[ToloNews] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the engagement with the Islamic Emirate is necessary, but added that that it should be conditional.
Speaking at a presser, Borrel said the conditions for engagement consist of the five benchmarks that EU had highlighted in September, and the Islamic Emirate should make progress on those benchmarks.
"We share with 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... the understanding that some operational engagement with the interim government is necessary, but without granting them any legitimacy," he said. "This engagement has to be conditional on progress made by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... along the five benchmarks that we defined back in September."
On September 3, EU Foreign Ministers in a meeting in Slovenia set five benchmarks that lay the foundation for the bloc’s engagement with the Islamic Emirate.
The following are the benchmarks that the Islamic Emirate must reach:
• Afghanistan should not serve as a base for the export of terrorism to other countries
• Respect for human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... , especially women’s rights, the rule of law and freedom of media
• Formation of an inclusive and representative government
• Allow free access to humanitarian aid provided by the EU
• Provide safe passage for foreign nationals and at-risk Afghans
Borrel said he had spoken with Qatar Foreign Minister Mohammad bin Abdulrahman al-Thani about the situation in Afghanistan. Qatar plays a key role in the EU’s engagement with the Islamic Emirate, he said.
"As you know, Qatar plays a strategic role in dealing with the situation in Afghanistan on various tracks. It facilitates our interactions with the Taliban interim authorities, it ensures safe passage for those in need, facilitates the delivery of humanitarian support," he said.
Borrel also said the EU will expand its cooperation with its partners in Central Asia, adding that Afghanistan is also important in that matter.
[KhaamaPress] White House has again denied the release of over $9.5 billion of Afghanistan’s frozen fund and said that this was a complicated process and will not allow the Taliban to access the money.
Spokeswoman of the White House Jen Psaki reacted to the recent statements of Afghanistan’s acting foreign minister over the release of funds and added that the decision will be made after consulting allies.
Jen Psaki named the following three reasons for not releasing the assets,
Families of the victims of September 11 have made plea for the money to be given to them. The plea is important one.
US still recognized the Taliban as a terror group and most of the officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan are in black list of UN.
US is yet to get a clear answer over the money not to be used by the Taliban and how the money will be given to Afghan people.
[KhaamaPress] Deputy Minister of Information and culture and spokesperson of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Zabiullah Mujahid said that China will provide Afghanistan with over 500 tons of foodstuff soon.
Mujahid in an interview with radio free of Afghanistan said the country’s recent consignment of humanitarian aid with Afghanistan contained medication, 76 thousand blankets, and 41 thousand jumpers.
It was the second shipment of Chinese humanitarian aids to Afghanistan that weighed 15 tons.
In the meantime, Afghanistan’s minister of refugees and repatriates has said that China will soon provide the people of Afghanistan with 500 tons of flour and 7 tons of rice that will be given to people in need.
#Afghanistan’s central bank says it is working to ensure the stability of the #afghani, a day after the currency lost almost 12 percent of its value against the dollar in a matter of hours amid a deepening economic crisis and soaring inflation.https://t.co/mp1yCn9FeK
The central bank issued a statement saying that it had held a number of meetings with foreign exchange dealers, representatives of commercial banks and the business sector to halt the fall in the afghani.
"Based on its strategic planning policies, Da Afghanistan Bank has always tried to avoid volatility that could be harmful to the purchasing power of the people," it said.
[KhaamaPress] United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... reportedly plans to send to Afghanistan up to $20 million in cash every single week until March 2022 to contain the problem of lack of cash in Afghanistan.
The amount of money will be delivered to Afghanistan’s International Bank (AIB) and will then be either distributed in Afghanistan or spent on things that are most important to buy.
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[REGNUM] Taliban officials in Balkh, Takhar and Jowzjan provinces have introduced new restrictions on the transmission of women's voices and music in the media. This is reported by Ariana News with reference to the report of the Committee to Protect Afghan Journalists.
The restrictions apply, in particular, to the appearance on the air of women journalists, as well as women in TV series, films and advertisements in the province of Gore.
In Balkh province, the Taliban for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice reportedly banned the broadcasting of music in the media and also ordered women journalists to wear hijab.
They still have jobs and can be seen — not nearly the retreat to the past as elsewhere in the Talib caliphate.
In the province of Takhar, a ban has been announced on the airing of TV series and films in which the faces of women actors are shown. Broadcasting of female voices through the media is also prohibited. In the province of Jowzjan, a ban has been introduced on the broadcasting of music on audio media.
At the same time, the media in the Ghor province were allowed to broadcast music and entertainment programs, but on the condition that Islamic norms were observed in the programs and announcements.
Note that on the 30th of the month of Akrab (November 21), the Taliban Ministry of Education issued an instruction on the publication of video materials in Afghanistan.
According to this instruction, the publication of female images in films and programs is prohibited. One of the points of this instruction states that women journalists in the media must wear hijab, and it is also prohibited on television to broadcast foreign films and series that contradict the laws of Islam.
The Afghan Free Journalists Association previously reported that over the past four months, about 2,000 women journalists in the country have lost their jobs, many of them forced to flee the country.
The vice-president of the association, Abdul Muid Hashemi, named among the main reasons for this economic problems, the security situation and restrictions imposed by the new leadership of the country.
[Breitbart] After nine years deployed in Mali, La Belle France is organising a drawdown, with troops preparing to leave the last of three bases in the far north of the insurgency-hit and poverty-wracked country.
French troops were sent to Mali in 2013 by then-president Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... to tackle the rebels affiliated to al-Qaeda or Islamic State
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There's an insurgency because the government hurts its people and cares for nothing but itself. No amount of foreign troops will ever cure that sickness. They just bring death.
[Rudaw] Iraq’s embassy in Poland will offer Iraqi migrants colonists stuck on the Polish-German border laissez-passers to voluntarily return home, an official said on Monday as thousands of people continue to take dangerous routes in attempt to cross to western Europe.
"In response to appeals from a number of Iraqi migrants colonists in the Republic of Poland, a delegation from the Embassy of the Republic of Iraqi in Warsaw is heading to the German-Polish border, for the purpose of granting laissez-passers to Iraqi citizens wishing to voluntarily return to Iraq," Ahmed al-Sahaf, spokesperson for Iraq’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
According to Sahaf, there are 403 Iraqi migrants colonists on the German-Polish border.
Thousands of Iraqi and Kurdish people have traveled to the Polish border in recent months, where they hope to cross over then make their way to Germany. In response, Poland has tightened its border security. Some migrants colonists on the Belarus-Poland border have sustained injuries, and several others have bit the dust.
Last month, the German foreign office denied rumors of picking up migrants colonists on the Belarus border into Germany.
Poland has also refused to take in any migrants colonists, instead calling on them to return home. However for those already in Poland, the choice remains between returning to Iraq and reaching their destination next door.
Germany's new foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, expressed solidarity last week with Poland, but has called for the humanitarian treatment of migrants colonists and refugees stuck near the country’s border with Belarus, particularly as temperatures drop.
Erbil and Baghdad have accused Minsk of exploiting the migrants colonists for political gains against the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... . Iraq suspended the work of both the honorary embassy of Belarus in Baghdad and the consulate in Erbil in an effort to prevent its citizens from traveling to Minsk.
Iraq began offering repatriation flights last month, returning over 3,000 Iraqi and Kurdish migrants colonists from Minsk.
Around 37,000 people left Kurdistan and Iraq in the first ten months of 2021, according to the Summit (Lutka) Foundation for Refugee and Displaced Affairs.
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[Breitbart] Former Danish Migration Minister Inger Støjberg has been sentenced to 60 days in prison after being convicted of illegally separating child brides from migrant men in 2016.
The former Minister for Immigration and Integration, who served in the role from 2015 to 2019, was found guilty of violating the Ministerial Responsibility Act on Monday over her brief policy of separating couples — predominantly migrant men with underage wives — during the height of the European migrant crisis.
[OneIndia] This day will be remembered always and it was on this day in 2001 forces of Evil struck at the Indian Parliament.
The attack on Parliament took place two years after the Kandahar hijacking, which was carried out to secure the release of Maulana Masood Azhar ...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India... Post his release, he went back to Pakistain and set up the Jaish-e-Mohammad Continued on Page 49
[IsraelTimes] Police trying to crack down on holy warrior group ’Returning to the Mount,’ whose members dress like Arabs in order to enter Jerusalem holy site, where Jewish prayer is banned
An holy warrior Jewish group arranges for its members to disguise themselves as Moslems in order to enter the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, where they quietly recite Jewish prayers while pretending to engage in Islamic worship, according to a report Monday.
The far-right Returning to the Mount group, which advocates Jewish illusory sovereignty on the Temple Mount, has prompted concerns among security officials, who warn that their actions could spark violence at the flashpoint holy site, Channel 13 news reported.
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#Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami says demands by the UN nuclear watchdog #IAEA for access to the #Karaj site are beyond safeguards and unacceptable to Tehran, the semi-official news agency ISNA reports.https://t.co/UwU5aBL0Lh
[IsraelTimes] Rafael Grossi, head of UN nuclear watchdog, warns Tehran that there is no way around inspectors, says world currently only getting ‘blurred image’ of country’s nuclear program
The #US is growing increasingly frustrated with the crackdown on press freedom in #Lebanon and the use of military courts to try civilians, officials have told Al Arabiya English in recent days.https://t.co/UHaK94TJi0
The thing about terrorists is that they tend to prefer violence to reasoned discussion.
[An Nahar] Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, officials buried three of their members Tuesday who were killed by gunfire in a tense Paleostinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ... days earlier. The holy warrior group accused members of a rival faction of the deadly shooting. Ayman Shanaa, an official with the holy warrior group, told mourners that Fatah militia members were behind the shootings, which he called a "heinous and cowardly crime."
There are tens of thousands of Paleostinian refugees and their descendants in Lebanon, most living in refugee camps. Fatah is the political faction of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... and Hamas rules the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.
The deadly violence took place at a Hamas-organized funeral Sunday in the Burj Shamali camp.
...also written Burj al-Shemali...
Shanaa called it "a premeditated crime" that aims to undermine security and stability in the refugee camps in Lebanon.
The funeral was held in the southern city of Sidon and attended by several thousand people, many of whom raised the green Hamas flag.
Shanaa called for handing the perpetrators "known to all" to the Lebanese security agencies.
Lebanese security forces don't operate inside about 12 Paleostinian refugee camps scattered around the Mediterranean country, where security is in the hands of Paleostinian factions who often compete for clout.
The violence started after a series of massive explosions in Burj Shamali late Friday, which Lebanese officials said ignited in an ammunition depot.
Hamas, which is powerful in the camp, denied it was a weapons depot and said the earth-shattering kabooms started with an electrical short-circuit in a storage area for oxygen bottles.
One Hamas member was killed in the earth-shattering kabooms. During his funeral on Sunday, gunfire erupted leaving three people dead and several injured.
The source of the shooting was not clear at the time and Paleostinian officials had different accounts of what happened. Shanaa's comments Tuesday were the most direct public accusation against Fatah, which had no immediate comment.
Tensions between Paleostinian factions in Lebanon often turn into violence but are usually quickly contained within the overcrowded camps.
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