[Dawn] The Chaman-Spin Buldak border between Pakistain and Afghanistan, which was closed after festivities between the two countries’ forces began last week, was reopened on Sunday morning.
All hurdles have been removed from both sides of the Friendship Gate on the border.
The border was reopened after a delegation of Learned Elders of Islam from Chaman headed by tribal elder Molvi Haji Faizullah Nourzai held negotiations with Kandahar Governor Yusef Wafa and other Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leaders.
Sources said that the Learned Elders of Islam delegation also remained in contact with senior Pak officials during their talks with Afghan officials.
"Our negotiation remained fruitful and resulted in opening of the border," Mufti Mohammad Qasim, front man for the Ulema delegation, said.
He said the delegation conveyed a message of goodwill from Pak authorities to the Kandahar governor and other Taliban leaders.
He said the people involved in trade from both sides were facing financial losses due to the closure of the bother.
According to Mufti Qasim, "both sides regretted the festivities which caused loss of lives from both sides".
He said a flag meeting between border officials from both sides is expected in a couple of days to resolve the issue which caused the festivities. Direct talks between bigwigs of the two countries would help in reducing tension in border areas on both sides, he added.
Mufti Qasim hoped the situation would improve in the coming days.
After opening of the border traffic was also restored which was suspended on Feb 24.
A large number of trucks carrying Afghan transit trade goods, import and export items, fresh fruits and vegetables crossed the border.
Hundreds of Pak and Afghan nationals, who were stranded on both sides of the border, also returned to their countries. They included women and kiddies.
With the opening of the border, hundreds of daily wage labourers also reached the border and started loading and unloading goods from trucks and other vehicles in Chaman, 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... Kakar, former vice president of the Pak-Afghan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told Dawn.
[SaharaReporters] The Kwara State Government is complicit and failed to act on reports given to its concerning the planned attack on Oyun Baptist High School, in the Ijagbo area of the state, some alumni of the school have said.
The alumni noted that the crisis in the Baptist school should have been nipped in the bud because the Kwara State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria called on the government but there was no response.
The witnesses lamented that the "fundamentalists were able to hurt many Christians, some were macheted, clothes torn and badly beaten".
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Shafaq News / The Internal security forces in Erbil (Asayish) announced handing over two terrorists to the Nineveh Investigation Court.
An official statement said that the two terrorists, namely Faris Nouri Mohammad Ghadeer, and Andulkarim Nouri Mohammad Ghadeer, are brothers, and were arrested back in October 21, 2021.
[IsraelTimes] Embassy says cooperation is daily and ’useful,’ indicates condemnation over Ukraine invasion won’t influence Syrian arrangement
The Russian embassy in Israel said that military coordination with Israel in Syria will continue, even as the two countries spar over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Jerusalem and Moscow have in recent years maintained a so-called deconfliction mechanism that works to prevent Israeli and Russian forces from clashing in Syria. Russia is a main player backing the Syrian government in a grinding civil war, while Israel has waged a years-long campaign of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s aimed at pro-Iranian fighters located there and at preventing the transfer of Iranian-supplied weaponry.
"Our military officials discuss the practical issues of this substantively on a daily basis. This mechanism has proven to be useful and will continue to work," the Russian embassy said in a statement to The Times of Israel.
It also noted that while Moscow supports Israel’s security needs, it opposes violations of Syrian illusory sovereignty.
Israel’s military told Rooters its forces "will act when needed to counter threats, defend the people of Israel and our illusory sovereignty."
Russia on Friday summoned Israel’s Ambassador to Moscow Alexander Ben Zvi to clarify Israel’s position regarding the Ukraine invasion a day after Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called the incursion a "grave violation of international order."
As Russia attacks Ukraine, Israel has avoided taking a stance aligned too closely with either side. This is believed to be at least partly due to its need to work with the Russian military presence in neighboring Syria.
Israel has expressed concern regarding the invasion and offered humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people, but Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has avoided condemning Russia or even mentioning the country by name in his statements since the launching of the widespread military operation across Russia’s border early Thursday morning.
Russia’s ambassador to Israel told The Times of Israel on Friday that Moscow "hope[s] that Israel will continue [taking] a wise diplomatic approach."
The deconfliction mechanism was discussed by Bennett and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... when they met for talks in Sochi, Russia, last October. A senior Israel official said after the meeting that they had agreed to continue the arrangement.
There were "very wide" talks regarding the situation in Syria aimed at "safeguarding the coordination mechanism," said Housing Minister Ze’ev Elkin who accompanied Bennett on the trip, at the time.
Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Putin on multiple occasions to discuss the issue and claimed that their personal relationship was a main factor in maintaining the mechanism.
Russia meanwhile, is a close ally of Syria’s Bashir al-Assad, has forces based and operating in Syria, and provides Syria with air defenses that try and shoot down Israeli jets and missiles.
Israeli officials do not generally discuss the full extent of the coordination, but they stress that the IDF does not seek Russian permission before carrying out operations.
On Thursday, Syrian state media said three Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli airstrike near the capital Damascus. The alleged strike came hours after Israel apparently dropped leaflets on Syrian army positions warning that they could be targeted for collaborating with Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah.
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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