[8am] Local sources in the Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... province have reported new restrictions imposed by the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... on wedding halls in the region.
Sources on Wednesday, June 14, informed Hasht-e Subh that Aziz al-Rahman Muhajir, the head of the Taliban’s Moral Police in Herat, has instructed wedding hall owners that playing simple drums at wedding ceremonies is permitted, but bells are not to be played.
He has also warned the owners of wedding venues in the city to identify women who are not properly veiled during wedding events.
In a recent statement, the Taliban stated, "Any form of music is prohibited in wedding halls. Playing simple drums is allowed, but bells are forbidden. Men and grooms entering the women’s section is prohibited. Filming, photography, and bringing mobile phones into the women’s hall are prohibited. Distributing food during prayers, especially on Fridays, is prohibited."
The statement further instructed hall owners to close down designated areas for women to change clothes inside the venue.
Previously, the Taliban’s Ministry of Moral Police and Judiciary had banned the playing of any form of music at wedding events in a meeting with wedding hall owners in Kabul, the country’s capital.
[KhaamaPress] Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... ’s Acting Prime Minister Mawlavi Abdul Kabir
I wish they’d stop pretending with that acting X thingy — It isn’t fooling anyone.
on Wednesday said that religious school graduates do not have the potential to work for government institutions.
Prime Minister Kabir said, "Besides religious studies, modern sciences should also be added to the madrasa curriculum so that graduates could gain the required knowledge and work for government institutions as well."
And where, pray tell, will you find acceptable teachers who know subjects invented later than the first millennium?
Mawlavi Kabir criticizes religious school graduates as the Taliban have predominantly appointed mullahs and religious clerks to key government posts including the governor of Afghanistan’s central bank, since their return to power.
Anyone less educated among you won’t be able to read and write, the first requirement for a bureaucrat
According to the prime minister’s office, Mawlavi Kabir met with Sheikh Abdul Waheed Tariq, head of Taliban’s Jihadist Schools on Wednesday, during which Tariq discussed the construction of more Jihadist schools in Afghanistan.
Referring to the Taliban regime’s special attention to establishing more religious schools, Kabir said, "Madrasas and religious schools are major requirements."
Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, the group has persistently built religious schools and madrassas throughout the country.
Creating mostly jihadis, who can’t be put to work at anything else once the conquering is done — and so they turn to fighting one another. It’s a conundrum.
To expand religious schools, the ruling regime has converted several historical sites, schools and universities into Jihadist schools.
Previously, the Taliban group converted the Teacher Training Building of Samangan, Takhar Technical and Vocational Institute, Mitra TV building in Mazar Sharif City, Abdul Hai Habibi High School in Khost, Technical School in Kandahar, Babrak Khan Zadran High School in Gardiz City and many other buildings into Jihadi schools.
[AFRICANEWS] Malians go to the polls on Sunday to pass judgment on the governing junta's constitution, which has fuelled speculation that the country's strongman ruler will seek election.
The vote is the first organized by the military since it seized power in August 2020 of a country gripped for years by a political, security and economic crisis.
Those problems remain largely unresolved, meaning the vote could be disrupted.
It is a checkpoint on the road to a return of civilian rule in March 2024, under commitments made by the military itself.
But less than nine months before the deadline, Mali has no clarity on the future role of the military, including junta leader Colonel Assimi Goita.
Malians will vote on the draft constitution from 0800 GMT on Sunday, with green ballots for the "yes" vote and red for "no".
The results are expected within 72 hours.
The authorities have invested heavily in the reform.
Jihadist groups continue to carry out bloody attacks on civilians and the military
It purports to fix the country's current constitution, enacted in 1992 and often blamed for Mali's problems.
The large Sahel nation faces jihadist violence, poverty, derelict infrastructure and decaying schools.
If approved, the new constitution would strengthen the position of the military, emphasizing "illusory sovereignty", the junta's mantra since coming to power and its subsequent break with the former colonial power La Belle France.
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[GreaterKashmir] A special court designated under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act, Srinagar has dismissed an application filed by People Democratic Party (PDP)
...despite the name, a Moslem rather than Communist endeavour, but that’s because its full name is Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Until the national government cut the Gordian knot and shut down Kashmir’s local government, the party was led by Naeem Akhtar. Perhaps it very quietly still is...
youth leader, Waheed Ur Rehman Para
...known more efficiently as Waheed Para, but neither name turns up in the Rantburg archives...
seeking permission to travel to United States of America (USA) to pursue a 3-month Peace Fellowship Programme at YALE University, Barandbench reported.
The Court noted that Para has been accused of having close links with foreign and local terrorists, as well as of funding, aiding, and supporting terrorist activities and organizations, it said. For these alleged offences, Para has been charged with various provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which are punishable with death and imprisonment for life, it was observed. But they were all mostly peaceful foreign and local terrorists
Hence, special judge, Sandeep Gandotra held that there are genuine apprehensions that Para may flee India and disrupt the collection of evidence against him.
"Not only the trial of the case will get hampered which is at evidence stage but there are genuine apprehensions of the applicant fleeing from the country and him trying to disrupt the collection of evidence in the USA for which MLAT request has been sent through government of India," the order said.
On May 25, 2022, Para was granted bail by the High Court of Jammu and 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.... and Ladakh subject to various conditions. These conditions included that he cannot leave Jammu and Kashmir without the prior permission of the trial court. Further, he was also ordered to surrender his passport before the investigating officer.
In light of these conditions, Para moved the NIA court for permission to travel abroad and the release of his passport citing his selection as Inaugural Peace Fellow of the YALE Peace Fellowship, 2023, which is slated to start in September and end in November this year.
The Public Prosecutor (PP) objected to the application, contending that the Fellowship was a means to impede the ongoing investigation and trial against Para.
The PP also asserted that there was a statutory bar under Section 51 of the UAPA on granting Para permission to travel since his passport is deemed to have been impounded.
The special court rejected the PP's contention with respect to Section 51, UAPA opining that, as per this provision, the trial court has the discretion to decide how long a passport ought to be impounded for and even to release it, depending on the particular facts and circumstances of the case.However, women are made to be loved, not understood... the Court proceeded to reject Para's application in light of concerns that the investigation and trial, which is at the evidence stage, against him would get hampered if he were allowed to travel abroad.
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"Waheed Ur Rehman Para has been named the inaugural Yale Peace Fellow at Yale’s International Leadership Center. The Peace Fellowship brings emerging leaders on peace to Yale for an intensive period of research, mentoring and training; and to participate in high-level strategy events on peace and conflict resolution.
Para, a native of India, is a political leader who has dedicated his life to the cause of strengthening democracy and peace in Kashmir.
“We are committed to fostering excellence in peace leadership at a moment when traditional institutions and mechanisms are seriously challenged,” said Emma Sky, director of the International Leadership Center at Yale. “The Peace Fellowship aims to build up the capacity of a rising generation of peacemakers and mediators; to distill lessons in peace building; and to forge international partnerships.” Located within the Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale’s International Leadership Center houses the Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program, the Petraeus-Recanati-Kaplan (PRK) Fellowship, and Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship in addition to the Peace Fellowship. The Peace Fellowship will be managed in collaboration with Inter Mediate, a leading peacemaking organization dedicated to ending armed conflict, and its CEO Jonathan Powell who was the lead British negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement."
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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