[An Nahar] Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... was dismissed Sunday as Pakistain's prime minister after losing a no-confidence vote, paving the way for an unlikely opposition alliance that faces the same issues that bedeviled the cricket star-turned-politician.A new premier will be chosen Monday, with centrist Pakistain Moslem League-N (PML-N) chief Shehbaz Sharif already anointed to lead the nuclear-armed nation of 220 million people.
His first task will be to form a cabinet that will draw also heavily from the center-left Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP), as well as find space for the smaller conservative Jamaatul Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) group.
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[NATION.PK] Nomination papers of Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif and Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi ...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached... of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) for the post of Prime Minister have been accepted by National Assembly Secretariat on Sunday.PTI raised objections to the PML-N president’s nomination papers which were rejected.
Talking about it PTI leader Ali Muhammad Khan said that we have raised our objections, adding that Shehbaz Sharif has been facing corruption charges. He is out on bail in various cases.
After the nomination papers were accepted, Shehbaz Sharif and Shah Mehmood Qureshi will come face to face in the Assembly tomorrow for the election of the new Prime Minister.
On behalf of PTI, Maleeka Bokhari received nomination papers for the new Prime Minister from the Assembly Secretariat. The decision on the PM candidate was taken at a meeting of the party leadership core committee.
The meeting was chaired by former Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree... and was attended by Chief Ministers, Governor Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... and Governor Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and senior party leadership. The meeting also considered the strategy in view of the current political situation.
On the other hand, the United Opposition nominated Shehbaz Sharif as the Leader of the House. His nomination papers were submitted by an opposition delegation to the National Assembly Secretariat.The delegation included Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Ahsan Iqbal, Naveed Qamar, Khawaja Saad Rafique.
While submitting nomination papers, Ahsan Iqbal and Babar Awan even exchanged bitter words.
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[SHAFAQ] Civil organization, activists, artists and Parliamentarians, called today for handing over 423 perpetrators accused of being involved in al-Anfal campaigns, after they fled to Europe.
In a presser held in Chemchemal, said that 423 perpetrators who participated in al-Anfal campaigns and the chemical attack on Halabja, live in European countries including UK, Austria, Switzerland ..home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, are wanted by the Iraqi judiciary and must not be granted asylum.
The conference moderators said that some of these perpetrators live in the Kurdistan Region, and must be arrested and prevented from getting away with their crimes.
During al-Anfal campaigns, launched on July 1983, 8,000 people from Barzan were arrested, and a genocide was carried out in many other areas, resulting in more than 180,000 victims and hundreds of thousands of IDPs, for nothing but belonging to the Kurdish community.
[IsraelTimes] Justice Yitzhak Amit rules that the Paleostinian leadership ’expresses its consent’ to attacks through its controversial stipends to bully boyz and their relatives
The High Court of Justice on Sunday ruled that the Paleostinian Authority can be held liable for terrorist acts, due to its controversial policy of paying stipends to security prisoners in Israeli jails and the families of those killed during attacks on Israelis.
Justice Yitzhak Amit, setting out the majority ruling, found that the decision to pay convicted Paleostinian bully boyz and those killed as part of the "struggle against Israel" makes the PA liable for their actions.
"[The PA] expresses its consent to their actions, in a manner that takes responsibility for the acts. This justifies that [the PA] will be assigned personal and direct responsibility," Amit wrote.
The Paleostinian Authority’s practice of paying terror stipends — often referred to by some Israeli officials as a pay-to-slay policy — has been pilloried by critics as incentivizing terror.
Paleostinian leaders have long defended the payments, describing them as a form of social welfare and necessary compensation for victims of Israel’s military justice system in the West Bank.
The United States has pressured Ramallah to end the policy in recent years. In 2018, Congress passed legislation banning the US government from sending aid to the PA until it ended the practice. The matter remains a key bone of contention between the two sides.
The plaintiffs in the case to the High Court are four families who lost loved ones in four separate terror attacks during the early days of the Second Intifada some 20 years ago. The Jerusalem District Court rejected their petition, but the High Court, led by Justice Amit, ruled in their favor.
The case will now be returned to the Jerusalem District Court, which will determine the compensation owed to the four by the PA.
The legal debate in the High Court centered around the extent to which Ramallah’s prisoner payments "retroactively authorized" the terror attacks committed by their beneficiaries.
Under Israeli damages law, a party can be held liable not only if they "provide counsel, aid...or order and permit" legal damage — but also if they retroactively "ratify" damages done to another.
The court acknowledged that the decision is "precedent-setting and unusual" in its interpretation of the ratification clause in damages law.
It ruled, however, that the PA can only be sued for compensation, rather than punitive damages. This means relatively lower payouts can be ordered by courts in which Ramallah may be tried.
Earlier on Sunday, the government approved the establishment of a committee to examine the removal of state benefits such as pensions and other grants from the families of citizens who committed acts of terror.
A panel consisting of the directors of the Prime Minister’s Office, the Public Security Ministry, the Defense Ministry, the Justice Ministry, the Welfare Ministry and other officials will be convened to formulate a recommendation within 60 days of its establishment.
"We are determined... to change the equation so that it will not be worthwhile to take part in terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens," said Bennett. "Providing benefits from the state to terrorist families is utterly absurd and it is time to redress the injustice."
"The State of Israel will hold anyone accountable who has a direct or indirect connection to the terrorist attacks," he added.
Israel has seen four deadly terror attacks in recent weeks and has ramped up security measures in response, as well as carried out a number of raids in the West Bank.
Such legislation has been introduced in the past, but has not succeeded in passing the Knesset. It would also likely face a challenge in the Supreme Court ...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations... .
[IsraelTimes] 9-meter high, 40-kilometer long section to be improved from Salem area in north West Bank to Bat Hefer; move comes after 2 snuffies suspected of slipping through gaps in barrier
The high-level security cabinet approved funding to upgrade a section of the West Bank security barrier, the Prime Minister’s Office said Sunday.
According to a statement, the ministers voted unanimously to allocate NIS 300 million (some $93 million) to improve a 40 kilometer stretch of the barrier along the so-called seam line.
The move came after the terrorist who on March 29 killed five people in Bnei Brak entered Israel through a gap in the barrier, and security officials suspect the Paleostinian assailant who rubbed out three people in Tel Aviv on Thursday did likewise.
"We will fight terror with all the tools available to us and we will win," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tweeted after the cabinet meeting.
According to the Defense Ministry, the money will fund the upgrade of a 40 kilometer (25 mile) stretch of the barrier from the Salem area in the northern West Bank to Israel’s Bat Hefer region.
"The barrier will be comprised of concrete, protective equipment, and additional technological components. It will be up to 9 meters (29.5 feet) high and will replace the fence that was built about 20 years ago," the ministry said, adding that it plans to begin work in the coming weeks.
Senior security officials told Hebrew media that they believe that the Tel Aviv terrorist crossed into Israel through a hole in the security barrier near Jenin, even though the military recently fortified the fence in that area.
The West Bank security barrier was first suggested in the 1990s by the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who saw it as a way to separate Israel from the Paleostinians. But the project never materialized due to internal opposition.
It was only during the Second Intifada, as Israel fought waves of suicide kabooms and other terrorist attacks emanating from the West Bank, that the idea was revived and kicked into high gear.
Many credit the barrier with helping end that uprising, which lasted from 2000 to 2005, though of its planned 708-kilometer (440-mile) route, only 62% has been completed.
The security barrier did not come without controversy, though, as the fence sparked local demonstrations and international condemnation over its route, snaking into the West Bank through seized Paleostinian fields and sometimes cutting off farmers from their land.
About 85% of the barrier runs within the West Bank, with the remaining 15% running along the Green Line — the pre-1967 ceasefire line that delineates Israel from the West Bank — and within Israeli territory. In total, the barrier is estimated to have cost the country some NIS 9 billion ($2.8 billion) according to the Knesset Research and Information Center.
For most of its route, the barrier consists of a chain-link fence equipped with surveillance cameras and other sensors, buffered by barbed wire and a 60-meter (200 foot) wide exclusion area. In more urban areas — including around Jerusalem and Bethlehem — the barrier is not a fence but an eight- to nine-meter (26- to 30-foot) high concrete wall.
However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... in recent years Israel has been accused of seemingly turning a blind eye to gaps in the barrier that are used daily by thousands of Paleostinian laborers to enter Israel illegally.
Analysts say Israel’s unspoken policy has been to allow as many Paleostinian workers into Israel as possible to head off economic hardships that can lead to desperation and create terrorists.
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[SHAFAQ] Civil organization, activists, artists and Parliamentarians, called today for handing over 423 perpetrators accused of being involved in al-
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