[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A number of the civil society activists on Thursday walked in Kabul city wearing "Burqas" to yield for women rights.
They went to the Human Rights Commission of Afghanistan and shouted slogans supporting women's rights.
The protest started from Pul-e-Surkh area of Kabul city and ended after reaching the Human Rights Commission.
The protest was named as "Men in Burqas" .
Burqa wearing protesters said that they are not against the Burqas but they wanted to experience the problems or harassment women face.
They asked authorities to solve the problems of the women, especially those in "Burqas".
The march was conducted by civil society activists as the International Women Day which is celebrated every year on 8th March is looming.
International Women Day bears a slogan of respect, gender equality, appreciation and love towards women.
During Taliban regime women were obliged to wear "Burqas" when going out but after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 there is no restriction from government on women to wear specific veil.
They can wear Burqas, Hijabs (Veils) or walk in normal clothes but a rise in violence against women can be seen after the fall the Taliban regime.
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MOGADISHU -- Italy has on Thursday handed over huge consignment of arms to Federal Government of Somalia as the East African country tries to fend off Al Shabaab threats, Garowe Online reports.
Military gears including-pick-up trucks, armoured fighting vehicles and bulletproof cars totalling 54-were received by Somali National Army (SNA) commander-in-Chief Gen. Dahir Adan Elmi (Indho Qarshe) at Mogadishu seaport with a senior official with Italian Defence Ministry Bernando Mencaraglia present.
Rampant Italian colonialism in Somalia continues...
Officials said, the military equipment is meant for police, armed forces and intelligence service.
Mencaraglia told journalists during the offloading of the arms consignment that the donation is part of previous pledges.
Though Italy on various occasions provided Puntland and Somaliland with armored personnel carriers, the glittering aid marks the first for the first time in more than two decades.
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[SAUDIGAZETTE.SA] A leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party lodged an appeal Thursday in the Supreme Court against his death sentence for atrocities committed during the 1971 independence war. Lawyers for Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the third highest ranked leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... party, filed the "review petition" with the Supreme Court, which in November last year had upheld the original sentence. If the country's apex court rejects the review, the 62-year-old's only chance of avoiding the gallows will then be if he is granted clemency by the country's president. Legal experts say the Supreme Court has only overturned a death sentence on a handful of occasions as a result of a review petition as such a move would be an admission of a serious legal error in the first place. In December 2013, Bangladesh executed Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla for war crimes, just hours after his review petition was rejected by the Supreme Court.
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[RFE/RL] The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has promised to help Chechens who are fighting alongside the Islamic State to return home. He said, "We are doing everything possible so as not to swell the ranks of these devils."
Kadyrov said that his men were working not only in the Chechen Republic but "also there, on the ground," in Syria, without elaboratation. He said, "We are bringing back those who have realized their mistakes and we are passing them on to the courts."
Kadyrov sees himself as playing a key and very personal role in the fight against Islamist extremism in the Chechen Republic, and reacted with anger to the issue of Russian nationals from the Chechen republic becoming radicalized and fighting in Syria and Iraq.
The Chechen leader, who earlier denied that Chechens were fighting in Syria at all and recently insisted that most Chechens there are from the diaspora in Europe, has even exchanged insults with Chechen insurgents in Syria.
Kadyrov said that his main goal was to "save at least one human life, if possible."
"We have no intention of destroying even those who raised weapons against us. I have negotiated with many militants and, more often than not, managed to convince them to lay down their weapons," he said.
The main topic of Kadyrov's press conference had been the March 2 surrender of Zelimkhan Magomadov, a Chechen militant who had been surrounded by police on the southern outskirts of Grozny. Kadyrov spoke with Magomadov, who was known as the "Emir of the Chechen Plains", personally and persuaded him to step down, according to reports.
US federal authorities are set to bring criminal charges against New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, CNN reported on Friday. Empire strikes back?
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ValJar and Obama decree that all enemies shall be crushed - pour encourager les autres
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...IIRC, Menendez has been known to be crooked for a long, looooong time, so there's that. Too, this means Christie gets to appoint a senator, which makes taking back the Senate just that much harder in '16. I think this one is just happy circumstance.
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Mr. Christie will make an appointment based purely on political metrics. Won't get happy quite yet.
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Yeah, this smells bad. Punish your enemies, reward your friends.
Menendez, knowningly corrupt by everyone for a long time, did just defy the call for a meh response to Netenyahu's visit, he went before AIPAC with a firey speech calling out the chain and file democrats.
Christie, well he gets to do something presidential as everyone breathlessly awaits his appointment.
A Jihad Watch reader picked up the phone earlier today and called Johnstown, Pennsylvania Imam Fouad ElBayly, who has said that Ayaan Hirsi Ali should be killed. To his surprise, ElBayly picked up the phone. From the reader's email to me:
I called the number and someone picked up and said hello. I said I was calling with regard to Imam Fouad ElBayly.
The person on the other end said, "Speaking." (!!!!)
Me: Is this Imam Fouad ElBayly?
ElBayly: Speaking.
Me: I understand that you called for the murder of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
ElBayly: Oh no no, that was not correct.
Me: I have the quote right here. You said, "She has been identified as one who has defamed the faith. If you come into the faith, you must abide by the laws, and when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death."
ElBayly: Yes, but that is not my word. That is the call of God. How, er, "Clintonian."
Me: So you said that.
ElBayly: Before anybody gets into the relations with Islam [I couldn't type fast enough to type everything he said] ... you don't get into the relationship with Islam [...] what Ali did is called corruption on earth. It is worse than murder. She was disturbing the peace. That is not a peaceful life.
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The Daily Caller reported that former imam Fouad ElBayly, who once said Hirsi Ali earned a sentence of death for defaming Islam, is now a paid government contractor who will teach and role model for Muslim criminals at Cumberland Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Md. He has two contracts to teach and to provide “leadership and guidance.”
What could possible go wrong? Teach leadership and guidance? Sounds a lot like "jihadist community organizer" or "jihadi recruiter" for the "Religion of Peace."
[AnNahar] A Pak doctor tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... after helping the CIA in the hunt for the late Osama bin Laden ... who used to be alive but now he's not... faces fresh legal turmoil after the tribunal hearing his appeal was dissolved, officials said Thursday.
Shakeel Afridi was tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... for 33 years in May 2012 after he was convicted of ties to holy warriors, though some U.S. politicians said the case was Dire Revenge for Afridi helping in the search for the al-Qaeda chief.
Afridi was convicted under Pakistain's tribal justice system and last year a tribunal cut 10 years off his sentence.
But his efforts to clear his name on appeal have been hit by long delays and adjournments and suffered another blow with Thursday's development.
"The tribunal is no longer functional because the contracts of its members and chairman expired on January 26," Pir Fida, a senior lawyer and outgoing member of the tribunal told Agence La Belle France Presse.
So far no replacements have been hired or plans made to renew the contracts, Fida added.
The news was confirmed by an administrative official from the court Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Tribunal.
Fida said the tribunal "has been practically dissolved" and it is now unclear when the next hearing in the case will take place.
"They are just changing dates and adjourning cases, one after another," Afridi's lawyer Qamar Nadim said.
Pakistain's powerful army were hugely embarrassed by the May 2011 U.S. special forces raid -- conducted without Pak knowledge -- that found and killed bin Laden in the northern town of Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... , a stone's throw from an elite military academy.
The CIA recruited Afridi for a fake vaccination programme in a bid to confirm the 9/11 criminal mastermind was living in Abbottabad.
The plan was to use the drive as cover to collect DNA material after vaccinating bin Laden's children as a way of positively identifying the al-Qaeda leader.
An initial Pak investigation into the bin Laden raid called for Afridi to be tried for treason for helping the United States.
In January last year, Washington linked the release of $33 million of the aid it pays to Pakistain with the release of Afridi.
The CIA's fake vaccination campaign increased Taliban opposition to immunisation drives, which the turbans say are cover for spying, and attacks on health teams have claimed 74 lives since December 2012.
[DAWN] The MQM demanded that the government take action against banned krazed killer outfits which were targeting MQM workers and people belonging to a particular sect with impunity.
Speaking at a presser, MQM leader Haider Abbas Rizvi said that the victim lawyer was a senior member of the MQM's legal aid committee and actively pursuing petitions filed for the recovery of MQM's missing persons.
He criticised the lack of an effective strategy to take meaningful action against banned krazed killer outfits despite having national consensus.
He asked Prime Minister 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... and Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah to play their due role in ensuring strict action against banned ...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations.
About the victim, he said that he originally hailed from Attock and left a widow and three children.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues... MQM chief Altaf Hussain strongly condemned the killing of Advocate Bukhari. "Was it a crime to pursue the cases of missing persons?" he said in a statement released from London on Wednesday.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Military authorities have started the process of producing suspects, to be tried by military courts, before judicial magistrates for confessional statements and other legal formalities, it emerged on Wednesday.
The provincial authorities recently approached the district and sessions judges and asked them to appoint two judicial magistrates for each judicial district to record confessional statements of suspects, hold identification parades and other legal formalities in the cases to be tried by the military courts.
While there are six administrative districts in 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... , the city is divided into five judicial districts: west, central, south, east and Malir. ... corresponding to the five cardinal points...
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[DAWN] Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... leaders on Wednesday announced that their party would make every effort for the protection of seminaries as they had nothing to do with terrorism and religious extremism.
The announcement was made during the 'Ittehad-e-Ummat Conference' organised here at the Madrassa Ahiayul Uloom.
JI provincial general secretary Shabbir Ahmad Khan said his party condemned the attempts to link seminaries with terrorism and religious extremism in the country.
"Linking seminaries with terrorism is unfair as Islam preaches love and brotherhood and seminaries act accordingly," he said.
The JI leader said the false propaganda against seminaries was part of the agenda of secular elements to malign Islam but it won't succeed. He said Islam and seminaries had nothing to do with terrorism and religious extremism and instead, the two always played a tremendous role in promoting religious and sectarian harmony and tolerance in society.
Shabbir said his party was not opposed to the registration of seminaries by the government and wanted the government to identify seminaries involved in terrorist activities if there were any.
"If the government begins registration of seminaries, we will support it but the government has no interest in doing so," he said.
The JI leader said his party would offer strong resistance if the government banned or tried to ban seminaries.
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[DAWN] SWABI: The district police have locked away Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! a man for abusing two female vaccinators and refusing vaccination of his children during the ongoing 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 in the district.
Dr Mohammad Yaqub, district in-charge of Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), said that the man was arrested on the directives of district administration and health officials.
He said that the incident occurred in Kotha village where the vaccinators were engaged in door-to-door campaign. When the two vaccinators reached Sabz Ali's house, he came out infuriated and plainly refused vaccination of his children.
The man then got engaged in exchange of hot words with the female vaccinators for about 15 minutes and also didn't allow them to carry out the job in the locality, said Mr Yaqub, adding the vaccination staff noted down the man's name and included his family in the list of the refusal cases. "Then they informed the polio supervisor who conveyed the incident to the SHO of Topi city cop shoppe. Afterwards, the district administration officials ordered immediate arrest of the man," explained Mr Yaqub. He said that the police had registered an FIR against Sabz Ali.
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[AnNahar] Military operations aimed at retaking the Iraqi city of Tikrit from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group have caused around 28,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... said on Thursday.
"Military operations in and around Tikrit have precipitated displacement of an estimated 28,000 people to Samarra," a U.N. statement said.
"Field reports indicate that additional displacements are underway and that yet more families remain stuck at checkpoints," it said.
Some 30,000 Iraqi security forces members and allied fighters launched an operation to retake Tikrit on Monday, the largest of its kind since Islamic State (IS) group forces overran swathes of territory last June.
Retaking Tikrit, the hometown of now-executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, from snuffies who have had over eight months to dig in poses a major challenge for the country's forces.
Sectarian-fueled Dire Revenge killings targeting Sunni Arabs have been a feature of past operations involving Shiite militias, raising concerns that the same may happen in Tikrit.
[Iran Press TV] The Paleostinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has decided to end all security cooperation with Israel, Paleostinian officials say. Bu Bye, see ya around campus.
I wonder if elsewhere it is reported as the Palestinian Authority, or if this time they threw away the figleaf.
According to reports on Thursday, the Paleostinian Central Council (PCC) of the PLO, led by Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... , made the decision to cut all forms of security cooperation with Israel after two-day discussions in Ramallah.
"Security coordination in all its forms with the authority of the Israeli occupation will be stopped in the light of its (Israel's) non-compliance with the agreements signed between the two sides," the PCC, the second highest Paleostinian decision-making body, said in a statement.
Tel Aviv "should shoulder all its responsibilities towards the Paleostinian people in the occupied state of Paleostine as an occupation authority according to international law," the statement read.
The statement also called on the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Security Council to "determine a deadline to end the Israeli occupation and ensure that the state of Paleostine is enabled to practice its illusory sovereignty on its land occupied since 1967, including its capital east Jerusalem and, resolve the issue of refugees according to resolution 194."
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[RUDAW.NET] On December 22, Israelis sat down before their TV sets to watch the popular investigative news program "Uvda," or Fact. They saw a familiar personage in Itai Anghel, well-known to Israelis for his reports from war zones around the world, including Kosovo, Afghanistan, Leb and Iraq.
This time Anghel was reporting from the frontlines of the war with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS), focusing on the role of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).
His report on the Kurdish fighters made a splash: Israelis were especially captivated by the female fighters of the YPJ, the YPG's women's wing.
As a liberal democracy in a part of the world where women's rights are routinely violated -- if they exist at all -- Israel takes pride in the status of women in the Jewish state. In the Israel Defense Forces women fulfill a variety of combat roles, including as fighter pilots, in combat intelligence and light infantry.
But to see women from another Middle Eastern nation fighting -- and defeating -- ISIS in entirely female fighting units was remarkable. Israelis saw proud, young female Kurdish fighters going in to battle ISIS with no discernable hesitation. In fact, they even announced their presence with ululations, meant to strike fear into the hearts of the jihadists, who believe they will be deprived of heaven if killed by a woman.
One female Israeli artist was so inspired by the Kurdish fighters that she painted a picture of Medya, a senior YPJ commander featured in the news report and asked Anghel to send it to her.
The TV report, narrated by Anghel, showed him crossing the Euphrates River into Syria and being welcomed by Kurdish guides in Syrian Kurdistan, known to Kurds as Rojava.
"Daesh shoot and kill everything that moves, and are taking control across the region, and the world stammers," he narrated, using the name Arabs have given to ISIS. "We are now seeing the story through the eyes of the only fighters who have succeeded in stopping them: the Kurdish fighters in Syria and Iraq."
The YPG has been fighting ISIS in Syria, while the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga forces have been a bulwark against the forces of Evil in Iraq. Both forces sometimes cooperate, as the Peshmerga did in evicting ISIS from the Syrian city of Kobane more than a month ago.
"Are you afraid of Daesh?" viewers saw Anghel ask a female fighter named Ahin. "No, the opposite. They are afraid of us," she replied with a grin. "We are the nightmare of Daesh. I'm waiting for them."
Indeed, one captured ISIS terrorist told Anghel that when the female fighters approached, the jihadi commanders ordered their men back so they would not get killed by women.
Anghel's report gave a particular focus to the female fighters, especially the commander Medya, whom the news hound first met in 2010 on the Turkish-Iraqi border.
Though she is one of the top targets for ISIS, she isn't especially fazed by the group.
"You visited us in the past and saw how we operate against countries that are supposed to be bigger and stronger than us," she told Anghel on camera. "Listen: whoever thinks of them as a powerful military force simply falls into the Daesh propaganda trap. The truth is they are not such mighty fighters. They don't have the bravery and fighting spirit that they show in the propaganda videos."
Medya told Anghel that she felt a special responsibility toward her female fighters --- to keep them from falling into ISIS hands, to free female prisoners and to avenge what the jihadists have done to women.
"For these types, even hell isn't enough of a punishment. Our job is to make sure they get a one-way ticket there," she said.
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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.
[SAUDIGAZETTE.SA] A leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party lodged an appeal Thursday in the Supreme Court against his death sentence for atrocities committed during the 1971 independence war. Lawyers for Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the third highest ranked leader of the 
[RFE/RL] The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has promised to help Chechens who are fighting alongside the Islamic State to return home. He said, "We are doing everything possible so as not to swell the ranks of these devils."
A Jihad Watch reader picked up the phone earlier today and called Johnstown, Pennsylvania Imam Fouad ElBayly, who has said that Ayaan Hirsi Ali should be killed. To his surprise, ElBayly picked up the phone. From the reader's email to me:
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[DAWN] SWABI: The district police have 
