[AlAhram] The decree applies to private colleges and universities, which have mushroomed since the Taliban ...Arabic for students... 's first rule ended in 2001
Women attending private Afghan universities must wear an abaya robe and niqab covering most of the face, the Taliban have ordered, and classes must be segregated by sex -- or at least divided by a curtain.
In a lengthy document issued by the Taliban's education authority, they also ordered that female students should only be taught by other women, but if that was not possible then "old men" of good character could fill in.
The decree applies to private colleges and universities, which have mushroomed since the Taliban's first rule ended in 2001.
During that period, girls and women were mostly excluded from education because of rules regarding same-sex classrooms and the insistence they had to be accompanied by a male relative whenever they left the house.
There was no order for women to wear the all-enveloping burqa in the new regulations issued late Saturday, but the niqab effectively covers most of the face anyway, leaving just the eyes exposed.
In recent years burqas and niqabs have largely vanished from the streets of Kabul, but are seen more frequently in smaller cities and towns.
The decree comes as private universities prepare to open on Monday.
"Universities are required to recruit female teachers for female students based on their facilities," the decree said, adding that men and women should use separate entrances and exits.
If it is not possible to hire women teachers, then colleges "should try to hire old men teachers who have a good record of behaviour".
While women now have to study separately, they must also end their lesson five minutes earlier than men to stop them from mingling outside.
They must then stay in waiting rooms until their male counterparts have left the building, according to the decree issued by the Taliban higher education ministry.
"Practically, it is a difficult plan -- we don't have enough female instructors or classes to segregate the girls," said a university professor, who asked not to be named.
"But the fact that they are allowing girls to go to schools and universities is a big positive step," he told AFP.
Afghanistan's new rulers have pledged to be more accommodating than during their first stint in power, which also came after years of conflict -- first the Soviet invasion of 1979, and then a bloody civil war.
They have promised a more "inclusive" government that represents Afghanistan's complex ethnic makeup -- though women are unlikely to be included at the top levels.
Over the past 20 years, since the Taliban were last in power, university admission rates have risen dramatically, particularly among women.
Before the Taliban returned in a lightning military campaign, entering the capital Kabul last month, women studied alongside men and attended seminars with male professors.
But a spate of deadly attacks on education centres in recent years sparked panic.
The Taliban denied being behind the attacks, some of which were claimed by the local chapter of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
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Doesn't Joe love to tell a story about kids stroking his leg hair?
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AOSHQ: A large woman, wearing a sleeveless sun dress, walks into a pub in Wealthwood She raises her right arm, revealing a huge hairy armpit.
She points to all the people sitting at the bar and asks, “What man here will buy a lady a drink?”
The bar goes silent as the patrons try to ignore her. But down at the end of the bar, an old, owl-eyed drunk slams his hand down on the counter and bellows, “Give the ballerina a drink!”
The bartender pours the drink and the woman chugs it down. She turns to the patrons and again points around at all of them, revealing the same hairy armpit, and asks, ‘What man here will buy a lady a drink?”
Once again, the same little ole drunk slaps his money down on the bar and says, “Give the ballerina another drink!”
The bartender approaches the little old drunk and says, “Tell me, Paddy, it’s your own darn business if you want to buy the lady a drink, but why in tarnation do you keep calling her the ballerina?”
The drunk replies, “Any woman who can lift her leg that high has got to be a ballerina!”
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[ToloNews] A day after the arrival in Kabul of the head of the Pakistain Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... (ISI), Lt Gen. Faiz Hamid, the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... on Sunday said that Hamid is in Afghanistan to improve bilateral relations between Kabul and Islamabad.
Earlier, Pak media reported that Hamid was in Kabul at the invitation of the Taliban, but the Taliban said that Pakistain had proposed his visit to Kabul.
Ahmadullah Wasiq, deputy head of the Taliban’s Cultural Commission, said the Taliban leaders talked with Hamid about bilateral relations and the problems of Afghan passengers at Torkham and Spin Boldak passes between Afghanistan and Pakistain.
"This Pak official has come to solve Afghan passengers’ problems at the border areas, especially in Torkham and Spin Boldak. They wanted (his visit to Kabul) and we accepted," Wasiq said.
When asked by a news hound about his visit to Kabul, Hamid said: "Don’t worry, everything will be okay."
Hamid also said that his country will provide technical support for Afghanistan to restart operations at Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ...Former president of Aghanistan, part of the problem not part of the solution... International Airport in Kabul.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... sources close to 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... , the leader of Hizb-e-Islami party, said that Hamid also met with Hekmatyar, and they discussed the current situation in the country.
"Although Hamid says his visit is for Afghanistan-Pakistain issues and for the Afghan passengers, I think his trip to Kabul has caused concerns among the Afghans and it means Pakistain will recognize the government that the Taliban will announce," said Sami Yousufzai, a journalist.
Hamid arrived in Kabul on Saturday and is the only high-ranking foreign official to visit Kabul following the Taliban’s takeover of the city.
Domestic flights resumed from Kabul airport after three weeks of sabotage
[KhaamaPress] Domestic flights from Hamid Karzai International Airport HKIA based in Kabul resumed over twenty days after the Taliban takeover which halted both the domestic and international flights. The first domestic flight was conducted from Kabul to the northern Mazar-e-sharif city on Saturday, September 4. A domestic airlines-De Arian Afghan Airlines- said that two other domestic flights from Kabul were conducted to Herat and Kandahar provinces on Sunday, September 05.
In the meantime, three international flights from Qatar, United Arab Emirate, and Bahrain carrying technical personnel and humanitarian aid have also landed in HKIA over the past four days.
The efforts for activating the HKIA intensified after the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan asked Qatar and Turkey to send their technical team to prepare the airport for domestic and international flights.
Technical personnel from Qatar have arrived but Turkey has set conditions for sending their civil personnel to Kabul. Turkey has said that their civil experts will only provide assistance to HKIA when their military personnel man their security, the suggestion which has been refused by the Taliban.
The biggest international airport in Kabul has been inflicted over $300 million worth of damage by the US troops after they completed 15-evacuation.
Taliban suggests local businesses invest in Afghanistan, increase trade
[KhaamaPress] A key member of the leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and head of the Haqqani network, Khalilurahman Haqqani asked the investors and businessmen to further increase their business activities in Afghanistan.
He had arranged a gathering with the tribal elders of different ethnic groups in Kabul to ask for their support to the IEA.
Officials of the IEA also said that they have halved the tax on food ingredients and have also dramatically decreased the tax on other exports and imports of the Afghan traders.
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Well, they have had 20 years of being coached by Qatar. So, yeah, they should be thoroughly modern MBA style gangsters now. But there is of course an old-school faction too, and the fun is just starting.
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[EN.ALGHADEERTV.NET] The leader of the Afghan opposition group resisting Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces in the Panjshir valley north of Kabul said on Sunday he welcomed proposals from religious scholars for a negotiated settlement to end the fighting.
Ahmad Massoud, head of the National Resistance® Front of Afghanistan (NRFA), made the announcement on the group’s Facebook page. Earlier, Taliban forces said they had fought their way into the lovely provincial capital of Panjshir after securing the surrounding districts.
"The NRF in principle agree to solve the current problems and put an immediate end to the fighting and continue negotiations," Massoud said in the Facebook post.
"To reach a lasting peace, the NRF is ready to stop fighting on condition that Taliban also stop their attacks and military movements on Panjshir and Andarab," he said, referring to a district in the neighbouring province of Baghlan.
Earlier, Afghan media outlets reported that an Ulema council of religious scholars had called on the Taliban to accept a negotiated settlement to end the fighting in Panjshir.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... is again urging countries to withdraw all imported muscle and mercenaries from Libya, saying they continue to operate throughout the conflict-stricken North African country in violation of last October’s cease-fire agreement "with no discernible abatement of their activities."
The UN chief also urged countries supplying arms and military equipment to the imported muscle to stop violating the UN arms embargo, saying, the movement of aircraft providing logistical support "also continued unabated" at airbases in central Libya in the strategic city of Sirte and nearby Jufra area.
In a report to the UN Security Council circulated Friday, Guterres called for implementation of "a comprehensive plan for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all mercenaries and foreign forces from Libya, with clear timelines."
He also urged Libyan parties "to exert every effort to ensure" that parliamentary and presidential elections are held on Dec. 24 in accordance with the political road map that ended hostilities last year.
Subsequent UN-sponsored peace talks brought about a cease-fire last October and installed an interim government that is expected to lead the country into December elections, but the Libyan parliament has so far failed to agree on a legal framework to hold elections.
Guterres cited initial differences over whether presidential elections should be carried out by direct voting or indirectly by the elected parliament, whether a referendum on the draft permanent constitution should be held first, and eligibility criteria for candidates including military personnel and dual citizens.
The UN chief urged the parties and institutions to clarify the constitutional basis for elections and to adopt the necessary electoral laws.
"The political process is now reaching a critical stage and the gains achieved in early 2021 are under threat," Guterres warned. "It is imperative that the political process fulfills the aspirations of the Libyan people for representative governance brought about through democratic elections."
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Isn't this about the fourteenth time he's said that?
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[GUARDIAN.NG] Nigerians have expressed doubts about the willingness of the Federal Government to embrace the offer by the U. S. government to help and identify the sponsors of Boko Haram ...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves What is truth?, or maybe just I wonder what's for dinner? I hope it's not rhinocerous again! ... , which has waged an insurgency war on Nigeria in the last 12 years.
Some security experts, former diplomats, and leaders of some socio-cultural/civil society organizations in the country who spoke to The Guardian said embracing the proposal was the best option for the country at this point, but were skeptical about President Muhammadu Buhari’s disposition to the offer.
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[TVCNEWS.TV] The Government of the United States of America has said it is ready to help Nigeria identify the sponsors of Boko Haram ...the name means Western education is forbidden, They're what you get as the result of a traditional African or Islamic education... This was disclose by the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Leonard.
She said her country is prepared to partner with Nigeria to identify the sponsors of Boko Haram and extremism in the country.
Speaking during a media briefing in Abuja on Monday, August 30, she said partnering with Nigeria to identify sponsors of Boko Haram is something the U.S. is very eager to do
She added that she had had at least three conversations in the last two months on this subject, but said she would not go into details.
She said: "That is something we are very eager to partner Nigeria on and I have had at least three conversations in the last two months on this subject but I won’t like to go into details.
"I hear people making the analogy with Afghanistan a lot, it does not match up. When you listen to what President Joe 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. The guy who single-handedly lost Afghanistan...... said on how troops went to Afghanistan in the first place, it was because they were in a horrible tragedy, over 3,000 Americans were killed.
"That is a different construct. The sovereign nations have had strong bilateral relations. I don’t actually think the two match up."
She said that the U.S. had remained committed to supporting Nigeria’s fight against insecurity.
Leonard added that the U.S. government was also committed to supporting democracy and economic programmes of the government through the embassy.
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[IsraelTimes] Court papers in the trial of two cell members show authorities detained them on multiple occasions due to their radical activities, but released them every time
British authorities missed at least 14 opportunities to stop the four jihadists known as the "Beatles" before they traveled to Syria during the rise of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... there to take part in atrocities, The Times of London reported Sunday, citing US court papers.
Alexanda Amon Kotey, El Shafee Elsheikh, Aine Davis and leader Mohammed Emwazi were a squad of British IS jihadists who came to be known as the Beatles, who were behind multiple videos of beheadings of Western hostages as the terror group took power in Iraq and Syria in the middle of the last decade, including Israeli-American journalist Steven Sotloff.
Kotey and Elsheikh are currently on trial in the US, Davis is imprisoned in Turket and Emwazi, known as "Jihadi John," was killed in a US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Syria in November 2015.
The Times, citing documents from Kotey’s trial, said authorities had detained members of the group on multiple occasions in the years prior to their travel to Syria, due to their radical activities — including possession of materials on holy warrior activities, participation in rallies in support of terrorist attacks, possession of weaponry and more.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... they were always released, allowing them to continue pursuing jihadism.
Thursday saw Kotey, now 37, plead guilty in a US court to charges of conspiring to murder four American hostages. The charges include hostage-taking resulting in death and providing material support to the Islamic State group from 2012 through 2015.
[IsraelTimes] Court case over terror attacks that killed 130 to begin Wednesday, will see 20 defendants tried, including one of the button men who has so far refused to cooperate with proceedings
The biggest trial in La Belle France’s modern legal history begins on Wednesday over the November 2015 attacks on Gay Paree that saw 130 people slaughtered at bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall.
The suicide kaboom and gun assault by three teams of jihadists, later claimed by the Islamic State
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[IsraelTimes] Men to be accused of aggravated assault in case that has rocked the West Bank; no senior officers or politicians have so far been charged in Banat’s death.
Fourteen members of the Paleostinian Authority security forces will be charged for allegedly beating opposition figure Nizar Banat
...the Israel-hating, anti-corruption crusading, amateur West Bank politician (he was by profession a carpenter and house painter) who for years was regularly arrested by PA authorities until the day they finally beat him to death...
to death in late June, a spokesperson for the forces said on Sunday.
"The investigations have concluded, and the military prosecutors... decided to charge all the officers and forces who participated in apprehending Nizar Banat," PA security services spokesperson Talal Dweikat told official PA television.
The 14 alleged perpetrators will be charged with fatally beating Banat, under PA military law, said Dweikat.
Banat, a social media activist well-known for his caustic videos condemning the PA leadership, died after being arrested by PA officers in late June. His death sparked rare major protests in the West Bank calling for the downfall of the PA government.
In the aftermath of Banat’s death, the PA arrested 14 officers alleged to have taken part in his beating. All hailed from the Hebron division of the powerful Preventative Security apparatus, Dweikat said on Monday.
But Banat’s family has already pledged not to accept the results of the PA’s investigation into his death. The family formally withdrew its support from an earlier commission of inquiry that led to the arrests of the 14 suspects in July.
No senior officers or politicians have been charged in Banat’s death. Some Paleostinian media has fingered Hebron deputy Preventative Security chief Maher Abu Halawa as ultimately responsible for ordering Banat’s death.
"The investigations proved that [Abu Halawa] had nothing to do with this incident," Dweikat argued.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will travel this week to Sharm el-Sheikh to meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, announced the official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation.
The visit is the first of its kind for an Israeli prime minister in more than ten years, days after the tripartite summit between Sisi, Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... , and Jordanian King Abdullah II.
Bennett will try to avoid progress on a political track with the Paleostinians, while Sisi aims to pave the way for Israeli-Paleostinian negotiations.
A senior Israeli official confirmed that Bennett would avoid discussing the Paleostinian cause with Sisi and rather focus on security issues.
A front man for the Egyptian presidency, Ambassador Bassam Rady, told Radio Masr that the Egyptian-Jordanian-Paleostinian summit reaffirmed the Egyptian-Jordanian support to the Paleostinian cause.
"We have called on the international community and the international quartet to revive the grinding of the peace processor, under the new US administration and the new government in Israel," he added.
Egypt, Jordan, and Paleostine agreed to keep communications channels at the level of foreign ministers and heads of security and intelligence services to reach a formula that will be activated during the coming period.
The Paleostinians are working intensively with Egypt and Jordan to develop a plan that enjoys Arab and US support to launch a new political process in the region that leads to direct negotiations between the Paleostinians and the Israelis.
The coordination intensified and accelerated after the war on the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and the US administration's desire to find a comprehensive solution based on the two-state solution.
The Paleostinians received important signals from Washington after Biden met with Bennett last weekend and announced his support for the two-state solution.
Abbas met with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who granted the Paleostinians several facilities.
During a Zoom conversation with officials of Jewish organizations in the US, Bennett said he intends to reduce tensions with the Paleostinians despite the lack of "political breakthrough" with them.
The prime minister said that there has always been a dichotomy: either move towards a Paleostinian state or do nothing.
"I think that in many areas it is possible to act to reduce the problem ... especially in the economic field. I believe that employment and living with dignity can improve the situation. Two parties can take measures to reduce tensions and improve daily life."
Asked about the meeting between Gantz and Abbas, Bennett said he did not intend to meet with the Paleostinian President because he had filed a complaint against Israel before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
"I also do not want to create the illusion of something that will not happen because a disappointment can have negative consequences. We will not take drastic measures. We will freeze the construction and take measures to stabilize the area," he continued.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid confirmed there were no political talks with the Authority, adding that 90 percent of the contacts are done through security coordination.
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[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] The Egyptian Dar al-Ifta confirmed a strong relationship between the Moslem Brüderbund and all terrorist organizations.
The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Allam, said that the Moslem Brüderbund is an organization rooted in violence from its very beginning.
The Mufti referred to the "guide for confronting and combating extremism" developed by Dar al-Iftaa, which took years to prepare.
The guide studies ISIS and Egypt after the rule of the Moslem Brüderbund and also includes other religions.
Dar Ifta began preparing the guide in January 2014, specifically since establishing the Observatory of Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Fatwas and Extremist Views, which monitors fatwas issued by these terrorist organizations.
The Mufti stressed that there are links between all bad boy organizations, which can be detected through their ideologies discussed in their books.
Allam also said that the terrorist organization ISIS represents a significant threat to Islam since its emergence.
The terrorist organization contradicts the message of Islam and misinterprets the Prophet's message, and it established itself as a state despite being against the system, according to Allam.
"From this perspective, we realized the importance of preparing a guide to confront the ideas of ISIS, which deals with extremism in all its forms, languages, and beliefs."
The Grand Mufti stated that those organizations' fatwas want to destabilize societies, warning that political Islamization intends to misinterpret and misread the jurisprudence.
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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
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.
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...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
...Nigeerian Islamist group, formerly paying homage to al-Qaeda, then, when the money ran out, to the Islamic State, and headed by nutcase Abu Bakr Shekau. Once he exploded in a gunfight with ISWAP, many in the group surrendered to the govt and others went with their new overlords. The remainder are a shell of their former selves, stmbling glassy-eyed and lonely through the Sambisa Forest and the soothing waters of Lake Chad, asking themselves 
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...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
