the Gazoo Strip via underground tunnels, Egyptian media said.
Cairo-based news site Masrawi news said officers seized the men with two cars carrying large quantities of fuel in Rafah, a town on the Egypt-Gazoo border.
The report said Egyptian drivers demonstrated in El-Arish also on Saturday, to protest fuel shortages in the Egyptian city.
A network of tunnels under the border provides a lifeline to Gazoo residents since Israel imposed a blockade on the coastal enclave in 2006.
Rooters summarized: Israel to get special, higher price, once the damaged pipeline is repaired after the late September attack. Egypt currently supplies 43% of the natural gas Israel uses.
How soon until Israel's offshore field starts producing?
(Ma'an) -- Egyptian authorities announced Monday that the Rafah crossing with the Gazoo Strip would be closed Thursday as the country commemorates the 1973 war with Israel.
The interior ministry of the Gazoo government advised passengers that there would be limited opening times at the crossing between October 6-10, a statement said.
The 1973 war, known as the Yom Kippur or October War, was fought between Egypt, Syria and Israel.
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(Bloomberg) -- Soddy Arabia vowed to use "an iron fist" after 11 members of the security forces were maimed by attackers during unrest in a Shiite Mohammedan town in the east, the official Saudi Press Agency said.
The government accused an unnamed "foreign country" of seeking to undermine the stability of the kingdom as a result of the violence in Awwamiya, in which the assailants, some on cycle of violences, used machine guns and Molotov cocktails, the Riyadh-based news service reported late yesterday. A man and two women were also injured, the news service said.
Soddy Arabia, the world's largest oil supplier, beat feet the mass protests that toppled the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia this year and spread to the Saudi neighbors of Yemen and Bahrain. There were some rallies earlier in the year in mostly Shiite eastern Soddy Arabia, including Awwamiya and al-Qatif village.
Predominantly Sunni MohammedanSoddy Arabia has accused Shiite- led Iran of interfering in the affairs of Arab countries in the Persian Gulf, home to three-fifths of the world's oil reserves. Soddy Arabia and other Gulf countries sent troops to Bahrain in March to quell the mainly Shiite unrest.
"Given that this happened in the predominantly Shiite area of Soddy Arabia, in its east, this could be a sign of greater trouble ahead," Paul Sullivan, a political scientist specializing in Middle East security at Georgetown University in Washington, said yesterday in response to e-mailed questions. "Shiite-Sunni tensions are building in the region and Iran is one of the major culprits behind it."
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For a map, click here. From a La Jornada report. Nothing in the local Juarez press so far
By Chris Covert
Chihuahua state governor Cesar Duarte will announced the withdrawal from Juarez of some 140 Mexican Polica Federal (PF) effectives, a total of 70 percent of PF forces currently in Juarez, according to the Mexican leftist daily La Jornada.
Juarez has had a large contingent of PF troops in the city since April, 2010 when around 1,500 PF effectives were assigned to Juarez. Those police were deployed to replace Mexican Army troops which left at the request of then Chihuahua governor Jose Reyes Baeza.
The withdrawal of PF forces will be seen as an acquiescence by the Mexican national government to demands constantly made by Juarez's current mayor Hector Murguia Lardizabal, who has been demanding the PF withdraw since at last April, 2011. Murguia Lardizabal even set a deadline of September, 2011.
Murguia Lardizabal has maintained an antagonistic relationship at best with the local PF detachment with several verbal and public confrontations, one of which very nearly went hot. Much of the problems between the major and the PF stems from Murguia Lardizabal's selection as a Juarez police chief last February. To read the Rantburg report on the confrontation between Murguia Lardizabal and a local PF commander click here (last item)
Julian Leyzaola Perez was formerly the police chief of Tijuana, Baja California with an excellent record of getting crime rate reduced. Some accusations have emerged during his tenure, which have followed him that he made deals with the local cartels in Tijuana to keep violence down in exchange for a free hand in trafficking drugs. Leyzaola Perez was kicked upstairs to a post with the Baja California Secretaria Seguidad Publica or state police briefly before Murguia Lardizabal tagged him to be Juarez's new police chief.
Julian Leyzaola Perez himself was fired on by PF elements during last July's Juarez prison riot when he attempted to run a PF cordon around the Juarez Centro de Readaptacion Social(CERESO) without identifying himself, or so claimed the PF.
Directly following the riot, Governor Duarte and Mexican Minister of the Interior (SEGOB), Francisco Blake Mora, held a press conference stating that federal forces were going nowhere, especially not out of town. To read the Rantburg exclusive report on the issues with Juarez's mayor and the PF, click here
The press conference had to have stung the abrasive Murguia Lardizabal, who is known locally in Juarez by the nickname "Teto", a reference to a woman's breast.
What a difference a few months make.
With the draw down of federal forces, both PF and Mexican Army, Juarez local municipal police and Chihuahua state police agents are expected to take up the slack.
Whatever slack may be, may not be much. Duarte claimed at a press conference last week that murders and violent crimes in general were down 50 percent. Indeed an outside observer would have to remark that the local Juarez press is not currently filled with constant news about executions and shootings.
According to the La Jornada article more than 5,000 arrests were made by PF forces between July 2010 and now.
A total of 288 of those arrests involved the Juarez cartel, while 69 were linked to the Sinaloa cartel . The other 4,999 arrests were for crimes unrelated to drugs or the cartels.
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"Indeed an outside observer would have to remark that the local Juarez press is not currently filled with constant news about executions and shootings."
Mayor Carlos Bustamante fired the citys police chief Tuesday and named Jesús Alberto Capella to lead the 2,200 municipal force, it was announced at a mid-day press conference. meet the new boss...
Capt. Gustavo Huerta Martínez had been Secretary of Public Safety since November, when Bustamente assumed the mayors office.
Capella is returning to a post he held for a little more than a year under the previous city administration. He was removed amid waves of deadly violence that prompted state authorities to assign military officers to lead the municipal force. welcome back. Your contacts are still active
The change in police leadership is occurring at a time the pace of homicides related to organized crime is surging; ironically one of the reasons Capella was fired. makes sense.... I guess
Capellas arrival returns to civilian hands the most important law enforcement job in the city.
He survived an assassination attempt on Nov. 27, 2007, a month before his first stint as Secretary of Public Safety. so he's experienced
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I saw this movie.
It's gotten so that, if a contract is put on a cop or politition, you don't know if it's because he or she is honest or is just owned by the wrong gang.
PARIS: La Belle France and Sweden on Tuesday warned Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's regime against attacking or intimidating Syrian opposition in exile, amid reports of assaults and threats in European capitals.
Global rights watchdog Amnesia Amnesty International earlier said Syrian freedom fighters had been harassed in eight countries. La Belle France confirmed it had launched an investigation after thugs attacked a protest in Gay Paree.
A foreign ministry front man said arrests had been made and extra police protection assigned to Syrian opposition protests after the August 26 attack.
"We would not tolerate a foreign state organizing acts of violence or intimidation on our territory, and we have made this known in the clearest possible terms to Syria's ambassador in Gay Paree," Bernard Valero said. "The right to protest freely and peacefully in safety is fully guaranteed by the French constitution, and it is also obvious that La Belle France supports the Syrian people's hopes for freedom," he said.
According to the French daily Le Monde, a small group of Syrian protesters that gathers regularly in a square in central Gay Paree has been insulted, filmed and on at least one occasion violently attacked by thugs.
Valero confirmed that there had been arrests after one such incident on August 26, but denied a report No, no! Certainly not! in the Le Monde that suggested that two of the suspects were carrying Syrian diplomatic papers.
Amnesia Amnesty International earlier said it had documented cases of attacks and intimidation against 30 activists in eight countries: Britannia, Canada, Chile, La Belle France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the US.
It urged countries hosting Syrians, like La Belle France and Sweden which have become hubs of opposition activity, to "take stronger action against Syrian embassies accused of orchestrating this kind of harassment and intimidation."
Amnesty's Syria researcher Neil Sammonds said Syrians living abroad are becoming increasingly vocal in their support of the growing protest movement back home that has been demanding Assad step down. "In response the regime appears to have waged a systematic - sometimes violent - campaign to intimidate Syrians overseas into silence," he said.
Amnesty said protesters outside Syrian embassies are initially filmed or photographed by officials then subjected to harassment, including phone calls, e-mails and Facebook messages warning them to stop.
Some activists say they were directly threatened by embassy officials.
Naima Darwish, who set up a Facebook page to call for protests outside the Syrian embassy in Santiago, Chile, told the rights group she was contacted directly by a bigwig who asked to meet her in person. "He told me that I should not to do such things," she told Amnesty. "He said I would lose the right to return to Syria if I continued."
A number of Syrians said their families back home were targeted by security forces, apparently to deter them from their activities overseas. After Malek Jandali, a 38-year-old pianist, performed at a demonstration in front of the White House in July, his mother and father, aged 66 and 73, were attacked in their home in the central city of Homs and have since decamped Syria.
"We look to host governments to act on credible allegations of abuses," said Sammonds, adding many dissidents were often "too scared of what could happen to them to make formal complaints with the police."
The Turkish Army is set to conduct a military maneuver near the common border with Syria amid heightened tension in the southern neighbor.
"Yildirim (Lightning)-2011 mobilization exercise, which is one of the planned exercises for the year 2011, will be performed in (the town of) Iskenderun, Hatay province between October 5-13," AFP reported, citing a statement issued by the Army on Tuesday.
Ankara says the drill helps test the system aiding the forces' mobilization as well as the efficiency of communication between the Armed Forces and the public institutions. Forty military vehicles and 730 stand-by personnel will participate in the exercise.
There were no immediate comments from Syria, which has often blamed the unrest, it has been facing since March, on the flow of arms from the Turkey.
The unrest has seen organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country. Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed in the tension.
Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... says that the unrest is being orchestrated from outside the country and that the security forces have been given clear instructions not to harm civilians.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wine tasting, Vince was about to start tasting his third quart... Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a visit to South Africa that he would back a draft resolution proposed by European states at the UN Security Council against Syria.
"The draft resolution before the council today is in the nature of sending a warning. We hope there will a positive outcome of this vote and that there will then be further discussions about whatever further steps need to be taken," he said in Pretoria.
In September, the Syria Steps news website said Syrian cyber specialists had uncovered an anti-Damascus agreement struck between Turkey and La Belle France.
In line with the deal, Turkey would facilitate implementation of La Belle France's strategic plans in the Middle East, especially in Syria, Israel, and Leb.
The report noted that, in line with the accord, Ankara would help deposing Syrian President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... by reinforcing the Syrian opposition among other things. Gay Paree would instead ease Turkey's accession to the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... before the end of 2012.
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WAFF > IRAN NAMES NATO MISSLE SHIELD IN TURKEY AS USELESS, i.e. ineffective agz Iranian Ballistic Missle attack.
Also from WAFF > SYRIAN REBEL COMMANDER TAKES REFUGE IN TURKEY.
* SAME > FIFTY TIMES MORE THE CONTENT [natural gas] IN CYPRUS AREA COMPARED TO LEVIATHAN.
ARTIC = Once its fields are properly developed + operating, CYPRUS per se could potentially become the richest nation in all Europe due to NatGas [LNG?] exports???
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Turkish President]GUL TO TURKIC WORLD: TURKEY NEEDS SIX STATES TO ACT AS ONE NATION. Turkey + ex-Soviet SSRS = "-Stans".
OOOOOOO, Turkic Union versus Iranian-Persian Union [Shia]versus Putin's proposed Eurasian Union ....
versus
* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM BLOGGER > opined that PUTIN is aware that the former Soviet -Stans in Central Asia are more likely to join = be "absorbed" by Rising China than to do wid struggling Russia.
D *** NG IT, ... AND THE OUTSTANDING POPCORN FUTURES YEAR THAT IS 2011 KEEPS ON GOING!
Mounted approximately five years ago out of the Tucson office, Wide Receiver may have actually been the template used -with equally inept results- by the now-infamous Phoenix operations.
In Operation Wide Receiver, Tucson agents allowed the sales of more than 500 firearms to known straw purchasers. Like Gunrunner/Fast and Furious, the operation apparently backfired.
Some firearms in Wide Receive were equipped with RFID tracking devices. In Wide Receiver, it seems the illegal purchasers seemed more than slightly knowledgeable of the way the ATF and how to take their aerial and electronic tracking procedures down.
Knowing the time aloft numbers for virtually all planes used in government surveillance, the buyers had a simple method of getting their purchases across the border undetected. They simply drove four-hour loops around the area.
As surveillance planes were forced to return to base for re-fueling, the smugglers simply turned and sprinted their cargo across the border.
The RFID tags also turned out to be problematic.
Rather than making large enough holes for the tags to be laid out inside weapons, agents force-fit them into the rifles.
That cramming caused the antennae to be folded, reducing the effective range of the tags. And an already short battery life (36-48 hours maximum) meant that should purchasers allow the firearms to sit, the tracking devices eliminated themselves.
This sounds like something out of "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" but it's not.
To date, Wide Receiver hasn't really amounted to much in the way of interdiction, enforcement or prosecution, despite the huge amounts of surveillance video and audio evidence collected and the millions of dollars expended.
To date, sources tell us the only charges filed in the ongoing investigation are for falsifying Form 4473s. Not much of a return on an investigation that consumed millions of dollars in man-hours and money and placed the lives of law-abiding firearms dealers and their families in jeopardy.
Additionally, we have seen documents proving the Justice Department is not only aware of Wide Receiver, they're having problems with material witnesses and confidential informants who are concerned about the overall investigation and their personal safety.
Seems the confidential nature of the investigation was no better run than the rest of the operation.
Newell -- Posted Thursday, June 16, 2011 the same man that is involved in Fast and Furious, who has now been reassigned, and was a lousy witness at Issa's last hearing. You could almost "see" the lies coming out of his mouth.
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This really sickens me to see Gillett getting rewarded for a history of misconduct and incompetence. It also appears he has not taken any heat on approving the Tucson version of phoenix's "Gun Walker" in Tucson called linebacker or wide receiver (something like that)where he and Newell approved "walking" several hundred assault rifles to Mexico. Also, get this ......he approved the signing (and paying) of the FFL dealer as a CI, paid him as a CI and allowed him to profit from the illegal straw purchases ATF directed him to do.....what a deal! What do you think would be happening right now if one of those guns were linked to the Tucson shooting of Rep Gifford? How about it Senator Grassley.....are these ATF supervisors really the "untouchables"? Retaliation by ATF management is a way of life in ATF. Why......because all know management is corrupt and will pull out all stops to protect one another and NOTHING ever happens!
In a blunt assessment, President Obama's first national security adviser told a private audience this week that there is a "chasm" between the United States and its Gulf Arab allies that has yet to heal since the White House very publicly ushered Egypt's president out of power in February.
Retired Marine Gen. James Jones, who served as national security adviser in 2009-10, told a private meeting at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the United States' Persian Gulf allies interpret the president's handling of the Egyptian revolution as a sign that Washington will dump their monarchies or governments if enough demonstrators take to their streets, according to a recording of the speech reviewed by The Daily Beast.
"We have paid a price," Jones said of the decision to call for Hosni Mubarak's ouster. "Our policy with regard to Mubarak as interpreted by some of our closest Arab allies in the Gulf has not gone over well."
"In their interpretation of our dumping President Mubarak very hastily, [it] answered the question of what we would be likely to do if that happened in their countries. So there is a chasm there that somehow has to be bridged," he added
In general, yes, there is that concern, certainly among the Gulf countries, that the United States does not stand by its friends in the region," said Marwan Muasher, a former foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Jordan. "In the case of the Saudis there is an additional point, which is a concern that the United States is not serious about the peace process."
Neither are the Saudis serious about the peace process, except as a cheap method to bring the territories currently controlled by those uppity Juices back under Muslim rule as Allah intended. But do go on...
Since the fall of Mubarak, the Saudis have begun to bolster Arab governments that have not fallen to the Arab spring. In July, Saudi Arabia announced a $1 billion grant for Jordan. Meanwhile, the Saudis have provided logistical and military support to the government of Bahrain, which has sought to suppress popular unrest. The Saudi kingdom, however, has not supported the regimes in Libya or Syria during the Arab Spring.
According to some Egyptian observers, the Saudis also have sought to bolster political parties in Cairo ahead of the upcoming elections in Egypt.
The United States has provided $60 million for democratic transition in Egypt since Mubarak's fall from power in February. Some of that money goes toward technical election training like platform writing, election law, and other programs aimed at building a democratic civil society.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said the United States will be prepared to meet with a number of political parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood. A U.S. official told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that a "handful" of members of the Muslim Brotherhood have "availed themselves of programs" funded by the United States for election training.
India signed a significant partnership pact with Afghanistan on Tuesday, agreeing to step up cooperation in counterterrorism operations, training of security forces and trade in a move that has the potential to antagonize Pakistan at a critical juncture in the Afghanistan war.
The agreement, which Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed at the start of a two-day visit to India, also includes measures to boost political and cultural engagement. In addition, India pledged its help in stabilizing Afghanistan as the country battles rising extremist violence and prepares for the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops in 2014.
The pact coincides with a souring of relations between Kabul and Islamabad since Afghan officials bluntly accused Pakistan of supporting recent high-profile attacks in their country. The agreement with Pakistans arch-rival in the midst of those recriminations has the potential to further strain relations.
Our cooperation with Afghanistan is an open book. We have civilizational links, and we are both here to stay, Singh said in his statement, adding that the agreement creates an institutional framework for future ties. India will stand by the people of Afghanistan as they prepare to assume the responsibility for their governance and security after the withdrawal of international forces in 2014.
Karzai, who is making his second visit to the Indian capital this year, said Afghanistan appreciated New Delhis understanding of its difficulties and added that he was grateful for Indias help. The strategic agreement is the first such partnership Kabul has entered into with any country.
This does not mean that India is going to rush its troops to Afghanistan or ship military equipment, said Lalit Mansingh, a former Indian diplomat. It just means that India has entered the sphere so far denied to it. For many years, Western nations wanted India to stay away from Afghanistan because they did not want to upset Pakistan. But that has changed in the last year, since President Barack Obama visited India. They are now openly suggesting that India should be more active. With todays agreement, India is saying that it will be a guarantor of Afghanistans stability after 2014.
Karzai and Singh also announced commercial ties in mining, mineral exploration and development of hydrocarbons, including oil and natural gas, and Singh said he will work to improve Afghanistans economic integration with India and with South Asia as a whole. Last year, Pakistan and Afghanistan signed a transit-trade agreement that would allow agricultural products from Afghanistan to cross Pakistan into India. But the agreement has yet to yield major changes in trade patterns across the region.
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > WITH AFGHANISTAN, INDIA MARKS ITS RISE IN CENTRAL ASIA.
India gradually emerging as a "reluctant superpower", IIUC Artic as acting more on necessity than per se national desire or ambition.
versus
* SAME > SIMI [Students Islamic Movement of India] MEN WANT TO JOIN PAK JIHADIS.
* SAME > PAKISTAN ARMY TRAINS SAUDI TROOPS, to fight future war agz India???
* SAME > 4000 ILLEGAL CHINESE INCLUDING PLA TROOPS IN PoK: [India]ARMY CHIEF [GEN. VK Singh].
* SAME > CAPTURED MILITANTS SAYS PAKISTAN RUNNING TERROR TRAINING CAMPS, wid Hard/Bad Boyz graduates sent to fight from Pakistan into the disputed J&K regions???
The ATF, the agency that's supposed to stop gun smuggling, turned a blind eye for years, as hundreds of guns "walked" across the Mexican border, CBS News has learned.
In a report on "The Early Show," CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson said a confidential informant has come forward "with a fascinating story of how U.S. agents began letting guns 'walk' across the Mexican border - more than four years ago."
Gun enthusiast and licensed dealer Mike Detty said he was working a Tucson, Ariz., gun show in early 2006 when a young Hispanic man bought a half-dozen semi-automatic rifles. He paid $1,600 cash.
Detty recalled, "But then he asked if I had more, and I told him that later in the month I would have another 20 from my supplier. And he said, 'I'll take 'em all.'"
Detty said he suspected the buyer was trafficking for a drug cartel. Tucson is just an hour from the Mexican border and a popular shopping center for smugglers.
Detty notified ATF - the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. To his surprise, ATF told him to go ahead with the big sale and sent an undercover agent to watch. Then, a local ATF manager made an unusual and dangerous proposition: He asked Detty to be a confidential informant.
Detty told CBS News, "He said, 'Mike, I think we've got a real chance at taking out a powerful cartel. Can you help us?' I made that commitment. And I really thought I was doing something good."
Detty said he even signed an informant contract. As he understood it, he'd sell to suspected traffickers. Agents would track the weapons, expose the cartel's inner workings, and then interdict the guns before they could ever get loose on the street - or so Detty thought.
Detty said his business, "Mad Dawg," catered to this dangerous clientele in his living-room showroom. ATF agents watched and listened outside.
Detty said ATF would have a small audio recording device. Sometimes it was hidden in a box of Kleenex," he said. One of the biggest cases was code-named: "Operation Wide Receiver."
Attkisson asked Detty, "Do you know about how many guns we're talking about?"
Detty said, "It's right around 450."
Detty came forward after things didn't work out as Detty had thought they would. Detty says he realized ATF was letting guns "walk" and instead of helping to take down cartels, he'd helped ATF arm them.
Attkisson asked, "When you look back and think in hindsight knowing what we know now - that all those guns were going on the street - what do you think about?"
Detty said, "It really makes me sick."
Attkisson noted that all this happened under the Bush administration - three years before the start of "Fast and Furious," the better-known ATF operation under the Obama administration that has come under scrutiny . "Fast and Furious" allegedly let thousands of weapons fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, and is now the subject of two investigations.
Attkisson said efforts to reach former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who was in office when "Wide Receiver" started under the Bush administration, were unsuccessful. Meanwhile, his successor is under fire. Republicans are calling for a special prosecutor to investigate whether Attorney General Eric Holder told the truth when he testified earlier this year to Congress about when he first knew about 'Fast and Furious.'"
According to Atkisson, "gunwalking" may not be limited to border towns.
She said, "We have found allegations of gunwalking in at least 10 cities in five states, so this apparently was not isolated to Arizona."
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Attkisson has been working the Gunwalker story from the beginning, despite much hope of ever getting through the editorial objections. Now she's finally found an angle that will work.
It seems that much the same program existed in the Bush and Obama BATF and Justice Departments: why? What missing underlying motivation or fact are we still not seeing? (Or is it like illegal immigration, where both sides want the same thing, but one side for the cheap labor and the other for the cheap votes?) In any case, I'm all for her chasing the story even if it ends up being mostly on the Bush administration.
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt reported that the Christian community in Pakistan have approached the High Court Lahore with the request that their contribution in the achievement of Pakistan should be owned in the Pakistan Movement literature. They wanted their share in it mentioned in the textbooks of Pakistan. Justice Azmat Saeed asked the Punjab government to represent the government in the case.
[Dawn] Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... directed Interior and Law ministries to propose comprehensive amendments in Anti-Terrorism Act 2010 with a view to award detrimental punishment to those who are involved in heinous crimes like terrorism.
The Prime Minister said this while chairing a meeting here at Prime Minister House on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Gilani said that the present law is not offering an effective regime to deter criminals who get scott free due to legal lacunas.
The rate of conviction is terribly low that embolden the criminals to revert to their abhorrent activities against society and state, he added.
Earlier, Interior Minister Abdul Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. briefed the meeting about the necessity of bringing amendments in Anti-Terrorism Act and argued that the country needs such stringent amendments because the country is in a situation that warrants special laws to deal with.
In the meeting, various proposals forwarded by the Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Law and experts in criminal law came under discussion.
The Prime Minister directed that all stakeholders should be on board while proposing amendments in the Act because element of effectiveness is critical to frustrate designs of those who are up against the society and its way of life.
They would not be allowed to hold the society as hostage at gunpoint, the Prime Minister assured.
The meeting was attended by Federal Minister for Law Maula Bux Chandio, Attorney General and secretaries of the ministries and bigwigs.
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[Dawn] A jirga of elders of Torghar on Monday decided to begin an investigation on its own into the last week's bombing of a police van in the district that left four coppers dead and 15 maimed.
All the dead and the maimed belonged to Bassikhel tribe.
The jirga, which was held in Judbah and largely attended by elders and people of the area, condemned the van bombing.
It announced that it would carry out own investigation into the terrorist activity to expose perpetrators.It also said the investigation would help prevent such attacks in future. Participants pledged that they won't allow anyone to disturb peace in the area.
A participant said police should investigate as to why the van targeted by beturbanned goons was stopped at Shagaqy Bazaar 'without cause' and that who leaked the travel plan of the targeted convoy to terrorists.
Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... the district administration and MNA Laiq Mohammad Khan distributed Rs10,000 each to the coppersmaimed in the terrorist attack at Battagram and Abbottabad hospitals respectively.
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On Wednesday, China said actions taken by the UN Security Council should be conducive to ease the tension in Syria. Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu made the remarks after Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a draft resolution meant to strongly condemn "the continued grave and systematic human rights violations by the Syrian authorities" and threatened punitive measures against Syria.
In a press release, Ma said, "We hope relevant actions of the UN Security Council should help ease the tension in Syria, promote political dialogues to defuse differences, and maintain peace and stability in the Middle East."
The draft resolution presented by relevant countries "put pressure blindly on Syria and threatened sanctions," he said. "The draft resolution will not help ease Syria's situation."
Ma said China is always quite concerned with Syria's situation.
"We call upon all parties concerned in Syria to stop all forms of violence, promote the government to put its commitment of reform into practice, start the Syrian-led inclusive political process as soon as possible, and actively support conciliation efforts of regional countries and organizations," he said.
The question of whether American troops who stay in Iraq to train Iraqi forces would have immunity from local prosecution is shaping up to be the most contentious issue as the two countries try to hammer out an agreement on whether to keep a small training force here next year.
Iraqi leaders, desperate to assert their sovereignty, say immunity isnt necessary for any American forces who stay in Iraq to train their security forces. But for Americans worried about their soldiers ending up in Iraqi courts, the lack of immunity is a deal-breaker.
Immunity is the main disputed point. If we do not have agreement on the immunity, there will be no agreement on the number of trainers, said government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.
Iraqi political leaders met Tuesday night to discuss whether to have American forces stay in Iraq when the 2008 security agreement expires at the end of this year and all American forces are supposed to leave the country. After the meeting they announced that Iraq does need American training help but that the trainers should not have immunity, setting the stage for protracted negotiations.
American officials seemed to be scrambling Wednesday to understand what exactly the Iraqi politicians, who excel at brinkmanship politics, really meant.
The US has added action to its clear opposition to the Palestinian bid for UN membership by effectively suspending the financial assistance it had allocated to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
In August, the US Congress froze PA-bound assistance worth USD 200 million as the authority was preparing to present the UN with a request for full membership in the world body.
On Monday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) told Hassan Abu Libdeh, the acting PA economics minister, that the agency had stopped contributing to two projects respectively worth USD 55 and 26 million, the Associated Press reported.
He said one of the projects sought to develop the Palestinian private sector, while the other was aimed at improvement of the investment environment.
The official said 50 people involved had already been dismissed and another 200 were to be dispensed with by November. .
The US has added action to its clear opposition to the Paleostinian bid for UN membership by effectively suspending the financial assistance it had allocated to the Paleostinian Authority (PA).
In August, the US Congress froze PA-bound assistance worth USD 200 million as the authority was preparing to present the UN with a request for full membership in the world body.
On Monday, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) told Hassan Abu Libdeh, the acting PA economics minister, that the agency had stopped contributing to two projects respectively worth USD 55 and 26 million, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
He said one of the projects sought to develop the Paleostinian private sector, while the other was aimed at improvement of the investment environment.
The official said 50 people involved had already been dismissed and another 200 were to be dispensed with by November.
Dateline 9/9/2011, but this exerpt is useful as background, I think.
The scene of heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual light or sporadic fighting... in 2002 during the last Intifada, or uprising, Jenin camp today challenges the picture of a West Bank prospering under the Paleostinian Authority, the Western-backed and internationally-funded government.
Young men who fought in the last uprising have since emerged from Israeli prisons to bleak prospects. Their local standing as heroes has not helped them to find work. They hold the PA responsible and say their anger is growing.
In Jenin camp, locals say small groups of masked men have reappeared in the streets, reviving memories of lawless armed gangs that roamed here during the last Intifada.
Israel's military response led to a 10-day assault in 2002 known among Paleostinians as the 'Battle of Jenin'.
Today, tighter restrictions on access to Israel mean its labor market remains cut off to many. Veterans of the fighting also complain that the PA has failed to offer them employment.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, engineer Ismail al-Ashkar encouraged the kidnapping of more IDF soldiers in order to put pressure on Israel to release Paleostinian prisoners, Hamas-affiliate Al Resalah reported Tuesday.
Ashkar made the comments during a Paleostinian Prisoner Affairs Ministry meeting on Monday convened at the International Red Thingy headquarters in Gazoo City to show solidarity with Paleostinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
"The policy of kidnapping soldiers and settlers will continue until the release of our brave prisoners," Ashkar said.
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This sounds like an excellent opportunity for some counterespionage work, resulting in an s-load of Hamas walking into a KZ and just vanishing, never to be seen again.
Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoon Abbasi says Iran will become one of the world's major exporters of nuclear equipment in the near future.
The country has reached self-sufficiency and will become one of the world's main exporters of nuclear equipment in the near future, Abbasi told reporters on Tuesday, IRNA reported.
He said that Iran has turned pressures and sanctions into opportunities, adding that the country's nuclear achievements were indebted to 15 years of work and efforts by Iranian scientists.
Abbasi said that the launch of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, the launch of Arak research reactor, fuel production at Isfahan's nuclear site as well as uranium enrichment were among the country's nuclear achievements.
He said that the development of nuclear technology would lead to the development of scientific industries and expressed hope that nuclear technology would be used to serve public welfare in the country.
Iran officially launched the Bushehr nuclear power plant on September 12. The plant had been connected to the national power grid on September 3, supplying 60 megawatts of its 1,000-megawatt capacity.
The Bushehr nuclear power plant will initially generate electricity at 40 percent of its capacity and will reach its full capacity of 1,000 megawatts in about two or three months.
[Al Arabiya] Russia on Tuesday called the latest draft of a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian crackdown "unacceptable" despite last-minute changes that removed a direct reference to sanctions.
"The text that Western nations are planning to put up for a vote is clearly unacceptable," Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov told the Interfax news agency.
European nations were expected to seek a vote later Tuesday on a resolution imposing "targeted measures" against President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... 's regime for a crackdown that has killed 2,700 according to U.N. estimates.
Russia had initially proposed its own resolution that simply called for more dialogue and then began pressing Western powers to water down the language in their draft.
The current proposal would impose sanctions if Assad failed to comply within 30 days with instructions to end violence and impose reforms.
Russia initially reserved judgment about the latest initiative and Gatilov did not spell out the details of Moscow's complaint with the latest plan.
But he noted that "unfortunately, quite a few things there do not suit us and not all of our complaints were taken into account."
The deputy foreign minister also repeated that Russia wanted the resolution to stress the importance of political dialogue that put equal pressure on both sides.
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"Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the council that Moscow's veto reflected 'a conflict of political approaches' between Russia and the European council members."--Reuters
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its own resolution that simply called for more dialogue
The strongly-worded letter is being held in reserve.
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No, not this again. I just got used to hearing unexpected all the time. "unacceptable", this is unforgivable. Oops! this is so unfortunate. I appreciate your understanding. I go to my room.
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Real smart, pencil neck! Get the Israeli Air Force involved in demolishing anything of military value in your country, while NATO is trying to be careful and just plink your tanks.
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Assad said: "If a crazy measure is taken against Damascus, I will need not more than six hours to transfer hundreds of rockets and missiles to the Golan Heights to fire them at Tel Aviv."
Problem solved, interdict the rockets on the way to the firing areas.
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.
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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[Dawn] India and Afghanistan on Tuesday signed a strategic partnership agreement deepening their economic and security ties, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.
Mayor Carlos Bustamante fired the citys police chief Tuesday and named Jesús Alberto Capella to lead the 2,200 municipal force, it was announced at a mid-day press conference.
President-for-Life Bashir 
The Turkish Army is set to conduct a military maneuver near the common border with Syria amid heightened tension in the southern neighbor.
Christians want mention in national narrative
[Dawn] Prime Minister Syed 
[Dawn] A jirga of elders of Torghar on Monday decided to begin an investigation on its own into the last week's bombing of a police van in the district that left four 
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