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Afghanistan
Majority of Female Prisoners Jailed for Fleeing Home
[Tolo News] Around 70 percent of Afghanistan's female prisoners are in jail for running away from home despite the act not being a crime under the law, according to the parliamentary committee on women's affairs director Fawzia Koofi.

A meeting on Sunday of representatives from the government committees of women's affairs, the Ministry of Interior, and the Ministry of Justice agreed that sending a woman to court for "escaping" home was wrong.

The Minister of Justice Habibullah Ghalib said at the meeting that the Judicial Council has made it clear that running away from home should not be prosecuted.

"Based on the laws [of Afghanistan], escaping home is not a crime," he said. "This subject is concluded by the Judicial Council. It is wrong for prosecutors and police to send cases of such incidents to the courts."

Deputy Minister of Interior Baz Mohammad Yarmand said that the police have been told that it is not a criminal offence.

"I cleared this issue to the police that escaping home is not a crime. I even sent a letter to few organizations to take notice of this issue," he said at the meeting.

Women are not fleeing their homes for no reason -- usually it is because of violence or forced marriage, attendees said.

"Escaping from home is often the result from family violence. We have seen incidents in which the mother-in-law has done violence to the girl, or the husband or other family members have behaved violently towards the girl," Minister of Women's Affairs Hassan Banoo Ghazanfar said.

Koofi described the situation and condition of the prisoners as distressing and lamented the failure to review cases, adding that there are severe objections to the fact that so many women have spent years in prison for unclear reasons.

"There should be a revision of cases enforced in the penal code so that there is no possibility of mistreatment by the judges," Koofi said.

Director of the senate committee of women's affairs Siddiqa Balkhi agreed.

"In a review of some cases, we observed there was the case of a 70-year-old woman which had not been considered yet," Balhki said.

The meeting comes as provincial departments of women's affairs report more violence against women and girls.

Most recently, a teenage girl was lashed by mullahs in the Gaghoori District of Ghazni Province for an "illegal relationship" with a young man, and two girls in Ghor Province were lashed in public because they attempted to run away from home.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/20/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So. They are locking up all the wimmins with a backbone in confined places, where said wimmins can compare notes...and seethe...and plan?
Posted by: Shinter Javirong9154 || 09/20/2012 16:12 Comments || Top||


Down Under
Australian Parliament Rejects Same-Sex Marriage
[An Nahar] Australia's parliament voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to reject gay marriage, after days of heated debate that saw one senator resign from a key role after linking same-sex unions to bestiality.

The House of Representatives voted down the bill to legalise marriage between same sex couples by 98 to 42, with Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition conservative leader Tony Abbott both voting against it.

Gillard had allowed Labor MPs a conscience vote on the issue -- meaning they were free to vote how they wanted rather than along party lines -- while the opposition had opposed it.

Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese, who voted for the reform, said despite the bill's failure the figures were encouraging.

"Just a few years ago there wouldn't have been the support of anything like 42 votes on the floor of the national parliament for a marriage equality bill," he told news hounds.
Posted by: Fred || 09/20/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336071 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once again for the record.
Civil Unions... They had them in the bag in CA. I don't think many people were going to begrudge them that.
But they had to go for the big win, full-on wedding, in a church with the preacher and all.
Got the big hurt in the voter referendum, then went straight to court to try to roll over many million CaliPhornios that voted it down. We're an apish, small minded lot here, all 33 million of us I guess.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 09/20/2012 0:59 Comments || Top||


Economy
Keystone Pipeline's Cowboys versus the ... Native Americans
TransCanada's plan to dig a trench and bury part of its $7 billion, 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline right through this [Cushing, OK] land has unearthed a host of Native American opposition, resentments and ghosts of the past. Winning support in Indian country is one of the last hurdles for the project, which is touted as a key to North American energy security. The question is whether gaining tribal support is a courtesy, as the company puts it, or a legal obligation.
Later, we find the actual pipeline does not actually pass thru any actual tribal reservations, actually. HOWEVER...
But many Native Americans in the United States -- and their lawyers -- insist that there are legal obligations under 19th-century treaties that affirmed sovereign status of Native American tribes, which do not pay state or federal taxes and which have their own governing councils and police forces.

Moreover, the more recent National Historic Preservation Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 both provide for the protection of Indian burial sites and artifacts. "When it comes to jurisdiction, it's a tough question to answer," said Jennifer Baker, a Colorado-based lawyer who has worked closely with South Dakota tribes. "History has developed so that legal truths get overshadowed by factual realities, and judges tend to mold the law to reflect factual realities."
All environmental impact statements include a section on cultural resources, including the potential for archeological sites. I had to move a borrow pit once, to avoid a "potential" site.
"There is no legal obligation to work with the tribes," said Lou Thompson, TransCanada's top liaison with Native Americans. "We do it because we have a policy. We believe it's a good, neighborly thing to do." He said the pipeline "is not passing through any tribal lands."

TransCanada has flown some tribal leaders to Calgary to tour the company's operations center where banks of computers monitor thousands of points along existing pipelines. And it has trained members of the Alabama ­Coushatta tribe from south Texas to act as monitors during construction in case Indian remains or artifacts turn up on the tribe's stretch of the pipeline.
That's good enough for me.
"We walk the entire pipeline route and identify sites and alter the route of our pipeline to avoid those sites," said Thompson of TransCanada.
So this should be the end of the story, but there are three more pages.
He said that the company has also asked the tribes to conduct their own studies of sensitive sites. "Sometimes there are areas very significant to the tribes that don't bear any physical evidence," Thompson said. "It might be used to hold ceremonies, but if you walked there you wouldn't see any evidence."
And that's MORE than enough for me!
Posted by: Bobby || 09/20/2012 05:59 || Comments || Link || [336081 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think most all the tribes in Oklahoma were moved there in the 1830's. Their archaological sites are back in TN etc. And almost all their OK burial sites are in the church cemeteries, same as everybody else.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/20/2012 13:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep. The "Indian Territory" - up until the Oklahoma Land Rush, that is.

My great grand-daddy staked a claim, and later bought another 1/4 section for $5 and a rifle.
Posted by: mojo || 09/20/2012 16:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Ultimately, the tribe signed a series of treaties that pushed it to Illinois, then Iowa, then Kansas and finally in the 1870s to the Indian Territory...

Seems like they could lay claim to Chicago although I don't know why anyone would want it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/20/2012 17:20 Comments || Top||

#4  They can have Chicago.

Lord knows they can't do any worse than the current owners.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/20/2012 17:53 Comments || Top||

#5  And almost all their OK burial sites...

You mean a voter rich environment for Democrats?
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/20/2012 18:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Bingo, EC.
Posted by: Barbara || 09/20/2012 19:36 Comments || Top||

#7  We had a job in the Bering Sea area years ago. It was an archaeologists dream. Thousands of years of lots of artifacts. We had an archaeologist on staff for that job. Got an MOA and a monitoring plan and protocols with SHPO. So there we were, merrily digging a trench for a raw water pipeline and discovered an intact skeleton. Turns out this poor chap had 19 arrow heads in his body. Not a popular character, I would say.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/20/2012 21:28 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Father hacks daughter to death
[Dawn] A father brutally hacked his divorced daughter to death in the city suburbs because he could not countenance her working in a beauty parlour, her siblings reported to police on Tuesday.

Police said Allah Ditta, the accused, was tossed in the slammer
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
and confessed to the crime. A blood-stained axe he was believed to have used to kill his 32-year-old daughter Shagufta, was also recovered.

"My father tied her to a tree in the jungle near our house and swung the axe at her neck, killing her instantly," police quoted her younger sister as saying. In his statement recorded with the police her brother, Fiaz Ali, said the family lived in Gorakhpur village in Adiala suburbs and his father used to violently oppose Shagufta's desire to accept an offer from the lady of the house where she worked as a maid, to work in the parlour that she ran.

"Last night, our father beat her up when she insisted on joining the parlour. Other family members intervened and the issue was settled for the time being," the younger sister told the police.

Shagufta had a little son and was divorced about three years ago.

As she woke up from her sleep, said the younger sister, she saw her father taking Shagufta away, holding a piece of rope and an axe in his hand.

Scared and suspicious at this scene, she said she informed her brother.

Shagufta was taken away by her father to the nearby jungle where he allegedly tied her to a tree, abused her and then allegedly smashed her neck with an axe, killing her on the spot, according to the sibling.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea...
last Sunday two women were murdered in the name of honour in the city.

In the first incident a woman identified as Hasrat Bibi was rubbed out by her son-in-law in Khyban-e-Sir Syed. Hasrat Bibi's daughter who had been married with Ali had returned to her mother's house after disputing with her husband.

As he came to his in-laws' house to convince his wife Mehwish to go with him, he got provoked as his in-laws refused to send their daughter with him, he pulled out his pistol and bumped off his mother in law.

In another incident a woman identified as Sadaf Jabeen was rubbed out by her husband Tanveer Ahmed outside Ayub Park.
Posted by: Fred || 09/20/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, beauty parlors are very "unislamic".
So I guess she had it coming.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 09/20/2012 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  A recommend a fair trail then death by Weedeater!
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2012 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Hope the fellas in the belt way in those ivory towers watch how much make up they use!
Posted by: Angiting Snore1647 || 09/20/2012 8:09 Comments || Top||


PM turns to faith-healers
[Dawn] If all things material and real fail you, tap instead into the powers of the unseen and unheard.

It's a formula that Pak politicians have stuck by for decades, and a 'chirping bird' in the Prime Minister's House confessed that the incumbent prime minister rows the same boat.

Like his predecessors, Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
and Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has a spiritual guide, Pir Abdul Majeed Khan.

And like the chief of his political party, President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
, who keeps Pir Mohammad Ejaz at the Presidency, 'Pir Khan Sahib' has been given unhindered access to the PM's Office.

A source revealed that soon after taking over as the prime minister of Pakistain and before going to the Supreme Court for his first hearing, the PM had in person visited Bari Imam and Golra Sharif shrines.

The source said: "Premier Ashraf meets different spiritual leaders but has a special affiliation with Pir Khan Sahib who hails from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
The source added: "Mr Ashraf often consults him on a number of issues which remain strictly confidential between the two of them."

"The last time the two met, Prime Minister Ashraf was happy with the advice Pir Sahib gave him and told us that all issues had been addressed well," the source continued.

Rumour has it that PM Ashraf's family is equally in awe of Pir Khan Sahib, and on the eve of the first hearing at the Supreme Court on Aug 27, prime minister's two sons travelled all the way to the residence of Pir Khan Sahib.
Posted by: Fred || 09/20/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336063 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Funny, here they're called the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the Secretary of the Treasury.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/20/2012 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  I use the same brand of Magic 8-Ball that they do, buy my Real Estate ETF's arent really doing all that well. I don't know what the problem is.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 09/20/2012 1:01 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2012-09-20
  Ex-Gitmo hard boy involved in consulate attack
Wed 2012-09-19
  Rally against sacrilege: Ten Lahore rioters injured in clash with police
Tue 2012-09-18
  U.S. military suspends joint patrols with Afghans
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  Libya arrests 50 after US envoy's killing
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  Yemeni official: DNA tests did not prove the killing of Al-Shihri
Sat 2012-09-15
  Al Qaeda in Yemen urges Muslims to kill U.S. diplomats over film
Fri 2012-09-14
  Pakistan orders anti-Islam video block on YouTube
Thu 2012-09-13
  Egyptian protesters, police continue to clash near U.S. Embassy
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  US Official Killed In Libya Prophet Protest
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  Somali election: Hassan Sheikh elected as president
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  Yemen says kills deputy regional head of al Qaeda
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  Three injured in blast at Indonesia ''bomb workshop''
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