Dozens of Ethiopian troops were rumoured to have arrived today in Garbahaareey district in Gedo region. The troops who have up to 45 war convoys travelled to Garbahaareey in Gedo, where they stationed their soldiers.
On the other hand, in Baardheere district also of Gedo region, there was a public protest held to criticise the presence of the Ethiopian forces in the region. An official from Al-Shabaab, Sheikh Fu'aad Mohamed Khalaf who gave a lecture at the protests conveyed his fury at Ethiopian troops waging war.
Note his concerns. Then kill him.
Ethiopia's army was included in the operation of safeguarding Somalia, under AMISOM for which they received specific instructions to operate in Gedo where some of the region is still controlled by Al-Shabaab.
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Egypt's army chief field marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will remain as defense minister in the new government, state TV reported Wednesday.
Egyptian Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim Mahlab also reappointed three ministers in his new government. Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim, Oil Minister Sherif Ismail and Planning Minister Ashraf al-Arabi were reappointed on Wednesday but there was no immediate word on who would take the defense ministry, held by army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in the outgoing cabinet.
Egypt's army-backed interim government resigned unexpectedly on Monday. Mahlab was appointed on Tuesday to form a new government. In a press conference held shortly after his appointment, Mahlab said he hopes to form a new cabinet within three or four days.
Mahlab said his cabinet members will be "holy warriors" in the service of Egyptians and added that restoring security in the country will be a top priority.
Maybe the last thing you guys need is more 'holy warriors'. Just sayin'...
"We will work together to restore security and safety to Egypt and crush terrorism in all corners of the country," he said.
Mahlab, a former official in deposed President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party, is a civil engineer who formerly served as chairman and CEO of Arab Contractors Company, a large Egyptian civil engineering firm.
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[An Nahar] The Central African Republic's interim president on Wednesday called on French and African troops in her country to make full use of their U.N. mandate to sideline rogue elements creating havoc in the troubled nation.
The escalating Christian-Moslem violence in the CAR was "being used by people who are not interested in restoring stability", interim president Catherine Samba Panza told a presser, a day after French politicians extended their country's military operation in the country.
Also on Tuesday, the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... had warned of a potential new bloodbath in the African state riven by sectarian strife.
"I call on the MISCA (African force) and (French force) Sangaris to really use the mandates they have been given by U.N. resolutions and wipe out these unchecked elements that poison our lives," she told the press.
Under U.N. resolution 2127, which was adopted in December, international forces are to restore public order and security in the former French colony.
French troops were sent to the CAR in early December to reinforce a 6,000-strong African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... force known as MISCA.
La Belle France is pushing hard for the international forces to be transformed into an official U.N. peacekeeping force.
Gay Paree is also lobbying its European partners to provide more financial and logistical help, with limited results so far.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has pledged to deploy up to 1,000 troops but negotiations on which countries will provide them are dragging on in Brussels and it remains unclear when any of them would arrive in the CAR.
Samba Panza said certain politicians were trying to destabilize the country to return to power but did not name them.
"Others want to divide Central Africa" trying to bring the situation to a boil by claiming that Moslems were coming under attack, so they can provoke a backlash, she added, in a clear reference to the Moslem-dominated Seleka ex-rebels.
The CAR's Moslem minority has been blamed by many Christians for the violence that followed a March 2013 coup which saw Seleka leader Michel Djotodia become the country's first Moslem leader.
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Bahrain moved on Wednesday to deter its citizens from joining fighters abroad, especially in Syria.
Better to let them go to Syria and ensure that they die there...
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that it has proposed an amendment to the anti-terror law. The ministry has prepared the draft to amend the provisions of the law to protect the community against terrorist acts and to further deter any citizen from committing acts of mass violence or join in fighting outside Bahrain.
The ministry will take all necessary steps to refer the amendment to the cabinet to put constitutional and legal measures in place, the statement said.
The ministry asserted that it is following with great concern the developments in Syria and maintained that some Bahraini citizens went there to join the fighting. It will take all legal steps against those who are involved. The Ministry affirmed that any citizen who cooperates with or joins any society, authority, organisation, gang or group based outside Bahrain that endorses terrorism or provides training to commit a terrorist act faces up to five years in jail.
It will order more investigations and searches to track and arrest those who have travelled abroad to join in fighting either through inducement, agreement or assistance. A travel ban will be imposed on such persons and they will be referred to the Public Prosecutor. It will monitor social media accounts and websites that offer inducement, recruit fighters and check all financial transactions, donations and assistance for such purposes and arrest those involved.
Since 2012, four Bahraini youth aged between 17 and 20 died in Syria.
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[An Nahar] The murderers who hacked British soldier Lee Rigby to death were both Londoners from devout Christian Nigerian families who became self-styled "soldiers of Islam" intent on martyrdom.
Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale butchered Rigby in order to generate maximum media coverage, be killed by armed police and "gain a place in paradise", judge Nigel Sweeney said Wednesday as he sent them to prison.
Adebolajo, 29, who was locked away Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! for life, had been an ordinary, articulate London youth who ended up being monitored by the British security services for his growing radicalism.
His 22-year-old accomplice, imprisoned for a minimum 45 years, was bullied at school, suffered mental health problems and drifted into gang life before converting.
Minutes after attempting to behead Rigby in broad daylight on May 22 last year, Adebolajo told horrified onlookers he was "forced by the Koran" to "fight them as they fight us. An eye for a eye and a tooth for a tooth".
Mobile phone footage taken by an eyewitness of Adebolajo ranting, his hands soaked in Rigby's blood, stunned Britannia.
A married father of six, Adebolajo was known to British security services.
He was incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... in Kenya in 2010, close to the border with Somalia -- home to the Shabaab Islamist krazed killers.
He told a Kenyan court he had wanted to go and live in Somalia under sharia, or Islamic law.
Childhood friends remembered Adebolajo as a classroom joker with the same interests as any other British teenager -- football, chasing girls, playing video games and listening to rap music.
Detectives have tried to piece together how he turned from a church-going boy into a Mohammedan radical.
He converted to Islam in 2003 while studying politics at Greenwich University in southeast London and adopted the name Mujahid.
Adebolajo appeared at several public events with members of Al-Muhajiroun, a group founded by banned Islamist preacher Omar Bakri and proscribed under anti-terror laws.
Anjem Choudary, the group's former leader in Britannia, told Agence La Belle France Presse: "He used to attend some of our activities over the years. Very peaceful chap actually, not violent at all, very pleasant."
Adebolajo was "a normal guy", Choudary said, adding: "He used to propagate Islam, (he was) concerned about foreign policy.
"He attended some of the activities, demonstrations, processions, talks.
"We lost any kind of contact with him about three years ago."
In 2006 Adebolajo joined a protest outside the Old Bailey -- the same London court where he himself was convicted -- in support of a Mohammedan accused of calling for the killing of British soldiers.
In a scuffle, he was convicted of assaulting a police officer and received a 51-day jail term.
He and 22-year-old Adebowale owned speeches and books about religious war and martyrdom.
After returning from Kenya in 2010, Adebolajo was approached several times by MI5, Britannia's domestic security agency and, according to his family, reportedly turned down their offer to become a spy and grew frustrated at being "pestered" by them.
Adebolajo's sixth child was born just four days before the brutal attack on Rigby.
Adebowale, whose father, a Nigerian High Commission official, split from his probation officer mother when he was a young boy, was haunted by a 2008 knife attack in which drug-crazed assailants maimed him and killed his best friend.
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And in future time, an elite US soldier will convert to Islam + become the Islamic Mahdi - the point is what, exactly???
[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... on Wednesday called for global attention on North Korea, denouncing the isolated Asian nation as "an evil, evil place."
"North Korea is one of the most closed and cruel places on earth. There's no question about it. There's evil that is taking place there that all of us ought to be deeply and are deeply concerned about," the top U.S. diplomat said.
The top U.S. diplomat said he had had serious talks in China about North Korea including the challenge of the dealing with its suspect nuclear program.
"We had very serious discussions there about the options available to us. And we are continuing to press for action," Kerry said in an interview with MSNBC television.
"But in the meantime, there is no question that the level of depravity, the level of human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... violations, they have conducted executions, using 122-millimeter aircraft guns to obliterate people and force people to watch these kinds of executions.
"This is an evil, evil place. And it requires enormous focus by the world in order to hold it accountable. And I think every aspect of any law that can be applied should be applied."
Many North Korean defectors have given harrowing testimony to a U.N.-mandated inquiry that last week issued a searing, 400-page indictment of gross human rights abuses.
The U.N. report said North Korea's leaders should be brought before an international court for a litany of crimes against humanity.
It found that "systemic, widespread and gross human rights violations have been and are being committed" by North Korea, its institutions and officials.
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Oh like that isn't the epitome of picking the low hanging fruit.
What a fucking waste of skin the Dishonorable Mr. Kerry is.
#6
Socialism at its pristine best. The PURITY of the Marxist DREAM.
Obama trembles in orgasmic Ecstasy as his hopes flash a vision of the profound future. And Jawn wipes his hands on the seat of his pants. While Fat girls prance through Congress to the sounds of harps.
Paradise for the working classes. Harry Reid sends a case of Condoms to all the men in Uniform . And someone in California serves a bowl of Fruit Loops to the gay couple who just got married.
Yes, Virginia, there really is a hell. And for ten dollars more we will sign you up for Free Healthcare.
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No sir, looks like a chocolate to me. I stick to the coconut, if I have any room left after fried chicken. Took my brother-in-law over to the Gasthof in Montgomery, IN last night for the $7.99 senior Wednesday special. Back to sunny Georgia tomorrow.
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There's evil that is taking place there that all of us ought to be deeply and are deeply concerned about
And certainly not on the lesser evil that is happening here currently. Yeah, we get it. It's the American version of what Islamic despots use the Jews for.
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Next week, evil bitcoin. Week after that, evil toenail fungus. Week after that, gerbil worming moves back to the top of the rotation. Lather foam at the mouth, rinse, repeat...
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In fashion reminiscent of Evel Knievel,
Kare-beary soars high above global upheaval.
Sans souci for Ukraine or nukes, his trapeze'll
Drop him almost in sight of Korea primeval!
From that vantage point he'll launch breathless effusions
Regarding the need for evolving solutions:
"This critical issue of triple-A executions
May require a resort to World Court prosecutions!"
Next on his agenda: the dreaded boll weevil,
As the whole mucking Fuslim world goes medieval.
Don't you worry -- Jawn's spine may be soft as a noodle
But Kim's sure in hot water for his Pyongyang doodle!
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Funny, when we were actually trying to defend Asians from communism, Jawn F Kerry was propagandizing for the other side. For people who have returned defectors _to_ North Korea. He needs to examine the tree in his own eye before worrying about the splinter in others.
[DAWN] The government should devise a line of action about the presence and operations of police in the frontier regions and adjacent tribal areas, said Inspector General of Police Nasir Khan Durrani here on Tuesday.
Addressing a presser at Malak Saad Shaheed Police Lines, he painted a bleak picture of the situation in most of the districts, particularly central and southern districts. Those districts were facing threats owing to presence of faceless myrmidons while situation was improving in Malakand region, he added."There should be a proper mechanism to regulate movement of people from Fata to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... ," Mr Durrani said. He added that he couldn't say anything about the involvement of foreigners in terrorism, however, Afghans having Pak identity cards were involved in many acts of terrorism.
The police chief termed presence of Afghan nationals having Pak identity cards a constant threat to the country. Getting Pak identity cards by Afghans was dangerous as it would pose many security threats, he added.
To a question regarding increase in extortion and kidnapping for ransom incidents, the IGP said that both the crimes couldn't be separated from terrorism. He said that faceless myrmidons as well as criminals pretending to be faceless myrmidons were involved in extortion and kidnapping for ransom.
He said that police department was short of manpower as only 2,500 coppers were deputed in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. district. He added that the department had requested to the government time and again to allow it to recruit more police officials. Owing to shortage of manpower, he said, officials were compelled to perform 12 hours duty on daily basis.
The IGP said that Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa was also short of coppers. He said that government should declare Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa a hard area and give more incentives to the officers performing duty in the militancy-hit province.
Mr Durrani said that at least 10 faceless myrmidons groups were active in in the province. Those groups included Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, Tehrik-e-Taliban Mohmand, Tehrik-e-Tliban Swat, Tariq Geedar group, Jangrez group, Gandapur group, Faiq group, Qari Aqeel group, Lashkar-e-Islam and Emarat-e-Islamia, he added.
"Our survival is linked with winning this war. We have to fight this war collectively," the IGP said. He said that around 50 per cent cop shoppes were established in rented buildings.
"During my visit to Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... , I observed that many cop shoppes were established in mud houses," Mr Durrani said. He added that he directed the quarters concerned to arrange containers for such police officials as 'stop gap arrangements'.
The IGP said that 79 police personnel had been killed during the last six months in different incidents of terrorism. Appreciating police for their sacrifices in war against terrorism, he said that 57 attacks were repulsed or foiled.
Mr Durrani said that the courageous personnel of bomb disposal squad successfully defused 282 improvised bombs during the last six months.
"Since October 2013, police has traced 129 cases of terrorism," the IGP said, adding 144 turbans were tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and 25 were killed in encounters with police.
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[DAWN] More than 0.25 million children below five years of age were on Tuesday vaccinated during the first two days of a three-day anti-polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... campaign going on in Swat ...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat... district.
According to sources in health department, the anti-polio campaign was successfully carried out in all the 65 union councils of district. They added that on the first day on Monday, 0.12 million children were given oral anti-polio drops. The sources said that the health department would achieve its target of vaccinating 0.4 million children during the campaign.
Also in the day, officials of health department and district administration at a joint meeting reviewed arrangements to make the anti-polio drive a success.
The meeting was told that a total of 1,209 teams had been set up to carry out the campaign in all the union councils of district Swat. It was informed that 227 health officials were supervising the campaign.
The meeting was informed that 2,500 personnel were on security duty with polio teams to avoid any untoward incident. The meeting was presided over by Swat assistant commissioner Ashfaq Khan while district health officer Dr Inam and other health officials were also present.
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[DAWN] The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday called upon the law-enforcement agencies to deal with Taliban hard boyz with an iron hand for challenging the writ of the state, saying that Pakistain and the Taliban could not go along.
This demand was made in a resolution tabled by Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... politician and leader of the opposition Syed Faisal Sabzwari, which was carried unanimously when put to a vote after brief endorsement speeches.
Deputy Speaker Syeda Shehla Raza, who presided over the session from its start at 11.25am until 3.55pm, adjourned it to meet on Friday at 10am, turned the private members day as the "day of resolutions" by setting a record of admitting 14 of the 16 resolutions, including the five which were on the order of the day.
One of the resolutions left out from consideration from the agenda due to the absence of its mover, Muhammad Dilawar Qureshi, pertained to the deteriorating situation of Pakistain International Airlines.
Calling for dealing with the Taliban sternly, the resolution expressed solidarity with the armed forces, Rangers and other law-enforcement agencies for the security of Pakistain and stated that in view of the threat to national security all political and religious parties which supported the Taliban should be boycotted socially.
The house condemned the suicide and kabooms on mosques, Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct™, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... s, shrines, worship places of non-Mohammedans, schools and bazaars and termed terrorism against the teachings of Islam.
Paying tribute to the deaders of armed forces, Rangers, Frontier Corps, Levies and police, the house condoled with their family members and extended their sympathy and assured them that all the people in the country shared their grief.
The house also declared that Pakistain is an independent, free Islamic state and not a fiefdom of the followers of any school of thought or faith and all those settled here -- Sikhs, Hindus, Christians and other non-Mohammedans --were equal citizens and had the same rights as its Mohammedan citizens. Highlighting the need to adopt the resolution, Mr Sabzwari said Pakistain was passing through its defining moments and "our collective wisdom demands that we unite" and stand up against hard boyz and turn Pakistain into a Pakistain of the Quaid-e-Azam.
Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon said the 'zaliman' had created an atmosphere of fear in Pakistain where neither mosques nor Imambargahs, nor processions of Eid-e-Miladun Nabi and Ashura, schools, police, Rangers and politicians were safe. "Taliban are roots of our all ills who want to impose their evil designs at gunpoint. Time has come for entire Pakistain to rise as one voice."
He said PPP patron-in-chief Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was the first to challenge the Taliban who had declared that anyone who was Taliban's friend was a traitor.
Mr Memon said the Taliban were neither Mohammedan nor humans but beasts and should be treated as such. He called upon the countrymen not to fear as one day everyone had to die.Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... politician Khurram Sherzaman supported the resolution and stressed the need to condemn the Taliban and those who had been involved in assassinations, attacks on law-enforcers and shedding blood for a long time.
Irfanullah Khan Marwat, leader of the Pakistain Mohammedan League-Nawaz parliamentary party, said no one supported terrorism. The all-party conference in Islamabad was an attempt to find a peaceful solution through negotiations but its follow-up events of terrorism, including the brutal massacre of FC personnel and desecration of their bodies, had resulted in launching an operation and everyone supported it.
He demanded that if the Death Eaters failed to declare a unilateral ceasefire, a fully-fledged operation be launched against them.
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[DAWN] The government vehemently denied in the National Assembly on Tuesday making a policy shift over the Syrian crisis from neutrality to a pro-rebel tilt, but could hardly convince its opponents, who piled more blame on it for following what they saw as a dubious foreign policy.
Sartaj Aziz, the prime minister's adviser on national security and foreign affairs, read out a prepared statement to reject what he called a "totally baseless and misleading" impression given in the house on Monday by some opposition politicians, some of whom saw signs of a policy about-turn after a visit to Pakistain last week by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... n Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.
The opposition charges were based on the wording of a joint Pakistain-Saudi declaration calling for the "formation of a transitional governing body" with full executive powers as part of a solution to the bloody Syrian civil war and foreign media reports that Saudi Arabia was talking to Pakistain to provide anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets to the rebels.
Mr Aziz said the call for a "transitional governing body", which the opposition saw as a demand for regime change, was in line with Pakistain's "declared position" and what was prescribed by the "international community" at the so-called "Geneva-I" conference of June 2012 involving a UN mediator, five permanent members of the Security Council and the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... . He also insisted that Pakistain was not going to supply arms for use in the Syrian conflict, though in some off-the-cuff remarks later, he said "no weapons are going at the official level", and then added: "There is neither any change in foreign policy nor any weapons are being supplied."
But Naveed Qamar of the PPP said the adviser's statement had only confirmed opposition fears, and asked when Pakistain earlier said there should be regime change in Syria.
Shireen Mazari of the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... said Pakistain had "moved away from our position of neutrality", while Awami Mohammedan League leader Sheikh Rashid Ahmed claimed that "recruitment of private forces has already begun here" for being sent to Syria.
Another PPP member, Nafisa Shah, taking part in a discussion on foreign policy on a motion tabled by a party colleague on the present session's first private members' day, wondered why Syria was mentioned in the joint Pakistain-Saudi declaration if the crown prince's visit was bilateral.
The discussion was also used by opposition members to criticise the government's foreign policy, with Ms Shah calling it "confused" and "shrouded in mystery", while PTI's Shafqat Mahmood complained that it lacked clarity
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[DAWN] Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... , coordinator of the Pak Taliban's committee for peace talks with the government, contacted the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) shura on Wednesday to convey some requests on behalf of the committee, DawnNews reported quoting sources.
Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time.... another member of the committee Maulana Yousuf Shah said that Taliban have hinted at continuing the negotiations and further expressed the hope that they would respond positively to the requests.
He moreover said the public would be apprised of the TTP's decision.
Shah added that in order to ensure successful peace talks, it was imperative that the government and the Taliban should enter a ceasefire.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Pak Taliban had rejected the government's call for an unconditional ceasefire. "If this is what we have to do, we would have done it 10 years ago," TTP's front man Shahidullah Shahid had said.
"It is the government which has waged a war against us and it is for the government to end it now. Let the government hold fire and we shall follow suit," he told a Dawn correspondent.
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[DAWN] Pakistain's army chief General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday reiterated the resolve of the armed forces of protecting integrity and illusory sovereignty of the country and vowed to accomplish their mission of countering all threats faced by it.
During his visit to Kotri Ranges to witness Field Firing and Battle Inoculation Exercise of Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Corps, he said in unequivocal terms that with the backing of the nation, they would accomplish their "mission of defeating every threat to the motherland in accordance with the expectation of the people."
Gen Sharif commended the standard of training of the participating troops and lauded their skills, precision and accuracy in engaging the targets, said an ISPR blurb.
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) said that, "strenuous training and highest standard of preparedness in peacetime are the only guarantors of peace."
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[DAWN] In order to deal with the menace of terrorism, the government has decided on a major policy shift under which attacks from forces of Evil would be met with an appropriate military response, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told the National Assembly on Wednesday.
Formally unveiling the document of the country's national security policy in the House, Nisar said the direction was agreed upon unanimously, adding that the government had consulted with all political forces for its formation.
The minister said only the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... (MQM) had assisted the government in policy formation and thanked the party for its recommendations. Nisar further said that none of the provinces had contributed to policy formation.
Nisar said developing a political consensus was imperative to deal with terrorism, adding that it was not appropriate to score points on the issue when it was not just peace but the state's existence at stake.
Emphasising that the country's political forces should be wary of developing differences on the issue, Nisar said if the state failed to establish peace, little else would matter.
Saying the issue was complicated and its resolution not easy, Nisar said the Parliament should have a single opinion on terrorism.
He urged that instead of being critical of the government, political forces should assist the government in dealing with the issue which had assumed gargantuan proportions.
Nisar said statements issued by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain should not be accorded much importance, adding that it was not a good idea to give space to the TTP's points of view on each and every issue.
He said the policy document would be handed out to the parliamentarians and appealed that they stand by the government in ensuring security across the country.
He said the policy would be improved step by step and its implementation and effectiveness would be reviewed during the next six months.
The minister said the 100-page policy document comprised of three parts, one of which was secret.
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[DAWN] The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain has rejected the government's call for an unconditional ceasefire. "If this is what we have to do, we would have done it 10 years ago," TTP's front man Shahidullah Shahid said on Tuesday.
"It is the government which has waged a war against us and it is for the government to end it now. Let the government hold fire and we shall follow suit," he told this correspondent.
He blamed intelligence agencies for Monday's killing of its senior commander Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani ...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data...
He said Shaheen Bhittani, whom he described as a colleague and a veteran of jihad, had been on the hit list of intelligence agencies.
He said that there had been a few other incidents of killing of TTP commanders and his organization suspected them to be the handiwork of the agencies. "This is a drone's alternative. Now we are being hunted through ground drones."
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(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Richard Falk, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territory, has said in a 22-page statement that Palestinian rights are being violated by Israel's prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory and ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem. "Through prolonged occupation, with practices and policies which appear to constitute apartheid and segregation, ongoing expansion of settlements, and continual construction of the wall arguably amounting to de facto annexation of parts of the occupied Palestinian territory, the denial by Israel of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people is evident,", said Falk. "In East Jerusalem, the revocation of residency permits and forced evictions of Palestinian families, as well as targeted demolition of Palestinian homes, amount to a gradual and bureaucratic process of ethnic cleansing,'' he said , according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Falk will present his report next month to the UN Human Rights Council as its special rapporteur on the Palestinian territory, demands that the world court examine whether Israel is guilty of the international crimes of apartheid and ethnic cleansing and urges the UN to investigate corporations that profit from unlawful Israeli activities. "Israel's policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip appear to amount to apartheid due to its systematic oppression of the Palestinian people and de facto expropriation of their land", added Falk in the final report. Falk's report further recommends that UN member states should consider imposing a ban on imports of produce from Israeli settlements. Falk is a former advisory board member of the World Federalist Institute and the American Movement for World Government. Yes, it's the same Richard Falk.
[AFP] Amman - Jordan warned Wednesday that it might review a 1994 peace treaty with Israel after Israeli MPs began a debate on allowing Jewish prayers at Jerusalem's sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound Why the concern? Let Allan decide if he wishes to hear those Joooish prayers.
[An Nahar] Jordan warned Wednesday that it might review a 1994 peace treaty with Israel after Israeli MPs began a debate on allowing Jewish prayers at Jerusalem's sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound.
"If Israel wants to violate the peace treaty in this issue, the entire treaty, its articles, details and wording will be put on the table," Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur told Qatar's Al-Watan newspaper in an interview.
Under the peace treaty, Jordan is the custodian of Moslem holy sites in Jerusalem.
Nsur's remarks, quoted by state-run Petra news agency, came as Jordan's parliament passed a motion urging the expulsion of Israel's ambassador to the kingdom, Daniel Nevo.
"Such Israeli attempts would lead to the destruction of the peace treaty as the international community is pushing for peace between Israel and the Paleostinians," government front man Mohammad Momnai told Petra.
"The Jordanian custodianship is not a privilege granted by Israel. It is the Hashemites' historic responsibility that is emphasized in the peace treaty."
Last year, Jordan's King Abdullah II and Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... signed an agreement to confirm a verbal deal dating back to 1924 that gave the kingdom custodianship over Jerusalem's Moslem holy sites.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged on Wednesday he hopes at best to get Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a "framework" for a peace agreement by April 29, but that a final deal could take another nine months or more, Reuters reported.
Since the last door got slammed shut...
Kerry brought the two sides back into negotiations on July 29 after a three-year gap and, at the time, said that "Our objective will be to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months."
As that deadline has approached, U.S. officials appear to have scaled back their ambitions, saying they are trying to forge a "framework for negotiations" as a first step though they still hope to hammer out a full agreement by April 29.
Which year?
"For months now, we've been saying we're trying to get a framework. We have understood what we can get within this time period," Kerry told reporters in what appeared to be his most explicit admission that a final agreement is not possible by April 29.
"We are trying to get the framework ... If we have used these seven months thus far to get an understanding of where the parties are and to be able to shape the final negotiation, then we get into the final negotiation," Kerry added.
"So I don't think anybody would worry if there's another nine months, or whatever it's going to be, to finish up but that's not defined yet," he said.
While U.S. officials have declined to say what might go into such a framework, it appears likely to be a sort of outline of possible outcomes on the core issues of borders, security, the fate of Palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem.
Kerry, who met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris last week, declined to offer an assessment of where the talks are.
"I wouldn't be pursuing it if I didn't think it was worthwhile," he said. "I hope we are not wasting our time," he said. "I hope very much that we are able to get both parties to do what is necessary to enter the most critical stage of this, which is the final phase, the final status negotiation ... around a framework which is clear and defined."
I hope for a pony...
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You're not---if the purpose is to make trouble for Juice.
Leaders of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have joined the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in calling for calm after the arrest of an MILF ground commander and his escorts on Sunday. ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman said, Let us continue to preserve the gains of the peace process being undertaken by the government and the MILF. There should not be unnecessary moves that would rock the boat, but instead work for the common good of the Bangsamoro."
Hataman described the incident as wrong timing, bad timing, when we are already nearing the homestretch of our peace endeavor.
Chief Supt. Noel de los Reyes, regional police chief, said the police were carrying out a court order for Wahid Tundoks arrest on arson and other criminal charges.
The ARMM governor, who flew in from Manila on Monday, reminded security forces of an existing ceasefire agreement between the government and the MILF that formed truce monitors, such as the Ad-Hoc Joint Action Group, the Coordinated Committee of the Cessation of Hostilities, and the International Monitoring Team.
Mayor Zahara Ampatuan of Sharif Aguak and Datu Saudi Mayor Samsodin Dimaukom visited Tundok at the headquarters of the Armys 6th Infantry Division, where he is being held. Ampatuan said, He looks pale, perhaps because of his diabetes and the stress for the unexpected arrest."
[An Nahar] A jihadist group in Syria said Wednesday that Christians in the city of Raqa will have to pay taxes and hold religious rituals behind closed doors, under a set of rules.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... (ISIL), listed 12 rules which made up an "agreement" with Christians in the northern city to provide "protection."
The terms, bearing the stamp of ISIL which controls Raqa, were distributed on jihadist forums.
They include a provision that Christians must pay a "jiziyeh" tax, as imposed in early Islam on non-Mohammedan subjects.
It said wealthy Christians must pay up the equivalent of 13 grams (half an ounce) of pure gold, that middle-class Christians pay half that sum, while the poor pay a quarter.
The agreement also demands Christians "do not put on display a cross or anything from their book, anywhere on Mohammedans' path or markets" and that they should not "use megaphones to make their prayers heard."
Christians must also refrain from "holding any of their rituals... outside the church."
The jihadist group demands that Christians follow "rules imposed by ISIL, such as those relating to modesty in clothing."
ISIL is rooted in al-Qaeda in Iraq, which also imposed the jiziyeh tax on Christians after the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
Raqa was once home to some 300,000 people, and less than one percent were Christian. Many Christians fled the city after ISIL started attacking and burning churches.
ISIL also said that Christians "must not restore any monasteries or churches... in their city or elsewhere in the vicinity."
Christians must not carry arms, it said, warning that offenders of the rules would suffer "the fate that the people of war and rebellion faced."
ISIL is accused of holding scores of people prisoner, including peaceful activists, rival rebels, foreign journalists and aid workers.
It is facing an all-out war by rival anti-regime forces in other parts of Syria.
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The religion of pieces shows its true face.
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Any different than the American ruling class aristocracy? Yeah, we're not quite there yet, but the road is clear by their acts.
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Other Blog Artics indic Chritians in Raqqa must pay up to 17% in gold jizya or non-Muslim/Dhimmi tax.
* See RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > ISIS ANNOUNCES NEW LAWS TO IMPOSE GOLD JIZYA [tax = NMT 17%] ON CHRISTAINS IN PROVINCIAL CAPITAL [Raqqa] | ISLAMIST MILITANTS DEMAND LEVY FOR CHRISTIANS IN SYRIAN CITY | REUTERS.
The "17%" is the historic Muslim rate charged agz non-Muslims for jizya.
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* TOPIX > [BreitBart] REPORT: SYRIAN CHRISTIANS AGREE TO SUBMIT TO ISLAMIST RULERS.
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* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [European Freedom Initiative] MUSLIMS CAPTURE NINE-YEAR OLD CHRISTIAN GIRL, + BRUTALLY RAPE HER FOR 19 DAYS.
Unitl she was finally discovered + rescued by a group of Christian Nuns.
[An Nahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... may begin targeting Israeli officials in retaliation against Monday's Israeli strike against a party target near the Lebanese-Syrian border, reported Israel's Haaretz daily on Wednesday.
The party may begin targeting senior Israeli officials, sources told the daily.
On Monday night, "two Israeli raids hit a Hizbullah target on the border of Leb and Syria," a Lebanese security source told AFP.
The National News Agency confirmed the report, adding that the raids targeted the countryside of the Lebanese town of Nabi Sheet on the border.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel was doing all that was "necessary" to ensure its security.
"We will not say what we're doing or what we're not doing" to maintain Israel's security, he added.
In late October, media reported that Israeli warplanes struck a Syrian airbase where missiles for Hizbullah were stockpiled.
At the time a U.S. official confirmed to Agence La Belle France Presse an Israeli strike in Syria but did not elaborate.
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[An Nahar] An arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday against Naim Abbas, a top official in the al-Qaeda-linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades ... Leb's current al-Qaeda affiliate, named after a guy whose car the current head of al-Qaeda had boomed... , on charges of belonging to an armed terrorist group, reported the National News Agency.
It said that Military Tribunal Judge Imad al-Zein issued the warrant against him for his links to terror suspect Jamal Daftardar and for seeking to carry out terrorist activities in Leb.
Abbas was also charged with forging identification papers.
His interrogation was postponed to next week to allow Abbas to appoint a lawyer.
Abbas, a Paleostinian described as Abdullah Azzam Brigades' number two man in Leb, is already in jug.
Daftardar, who was enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! in the western Bekaa region on January 15, has been charged with belonging to the Ziad al-Jarrah Battalion, which is part of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades.
On Monday,the military prosecutor charged 21 suspects, including Abbas, for belonging to an armed terrorist network.
The charges issued against them by State Commissioner to the Military Court Judge Saqr Saqr also include transporting booby-trapped vehicles from Syria to Leb.
Abbas was also charged with involvement in two bombings that have recently rocked the Haret Hreik district of Beirut's southern suburbs.
He was arrested by the Lebanese army in the Beirut neighborhood of Corniche al-Mazraa on February 12.
Several of the latest bombings in Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... strongholds in Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa valley have been claimed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades whose leader, Majed al-Majed, was captured by Lebanese authorities in December and died in jug later.
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Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that formation of a quadrilateral front comprising Iran, Qatar, Turkey and Iraq on Syria is totally out of question, IRNA reported.
He strongly ruled out involvement of Iran, Qatar, Turkey and Iraq to form a four-nation team to study the Syrian crisis and said Iran believes the crisis in Syria must be resolved through political means.
Iran and Qatar are of the opinion that Syrian crisis has not any military solution, Zarif said. Zarif said that the two countries believe that war in Syria could not be prolonged and that the Syrian people must make decision on their own fate. He said that Iran and Qatar must help the Syrian people end the humanitarian crisis adding that the Syrian issue has brought Iran and Qatar together.
Other than the fact that the two countries are on the opposite sides of the conflict, they're in perfect agreement...
ˈAs the victim of terrorist operations who lost a number of Iranian fellow citizens, Iran believes that all countries in the region should help restore security and strongly deal with terrorism,ˈ he said.
Zarif said that the two sides also discussed issues of mutual interest along with regional developments. To help enhance the level of cooperation between the two countries, Qatar deputy foreign minister is to visit Tehran in the near future, he said.
Such as integrating Qatar into Iran...
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In a biblical picture of suffering, crowd stretching for as far as the eye can see gathers amid the rubble of Damascus for UN food hand-outs
A hand-wringing photo essay in the Daily Mail about the sadness in the Yarmouk "refugee center" in Damascus. That's the Paleostinian camp that's been in the middle of a lot of fighting in the on-going Syrian civil war.
Sad pics but consider: these folks, most all of them, chose sides. They've been sitting there instead of getting out. They could have been in Mauritania by now. The UNRWA is simply aiding and abetting this.
Empty the camp, move the refugees away, and solve the problem.
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Or as the well known chronicler of our times - the soft spoken Sam Kinison said "Move to where the fricken FOOD is... Ahhhhh AHHHHH"
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Dozens of Ethiopian troops were rumoured to have arrived today in Garbahaareey district in Gedo region. The troops who have up to 45 war convoys travelled to Garbahaareey in Gedo, where they stationed their soldiers.
Egypt's army chief field marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will remain as defense minister in the new government, state TV reported Wednesday.
North Korea
Let them eat grass in peace. I'll have the Amish buffet. 
[DAWN] More than 0.25 million children below five years of age were on Tuesday vaccinated during the first two days of a three-day anti-
[DAWN] The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday called upon the law-enforcement agencies to deal with Taliban 
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[DAWN] Pakistain's army chief General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday reiterated the resolve of the armed forces of protecting integrity and 
(MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) Richard Falk, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territory, has said in a 22-page statement that Palestinian rights are being violated by Israel's prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory and ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem. "Through prolonged occupation, with practices and policies which appear to constitute apartheid and segregation, ongoing expansion of settlements, and continual construction of the wall arguably amounting to de facto annexation of parts of the occupied Palestinian territory, the denial by Israel of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people is evident,", said Falk. "In East Jerusalem, the revocation of residency permits and forced evictions of Palestinian families, as well as targeted demolition of Palestinian homes, amount to a gradual and bureaucratic process of ethnic cleansing,'' he said , according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. 
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged on Wednesday he hopes at best to get Israel and the Palestinians to agree on a "framework" for a peace agreement by April 29, but that a final deal could take another nine months or more, Reuters reported.
