[IPSnews] Afghan girls have been denied the right to attend school and university since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took power in August 2021. But as if this was not tragic enough, many girls have also been forced to marry too early in life.
A combination of poverty and the fear of girls being forced to marry the islamist fighters of the Taliban movement are the main reasons behind the increasing rate of teenage marriages in the country. In order to save them from the Taliban, a group that violates their basic human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , parents would rather marry off their underage daughters elsewhere.
Forced marriage of underage girls has been practiced in Afghanistan before but it has increased significantly since the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, twenty years after they were ousted by the U.S troops.
The Taliban have forcefully married dozens of girls, often using intimidation, coercion, and death threats. Also, the covid pandemic, closing of schools, the disappearance of employment opportunities for women and the harsh economic situation has forced families to marry off their teenage daughters in order to cope. The dowry received from the marriage helps to feed the rest of the family for some time.
According to the UN Childrens’ Fund UNICEF, girls are sold into marriage even as babies. UNICEF estimates that 28 per cent of girls are forced into marriage before they turn 18.
"I have even seen girls married off at the age of 14 in one of the northern provinces", says Zainab (name changed), a woman screeching muppet. She is deeply concerned about girls marrying under-age, saying it is violence against teenage girls.
The Taliban have resorted to kidnapping girls and threatening them with forced marriage. Besides, the Taliban gather information on the number of unmarried girls in a family and if there are any, they want them for marriage.
They send forms to be filled out in the mosques, particularly requesting for information on girls aged between 13 and 18, according to Zainab. Families would therefore give up their daughters to relatives for marriage rather than let them fall into the hands of strangers.
In Kabul and in other provinces, members of Taliban have even threatened to kill family members of under-age girls who refuse to give their daughters up for marriage and have forced teenage girls to marry men with two or three wives. Young and educated girls have had haunting experience from such cases.
"My friend is 15 years", narrates Maria (name changed), "a Taliban commander of over 50 years, and already married to two wives came and proposed to her. She turned him down. The girl’s family had to flee in the night to a hiding place without even taking their belongings".
In another case, Marwa (name changed) in Kabul said a member of the Taliban had sent her first wife to her family to propose to a 10th grade girl, threatening to kill their son if they refuse to give up their daughter for marriage. The teenage girl’s father had no option but to hand her over. She was 30 years younger than the man.
The #Taliban government is trying to take charge of more #Afghan embassies abroad, a spokesman says, amid their continued international isolation because of restrictions on women and girls.https://t.co/AUKfuzZW21
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The guy on the right has matched an argyle sweater with cameo pants and is wearing a toastada mold on his head. I would ask to inspect his AK and then turn him over to Ahmed for a reasonable suspicion urinalysis.
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I've seen worse coming out at fashion shows.
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There's obviously no connection between kiddies starving to death and the Leader of the Revolution®'s preparedness for a ninth year of pointless warfare. [HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) warned that millions of children face an increased risk of malnutrition in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... if funds are not urgently allocated to the conflict-plagued Arab country, where one child dies every ten minutes.The UN children’s agency said in a statement on Friday that among the 11 million children in need of humanitarian assistance in war-torn Yemen, "more than 540,000 children under the age of five suffer from severe, life-threatening acute malnutrition", presstv reported.
"And a child dies (on average) every ten minutes from preventable causes," it added.
The organization noted it "urgently needs $484 million" in 2023 to continue its intervention in this country, the poorest on the Arabian Peninsula, devastated by more than eight years of war.
ICYMI: The Iran-backed #Houthis in #Yemen say they are imposing severe restrictions on #UN and other humanitarian flights arriving in the capital, Sanaa between March 25-30, adding that they will allow such flights in the capital only on Fridays.https://t.co/HlFfPGGZvA
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The leader of the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i revolution, Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... , announced on Saturday Yemen’s readiness to continue confronting the Saudi-led coalition in the ninth year.
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"The Americans, through their tools, seek to occupy our country and control the sources of its oil wealth and its strategic locations to be used as military bases," he said.
Not even John Bolton or Lindsey Graham are proposing occupying Yemen.
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[ANInews] Pakistan has been known for its perennial support to the Taliban in Afghanistan and other terrorist organizations in India and continues to sponsor terrorist outfits along the Line of Control (LoC).
A recent incident in which three terrorists opened fire at a rally of the Jammu and Kashmir National Students Federation (JKNSF) and National Awami Party (NAP) at Tatrinote in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) on March 18 proves that the Pak army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) continue to patronize such terrorist organizations.
Notably, these three terrorists were granted pre-arrest bail with a bond of Pakistani Rs 50000/- each. PoK-based nationalists alleged that terrorists carried out the said attack at the instance of the army and ISI.
One of the said terrorists involved in open firing at the rally was released from an Afghan prison immediately after the Taliban takeover of Kabul - Waqar Sabir, r/o Tatrinote.
Prior to joining Afghan Taliban in their so-called jihad against the US, he had been active as a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) commander. During the war against the US, he had been arrested. He was one of those JeM terrorists, who had been released from the Afghan jails along with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists.
Following his release from the Afghan jail, Waqar Sabir arrived at Rawalakot on August 22, 2021. On arrival, he was accorded a grand welcome by JeM and other terrorist and Islamist organisations and brought to Tatrinote in a rally.
Moreover, Pakistan is yet to show sincerity in delivering justice to the families of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Multiple terrorist attacks were witnessed on November 26, 2008, in Mumbai. As many as 166 people, including 20 security force personnel and 26 foreign nationals, were killed and over 300 people were injured.
The country, in which sectarian groups targeting minority communities (Shias, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Ahmadis) and Kashmir-focused groups confined their operations to J-K and the rest of India, has become a victim of its own holy war as a consequence of the 'unholy alliance' between the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency, military and self-styled religious scholars.
This historic alliance has resulted in colossal rise of radical Islam being a factor in the country's proclivity to Islamic fundamentalism.
To sustain the Kashmir movement at minimal cost, the ISI plans to cause disaffection and alienation, play the Islam-in-danger card, highlight the non-performance of the elected government and atrocities allegedly committed by the security forces.
Moreover, a crisis in Kashmir constitutes an excellent outlet for the frustration at home, an instrument for the mobilisation of the masses, as well as gaining the support of the Islamist parties and primarily their loyalists in the military and the ISI.
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Pakistan is not getting the bang for their buck out of their terrorism sponsorship. They should have the terrorists wear Pakistan patches on their obliteration garb and or include a short Pakistan ad read during their Martyrdom videos. Send someone from the ISI to a marketing class for goodness sake.
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Rule of thumb: When Pakistan increases its activity in J&K, internal problems -- political, military -- are rampant. (In that failed state, economic and religious problems are constant.)
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraq halted crude exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and northern Kirkuk fields on Saturday, an oil official told Rooters, after the country won a longstanding arbitration case against The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... Turkey informed Iraq that it will respect the arbitration ruling, a senior Iraqi oil official said.
Ottoman Turkish shipping officials informed Iraqi employees at Turkey’s Ceyhan oil export hub that no ship will be allowed to load Kurdish crude cargoes without the approval of the Iraqi government, according to a document seen by Rooters.
Turkey subsequently halted the pumping of Iraqi crude from the pipeline that leads to Ceyhan, a separate document seen by Rooters showed.
On Saturday, Iraq stopped pumping oil through its side of the pipeline which runs from its northern Kirkuk oil fields, one of the officials told Rooters.
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[jJpost] The Prime Minister's son shared an article from alt-right website Breitbart, in which it alleges that the US is funding protests to topple Netanyahu.
We allege it, too, because it is true.
The US State Department is funding the anti-government, anti-judicial reform protests in Israel, a series of tweets and retweets shared by Yair Netanyahu on Friday claim.
In one tweet shared by the prime minister's son, it was suggested that the Americans are behind the protests against the legal revolution that is taking place in Israel. This, according to the tweet, was in order to pressure the Prime Minister to reach an agreement with the Iranians.
The tweet shared by Netanyahu Jr. read: "The American State Department is behind the protests in Israel, with the aim of overthrowing Netanyahu, apparently in order to conclude an agreement with the Iranians. Is there a Shin Bet in this country?"
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I have nothing upon which to base my belief in this except my intuitive sense that it is exactly what I believe about the current administration and the ValJar influence on the Magic Kenyan et al.
[IsraelTimes] Plan backed by Jordan would seek to reduce violence during arrest raids; but PA said to fear delegitimization for cooperating with Israel.
Israel and Jordan recently offered the Paleostinian Authority a pilot program that would leave security responsibility over a single West Bank city entirely in the hands of the PA, in an attempt to reduce tensions caused by recent deadly Israeli raids, according to a Thursday report.
According to an unsourced Channel 12 news report, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan’s King Abdullah II secretly discussed the proposal in their meeting in January. The plan would reportedly see Paleostinian security forces given sole responsibility for conducting arrests of suspected terror operatives and maintaining law and order in either the city of Tulkarem or Qalqilya, thereby avoiding violent mostly peaceful, often deadly festivities between locals and Israeli troops.
If the pilot were successful, it could then be expanded to other cities, the report said.
According to Channel 12, the PA was uninterested in the offer, believing that it would weaken its already-dire status in the eyes of many Paleostinians, as they would be seen as fully cooperating with Jerusalem on arrests.
Although Tulkarem and Qalqilya are part of Area A — West Bank land under PA civilian and security control — the IDF regularly enters the territory to conduct arrests.
Such incursions have increased significantly over the past year as Israel has sought to combat an ongoing terror wave stemming largely from the northern West Bank, where the PA has lost significant control.
And whose fault is it that they got this far, General Milley?
[IsraelTimes] Milley says Tehran would still require several more months to assemble weapon for use, states US military has developed ’multiple options’ for leadership to consider if needed
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... could produce enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon within two weeks and would only need several additional months to assemble the weapon for use, US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley said Thursday.
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It seems like we have been getting the two week call for several years now. I suspect that their first crack at acquiring yellow cake might have been a bulk Betty Crocker purchase via Amazon.
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my thoughts exactly super hose. Add the hysteria imbed onto this one. If they were really gonna have the material in 2 weeks then I believe Mossad would know and the IAF would have a response.
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[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil has said that the FPM wants "a president who would confront the establishment to stop its crimes, not one who would be part of it and a continuation of its course."
"His decisions should come from his head, not from others. We want a president who would turn 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... into an axis instead of placing it on the axes of conflicts that do no concern it. We want a president who would confront nations and reject the stay of the displaced and refugees, one who does not remain silent if threatened by an ambassador," Bassil added, during the FPM’s annual dinner.
"We want a president who knows that the presidency is a responsibility, work, exhaustion and sleepless nights. He needs to have a knowledge of all files, from economy to finance and laws, and to understand that the presidential palace is a workplace and not a casino," Bassil went on to say.
Separately, Bassil warned against "any partitioning adventure that some might think of."
"Lebanon cannot be partitioned and it can do without more failed experiences and tried adventures. Christians are not an experiment field for the conspiracies of some parties, and on our part we will not only reject that but will rather confront and prevent any sabotage scheme on the ground that would lead to destruction," the FPM chief added.
"At the same time we reject the postponement of broad decentralism under the false excuse that it is partitioning or federalism," Bassil went on to say.
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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
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