[Dhaka Tribune] The National Awami Party (NAP Bhasani) has cut off ties with the BNP-led 19-party alliance as its leaders have failed to persuade the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... to leave some vice-chairman posts in the upazila elections.
A day before making an announcement in this regard, the party along with some other organizations on Sunday formed a human chain in front of the National Press Club protesting BNP Chairperson the loathesome Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... and her son Tarique Rahman ...the elder son of former President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman Bir Uttam, and Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He is the Senior Vice Chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). His nickname is Pino. There are allegations that Pino took a rakeoff from every foreign investment into the country while Mom was in office... 's claim that party founder Ziaur Rahman was the first president of the country.
However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the party claimed that they did not join the human chain programme.
When asked about the reason behind the decision taken by the NAP, BNP assistant office secretary Abdul Latif Jony said he does not know anything about it.
Few months ago, Jatiya Party ...aka Jatiya Front; a political party established by Bangladictator Lieutenant General Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986 to lend a veneer of respectability to his rule. Since nobody was amused he was forced to resign by popular demand in 1990. The party remains in existence with about a dozen seats in Bangla's parliament... leader Kazi Zafar Ahmed joined the BNP-led 18-party combine and then it turned into a 19-party alliance.
At a presser held at the National Press Club in the city yesterday, NAP President Sheikh Anwarul Haque said that they severed relations with the BNP-led alliance as his party was with the combine in name only.
"We are cutting off ties with the alliance to strengthen our party at grass roots level. We do not have any conflict with the BNP or any other party in the alliance," he told the Dhaka Tribune.
The party was not getting proper evaluation from the alliance, the NAP chief said at the presser.
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[IBTIMES.CO.UK] One of Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... 's closest ex-advisers has claimed that the ex-KGB agent ultimately wants to reclaim Finland for Russia.
Andrej Illiaronov, Putin's economic adviser between 2000 and 2005 and now senior member of the Cato Institute think tank, said that "parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States and Finland are states where Putin claims to have ownership."
"Putin's view is that he protects what belongs to him and his predecessors," he said.
When asked if Putin wishes to return to the Russia of the last tsar, Nicholas II, Illiaronov said: "Yes, if it becomes possible."
Illiaronov admits that Finland is not Putin's primary concern at present but, if not stopped in other areas of Eastern Europe, the issue will one day arise. Russian troops are currently massing on the eastern border of Ukraine, following Russia's recent annexation of Crimea.
"Putin said several times that the Bolsheviks and Communists made big mistakes. He could well say that the Bolsheviks in 1917 committed treason against Russian national interests by providing Finland's independence," Illiaronov told a Swedish news website.
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I'm curious why Illarionov and Putin are no longer BFFs. A little axe-grinding going on?
This story is being shopped around, but I don't buy it. Finland might have been useful during WWII, but it isn't a strategic necessity today like Crim, and Putin already has that.
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There might be more than a few Simo Häyhäs around to discourage that idea.
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See WORLD NEWS > [Ria Novosti] CRIMEA [accession/annexation by Russia] HAS DEFEATED COLD WAR THINKING - EXPERT.
KARIL KOKTYSH, Political Scientist wid Moscow State's Institute of International Relations.
NO MORE "COLD WARS" IN THIS AGE OF OWG GLOBALISM, ONLY EITHER "LUKEWARM/WARM WARS" OR WORSE "HOT WARS", more popularly known as "NOT taking 'NO'! for an answer".
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [NPR] RUSSIANS BEYOND RUSSIA'S BORDERS SPELL TROUBLE FOR EASTERN EUROPE.
The EU at one time was supposed to dev its own ALL-EURO, EU-ONLY military counterpart or equivalent to the US-led NATO, but that idean never got off the ground as due to the Euro financial crisis.
[AnNahar] French public deficit and debt in 2013 were higher than previous government estimates, official data showed on Monday, dealing a fresh blow to President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... a day after disastrous local polls.
French public deficit stood at 4.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), compared with 4.9 percent the previous year, according to data released by the INSEE statistics agency. Previous government estimates said it would stand at 4.1 percent.
Public debt meanwhile amounted to 93.5 percent of GDP, compared with 90.6 percent the previous year. The government earlier estimated it would stand at 93.4 percent of GDP.
The figures dealt a further blow to beleaguered Hollande, who on Monday was reeling from catastrophic local election results that saw his Socialist party trounced by the center-right UMP as well as gains for the far-right National Front.
La Belle France is the eurozone's second-biggest economy, and the state of its finances are closely watched by its partners, in particular economic powerhouse Germany.
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French public deficit stood at 4.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), compared with 4.9 percent the previous year, according to data released by the INSEE statistics agency. Previous government estimates said it would stand at 4.1 percent.
Public debt meanwhile amounted to 93.5 percent of GDP, compared with 90.6 percent the previous year. The government earlier estimated it would stand at 93.4 percent of GDP.
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Wehell, iff any Frenchies are wondering or fearing how their Govt. in Paris may justify applying France's new anti-Rich high tax rates/brackets to the not-Rich French mainstream = lower classes, WELL WONDER NO MORE!
[AnNahar] A hail of gunfire rings out as a group of soldiers leap from a helicopter, do a combat roll, crouch and open fire.
Running through a haze of smoke, clambering up and down ropes and engaging in hand-to-hand combat: Ukraine's newly-formed National Guard is hard at work learning to defend the crisis-hit country.
At a military base in Novi Petrivtsi north of Kiev the recruits are showing off their new skills to the country's interim President Oleksandr Turchynov, many of them drawn from the protesters whose uprising led to the fall of the previous government.
As loud kabooms in the distance shake the ground, black-clad men rappel off a roof into the windows of a building, demonstrating special operations tactics.
"Are all of them volunteers?" Turchynov turns and asks Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, who confirms that they are.
Thousands have signed up to be part of the National Guard, created in early March as Russia seized control of the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea and massed troops on Ukraine's eastern border.
Moscow's moves came after Turchynov and his pro-European government swept to power on the back of a deadly popular uprising that ousted Ukraine's Kremlin-friendly regime.
Amid fears in Kiev and abroad that Russia may attempt further seizures of Ukraine's heavily-Russified east, the country has been forced to take stock of a long-neglected army.
Before the crisis, Ukraine's underfunded force consisted of about 130,000 soldiers, half of them conscripts, with ageing and limited equipment.
And as a result of Russia's annexation of Crimea where Ukraine's maritime forces were based, the country's military assets were decimated by the loss of warships, helicopters and fighter jets as well as some 15,000 troops who decided to defect to the Russian army.
Mykola Sungurovskiy, a military expert at Kiev's Razumkov research center said Ukraine's current army could "repel enemy forces in two or three directions but not a massive attack."
At Kiev's Independence Square, the crucible of the protest movement, massive posters urge people to sign up to the new unit.
Avakov told journalists at the military base that some 32,000 permanent troops had joined the new force, with 20,000 reserves.
"How do you feel here? Are you well fed?" Turchynov asks a group of recruits who have just finished pulling themselves along monkey bars. "Yes, everything is okay," they answer enthusiastically.
He moves on to inspect a line of soldiers in full military regalia, bayonets glinting in the spring sun as an army band begins to play.
Next, an inspection of an array of assault rifles, sniper rifles, rocket launchers and riot gear such as bulletproof vests and shields, all made in Ukraine.
"These things are five times cheaper than foreign-made items," an officer tells Turchynov.
Further on, an experimental spy drone whizzes above the president's head.
The drone, like much of the armament and material on display, is not yet in service by the army. It will be up to the government elected on May 25 to adopt a budget allowing for their purchase, an officer explains to Agence La Belle France Presse.
Along with the creation of the National Guard, Ukraine's interim authorities approved more than $600 million (435 million euros) in emergency military funding, a significant boost to what in 2012 was a military budget of around $2 billion, or 1.1 percent of GDP, according to defense ministry figures.
"The National Guard of Ukraine was created in a dramatic period," Turchynov told news hounds. "In peacetime it should protect citizens from danger and crime. In times of war it should resist the enemy's army and defend the country."
Russia was reported to be withdrawing some of its troops from Ukraine's borders after a flurry of diplomatic activity, but new recruits like Oleksandr, 20, say they are "ready for any eventuality".
Those who battled riot police in the winter protests that left around 100 dead have swapped their tents on Independence Square for khaki military tents in Novi Petrivtsi.
Morale is high among the ragtag group, some with beards and others with a Cossack-style haircut featuring hair sprouting from the top of the head but shaven on the sides.
"If there was no external threat to the country from Russia I would not be here, but Russia could attack so I am needed," said 22-year-old Vasyl, who was a builder before joining the protest movement.
Vadym, 31, originally from the western city of Lviv, said he was an engineer before quitting his job to join the revolution.
"If need be I am ready to fight," he told AFP. "I am not sure that I will stay if Russia does not attack us but I want to remain in the reserves.
"We do exercises for 18 hours every day so I think we are ready to defend Ukraine. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin should think twice before attacking us."
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These people are determined to live free. Saw that wh en they took on the recent regime. They made daring, aggressive assaults taking key targets during the riots. Russia should hope they are only checked by these people, and that they do not go aggressive and head straight into Moscow.
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Injun. You don't kknow about what you are spaking of. Thes peole dream about Greater Ukarania, that means regions including regions who never had an Ukranian majority since Genghis Khan and are Ukranian only because Stalin decided so seventy years ago, portions of Belarus and Poland. Also the Svoboda party, one of the main componets of the "Good Guys" carries flags who look conspicuously like the Nazi flag.
[AnNahar] The United States said Monday it would welcome any Russian move to pull its forces back from the Ukrainian frontier, but did not confirm reports that it has begun to do so.
"If reports that Russia is removing some troops from the border region are accurate, it would be a welcome preliminary step," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
"We would urge Russia to accelerate this process," she added, in a statement issued during U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... 's visit to Israel.
"We also continue to urge Russia to engage in a dialogue with the government in Kiev to de-escalate the situation, while respecting the illusory sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine."
U.S. officials said that Kerry had spoken to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov by telephone from his plane before arriving in Israel.
Earlier, Ukraine had reported that Russian troops had partially pulled back from its border, reducing fears that Moscow may launch an operation to grab more territory from its neighbor.
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See also REUTERS > RUSSIA WARNS KIEV AGZ NATO INTEGRATION. NATO SAYS THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF RUSSIAN TROOP WITHDRAWAL FROM UKRAINE BORDER, WILL CONSIDER ALL OPTIONS.
* OTOH BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Guardian.UK] NATO PLANS STRONGER MILITARY TIES WID EX-SOVIET STATES SOUTH OF RUSSIA.
Azerbaijan, Armenia, + Moldova.
RELATED WORLD NEWS > [Baltimore Sun] US TO STRESS SUPPORT FOR CENTRAL ASIA AFTER CRIMEA.
* RIA NOVOSTI > NATO WILL NOT CONSIDER DIRECT MILTARY AID TO UKRAINE - SOURCE.
* WAFF > [HuffPo] ONLY 29% OF AMERICANS WOULD SU.PPORT PROTECTING TURKEY FROM RUSSIA.
UK = 56%.
France = 48%.
Ukraine =22%.
Taken collectively, the above MSM-Net ARtics tell me that the World/International JudeoChristian Nations are PREEMPTIVELY? ENTRENCHING IN SELECT OR STRATEGIC PLACES AGZ SOON-TO-BE-NUCLEAR MUSLIM NATIONS [OWG Global Co-Superpowers] AS WELL AS AGZ RADICAL ISLAM'S GLOBAL-JIHAD-HAPPY HARD BOYZ.
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On a personal note, as a Citizen-Resident of GUAM-WESTPAC = OCEANIA I'm more interested in seeing iff what happens in the Ukraine-Crimea Crisis will affect or spillover into Asia-Pacific vee US-VS-CHINA GEOPOL RIVALRY INCLUD AS PER OWG GLOBALISM.
CHINA-DESIRED TAIWAN = RUSSIA-DESIRED CRIMEA [Ukraine, etal.] = STRATEGIC MIL "CENTCOMS" FOR THE PROJECTION OF GEOPOL = MILPOL POWER-N-INFLUENCE, ETC.
* E.G. WORLD NEWS > [Asia Times] CRIMEA SETS DANGEROUS PRECEDENT FOR ASIA.
* VOICE OF RUSSIA > UKRAINE'S LOSS OF TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IS NOT RUSSIA'S FAULT:FOREIGN MINISTRY.
IT WON'T BE CHINA'S OR IRAN'S EITHER IN THEIR PART OF THE WORLD.
* GLOBAL TIMES > PHILIPPINES [ + only the PHIL?] MUST TAKE CONSEQUENCES FOR PROVOCATION: CHINA.
* TOPIX > [NPR] NOT AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE: RUSSIA'S PETITION TO TAKE ALASKA BACK FROM US.
Will the Bammer = USA honor his own "red lines" anywhere around the world.
GUAM-WESTPAC, HAWAII? = UKRAINE-CRIMEA = "NO MAN'S LAND" CONTESTED BETWEEN COMPETING HISTORIC GREAT POWERS + NOW OWG-NWO SPECIFIC, PRO-US-VS-ANTI-US GLOBALIST BLOCS = OWG GLOBAL FEDERAL UNIONS.
Its a Mushroom Cloud(s) for everyone iff the Globies miscalculate, espec agz Nuclear Islam includ Nuclear Global Jihad/Hard Boyz.
[Ynet] Turkish PM tells enemies they will pay price after poll indicates his AK Party well ahead in overall vote considered referendum.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan declared victory in local polls that had become a referendum on his rule and said he would "enter the lair" of enemies who have accused him of corruption and leaked state secrets. "They will pay for this," he said.
But while Erdogan's AK Party was well ahead in overall votes after Sunday's elections, the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) appeared close to seizing the capital Ankara.
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[AnNahar] Some recoil at his name, while others still refuse to acknowledge his popularity. India's Moslems have watched the rise of election frontrunner Narendra Modi anxiously and are now united in their wariness.
Many of the worshippers at the Jama Masjid Terhi Bazaar mosque in Ayodhya, a kilometer from India's most notorious religious flashpoint, were too young to remember the 1992 riots which left more than 2,000 people dead.
Not Mohammad Sageer, a teenager at the time of India's worst post-independence violence.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A group of young lawyers on Monday gave a good thrashing to a litigant, allegedly for trying to enter the Lahore High Court Bar Association's Kiyani Hall that had restricted entry.
Muhammad Rasheed of Okara visited the high court to attend hearing of a bail matter and during the break time he tried to enter Kiyani Hall, a place reserved for the bar members.
As the bar's security staff stopped the litigant at the hall's gate, he insisted on entering the hall. Some young lawyers standing nearby intervened into the matter and asked Rasheed to go away. The litigant allegedly misbehaved with the lawyers too, and had an exchange of harsh words wit them.
According to eyewitnesses, the lawyers got infuriated and started thrashing Rasheed who fell unconscious. He was shifted to Mayo Hospital in an ambulance.
Later, bar president Shafqat Mahmood Chohan issued a blurb, saying an unidentified man tried to forcibly enter Kiyani Hall and misbehaved and beat senior lawyers when they tried to stop him.
Chohan formed a committee headed by vice-president Amir Jalil Siddiqui to probe into the incident and identify the man. It will furnish its report on the issue within a week.
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[DAWN] HYDERABAD: A clash took place at the Sindh University (SU) Jamshoro campus on Monday when police and Rangers stopped activists of the Jeay Sindh Students Federation (JSSF) coming from various universities were stopped from holding a public meeting and taking out a rally in violation of a ban.
Activists of the JSSF, affliliated with the banned Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), from the Sindh University, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology and Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, were about to hold a public meeting on the campus to observe 'Yaum-e-Sindh' but the law-enforcement agencies intervened to implement the ban.
Police said that some of the activists started pelting the law-enforcement agencies personnel and vehicles. Police first used batons and then had gun sex to disperse them, they said.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the situation aggravated as the activists continued to make attempts to take out a rally and attack the LEA personnel.
In the ensuing crackdown, 25 activists were rounded up on the campus and some other localities of Jamshoro, the police said.
Jamshoro SSP Syed Wasi Hyder said all detained activists belonged to the JSSF who were later booked for destroying peaceful atmosphere on the SU campus.
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[DAWN] The Sindh Assembly Monday demanded the disbandment of the Council of Islamic Ideology while passing a resolution to stop implementation on the CII's earlier decisions, DawnNews reported.
The resolution was moved by Pakistain Mohammedan League-Functional's (PML-F) leader Mehtab Akhtar Rashidi.
The Assembly expressed serious reservations over the recent decisions taken by the CII with regards to women.
It moreover demanded of the federal government that any implementation of the CII's recommendations on underage marriages and DNA tests should be stopped
The CII has come under fire with its controversial statements and rulings.
Earlier this month, the CII had ruled that laws related to minimum age of marriage were un-Islamic and that children of any age could get married if they attain puberty.
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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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[IBTIMES.CO.UK] One of Russian President 
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
