[TOI] Cricket will not be a casualty in the wake of drastic political change in Afghanistan, assured country's cricket board CEO Hamid Shinwari, saying the Taliban "love" and "support" the game. "Hell, they let me live."
Speaking to PTI from Kabul, Shinwari also assured that the members of the national team and their families are safe as the Taliban took over the reins of the country.
Star players including Rashid Khan, Mohammad Nabi and Mujeeb Zadran are playing in the UK in the 'Hundred' tournament.
"Taliban loves cricket. They have supported us since the beginning. They did not interfere in our activities," said Shinwari.
"I don't see any interference and expect support so that our cricket can move forward. We have got an active chairman, I remain CEO until further notice," added the top Afghanistan Cricket Board official.
Cricket's rise in the country coincided with Taliban's rule between 1996 and 2001 with many Afghan refugees in neighbouring Pakistan picking up the sport.
"It can be said that cricket flourished during the Taliban era. It is also a fact that many of our players practised in Peshawar and they made the sport mainstream in Afghanistan.
"The good thing is that we are heading towards normalcy. The people have started working. We will resume our office from tomorrow and the national camp which was underway ahead of the Pakistan series in Sri Lanka will also resume after a two-day break with the change in regime," said Shinwari.
Talking about the players safety, he said: "Other than four or five players who are playing overseas the rest are all in Kabul. Like I said, they are safe and doing fine."
The BCCI Indian Cricket Board
is also keeping an eye on the developments and is hoping to see participation of Afghan players in the India Premier League.
"It is too early to comment but we are keeping a watch. For us, nothing changes and we expect Rashid and other Afghan players would be part of IPL," a BCCI source told PTI.
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We more or less destroyed the Taliban not long after that. it was when we took over the country and tried to make them Democratic that we really failed.
Joe Biden, Commander in Retreat [REDSTATE] The depth of Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... ’s ineptitude is stunning. Nothing he’s done in his first seven months has shown a breadth of competency — but his failure with Afghanistan has moved to the top of the list of failures. Biden made promises he couldn’t keep.Just hours after "guaranteeing " that Kabul would not be a repeat to Saigon 1975, with helicopters evacuating personnel from the roof our embassy, that is precisely what is happening.
Biden issued a paper tiger, "Play nice or I’ll get really mad" warning to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... that, no doubt, was met with ridicule and mocking laughter. The Taliban will do as they wish, likely using the equipment we left behind.
Biden’s stated goal was to be fully out of Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Why he picked that date is incomprehensible. But the Taliban aren’t waiting. They will be in control of Kabul by the end of the week, and our embassy by Sept 1st.
But rest assured, America — the Taliban won’t turn our embassy into ashes when they take it; they will wait to meet Biden’s withdraw date, then in a repeat of what they’ve done to monuments of prior empires, they will immolate those buildings on 9/11.
Well done, Joe.
Joe Biden Blames Donald Trump for Afghanistan Collapse
[BREITBART] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.... issued a statement Saturday blaming former President Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... after the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... rapidly took control of the majority of Afghanistan’s major cities."When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor," Biden wrote, complaining that Trump negotiated a deal "that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001."
Biden also noted that Trump had set the troop withdrawal date of May 1 and reduced troop levels to 2,500.
The president said he had the choice of either following through with Trump’s withdrawal plan or sending more troops back into Afghanistan to secure the country.
But Biden set a later date for withdrawal, choosing a new deadline of September 11th before walking it back to August 31.
"I was the fourth President to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan—two Republicans, two Democrats," he said. "I would not, and will not, pass this war onto a fifth."
On Saturday, Biden announced his decision to surge 5,000 American troops into Afghanistan to help ensure the safe evacuation of American personal.
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To be memory holed by 99% of the Democrat-infotainment complex. Try to find any pics of the World Trade Center jumpers in the main stream media or the aftermath when they hit the ground.
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Reality: That thing that doesn't go away when you ignore it.
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Bdet just flew in from Camp David on Marine One and landed at Ft. McNair? Why, it was just on the old parade ground in the center of the fort. What would cause them to go the the Fort next to the Navy Yard which actually has a formal helipad? ANd then a traditional ground motorcade to the White House? Why do I think MANPAD threat forced an unexpected alternative landing zone at the last minute? Anyone?
[Palmieri Report] According to Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec, the Biden White House is descending into fighting among rival staffers.
He said that Biden’s Chief of Staff wanted to get Biden back to the White House.
Jill Biden blocked it.
Kamala refused to do a press conference because she is focused on Haiti and not Afghanistan.
Ron Klain wanted Biden to rush back to DC yesterday afternoon to the Situation Room but Jill stepped in saying that Biden could ‘project his leadership’ from anywhere, per WH official
#4
I watched Bidet's address, it sure seems like either they got his meds just right or this situation has scared him straight. He blamed only the Afghans for what's happening and insisted we have to fight mideast terrorism from "over the horizon" from now on. If sure came off like somebody realized this had to go note perfect or else.
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Thank you for watching it, M., so we don’t have to. Nice that someone got the words right for him to say, since nobody over there is getting the actions right.
#7
I watched it as well for reasons I am not entirely certain of or reconciled to. It was very decent of him to explain to the simple populace that he had decided to leave Afghanistan and he didn't much care what anybody thought of it. What a guy!
Of course there wasn't any discussion of the mass of functional equipment left behind, classified and not. The effective grounding of the Afghan Air force by his personal order, although he held out great disdain for their performance. Then he graciously explained that the current mission was 'not without risk'. So much to learn and apprehend.
All in all a typical self congratulatory dem speech although I begin to suspect somewhere a straw man has thrown his back out under the strain of that Overton Window.
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The address was pathetic. He very briefly allowed that "events unfolded more quickly than we anticipated" but otherwise accepted no responsibility for a totally botched and humiliating withdrawal.
He talked on and on and on about how the mission should never have been nation building, that we shouldn't have to fight their civil war for them so he stood by his decision to withdraw. Fair enough.
But running off to Camp David while the Taliban moved into Kabul and US embassy staff desperately attempted to destroy evidence and safely evacuate was unforgivable. It projected an image of a president who is old and tired, detached from reality and taking orders from his wife. It discourages our friends and emboldens our enemies.
I still say he should resign.
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Well, in one respect, they wasted what may have been one of his better performances by having it during working hours on a Monday. Lots of people will see only snippets on the news tonight. Got to wonder if that's because they knew he wouldn't do so well at say 7-8 pm tonight.
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M. Murcek, that just goes to show they never know when Joe will have a good day anymore.
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wouldn't do so well at say 7-8 pm tonight That is the time when the chronically demented start "sundowning".
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Most of the post mortems are focusing on the horrible optics of Joe taking no questions and leaving immediately to resume his vacation at Camp David.
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The sorry SOB neglected to mention that he was VP under Soetoro for 8 long years of the AFG mess. He alluded to all possible scenarios closely examined and everything essentially going as planned. No mention of the recommendation of military advisors, diplodinks or staff. We must give him WOKE points for the mention of the plight of Afghan "women and girls"....no mention of dancing boys. Said "buck stops here" but went on to blame the host government and people. No sign of Kam, which was a definite plus.
Failing grades all around. Back to bed following an exhausting brief.
[PJ Media] As the Taliban moves into Kabul and demands the unconditional surrender of the central government, Taliban commander Muhammed Arif Mustafa told CNN: "It’s our belief that one day, mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world. We are not in a hurry. We believe it will come one day. Jihad will not end until the last day." The CNN "journalist," demonstrating yet again its spectacular misunderstanding of the conflict (which, of course, is shared by the U.S. foreign policy establishment), followed that with "It’s a chilling admission from a group that claims it wants peace." The Taliban does indeed want peace. It wants the peace that will follow the world’s submission to the hegemony of Islamic law.
Muhammed Arif Mustafa was stating plainly what the U.S. State Department steadfastly ignored for twenty years: the fact that the Taliban views itself as the exponents in 21st-century Afghanistan of a fourteen-hundred-year-old conflict, one that is as old as Islam itself. The History of Jihad details how Muslims in Afghanistan and the world over have waged this jihad without any interruption throughout that entire period, with the goal that the Taliban commander enunciated: to establish the rule of Islamic law anywhere and everywhere possible.
This imperative was often energized by grievances, but was never, contrary to State’s assumption, built on grievances alone. The Qur’an commands: "And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is all for Allah." (8:39) Some might think that because the Taliban is ending what they perceive as "persecution" — that is, the American presence — in Afghanistan, it will lay down its arms. This is once again a fundamental misunderstanding. The Taliban, and other groups like it, will fight on "until religion is all for Allah." Within Afghanistan, this will take the form of a ferocious and merciless persecution of women who do not obey Islam’s veiling laws, and of anyone else who dares to violate the strictures of Islam in any way. And outside Afghanistan, the Taliban will do all it can to aid jihad groups elsewhere, as it aided al-Qaeda to prepare for the jihad attacks in New York and Washington on September 11, 2001.
No one in Washington or among American forces in Afghanistan ever showed any sign of understanding this. In an interview with ABC News back in 2010, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan at the time, Gen. David Petraeus, "conceded that a successful counterinsurgency campaign could take up to 10 more years, but said he intended to stick to the 2011 drawdown date."
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But, no worries! THE CIA and Pentagon are laser focused on domestic extremists, white supremacists, mask deniers, fake hate crimes and 1/6 insurrectionists.
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The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001 as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Communists were systematically executed under their regime.
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Next time the Taliban kills a bunch of Americans we should repeat what we did when we took over Afghanistan (SF with laser pointers and B-52) but avoid the whole occupation part. Then just repeat that as often as necessary.
[NPASYRIA] Five years after the expulsion of ISIS from the city of Manbij, north Syria, Mustafa al-Hameidi recalls scenes of beheading in full view of all and a way of living and thinking "similar to the pre-Islamic era," as he described it, during ISIS’s control of his city.
On August 15, the Manbij Military Council, supported by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led Global Coalition’s air coverage, managed to expel ISIS from the city of Manbij after more than two-month battles.
"During the control of ISIS, we were living in a way similar to the pre-Islamic era in terms of clothes, the way of thinking and living," al-Hameidi said.
He did not adapt to this situation, so he was imprisoned several times on various charges such as smoking, being late for prayer, failure to wear short clothes or shave the head.
When ISIS controlled the city, it imposed strict laws restricting basic personal freedoms. It specified a special dress for women and prohibited smoking, hookah, mobile phones, and all intellectual and cultural activities.
Al-Hameidi was forced to accept all laws imposed on residents and implement them to avoid imprisonment every time.
"A scene keeps haunting me. It was when I saw a gathering in the market and went to find out what was happening. I was shocked and felt as the life has stopped when I saw a member of ISIS beheading a civilian in his twentieth for blasphemy ...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran... ," he added.
"Life does not matter to me anymore after this scene. I was afraid to go to the market due to the barbarian scenes I used to see each time I went there," he stated.
"The one who lived in Manbij during that time is still haunted by nightmares he cannot escape," he referred.
Al-Hameidi never imagined that ISIS may get out of the city especially after it controlled wide areas of Syria and Iraq amid no objection of any of the countries calling for "fighting terrorism and liberating the people."
"ISIS entered Manbij through the Ottoman Turkish-controlled city of Jarablus and extended to other regions they used to control at the time," al-Hameidi pointed out.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[REDSTATE] The depth of 
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect hacked up by the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
