[OutlookIndia] In a concerning development, local Taliban ...Arabic for students... officials in some provinces of Afghanistan have issued a new set of restrictions against female education, reportedly banning girls over the age of 10 from attending primary school classes. The directive from the Taliban-ruled Ministry of Education has sparked widespread concerns over women's rights and access to education in the country.
According to a report by BBC Persian, officials from the Taliban-ruled Ministry of Education held meetings with school principals and short-term training classes in Ghazni province. During these meetings, they explicitly conveyed that "any girl over 10 years of age is not allowed to study in primary schools."
This move comes after the Taliban had previously allowed education for girls up to the sixth grade. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... now girls above the third grade are being sent home, and girls over 10 years old are prohibited from entering the school premises.
In some provinces, local authorities from the "Ministry for Preaching and Guidance" have also been involved in separating girls based on age, further exacerbating concerns over the future of female education in the region.
The Taliban's history of restricting women's education has intensified since the withdrawal of US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... -led forces in Afghanistan. Last year, the group banned girls from secondary education, reopening high schools for boys only. In December, they extended the ban to college and university-going women, imposing an indefinite restriction on university education for thousands.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) said that additional campuses of private universities in capital Kabul and in the provinces, which were opened without coordination with the MoHE, were closed.
"The Ministry of Higher Education made the decision to improve and strengthen the laws and procedures of the ministry," said Ziah Hashimi, a front man for the MoHE.
Gul Rahman Qazi, head of a private higher education organization, said that the closure of additional branches of private universities will affect the country’s educational sector.
"In general, it does not benefit the society and the people. But as the government is responsible for the society and people, it doesn’t benefit the government either," he said.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... the heads of private higher education called on the interim government to rescind their decision.
"One of the reasons for (additional campuses) is to attract more students from the area," said Bahram Bahri, head of a private organization of higher education.
Habibullah Baghlani, a university head, said that the interim government has the right to close campuses down if the university lacks a license for additional campuses.
"When it is investigated and found out that they lack a license, then they are right to close them," he said.
Earlier, the union of private universities said that the enrollment of students has dropped by 70 percent compared to before.
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I guess the American femnazis don't want to acknowledge now that 'we' were actually fighting the real and historical patriarchy. Much safer to swing at strawmen here in Western Civ.
[GEO.TV] The Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... supreme leader has warned fighters against launching attacks outside the war-torn country, the defence minister of the Kabul government said.
Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said in a speech to members of Afghanista´s security forces, broadcast by state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
on Saturday, that fighting outside Afghanistan is not religiously sanctioned "jihad" but rather war, which had been barred by Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, according to AFP.
"If anyone goes outside of Afghanistan for the goal of jihad, it won´t be called jihad," Akhundzada said, according to Mujahid.
"If the emir prevents the mujahideen (fighters) from going to battle and they still do it, this is war, not jihad."
In Islam, the Arabic term "jihad" is used to describe a wide range of religious struggles, from the private spiritual realm to taking part in combat.
The statement comes days after Pakistain urged the Afghan interim government to take action against Death Eaters operating on its soil to stop "transnational terrorism" following a deadly suicide kaboom in a tribal district claiming more than 60 lives.
The deadly blast took place last Sunday evening in Bajaur district's Khar, a former tribal area bordering Afghanistan, at the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... -Fazl (JUI-F) gathering, killing at least 64 people and injuring over 100.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed concerns over the "liberty of action available" to Death Eaters in Afghanistan, urging the Taliban-led interim government to take action to stop "transnational terrorism".
The premier noted with concern the involvement of the Afghan citizens in the suicide kabooms and the liberty of action available to the elements hostile to Pakistain in planning and executing such cowardly attacks on innocent civilians from the sanctuaries across the border.
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[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Chairman of the Transitional Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdel-Rahman, on Friday established a committee tasked with investigating war crimes, human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. violations, and other crimes attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Ooooohhhh — a committee! That’s all civilized and participatory and stuff.
The committee will be chaired by the representative of the Attorney General, with membership comprising officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Armed Forces, the Police, the General Intelligence Service, and the National Commission for Human Rights.
According to a statement released by the Sovereign Council, the committee’s primary responsibility is to document all the violations and crimes committed by the rebel Rapid Support Forces since April 15, 2023.
"The committee was assigned the responsibility of implementing all necessary legal actions against the leaders and members of the rebel forces, both within the country and abroad, as well as against anyone found to be involved in their activities, whether through participation, incitement, or assistance," added the statement.
The Rapid Support Forces have been accused of arresting numerous civilians and subjecting some of them to torture. Additionally, reports indicate multiple cases of women being raped and girls kidnapped from various neighbourhoods in Khartoum state and the Darfur region.
Civilians have also accused the paramilitary forces of occupying their homes and looting their belongings, the same for the banks and commercial warehouses.
While the militia leader acknowledged the violations and promised to address them, on-ground practices have reportedly remained unchanged, with looting and theft now spreading to popular neighbourhoods in Khartoum.
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But are they taking them to back the scene of the crime, where they inevitably escape and then shot while fleeing, while many rounds of bullet are recovered?
[AFRICANEWS] Around a hundred students have demonstrated in the Nigerien capital Niamey to support the military who took control of the country in a coup on 26 July.
Protesters were angry at sanctions and threats of military intervention by leaders in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Niger's presidential guard ousted and held President Mohammed Bazoum in the coup.
The guard's commander, Gen. Abdourahmane Tchiani, announce that he would become interim leader and the president of the caretaker National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland (CNSP).
One of the student protesters, Karimou Soumana, said: "I'd like to appeal to the media and even to the people of Niger to understand that what ECOWAS or the international community is doing is nothing more than intimidation and that we don't even believe in [armed intervention].
"All people have to do is keep their Nigerien spirit alive and that's what's going to get us out of this intimidation."
ECOWAS imposed sanctions on Niger and gave the junta that toppled elected president Mohammed Bazoum one week to restore him or face the potential use of force.
Another student said the country could manage without the help of foreign countries.
"Sixty-three years of aid, where are we?" asked Daouda Djibo.
"We're last in Africa, and yet we're told that Niger is very rich in potential, and then we're last, so what's the point of foreign aid? We'd be resilient behind our [Defence and Security Forces] to be able to wrest our independence, our new independence."
Niger's junta has vowed to respond "immediately" to any foreign intervention. Meanwhile he has been holding Bazoum and his family in his official residence in the capital Niamey for nine days.
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[Shafaq News] The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity announced on Sunday the successful restoration of the Maseeb-Alexandria power transmission line within the province of Babel, south of the capital Baghdad, after it suffered intentional sabotage that resulted in its outage.
In a statement, the ministry disclosed that a fresh attempt to tamper with the energy transmission lines, especially those vital and interconnecting various provinces, led to the disruption of the 132K.V power transmission line (Maseeb-Alexandria).
Further investigations revealed a deliberate act of sabotage, involving the placement of handled wires on the transmission line to cause a short circuit from both sides, thereby shutting it down.
The ministry assured that the intentional obstruction was successfully removed without causing any damages to the high-pressure wires of the aforementioned line. It also confirmed that power supply to citizens remains uninterrupted and without any disruptions.
The recurrence of power tower explosions in Iraq has become a pressing concern, particularly in the provinces of Salahuddin and Diyala, coinciding with the worsening state of the national power grid and soaring temperatures.
Just last Friday evening, another blast targeted the power transmission towers (East Baghdad-Diyala 400 kV) in the Khan Bani Saad area, leading to the outage of this critical line.
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Quick method to shut everything down. Go ahead, buy that high priced EV that's dependent upon the grid. The long-term goal is a lock-down, nobody goes anywhere. You've got a private jet and a vila in Davos, everybody else is confined to Gawd's waiting room.
[Rudaw] Iraq's Ministry of Communications on Sunday announced that the country was blocking popular messaging service Telegram, citing concerns over "national security" and threats to citizens’ personal data.
The ministry said that the decision has been issued "based on directives of higher authorities," claiming that relative authorities had repeatedly requested Telegram to shut down channels that were leaking documents of state institutions and personal data of Iraqi users, but had not received a response from the platform.
Digital Media Center (DMC), an Iraqi non-governmental organization monitoring and analyzing digital media, in late July criticized Telegram’s "poor" technical support saying that the ignoring of reports filed by Iraqi users has turned the app into a "hotspot for digital crime" in the country.
The DMC said that it had recorded dozens of channels on the platform that specialize in electronic extortion and have leaked personal data of thousands Iraqi users, while Telegram "continuously ignores requests to delete the violating channels."
Telegram is very popular among Iraqi users, and is the main platform for many of the country’s armed factions and militias.
Sabreen news, a channel affiliated with Iranian-backed factions of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), has heavily criticized the Iraqi government’s decision, labelling it as "silencing" and "fighting press freedom."
The channel, which has over 330 thousand subscribers on Telegram, has called for a campaign of "political and media opposition to all government activities" in response to the recent decision.
"The communication ministry reaffirms its respect for the people’s rights to freedom of expression and communication without violating the security of the state and its institutions, and expresses its confidence in the citizens' understanding of this measure.," read the statement from the Iraqi ministry.
Human right watchdogs frequently criticize Iraqi authorities for violating press freedom.
According to a Reporters Without Borders (RSF) report, Iraq ranks 172nd out of 180 countries in the 2022 World Press Freedom Index, falling even further from 163rd in 2021.
Iraq's former prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, on Sunday, expressed discontent with banning Telegram, a popular messaging application in Iraq, stressing that the government should direct its attention toward platforms that promote violence and hatred.
Iraq's telecoms ministry said it had blocked Telegram over national security concerns and in order to preserve the integrity of users' data, which it said the app had mishandled.
"Iraq, a democratic nation that upholds the freedom of media and expression, recognizes these as fundamental rights, albeit not absolute ones," the head of the State of Law bloc wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, "blocking social media sites for security reasons should take into consideration the distinction between sites supporting the state and government, versus those inciting hatred, violence, and infringements on others' privacy."
The app is widely used in Iraq for messaging but also as a source of news and for sharing content.
Some channels contain large amounts of personal data, including the names, addresses, and family ties of Iraqis.
The ministry said in a statement it had asked the app to close down "platforms that leak the data of the official state institutions and the personal data of citizens... but the company did not respond and did not interact with any of these requests."
"The Ministry of Communications affirms its respect for citizens' rights to freedom of expression and communication, without prejudice to the security of the state and its institutions," the statement said.
[IsraelTimes] Biden administration reportedly leaning on Israel to strengthen Paleostinian Authority, but official reportedly says steps unlikely to pass in current atmosphere
The security cabinet will reportedly not reach a decision on Sunday regarding a series of measures meant to prop up the Paleostinian Authority in the wake of a deadly terrorist attack in Tel Aviv a day earlier.
The forum of senior ministers was slated to debate a raft of policies that were formulated by National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and head of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Ghassan Alian, Channel 12 news reported.
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[An Nahar] The Israeli military on Sunday prepped the family home of a Paleostinian gunman for demolition, a day after he killed an Israeli security guard in an attack.
On Saturday a Paleostinian gunman shot and killed 42-year-old security guard Chen Amir in central Tel Aviv. The attacker, identified by police as 27-year-old Kamel Abu Bakr, was shot at the scene and died later in hospital.
Amir's funeral was expected to take place Sunday.
Saturday's shooting came a day after two Israeli settlers were arrested on suspicion of killing a Paleostinian man in the West Bank on Friday night. Paleostinian officials said armed settlers entered the West Bank village of Burqa and shot 19-year-old Qusai Matan.
The army said the Israeli settlers arrived in the area to herd sheep, leading to festivities between Israelis and Paleostinians from the village. Israeli media reported that one of the suspects in the incident, Elisha Yered, was a former aide to an ultranationalist politician in the "Jewish Power" party, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's key coalition partners.
The shooting is part of an escalation of settler attacks on Paleostinian civilians in recent months, and several Israeli commentators warned Sunday that assailants felt emboldened by fellow ultranationalists in key positions in government.
The Israeli military said troops measured the home of the Paleostinian attacker ahead of its demolition in the village of Rumana, near the restive West Bank city of Jenin.
Israel says home demolitions are meant to deter future attackers but critics say they amount to collective punishment against the families of assailants and only exacerbate tensions with Paleostinians.
In the right-leaning Hebrew-language daily Israel Hayom, pundit Yoav Limor wrote that there are "armed Jewish militias that are operating like terrorist groups in Samaria," referring to the West Bank by its biblical name.
"If the state of Israel doesn't come to its senses and stop them immediately, the damage they will do is far more dangerous than any terror attack of the enemy," he said.
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[IsraelTimes] Mohammad Jafar Montazeri is under US and UK punitive measures for prosecution of Mahsa Amini protesters last year
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... on Sunday appointed Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, who is under US and British sanctions, to head the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s top court.
Montazeri was named the supreme court chief after the "opinions of all the court judges" were taken into consideration, the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said.
The 75-year-old, who had served as prosecutor general since 2016, would be succeeded in his former post by Mohammad Kazem Movahedi Azad, the chief of the High Disciplinary Court of Judges which investigates judicial conduct, Mizan added.
Montazeri was placed under US sanctions in December, with Washington identifying him as having a role in "overseeing the prosecution of protesters" during mass demonstrations in Iran last year.
Britannia followed suit in January and imposed punitive measures against Montazeri following the execution of British-Iranian Alireza Akbari for spying.
Iran was gripped by unrest after the September death in jug of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, following her arrest for an alleged breach of the country’s dress rules for women.
The demonstrations saw hundreds of people killed, including dozens of security personnel, and thousands arrested in connection with what officials labeled as "riots."
Seven men have been executed in protest-related cases involving killings and other violence against security forces.
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[An Nahar] Senior Hezbollah official Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Sunday warned that "the political crisis in Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... is deepening the financial-economic-social crisis, while there is a political camp that is still rejecting solutions and insisting on the policy of challenge and confrontation."
"They are betting on the weapon of foreign sanctions and are inciting to draw these sanctions against their partners in the country," Qaouq said.
"Lebanon does not bear a president who would come through the weapon of sanctions, seeing as we are not in the year 1982 and will not be and Lebanon’s interest lies in the presence of a president who would oversee understandings in order to rescue the country," Qaouq added, stressing that the new president "should not be a platform for settling political scores and threatening national unity."
"We in Hezbollah are searching for a solution and appropriate exits to save the country, whereas they are looking for continuing the confrontation and political battle," Qaouq went on to say.
As for the ongoing dialogue between Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... , the Hezbollah official said: "Amid this political deadlock and tension, the only ray of hope in the country is the dialogue between Hezbollah and the FPM."
"The core of this dialogue is the election of a president and it is continuing in a positive manner and is not awaiting any foreign movements," Qaouq added.
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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.
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[An Nahar] The Israeli military on Sunday prepped the family home of a Paleostinian gunman for demolition, a day after he killed an Israeli security guard in an attack.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
