[ToloNews] Recent attacks in Kabul and Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... s that have gone unclaimed have raised questions among Afghans who say it will undermine the ongoing peace efforts in the country.
The Interior Affairs Ministry has blamed Taliban ...Arabic for students... for the attacks, but the group has not grabbed credit for the incidents and has rejected involvement in some of them.
On Tuesday, Kabul, Zabul and Khost witnessed deadly attacks for which no group grabbed credit. At least five non-combatants were killed in Khost, eight in Zabul and five in Kabul, according to local officials.
Taliban committed in their deal with the United States to avoid attacks on big cities. The Khost attack, carried out by seven attackers with three explosive-laden vehicles targeting a police special unit, was similar to those carried out by the Taliban as analysts put it, but the group did not claim responsibility for the attack.
"There were assassination of babus government employees by the Taliban and is still underway. This is not new," said Abdul Bari Ariz, a political analyst, referring to assassinations claimed by the Taliban.
"Some people see their interest in war and destruction," said Abdul Yamin Muzzaffaruddin, former governor of Maidan Wardak.
Afghan security agencies attribute most of these attacks to the Taliban. In most cases, however, the Taliban has denied involvement in the attacks.
"The Taliban has always caused civilian casualties by their explosions, roadside kaboomings and car kabooms," said Tariq Arian, front man for the Ministry of Interior Affairs.
"Some attacks were staged against us and we had the right to defend them, so we defended ourselves," said Mohammad Naeem, front man for the Taliban’s political office in Doha.
Recently the Ministry of Interior Affairs said that the Taliban had formed a 100-member team of assailants to carry out assassinations in cities. In response the Taliban said that the team was assigned to target only employees of security agencies.
[KhaamaPress] While war in the country has intensified since the beginning of intra-Afghan talks in early September, the overall civilian casualty shows a 30 percent drop in 2020 compared to the previous year’s figure, according to a new report released by the UNAMA Tuesday.
"The number of Afghan civilians killed and injured in the conflict has failed to slow since the start of intra-Afghan peace talks, although the overall civilian casualty figure for the first nine months of 2020 dropped by around 30 per cent compared to the same period in 2019," said the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
The Mission’s latest quarterly report documented 5,939 civilian casualties (2,117 killed and 3,822 injured) from January 1st to September 30, 2020. High levels of violence continue with a devastating impact on civilians, with Afghanistan remaining among the deadliest places in the world to be a civilian.
According to the report, child casualties amounted to 31 percent of all civilian casualties in the first nine months of 2020, and women casualties 13 percent, demonstrating more than four out of every ten civilian casualties are children or women.
"While the number of civilian casualties documented is the lowest in the first nine months of any year since 2012, the harm done to civilians remain inordinate and shocking," the report exclaimed.
UNAMA urges all parties to the conflict must do more to protect civilians from harm by urgently reviewing practices and strengthening mitigation measures, as well as working towards an end to the fighting — the only way to definitively stop conflict-related civilian casualties.
"The peace talks will need some time to help deliver peace. But all parties can immediately prioritize discussions and take urgent, and frankly overdue, additional steps to stem the terrible harm to civilians," said Deborah Lyons, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan.
"New thinking and concrete action towards safeguarding civilian life will not only save thousands of families from suffering and grief but it can also help lessen recriminations and, instead, bolster confidence and trust among negotiators," Lyons, who is also head of UNAMA, added.
Totally. How dare Russia tamper with Turkey’s source of factory-farmed terrorists for use in conflicts engineered to fuel Turkey’s expansion in three countries? https://t.co/05IxhOp6Z0
[DAILYTIMES.PK] India on Tuesday introduced new amendments in the country’s land laws for occupied Jammu and 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.... which would enable any Indian citizen to buy property in the territory, local media reported.A notification by the Indian home ministry said that the new law, Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization (Adaptation of Central Laws) Third Order, 2020, would come into effect immediately.
Before the notification, only "permanent residents" of Indian Indian Kashmire could buy property in the region — a clause that now stands removed.
Since last year, after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government abrogated Article 370 of the Indian constitution — which repealed occupied Kashmir’s special status — New Delhi has made several changes in laws pertaining to the occupied territory, granting non-residents the right to get education, jobs and buy property in the region.
The decision comes as Kashmiris observe October 27 as ’Black Day’, when Indian forces took over the valley 73 years ago in 1947.
The new laws were condemned by Minister of States and Frontier Regions (Safron) Shehryar Afridi, who said that the Indian government had introduced a "draconian law [...] on Black Day, reminding how occupant forces of India keeps (sic) on occupying all rights of Kashmiris".
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Indian homesteaders... There is a joke in their somewhere.
No one ought to be discriminated against or hated...
[AlAhram] El-Tayyeb said cartoons insulting to the prophet 'are an explicit act of hostility' against Islam and its prophet
No. No one is entitled not to be mocked, and the followers of the Prophet — in this time of an excess of their primary export —had better start getting used to being at the receiving end of a great deal more of what they have spent for the past century building up while they swanned around thinking that all that money was flowing in their direction because they were so wonderful instead of because of an accident of geography.
Egypt’s Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayyeb called for drafting an international legislation that criminalises acts of hate and discrimination against Moslems worldwide.
El-Tayyeb's call came at a ceremony to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, which was attended by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, and other state and religious officials.
El-Tayyeb said cartoons insulting to the prophet "are an explicit act of hostility" against Islam and its prophet.
Yes. Be grateful we merely mock. We have other options, now that the world does not need your oil as it did only a few years ago.
The grand imam's comments come amid a worldwide Moslem uproar and condemnation of comments by Franch President Francois Macron on Islam as well as calls to boycot French products after Macron defended Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... cartoons deemed offensive to the Prophet Muhammad.
Yes, yes, you’re upset. Get over yourselves — the world just isn’t that into you anymore.
They also come after a Moslem student beheaded earlier this month a French teacher for conducting a classroom discussion on the cartoons, an act which was strongly condemned by Egypt, al-Azhar, and Moslems worldwide.
And his killer was dead shortly thereafter, while his friends and family will first be jailed and then expelled back to whichever shithole spawned them.
Al-Azhar has also condemned the French president's charges that Islam encourages "separatism and isolationism." "Cartoons insulting our great prophet, which are promoted by some newspapers, magazines and even some policies, are absurd. They are a break from all moral restrictions, international customs, and general law."
No, they do not. Sorry.
The grand imam reiterated the condemnation by the Islamic world and religious institutions of the murder of the recent of French teacher in Gay Paree, after he had exhibited anti-prophet cartoons in his classroom, calling the crime a "painful" incident.
"But it is most regrettable and extremely painful to see insulting Islam and Moslems becoming a tool for mobilising votes and being used in election markets," he added.
You don’t kill, and we won’t have to vote with that in mind.
"I am surprised the fire of strife, hatred, and abuse is ignited in countries that have long been chanting that they are the cradle of culture and incubator of civilisation, enlightenment, science, modernity, and human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... ," El-Tayyeb said.
Oh put a sock in it.
He added that these countries had their standards mixed up, as they "hold the lantern of freedom and human rights in one hand and hatred and fire in the other."
El-Tayyeb urged Moslems in Western countries to "abide by peaceful, legal and rational ways to resist hate speech and obtain their legal rights, following the example of the noble prophet."
We remember his treatment of the Quraysh and of the Jews of Medina and the Khaybar. Copying those examples would be unwise.
He also called on them to "positively integrate into these societies," adding that this kind of integration preserves Moslem peoples' religious and cultural identities and protects them from being drawn into the provocations of the far-right movements and racism, as well as political Islamist groups.
During the event, El-Tayyeb announced launching an international platform to inform people about the "prophet of mercy and the messenger of humanity" in many languages.
Dawa? That’s what you’re going with when your horse is becoming weaker by the day?
He also announced an international competition on the manners of Prophet Muhammad and his contributions on the path of love and peace.
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This is yet another proof that the West's weak, apologetic and confused response to provocations and attacks since 1979 (including 9/11) has emboldened our enemies and eroded Western standing and deterrence.
Why should a rising China respect a culture that is masochistically kowtowing before an adversary this sh*tty, wretched and evil?
County fair in the ummah. Big feast.
See a scrawny mad Arab released
Whom they chase without cease
For his love, and a piece,
Always missing: "[cue screams from Mideast as imagination runs wild]"
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Might shoulda went with "semite" instead of "Arab." Probably dead either way.
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Stop acting like savages and the world wills top treating you like savages.
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it 
A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
