[DAWN] The US ambassador leading efforts to forge a deal with the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... met Afghanistan's Caped PresidentAshraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money... in Kabul on Monday and showed him the draft of a proposed agreement with the bad boys.
Zalmay Khalilzad has spent about a year meeting the Taliban in Doha in a series of talks aimed at ending America’s 18-year-old war in Afghanistan.
The prospective deal centres on a US troop reduction in return for several security guarantees from the Taliban, as well as broader peace talks between the Death Eaters and the Afghan government and an eventual ceasefire.
Mr Khalilzad ‐ a former US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq ‐ arrived in the Afghan capital on Sunday evening following a ninth round of talks with the Taliban in the Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i capital.
He met Mr Ghani then and on Monday he showed the Afghan leader a draft of the US-Taliban agreement, officials said.
The discussions are significant because the Afghan government has until now been largely sidelined from talks, though any eventual deal would require the Taliban to talk to Mr Ghani, whom they view as a US stooge.
[RADIOSHABELLE] Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire has held a meeting the top leadership of Ahlu Sunna group in Dhusamareb town in central Somalia on Tuesday.
The PM who arrived in the central town of Dhusamareb, the capital of Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state, on Sunday evening is expected to open a long-delayed reconciliation conference.
Government ministers, including ministers of interior and security, members of the two Houses of the Federal Parliament, Galmudug state officials, military officials and members of the public welcomed the prime minister at Ugas Nur Airport in Dhusamareb.
Prime Minister Kheyre, who is visiting Dhusamareb for his second time in two months, is expected to open the Galmudug reconciliation conference in which delegates will discuss the formation of an inclusive regional government in Galmudug state.
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[Sudan Tribune] Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok on Tuesday announced they had reached substantial understandings with the U.S. administration on removing Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism."
"There have been great understandings with the U.S. administration about removing Sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism and we have made significant progress," he told a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas.
"We are expecting a big breakthrough that will lead to removing Sudan from the terror list," he stressed before to add. "It is a convenient circumstance."
On October 6, 2017, the Trump administration lifted economic sanctions and a trade embargo imposed on Sudan since 1997.
But Washington still puts Sudan on the terror list since 1993. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the purpose of the designation moved from sanctions against harbouring al Qaeda leaders to force Khartoum to open humanitarian access to civilians in war-affected civilians, to ensure freedoms and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... Nonetheless, Washington says they intend to keep the sanctions on Sudan but will encourage other nations to support it.
on 27 August 2019, a U.S. bigwig underscored that Sudan’s removal from the blacklist alone, will not be enough pointing to the resolutions the U.S. Congress passed in the past on Darfur stressing they need to be reviewed and amended because they impose restrictions on the U.S. administration.
The State Department official was referring to the ’Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006 and the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007.
"I discussed with the German foreign minister the challenges the government is going to face in Sudan during the transitional period," Hamdok said.
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok approves 14 members of his cabinet, the first to be appointed since the fall of long-term leader Omar al-Bashir in April.https://t.co/lKPAik0bIY
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Tunisian appeals court on Tuesday upheld the detention of media magnate Nabil Karoui, a candidate in a Sept. 15 presidential election, on suspicion of tax fraud and money laundering, his lawyer said.
Karoui had sought to be freed, but the court "rejected the demand to release" him, the lawyer Kamel Ben Massoud told Rooters without giving details or further comment.
Last Saturday, the head of the country’s electoral commission said Karoui remains in the race for Tunisia’s upcoming presidential election despite his arrest for alleged money laundering.
[DAWN] Barrister Khawar Qureshi, the Pak counsel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case, said on Monday that the consular access granted to the Indian spy will have no effect on the conviction under espionage and terrorism charges.
"The ICJ has already rejected requests of India for annulment of his conviction, acquittal, release and return," Mr Qureshi told the media at Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Bar Council where he arrived to deliver a lecture to young lawyers.
Barrister Qureshi pointed out that India had refused to avail the jurisdiction of high court under Article 199 of the Constitution of Pakistain to seek a review of the conviction as unacceptable. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... the ICJ in its decision in fact held that the review by the Pak court was acceptable. He explained that after the grant of consular access, Jadhav could now do what India should have done after the conviction, which was invoking his right to appeal under Article 199.
To a question about the possibilities of Pakistain taking to the ICJ the Indian oppression and rights violations in held Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , Mr Qureshi said he could not comment on it as it was under consideration by the government.
[DAWN] As part of the government's push to highlight the suffering of the Kashmiri people ‐ who have been enduring a strict lockdown in Indian Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... e since the Indian government took away their special autonomy last month ‐ Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... on Tuesday called his Iranian, Ottoman Turkish and Bangladeshi counterparts to discuss the situation in the restive region.
The minister briefed each of his counterparts on the "illegal and unilateral actions" taken by India to alter occupied Kashmir's disputed status, underlining that the measures taken "posed threats to peace and stability in the region".
Speaking about the worsening human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... situation, Qureshi informed them that the complete lockdown in the valley has now entered its fifth week, resulting in immense suffering as people are unable to access hospitals, medicines and food supplies.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif reiterated his country's concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in Indian Kashmire and reaffirmed support for the Kashmiri people, a statement released by the Foreign Office said.
Earlier in August, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ...Iran's moderate president, which he is, relative to his predecessor, which doesn't mean he's anything but a puppet of the nearest holy man... , during a telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... , had expressed concern over the "atrocities and killing of innocent people in occupied Jammu and Kashmir".
[DAWN] One of the main litigants of the Babri mosque case in India, Iqbal Ansari, was allegedly physically assaulted at his residence in Ayodhya on Tuesday, The Wire reported.
The Wire quoted Ansari as saying that he was asked by two people to withdraw the case. The alleged attackers threatened to kill him if he failed to fulfil the demand. The two alleged attackers were warded off by Ansari's security personnel.
The Wire report, citing Press Trust of India, said that the two attackers, a man and a woman, came to Ansari's house on Tuesday afternoon.
“The woman introduced herself as Vartika Singh and claimed that she was an international shooter. They asked me to withdraw my claim from the dispute, threatening that she would otherwise shoot me,” said the report, quoting Ansari.
Faizabad Superintendent of Police Vijay Pal Singh told PTI, the two have been "detained by police" and he will "let them know" when a case has been filed.
The development came as the Supreme Court of India was hearing responses by two people for allegedly threatening Rajeev Dhavan, who is representing the Sunni Waqf Board and other Muslim parties in the dispute.
Israel launched drones into Iran from Azerbaijan and the United States held a practice bombing run on a mock nuclear facility in the western US as part of plans both countries had to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear capability back in 2012.
The revelations came as part of aNew York Times expose on Israeli and American efforts in recent years to stop Iran’s race to a bomb.
In an interview, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Israel was close to attacking Iran in 2012 but stopped after he did not have enough support in his cabinet. An Israeli strike, he said, "was not a bluff ‐ it was real. And only because it was real were the Americans truly worried about it."
"If I’d had a majority, I would have done it," he told the NYT. "Unequivocally."
According to the report, Ehud Barak, then Israel’s defense minister, was invited to the Pentagon and shown a highly-classified video by Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense, of an American strike ‐ using a massive 30,000 pound bomb ‐ to destroy a replica of Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility. Barak was reportedly impressed by the show.
According to the report, the Obama administration sent a senior official to Israel every few weeks to "Bibisit" and try to stop Israel from attacking.
"It did not escape our understanding that having a visit of a senior American official on the calendar probably bought you a couple of weeks ‐ before the visit and then after the visit," Dan Shapiro, the former American ambassador to Israel told the Times. "For an Israeli official, it meant you knew you could not strike without feeling that you’ve deceived somebody while they were sitting in your office."
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian people may have some good news after a long Summer with limited gas due to the ongoing sanctions imposed on the government by Western governments.
According to the naval tracking website, Marine Traffic, the Iranian crude oil tanker, ADRIAN DARYA 1, was last tracked near the Syrian coastal city of Baniyas in the Tartous Governorate.
[ALMASDARNEWS] A senior Syrian politician said this week that Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... has in his recent visit to Russia made big compromises over Idlib.
Safwan al-Qorbi, the representative for the Idlib Governorate in the Syrian parliament, told the Arabic-language al-Watan newspaper on Monday that Erdogan is in a bottleneck politically on the situation of Idlib.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
