[KhaamaPress] The Afghan government and the Taliban ...Arabic for students... have agreed that Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... will play a role in facilitating peace talks and advising negotiators to both sides.
Sources in Doha says after the government and the Taliban failed to resolve their differences, it was decided that Qatar should play a mediative role.
According to the reports, the Qatari government will not be able to participate in the Intra-Afghan talks but will be able to advise the interlocutors of both sides individually when differences escalate.
Five countries: Qatar, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Norway, and Germany are proposed for the mediating role, which was eventually agreed upon.
The Afghan government and the Taliban have not yet agreed on a basis for peace talks, which is one of the most serious differences between the two.
Taliban still stresses the basis for the Intra-Afghan talks should be the US-Doha agreement, but the Afghan government has reportedly rejected. They credit the basis according to the resolution of the Consultative Peace Jirga and the Kabul declarations.
Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban began on September 12, but so far, the two sides have not been able to agree on a strategical policy or procedures for the talks.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] A spokeswoman for the Central Council of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) Saturday said that the coalition will hold consultations meeting its different partners to discuss the formation of the Transitional Legislative Council (TLC).
In line with the constitutional document governing the transitional period, 67% of the 300 parliamentary seats (201) are allocated to the FFC including the SRF.
After, the formation of an independent block for the SRF and the signing of a peace agreement, the share of the FFC in the transitional parliament has been reduced to 55%.or 165 seats while the SRF including Minnawi group gets 75 seats.
The remaining 60 seats will go to SPLM-N al-Hilu group and other groups supporting the revolution but are not part of the above-mentioned blocks.
"The FFC Central Council instructed a committee on the TLC formation to hold meetings with the Resistance® Committees, the National Umma Party, the Sudanese Professionals Association and the Revolutionary Front to discuss the formation of the transitional parliament," Amina Mahmoud FFC Spokeswoman told Sudan Tribune.
It is worth noting that the TLC has to be formed by the FFC and the military component of the Sovereign Council.
SRF groups had objected its formation before the signing of a peace deal and threatened to not sign a peace agreement with the transitional government.
Besides the control of the government action, the legislative body has a key role in the transition towards a democratic rule in Sudan as it has to pass a new constitution and an electoral law ahead of general elections within three years.
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[AlAhram] Ennahda is reportedly witnessing a fierce internal debate between two camps on whether al-Ghannouchi should be allowed to run for a new term as the party’s leader.
A member of Ennahda’s Shura Council in Tunisia resigned on Sunday amid an internal debate in the Islamist party on the future of its leader and parliament speaker Rached al-Ghanounchi, al-Arabiya news TV reported on Sunday.
Lotfy Zaitoun is the second leading figure to leave Ennahda in recent weeks. Amna al-Deredy, a female key cadre in the Islamist party, made a similar move on 21 October, though refusing to give specific reasons on why she took this decision.
Ennahda, which has the largest number of seats in Tunisia’s parliament with 54 seats, is reportedly witnessing a fierce internal debate between two camps on whether al-Ghannouchi should be allowed to run for a new term as the party’s leader.
While one camp strongly backs rewriting the party’s regulations to allow al-Ghannouchi to do so, another one —known as the hundred-leader group— opposes this scenario and wants a transfer of power to take place during the party’s convention that will take place before the end of this year.
According to al-Arabiya, the latter camp issued a statement on 14 October to denounce al-Ghannouchi’s "endeavor to change the basic laws of the movement, and delay the start of preparations for the eleventh convention, that was not held as scheduled, and his [Ghannouchi] announcement that he will be running for the presidential elections in 2024."
Ennahda’s figures, in the same statement, stressed that the regulations of the Islamist group stipulate that its leader can lead it for only two terms, accusing al-Ghannouchi of trying to exclude and harm the reputation of those who signed the statement.
"The situation inside the Ennahda movement is frightening and has reached an unprecedented deterioration in its history, because its leader Rached al-Ghannouchi did not respond to the demands calling him to respect the law, purify the movement’s internal environment, and perform his role and duty in unifying its ranks," said the statement that was read by Tunisian local radio.
Ennahda’s internal crisis began last May when a group of its top-level officials called for the circulation of power on basis of the existing regulations.
This bloc then included, but was not limited to, the shura council’s head Abdel-Karim Harouni; foreign relations officer Rafik Abdel-Salam; politburo officer Nour al-Din al-Arabawi; elections officer Mohsen al-Noweishi; shura council’s deputy head Mokhtar al-Lamoshi; migration officer Fakhr al-Din Sheleq; deputy head of foreign relations officer Soheil al-Shabi and syndicates’ officer Mohammed al-Kalawi.
These tensions eventually led to a long list of resignations in past months amid claims that Ghannouchi enjoys a monopoly over decision-making. The most important one was arguably that of Ennahda’s deputy leader and co-founder Abdel-Fattah Mourou in May.
Both al-Ghannouchi and Mourou, a former presidential candidate, established the so-called Islamic Tendency Movement in 1981, which earned its current name, Ennahda, in 1989 after being legally recognised in 1984.
Al-Ghannouchi is being challenged by both his fellow party members and anti-Islamist political forces in Tunisia. In July, opposition MPs officially submitted a request to hold a vote of no-confidence against al-Ghannouchi after securing the support of 73 MPs, the number of backers required to move forward with the process.
At this point in time, they said they were "fed up with al-Ghannouchi’s suspicious moves and practices," including his "attempt to implement the Moslem Brüderbund's agenda" in Tunisia, accusing him of seeking to expand his authority by disregarding the president.
But they failed to gather the required 109 votes to withdraw confidence from al-Ghannouchi. Only 97 MPs voted for this proposal, while 16 voted against it.
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Ghanouchi was with Bin Laden when Osama tried to force the Saudi Royal Family to deny US bases for Operation Desert Storm. He was a consistent visitor to the Islamist center in Sudan during the period 1991-96. He has been at the heart of the Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood movements since then. Now long in the tooth, he is a survivor of the second generation Muslim Brotherhood. movement.
[Jpost] "The reason is that the association that organizes the book fair has violated the cooperation agreement with Ibn Rushd."
The Swedish city of Malmö has decided to terminate its partnership with the Arab Book Fair after it was revealed that the fair was featuring and promoting antisemitic texts.
"Ibn Rushd terminates cooperation with the Malmö Arab Book Fair," the city of Malmo said, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. "On 28 October 2020, The Ibn Rushd Study Association decided to suspend cooperation with the Arab Book Fair."
"The reason is that the association that organizes the book fair has violated the cooperation agreement with Ibn Rushd," it concluded.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center commended the decision.
The government was alerted to the antisemitic texts after the center penned a letter to Swedish Prime Minister Steafan Lofven, notifying him of their presence.
"It has come to our knowledge that visitors to the book fair's website are offered to buy antisemitic literature, which is completely unacceptable," said Malmö's cultural director Pernilla Conde Hellman at the time. "It goes against everything we stand for — and we therefore choose to immediately terminate the cooperation... and hope that other contributors such as the Swedish National Council for Culture will do the same."
"The City of Malmö has contributed SEK 150,000 [USD 17,000] in project support to the Arab Book Fair," the cultural director added. "We will review whether we can reclaim the already paid support."
Following the suspension, Dr. Shimon Samuels, director for International Relations at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said that he was satisfied with the city's decision but "urged the Malmö municipality to investigate who originally agreed to this generous support and take appropriate measures to ensure that sponsorship for any form of hatred is never repeated."
[KhaamaPress] Pak Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who isn't your heaviest-duty thinker, maybe not even among the top five... , in an interview with Spiegel Magazine, said they have no preferences in Afghanistan and their only interest is the future Kabul government should not allow India to operate against Pakistain from its territory.
He said he had discussed the issue with Abdullah Abdullah ...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president... , chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation; and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... , leader of Hezb-e-Islami leader, according to sources.
Khan further said no one can predict the future of Afghanistan, but what he want to say is that after Afghanistan, Pakistain needs peace the most, reiterating Islamabad’s role in Afghan grinding of the peace processor.
Pakistain sees the Indian government’s active presence in Afghanistan as a threat to its national interests and has repeatedly claimed that Indian intelligence forces are using Afghan territory to strike Pakistain.
While the claim has been repeatedly denied by Kabul and New Delhi, the Afghan government dubs the allegations as an excuse for Islamabad supporting the Taliban ...Arabic for students... Over the years, Kabul and New Delhi have built close ties, Indian government being a major supporter of Afghanistan for the past two decades.
Disputes between India and Pakistain over Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... have led Islamabad to see New Delhi’s presence in Afghanistan as a threat to its national security.
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[Jpost] "The rise in European leaders visiting the Western Wall marks a distinct change from the past."
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, visited Jerusalem's Western Wall during his visit to Israel this week.
At the wall, the minister was greeted by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz as well as Director of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation Mr. Mordechai (Suli) Eliav. Together they prayed for peace in the world in light of the coroanvirus pandemic.
Eliav presented Di Maio with the history of the Western Wall and its importance to the Jewish people, following which the foreign minister placed a note in the cracks of the Wester Wall - as per tradition.
"Many in Italia and in general have changed their relationship with Israel after coming to visit here or after a visit of their leaders in Israel," Di Maio said.
During Di Maio's visit to Israel it was decided that Italia provide Israel with coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... vaccines.
Later after visiting the Di Maio addressed Israel's Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and said that ,"when the vaccine reaches Europe, we will also take care of our friends here in Israel. We are good friends of Israel’s and we will continue to support and assist it."
"May you be able to quickly recover from the situation your country has been facing with the eruption of the second wave of the virus. This is a difficult time for you and for the entire world, but with the power of prayer and faith, we can succeed." Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz said.
"Many European leaders have not come to the Western Wall for prayer in the past, and in the past two years, there has been a marked change and many leaders from Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... have come here, and I bless this change. It contributes toward peace among the nations."
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.
...Arabic for 
...the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against both Karzai and Ghani. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun. He also held the meaningless salaried sop position as CEO of Afghanistan, while Ghani was president...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
