[Dawn] Pakistain and Afghanistan will work together to monitor all movements through a border crossing by the end of the month, Interior Minister 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. said Thursday.
"There were lot of allegations (by Afghanistan) that people come from Pakistain and when I went to Chaman border I observed a free-for-all," Malik told news hounds in Islamabad.
In January 2007, Pakistain installed a computerised biometric system on a trial basis to try to control illegal cross-border traffic at Chaman in insurgency-wracked Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province.
But on the second day, thousands of Afghan rustics attacked the border gates, forcing authorities to close the crossing. The protest was against the biometric system and a Pak plan to fence and mine parts of the border.
Further protests saw Pakistain to shelve the system.
Malik said last month that the system would be revived on November 30 due to complaints about Orcs and similar vermin crossing the border unchecked, but now said that Afghanistan had also agreed to log movement on its side of the border.
"We are going to do it by the end of current month and the good thing is that Afghanistan is now also doing it on their side of the border," Malik said.
Malik said the new system would begin in the last week of November.
"This arrangement would give us a registered log of all trucking activity as well as human movement so that we know who is coming in and who is going out."
Although he provided no detail on how it would be possible, Malik also said the two countries had agreed to close down all unofficial tracks across the border except the established crossings at Chaman and Torkham, further north.
Malik said he and his Afghan counterpart would hold monthly meetings "to tackle the incursions and other border management problems".
The United States has asked Pakistain to provide greater intelligence sharing to stop efforts by the Taliban and its Haqqani network faction to try to cross the border into Afghanistan and plan attacks.
The biometric system would issue border passes to people after recording their fingerprints, retinas or facial patterns for identification.
The porous Afghan-Pak border separates families and rustics, but also allows Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked Orcs and similar vermin to move with ease in their fight against US soldiers in Afghanistan and government forces in Pakistain.
A Pak official at Torkham, when contacted by AFP, said there was no firm date on plans to introduce biometrics at the crossing.
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[One Pakistan] Federal Interior Minister Rehman A. Malik said Pakistain will extend every possible help to Afghan government for the arrest of killers of former Afghanistan's Caped PresidentBurhanuddin Rabbani ... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan... . He said deadlock between Pakistain and Afghanistan has ended.
"Pakistain and Afghanistan will work together to monitor all movements through a border crossing by the end of the month", Malik told news hounds outside Parliament House Thursday.
He said there were cross-border terrorism allegations by the Afghanistan but during my visit to Chaman border I observed it was free-for-all.
Interior Minister has said skin collection sans permission is banned and skin collection mafia will be taken to task. He added that a biometric system would be installed at Pak-Afghan border on November 30 due to complaints about bully boyz crossing the border unchecked.
He claimed that now Afghanistan had also agreed to log movement on its side of the border. He said that the two countries had agreed to close down all unofficial tracks across the border except the established crossings at Chaman and Torkham.
Malik said he and his Afghan counterpart would hold monthly meetings to tackle the incursions and other border management problems.
Commenting on Cricket match fixing scandal, Interior Minister was of the view that if there was any conspiracy against cricketers, the government will defend them. And if they are involved in match fixing then they should be punished, he added. He expected the new Chairman PCB would handle the issues amicably.
Replying to a question, Malik revealed that 'Red warrants' will be issued through Interpol if Pervez Mussaraf's warrants are issued.
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[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Somalia's Shabaab rebels said Thursday they were building defences that would plunge Kenyan forces battling them into an "endless war."
Kenyan soldiers and tanks pushed into Shabaab-controlled southern Somalia last month to fight the Orcs and similar vermin and curtail their ability to launch cross-border attacks.
"The Shabaab mujahideen will defend Somalia, and will put Kenya into an endless war," the Al-Qaeda-linked rebels said in statement.
"We will defeat you like the other major countries that have suffered when they attacked Somalia, you will see the consequences."
Since Somalia spiralled into civil war in 1991, several foreign armies -- including US forces, UN peacekeepers and a 2006 Ethiopian invasion -- have failed to create stability in the anarchic nation.
Kenya's army claims that Shabaab fighters have received three air deliveries of arms and ammunition this week, and have warned residents in 10 southern Somali towns to leave Shabaab-held areas ahead of an imminent attack.
"We will soon deliver on disrupting that flow of arms, and we will ensure they are not effective," said Kenyan army front man, Major Emmanuel Chirchir, in a message posted on Twitter Thursday.
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Broadly speaking, "endless war" is historically how Muslim Govts-Societies fight their wars, i.e. until one side either surrenders or is destroyed.
Lest we fergit, MAD/RADICAL MULLAHS > EITHER "ISLAM RULES, OR ELSE ISLAM IS DESTROYED".
[LA Times] Egypt's ruling military council is silencing critics while polishing its image amid increasing signs that it is plotting to stay in power behind the scenes even after a new parliament is in place early next year. We guessed that when the "grass roots" movement to put the general in charge sprang up.
Activists and politicians are worried that the military, the country's most revered institution before the revolution that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... in February, refuses to have its authority and financial interests answerable to an emerging democracy.
Concerns were heightened this week when the military-backed interim government announced parameters for writing Egypt's new constitution. The proposals allow the generals to appoint 80% of the constitutional committee. They also state that the defense budget would be kept secret and the military would be the "guardian" of the constitution, raising the possibility of intervention in legislative and presidential affairs.
"The implications of this are really frightening," said Amr Darrag, a member of the Moslem Brüderbund's political wing. "A full control by the military of the political arena would be catastrophic."
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[Dawn] The Egyptian cabinet, reacting to a public outcry, has amended a document proposing principles for a new constitution that would have shielded the army from oversight by parliament, a cabinet minister said on Thursday.
The document initially gave the ruling military council exclusive authority to approve any legislation on the army's internal affairs, Tourism Minister Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour told a news conference.
"We took into consideration many of the remarks that we received and we corrected, deleted and added many articles,"
Nour said. "There were clear notes on Article Nine and Ten and they were amended in a way that responds to the demands of the objectors," he added.
Another change proposed by the cabinet was that the military budget be put under the control of a body supervised by the president, he said.
Islamist and liberal parties walked out of a meeting with the government on Tuesday in protest against the document, saying it allowed the army to defy an elected government.
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TRIPOLI, Libya: Dozens of relatives of jailed Muammar Qaddafi loyalists protested outside a Tripoli prison Thursday, alleging detainees were being mistreated by former rebel fighters now in charge of the lockup.
A Libyan official, Mahmoud Shammam, said most prisons are still under the control of semi-autonomous groups of fighters, not the interim government.
Human rights groups have reported mistreatment of detainees in lockups run by former rebels, and Shammam, the information minister, acknowledged that we have a lot of problems in the prisons.
He said the latest allegations underscore the need to speed up the period of transition in Libya, following the fall of Qaddafis regime and the dictators capture and death on Oct. 20. Shammam said he believes the national assembly could be chosen within six months to shorten the period of limbo. The clock is ticking, and we have to move faster than we are doing right now, Shammam told The Associated Press.
Libyas interim leader, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, has also expressed hopes for a faster transition. Perhaps we can shorten this period of time, so Libyans can quickly select their national congress, Abdul-Jalil, head of the National Transitional Council, said Wednesday.
On Thursday, angry relatives of former Qaddafi loyalists protested outside a prison in the Tripoli suburb of Tajoura, demanding that the detainees be freed for the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha, which begins this weekend. According to a list of names posted outside the gate, about 1,000 detainees are being held there.
Salah Shambo, 53, said he visited two cousins, a former member of the security services and a hospital employee, in the prison earlier this week. Shambo said the former hospital employee told him he had been held in a small bathroom in the prison for a month, with his hands cuffed to a wall, and that his head was dunked in a toilet during interrogation.
Other relatives said they were told by detainees that they were beaten, particularly after guards got drunk, and that cells were crowded.
One released prisoner, who said he had been held for 50 days, said his cellmate was tortured with electrical shocks. The ex-detainee, a former intelligence agent under Qaddafi, spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
Relatives said conditions have improved since a new group of guards arrived a week ago.
Mohammed Garghouti, 25, a neighborhood resident, said he initially supported the anti-Qaddafi forces but was becoming disillusioned. A lot of people died for a nice future, he said of the 8-month civil war that brought down the dictator. Why do you do bad again, like Qaddafi? he said, referring to the former rebels now running the prison.
Prison officials declined comment.
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You have to look carefully, my nano violin is under the finger board.
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"If you plan to forge a new Nation, It is sound policy to give the previous dictator with an out.And a trial.
How you treat the outgoing is sembalance on how any leader may be treated.
Thats why you have nations with deep suspicions and nothing but overthrows versus nations that settle grievance in high court
presidence is set by actions."
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The writer at 'Concise Magazine' must speak the good English...
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"Excessive hand-wringing causing chafing? Try new Jurgen's Hand Lotion"
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Boo, fucking, hoo.
Gadafi was sodomized with a bayonet prior to being shot in the head. I'm thinking that makes a clear statement about the ideals and aspirations of the new Libyan nation.
Liberals need to stop hoping that something nice is going to happen there and start singing the Marine Hymn.
From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli
There is a reason our nation's heroes were killing these people hundreds of years ago. And I lift my voice in song to their memory.
A Muslim terrorist, sentenced to life over a plot to behead a British soldier, has defended a man accused of trying to kill prison officers with a broken pepper sauce bottle.
That's it then -- clearly pepper sauce bottles are unsafe to have in British prison lunchrooms. While sadly this will make the food unpalatable to the vast majority of prisoners, who will now have to subsist on unadulterated British food, that is the price they must pay for not having prevented one idiot from acting on his idiocy.
When pepper sauce is outlawed, only outlaws will have pepper sauce...
Parviz Khan, part of a terrorist cell that planned to murder a British Muslim serving in the military, gave evidence at Newcastle Crown Court yesterday in the trial of Kevan Thakrar. Thakrar is accused of attempting to murder two prison officers and seriously injuring another at Frankland prison in Durham in March.
The 24-year-old, now serving a sentence for three murders, denies the charges and is being tried by a jury. Thakrar, who is said to suffer from PTSD as a result of his inprisonment, claims he struck out at the Frankland guards because he feared they were about to attack or kill him. He told jurors he had experienced racism at the hands of prison officers at Frankland.
Khan was called to court as a defense witness yesterday, where he supported Thakrar's claims of racism by prison guards. Dressed in a long black smock, the terrorist gave his evidence flanked by three prison guards.
He told jurors, "I personally suffered from racism at Frankland, from officers. I thought it was systemic, however, there were officers I felt were very fair and very helpful, but they were few and far between."
During the cross examination, Khan refused to discuss the reason why he is in prison. Gittins asked him, "Your plan, with five others, was to kidnap and behead a Muslim British soldier?"
Khan replied, "I have come here today to speak about the situation at Frankland, not to discuss about my case."
Gittins said Khan had been convicted of possessing manuals on how to raise a "holy war" and suggested his aim was to "bring down western democracy and the British state."
Gittins asked Khan if he was unhappy over being kept in a prison regime by those he opposes and if he would do "anything in his power" to undermine that regime.
Khan said he was not unhappy, but gave no comment to the suggestion he was trying to undermine the system. He reposnded to most questions by saying, "I am a Muslim political prisoner."
Nearly half of all children aged five or below living under the reclusive and poverty-stricken North Korean regime suffer from stunted growth due to malnutrition, the United Nations Development Programme reported. About 20 percent of them are also known to be underweight, the UNDP said in its annual report on Wednesday.
Sucks to live in a dictatorship...
Meanwhile, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that tens of thousands of children from the country are at risk of severe malnutrition, which will have an irreversible impact on their future growth. The UN funding agency estimated that at least US$20 million is needed to prevent the nutrition crisis in the country. It urged donor countries to continue sending food aid to the impoverished country.
There you go, China, get right on that...
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Two leading U.S. experts claim that up to 400,000 troops would be required to stabilize North Korea if the regime collapsed.
So? The ROK could do this, as could China.
Bruce Bennett, an analyst from leading U.S. think tank the RAND Corporation, and Dartmouth College scholar Jennifer Lind published their study in the fall issue of the renowned academic journal "International Security."
Neither are in favor of North Korea collapsing, you understand...
They said that if the collapse were to occur after a war on the peninsula, the number of military personnel needed would grow, adding that neighboring countries would have to perform military missions to help stabilize North Korea as a response.
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So? It is going to happen. NORK will fall. There is no way anymore.Why not just buy all the socialists plane tickets to there so they may live under their beloved all knowing government together?
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I'd make a reasonable estimation that a lot of 'former' NKPA personnel would work for 'food' as well in the event of a collapse, just with a new management team.
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The proper way to do this is for the SKor to have extensive negotiations with the Chinese, preparing for the eventuality, solely to convince the Chinese that there would be zero threat to them (once the Nork nukes were secured), and that there would be a huge economic stimulus to China with a unified Korea.
China could send its Korean illegal aliens home, and they would be glad to go. There would be very profitable trade for China, as much of the supplies to rebuild Nork would be purchased from them.
A unified Korea would be their best friend in the world and except for a naval base in Pusan, the US would be more than happy to leave, giving China a lot more breathing room.
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I think the oppressed masses in NORK will find out that the Kims and their relatives and the NORK Army will make an excellent source of dietary protein.
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Espedially Junior.(Fat as a pig)
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The key is CHINA's wilful participation in any such stabilization force - read, LEADERSHIP.
IMO Beijing doesn't mind iff the DPRK Govt is seriously "damaged" in collapse or war as long as it is not destroyed per se + still maintains de facto ruling power; + also no crossing of the Inter-Korean DMZ into North Korea by any US-ROK, etc. milfors.
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FYI WORLD MIL FORUM > SCHOLARS: JAPAN IS THE MAIN TARGET FOR CHINA + PLA DURING ANY US-CHINA MILITARY CONFLICT OER TAIWAN, NORTH KOREA.
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* SAME > JAPAN MIL ATTACHE: JAPAN CAN EFFECTIVELY ATTACK AND DESTROY MOST OR ALL OF CHINA'S MECHANIZED FORCES IN TWO HOURS OR LESS DURING SINO-JAPANESE WAR.
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DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Pravda.ru = Russ IMEMO think-tank] RUSSIA EXPECTS NORTH KOREA TO [completely]COLLAPSE BY 2020, DOESN'T EXPECT CHINESE INTERVENTION.
ARTIC = Russia believes that the collapse of NOKOR is steadily "accelerating" + as to be exacerbated by the transfer of power from Kim Jong-il to sonny-boy Kim Jong-un.
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* VARIOUS BLOGGERS > DE FACTO NOKOR COLLAPSE = more likely than not to result in rapid CHINESE INTERVENTION + ANNEXATION OF NOKOR.
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ION SAME > CHINESE MEDIA: [India = border] TROOP INCREASE VIOLATES INDIA'S DEAL WID CHINA.
ARTIC > 'Tis an "offensive act" by Indjuh agz China.
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [Trilateral Think-Tanks]CALL FOR SECURITY PACT WID INDIA, AUSTRALIA, + US.
* SAME > [Times of India] PANIC OVER CHINA'S FOUR NEW ICBMS. China usng new DF-31's to target both India + Siberia, Russia.
* SAME > [POSTER OpEd] A PAKISTANI "SAMSON" OPTION: DESTROY [India + All of] SOUTH ASIA IFF PAKISTAN THREATENED, wid nuclear weapons.
ARTIC > AUTHOR = opined that Pakistan should not target not only India, but also any each + all South Asian States wid large Indian/Hindu populations.
Chuck Pfarrer, a former commander of US Navy SEAL Team Six, whose members carried out the assault, claims bin Laden was shot dead almost instantly rather than killed in a 45-minute firefight.
Claiming to have interviewed several men involved in the raid, Pfarrer also contradicted the official account of how the SEAL team landed and how one of their Black Hawk helicopters crashed.
"The SEALs entered the building after being deposited on the roof by the lead helicopter, not from the ground," Pfarrer said in a statement about the book.
"Only minutes after bin Laden was dead did the lead helicopter, heading for a landing spot, lose altitude and sink, tail-first, into the large walled enclosure east of the main house." Pfarrer explains that if the SEALs had been forced to climb stairs to reach bin Laden, as has been officially claimed, he would have had enough warning to arm and effectively defend himself.
"Bin Laden was dead within 90 seconds of the beginning of the raid, not after an extended firefight," Pfrarrer said. "Four suppressed rounds were fired".
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The book also argues that bin Laden's long-time deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, may have been ultimately responsible for leading the US to his boss because he repeatedly sent a courier, whose cover he must have known had already been blown, in and out of the compound.
A trusted Kuwaiti courier, Abu Ahmad, is believed to have been followed by US officials for several months before the raid after his name emerged in interrogations of other al-Qaeda suspects and he was tracked down to Abbottabad.
So, by this account we should know where Zawahiri is --- with accuracy.
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he repeatedly sent a courier, whose cover he must have known had already been blown
So, WaterModem, if this is correct, then it implies Zawahiri USED the SEALS to kill off bin Laden.
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Exactly. With their 7th century bloodlust and conspiracy theories, I'd think it would be almost comically simple to turn the jihadis against each other. I sincerely hope Western intelligence agencies have been doing this all along.
As for Ayman, I'll believe it only when Ayman himself verifies it, or in alternate Mullah Omar, KSM.
ONE CAN GUESS ANOTHER PERSON'S OR PERSONS' REASONS OR STRATEGIES, ETC. ONA CAUSE(S)-OF-ACTION ONE HUNDRED OR ONE DILYUHN PERCENT CORRECTLY, BUT ITS STILL NOT THE SAME AS HEARING IT PER SE FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH.
[Dawn] The political administration of Khyber Agency has reinstated at least 44 khasadars ...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India... , who had been suspended more than two years ago.
All the reinstated khasadars belong to Akkakhel tribe, residing in Bara subdivision of the tribal region. "The suspended khasadars were allowed to rejoin their duty after a formal request by a jirga of Akkakhel tribe," Bara Assistant Political Agent Rehan Khattak told Dawn .
He said that the suspended khasadars assisted the recently formed peace committee and performed duties at the checkposts, jointly manned by volunteers and security forces in Akkakhel area.
"The administration decided to reinstate them as recognition of their commitment to restoration of peace in their area," Mr Khattak added.
He said that more suspended khasadars would be reinstated if they assured the administration that they would not resign from their jobs in future.
At least 600 khasadars from different tribes of Bara had stopped performing duties on Sept 11, 2009 only two weeks after the government launched a military operation in the area against myrmidon organizations and outlawed outfits.
The then political administration suspended all of them and invited applications from interested rustics to fill the vacant posts. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... the administration received a lukewarm response from Bara rustics as they were threatened by Lashkar-i-Islam aga-inst joining Khasadar Force.
The case of the suspended khasadar had been pending before the Fata security secretary for the last two years and some of the khasadars even moved Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court for their reinstatement. The high court directed Fata secretariat to handle the issue.
Mr Khattak also urged the displaced families from Akkakhel to return to their homes as according him peace was restored in most parts of the area.
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[Dawn] Underlining that restoration of peace in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) is the government`s top priority, Governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Masood Kausar on Wednesday urged bully boyz to lay down arms and join political struggle for the sought-after societal change.
"Pakistain is an Islamic democratic state where change can be brought about through democratic means and elected parliament. Whosoever wishes so should go for democratic mode not undemocratic means," he told a delegation of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI), Khyber Agency during a meeting here at the Governor`s House.
The delegates led by JUI leaders Said Kabir Khan and Shamsuddin Afridi appreciated extension of the Political Parties Order-2002 to Fata and amendments to Frontier Crimes Regulation, saying the people of the tribal region are thankful to President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... for fulfilling their two major demands. They said amendments to FCR would help bring tribal areas to the country`s political mainstream.
The delegation condemned militancy and religious extremism and said the people of Fata would support the government in restoration of peace and furthering development process. They highlighted certain problems mostly related to education, health, water supply, communication and other sectors and sought for governor`s intervention in resolving the highlighted issues.
The governor said the country`s current delicate security situation demanded national consensus among political parties on solution to major issues and challenges, adding that the government would continue following the policy of reconciliation."Frequent takeovers by autocratic regimes has derailed democratic process and confronted the country and the nation with many challenges and problems, which need to be resolved through consensus," he said.
Mr Kausar said the 1973 constitution was unanimously passed by parliament and despite many political ups and down in the country, it was still an agreed document.
About FCR, the governor said some basic changes had been made to it for the benefit of the common man in Fata and more would be incorporated in it in consultation with all stakeholders once the political parties system took root in the region.
He said implementation of the FCR changes was being properly monitored, while the political administration had been directed to submit implementation reports every month. He further said the president had approved the Constitution of Fata Appellate Authorities and Fata Tribunal, which would come in force very soon.
Mr Kausar said Political Parties Order-2002 had been extended to Fata and it was up to political parties to promote peaceful political activities. He urged political parties to focus their attention on joint problems and issues instead of individual ones.
"We want to involve and take the people along in all matters pertaining to Fata, especially development process", he said, adding that peace in Fata was originally linked to peace in Afghanistan and both the countries were in the better position to resolve the issues mutually.
The governor said anti-Islam and anti-Pakistain forces were backing anarchist and mischievous forces to fulfill their evil agendas but the people and politicianship of the country were united to thwart all such designs and plans.
He told the delegation that the relevant authorities and administration had been directed to look after internally displaced persons of Bara and that he would visit them to know about the situation which they were living in.
Mr Kausar asked holy mans to motivate parents to administer polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... drops to their children and save them from the lifelong physical disability and abnormality.
The governor said he had taken a notice of public complaints against staff of Fata hospitals and action against the culpable officials was being taken on his orders.
"Only the people committed to serving the people will be posted in Fata. Service to people is the only criteria for posting," he said.
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Either vote yes and defend your position or vote no and defend your position. Abstaining is for politicians who are incapable of leading. The worst leaders aren't the ones who make bad decisions, they are the ones who make no decisions.
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One can be, as I am, a strong supporter of the state of Israel and still acknowledge that Israel spies within western countries quite actively.
One reason the Lavi jet was cancelled was due to US pressure. That pressure was applied because, despite the significant tech transfer the US agreed to that went into the Lavi, Israel also managed to steal key secrets regarding the composite materials used in the airframe. The methods employed included hidden adhesives in shoes that collected very tiny particples of compound during a classified tour of a sensitive facility.
So please stuff the innuendo and hurt feelings bit. Some of us were there and were supporters of that program. We were not .... happy .... that our support was thus reciprocated.
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Yes Lotp. We are always stealing american technology---that's why your leading IT companies moving their research centers to Israel, and buying every Israeli start-up they can.
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Nope, not always. But it is disingenuous at best to make rather nasty innuendos about Bright Pebbles when he points out that Israel conducts active intelligence gathering within western countries.
And I stand by my comments re: the Lavi program, in which I was involved.
KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Security and services to receive Iraqi visitors to the holy city were made for the occasion of Eid.
Deputy Provincial Chairman Saif Jassim al-Khatabi told Aswat al-Iraq that the military operation will contain thousands of solders and security members around the city, in addition to internal roads.
The forces began early search for weapons and military equipment in the city, combined with overall search for wanted people.
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(Rooters) - The Paleostinians will not accept anything less than full U.N. membership and do not want an upgrade to an observer state in the world body, their foreign minister said on Thursday. "Nothing" is less than "full" isn't it?
Riyad al-Malki's remarks suggested the Paleostinians would not seek such an upgrade once their bid for full state membership meets its widely expected fate -- failure due to opposition from the United States and other governments.
Malki told journalists in Ramallah the Paleostinians could have won observer state status long ago and were not interested in it now. They currently hold the status of observer entity.
"We do not want, after all of these struggles, sacrifices, and efforts by the entire Paleostinian people, to accept an observer state in the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... . We will not accept less than we deserve: a full member state," he said.
Analysts said if the Paleostinian leadership does not seek enhanced status after failing to gain full membership it would mark a retreat. But they said Malki's remarks may not reflect the path President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... may take.
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Why stop there, demand a permamant seat on the security council. Its not as if the Palestinians don't move the goal posts when convenient depending upon the language of the listener and all.
[An Nahar] Irish activists supporting a new bid to break Israel's blockade of the Gazoo Strip urged their government on Thursday to seek Israeli assurances that a new aid flotilla would be allowed free passage.
The two vessels, the Irish Saoirse (meaning Freedom) and the Canadian Tahrir (Liberation in Arabic) which are carrying 27 people, are south-west of Cyprus and expect to reach Gazoo by Friday, the activists told a presser in Dublin.
Claudia Saba, a spokeswoman for the Irish Ship to Gazoo group, said the activists had called on the Irish foreign ministry to tell Israel not to impede the vessels.
"All Ireland has to do to ensure Irish citizens are not attacked and not approached in any way, seeing as they are never going anywhere near Israeli waters, is to say: 'If you want to maintain good trade and diplomatic relations with us then do not dare touch our citizens'," Saba said.
Padraig Mac Lochlainn, foreign affairs front man for the small opposition Sinn Fein party which has representatives on the Irish ship, also called on the government "to speak to the Israeli government and seek safe passage".
A front man for the Irish foreign ministry told Agence La Belle France Presse it was in contact with the flotilla organizers and the Israeli authorities, adding: "Our chief concern is the welfare of the Irish citizens who are traveling on the flotilla.
"We are acting to try and ensure to the greatest degree possible that we do not have any repeat of any incident such as what happened on the first flotilla."
In May 2010, Israeli naval commandos raided a flotilla of ships trying to sail to Gazoo, killing nine Turkish activists and sparking a diplomatic crisis.
A second flotilla tried to reach the Paleostinian territory in July but several ships were sabotaged and the rest were intercepted before they arrived.
Irish activists accused Israel of sabotaging their ship and Dublin said it would take a "very serious view" if sabotage were proved.
Saba said the Saoirse was carrying 15 passengers but no aid, while there is about $30,000 worth of medical aid on the Tahrir.
Israel has vigorously defended what it calls its right to maintain a blockade on Gazoo, saying it is necessary to prevent weapons from entering the coastal territory.
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Have the boarding parties armed with potato guns...
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"save us from the consequences of our actions!"
F*ck em. They volunteered for the Irish Swim Team. Let them swim.
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I think Israel's best option is to contract with a neutral power to have tugboats in the area for the purpose of towing "disabled ships" to a neutral port. I would personally recommend Greek Cyprus, because I bet they would agree to it, being on friendly terms with Israel.
[An Nahar] Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Wally Jumblat ... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling... confirmed on Thursday his decision to step down from the leadership of his party, As Safir newspaper reported.
He stressed that he will not discuss the matter even if he was pressured by the party members to reconsider his position.
"I will join the party as an ordinary member after the next elections are held... which allows the rotation of power by ending the political heredity," Jumblat told the daily.
He hinted that stepping down from the PSP's leadership doesn't mean he will resign from the political life.
Jumblat announced on Sunday he will lead his party one last time, saying he would not run in any future election.
He also said the party should get rid of the concept of inheritance of power. Jumblat was re-elected as head of the PSP by default given the absence of other candidates in the election.
He succeeded his father Kamal Jumblat and has been leading the party since 1977.
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[An Nahar] Iran made a formal protest Thursday over military experts' remarks to a U.S. Congressional committee last week urging the targeted liquidation of members of its elite Quds Force military special operations unit.
Iran's foreign ministry summoned the Swiss ambassador to Tehran, Livia Leu Agosti, to condemn the Congressional committee session "on the issue of assassinating Iranian officials," the website of Iran's state broadcaster said.
The Swiss embassy handles U.S. diplomatic matters in the absence of diplomatic ties between Iran and the United States.
"Considering the threats made against the Iranian officials in this session, in case of any kind of terrorist action against Iranian officials, the American government will be held responsible," an unnamed foreign ministry official reportedly told Leu Agosti.
Iran was complaining about testimony given to the U.S. Congress' Homeland Security Committee on October 26 by two military analysts invited to speak as expert witnesses.
The first, a U.S. retired four-star general who helped plan the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, Jack Keane, called for the killing of leaders of Iran's Quds Force in retaliation for their alleged role in a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
"Why don't we kill them? We kill other people who are running terrorist organizations against the United States," he said.
The other witness, Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former CIA officer who is now a senior fellow at the neo-conservative think-tank the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, agreed.
"I don't think that you are going to really intimidate these people, get their attention, unless you shoot somebody," he said, arguing that an attempt should be made to capture or kill the head of the Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani.
Several U.S. congressmen on the committee said they were not excluding any measures against Iran, but they did not explicitly endorse Keane and Gerecht's advice.
The Iranian foreign ministry official who spoke to the Swiss ambassador reportedly said however that the argument for liquidations "contradicts Washington's legal obligations in combatting terrorism."
Iran has fiercely denied No, no! Certainly not! any involvement in the alleged liquidation plot against the Saudi ambassador and sent a letter to Washington demanding an apology.
It has called the accusations an attempt by the United States to distract attention from domestic economic problems and a failed foreign policy in the Middle East.
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The United States, Britain and France turned up the pressure on Tehran on Thursday ahead of next weeks release of a keenly awaited UN report that may offer new details about the military side of Irans nuclear program.
The report by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to unveil detailed intelligence pointing to military dimensions of Irans nuclear program, while stopping short of saying explicitly that Tehran is trying to build such weapons.
One (issue) in particular that I want to mention is the continuing threat posed by Irans nuclear program, US President Barack Obama told reporters ahead of a G20 heads of state summit in the French resort of Cannes.
The IAEA is scheduled to release a report on Irans nuclear program next week and (French) President (Nicolas) Sarkozy and I agree on the need to maintain the unprecedented pressure on Iran to meet its obligations, Obama said.
The United States, European Union and their allies around the world have imposed economic sanctions on Tehran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program, which Western powers believe is at the heart of an Iran atom bomb program.
The United States and Israel have repeatedly hinted at the possible use of force against Iranian nuclear sites, eliciting threats of fierce retaliation from the Islamic Republic.
The UN Security Council, with the backing of Irans traditional sympathizers Russia and China, has imposed four rounds of increasingly tough sanctions on Tehran since 2006.
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Again, a US, Israeli, etal. sole or joint milstrike agz Iran's NucProgs will pre "justify" an Iranian military andor Proxy/Surrogate Terror counterresponse, which in turn supports scenarios for de facto US-Allied ground invasion + occupation of Iran.
IN SUM, EITHER IRAN GETS ITS NUKES, OR IRAN GETS INVADED.
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > [Iran FM Salehi]IRAN SAYS READY FOR WORST, WARNS US OF "COLLISION COURSE", agz Iran.
* TIMES OF INDIA > IRAN SAYS IT HAS 100 VESSELS FOR EACH US WARSHIP.
* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [DailyMail.UK] IRAN HAS [enuff] FISSLE MATERIAL FOR FOUR NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ATTACK PLAN PREPARED | UK [Cameron]+ US [Obama] "DRAW UP ATTACK PLAN TO ATTACK IRAN",:EVIDNECE OF NUCLEAR PROGRAMMER RAISES TENSION IN MIDDLE EAST.
* SAME > IRAN ATTEMPTS TO ASSASSINATE ANOTHER SAUDI AMBASSADOR, SAUDI AMBASSADOR IN EGYPT POISONED | IRAN VS. SAUDI ARABIA: WAR ON THE HORIZON?
And another Sunni-Shia camel,goat barbecue roast prepares to bite the dust???
POSTERS/BLOGGERS > claim that post-Shah Revolut Iran has been targeting + killing Saudi Diplomats, Officials for decades???
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS [Ex-NYC, NY Mayors Ed Koch, Rudy Guiliani = Letter to POTUS Bammer] MR. PRESIDENT:AN IRAN ATTACK AGZ ISRAEL [ + also Saudi Arabia] IS AN ATTACK ON THE US.
2012 GOP Candidates called upon to support same = any mil action agz Iran.
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[LA Times] Egypt's ruling military council is silencing critics while polishing its image amid increasing signs that it is plotting to stay in power behind the scenes even after a new parliament is in place early next year.
TRIPOLI, Libya: Dozens of relatives of jailed Muammar Qaddafi loyalists protested outside a Tripoli prison Thursday, alleging detainees were being mistreated by former rebel fighters now in charge of the lockup.
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The United States, Britain and France turned up the pressure on Tehran on Thursday ahead of next weeks release of a keenly awaited UN report that may offer new details about the military side of Irans nuclear program.
