[Townhall] Upon taking office in January 2021, President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family, the guy who bungled Afghanistan... halted construction on the U.S. southern border wall, which greatly helps Border Patrol and local law enforcement cut down on illegal activity. As a result, the Texas National Guard, deployed last summer through Governor Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... 's Operation Lone Star, has stepped in to fill the gaps with fencing lined with concertina or razor wire.
"When you drive a tank through a chainlink fence, if it has concertina wire on top, it'll stop that tank because that wire will get wrapped up on the sprocket, the wheels of the tank. And I always say that to people because they're like, 'Well, anybody can get through this fence.' And I'm like, well actually, I would be hesitant to drive a tank through it...I usually say that when I'm debating someone on walls or fences or barriers if you will," Texas National Guard Public Affairs Officer Major Michael Perry told Townhall. "The wall works."
According to Perry, 80 percent of farmers and ranchers on the border are happy to have walls or fences built on their property to protect their property.
During a visit to Eagle Pass this week, Townhall got a firsthand look at how National Guard soldiers are currently working to protect private ranches and farms from illegal crossings in the Lone Star State.
Taliban and a #Qatar-Turkey consortium for operating #Afghanistan’s five airports, including in the capital, have hit a deadlock after #Taliban have insisted their fighters will guard the facilities, officials say.https://t.co/TTFxtmufPR
Negotiations between the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and a Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... -The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... consortium for operating Afghanistan’s five airports, including in the capital, have hit a deadlock after Taliban insisted their fighters will guard the facilities, officials said.
Kabul’s only airport was trashed in August when tens of thousands of people rushed to evacuate on any available flight as the United States wrapped up its withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of war.
While the facility is open, with some domestic and international flights operating, it still needs a significant upgrade for major foreign airlines to resume full service.
This week Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi held two lengthy meetings with Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdurrahman al-Thani in Doha in a bid to reach a deal, officials from the two sides said.
But the talks, which also include rebuilding airports in Kandahar, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Mazar-4-Sharif and Khost, have hit a deadlock.
"The contract for Kabul airport with Qatar-Turkey consortium is only for receiving technical support," a Taliban official said, requesting not to be named.
"Our people will protect the airport. The presence of foreign troops or security experts on our soil is not acceptable to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan."
A Doha-based diplomat briefed on the talks said the Taliban had been "very demanding" when it came to security-related issues at Kabul airport.
Qatar and Turkey want a say in managing security at Kabul airport as they "don’t trust the Taliban," said an expert tracking the negotiations, who asked not to be named.
"Neither are willing to risk their aircraft and crew in exchange for a Taliban promise for their safety and security," he said.
Afghanistan's foreign ministry front man Abdul Qahar Balkhi tweeted that the two sides have "identified issues related to the contract that needed further discussions."
The full operation of Kabul airport is crucial for reviving Afghanistan’s shattered economy.
It is currently operated by the Afghan Civil Aviation Ministry, backed by experts from Qatar who arrived soon after the US withdrawal.
A United Arab Emirates-based company is engaged in ground handling services at the facility.
Currently, two Afghan airlines - Kam Air and Ariana Afghan - fly to Dubai, Doha, Islamabad, and Tehran from Kabul airport. Iran’s Mahan Air also operates flights to Kabul.
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While the facility is open, with some domestic and international flights operating, it still needs a significant upgrade for major foreign airlines to resume full service.
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Taliban insisted their fighters will guard the facilities
Concerns about them running too much interference for the heroin flights?
[KhaamaPress] A former army general says the Taliban ...Arabic for students... rule since the takeover has convinced him that military action is only way forward, according to sources, vowing war against the group after Eid al-Fitr.
Lt Gen Sami Sadat said that eight months of the Taliban rule has convinced him and many other Afghans that military action is the only way to move forward towards stability in Afghanistan.
Speaking for the first time about the plans, Lt Gen Sadat told the BBC he and others would "do anything and everything in our powers to make sure Afghanistan is freed from the Taliban and a democratic system is re-established."
"Until we get our freedom, until we get our free will, we will continue to fight," he said, while refusing to be drawn on a specific timeline.
The general underlined how the so-called Islamic Emirate government has been leading the country, where civil rights have been violated, restrictions on women freedom have been compromised, and target bombings have reached its peak more recently.
"What we see in Afghanistan in eight months of Taliban rule has been nothing but more religious restrictions, misquotation, misinterpretation and misuse of the scripts from the Holy Koran for political purposes," he elaborated as BBC quoted.
Lt General Sadat initially planned to give the Taliban 12 months to see if they would change, he said. "Unfortunately, every day you wake up the Taliban have had something new to do — torturing people, killing, disappearances, food shortages, child malnutrition."
Asked whether there was any alternative to another war, Lt Gen Sadat — who had been appointed in August last year to head the Afghan special forces — said they rather see an Afghanistan where all will practice their basic right without any restriction.
"We are not against the Taliban," he exclaimed, just against their current "textbook," describing an Afghanistan where "everyone fits in, not a country only for Taliban."
In recent weeks, an audio message in which the general speaks about an armed fight against the Taliban with the aim of "re-liberating" Afghanistan was leaked to the media, as BBC wrote.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... it is not clear whether Lt General Sadat allies with any of groups, including the most prominent known as the National Resistance® Front (NRF), who attempt to oust the Taliban since the takeover.
Ahmad Massoud, son of the late legendary commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, is the leading figure of NRF. Protecting his birth province Panjshir, his army fought against the Taliban for weeks last August.
"I am in contact with my brother Ahmad Massoud and we support his actions in every way, I also contact and support other resistance groups," the general said in his leaked message.
In August 15, 2021 the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, rolling back women’s rights advances and media freedom — the foremost achievements of the post-2001 reconstruction efforts on gender equality and freedom of speech.
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Lt Gen Sami Sadat said that eight months of the Taliban rule has convinced him and many other Afghans that military action is the only way to move forward towards stability in Afghanistan.
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General Sadat appeared in Panjshir, home of the Northern Alliance v.2, last August. This is a very odd statement — what has he been doing there all this time?
If the Talibs cannot provide peace and prosperity, they demonstrate they do not have Allah’s approval...
[ToloNews] The corpse count from two blasts in Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday evening has risen to 11, and the number of injured to 17.
Mohammad Asif Waziri, front man for the Balkh Police Command, said that the first blast occurred in the 3rd PD and the second in the 9th PD of Mazar-e-Sharif. According to Waziri, both blasts were caused by explosives placed in minibuses.
"We arrested the perpetrators of the Seh Dokan incident and brought them to justice. We will arrest the perpetrators of this case as soon as possible and bring them to justice," said Mohammad Asif Waziri, front man for the Balkh Police Command.
"We are completely tired of this situation. A few days ago, we had dozens of deaders and maimed. Last night, we had 14 to 15 deaders in this incident and we had more than twenty maimed," said Amir Khan, an eyewitness.
The victims of both blasts are civilians.
According to hospital sources, the condition of seven of the injured is critical, and three of the injured have had their legs amputated.
"Among the deaders are two women and a child, and the other seven are men," said Najibullah Tavana, director of Balkh's public health department.
Mohammad Zaman, along with his brother and nephew, were maimed in the first blast on Thursday as they were about to leave a shop. The legs of his 15-year-old nephew have been amputated.
"We were really stunned, we were in a situation where I could not think of anything for a moment about what to do," said Mohammad Zaman's niece.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... in one of the cemeteries, thirteen graves have been prepared for the victims, in which the bodies of two victims have been buried.
Thirteen-year-old Mohammad Yasin, who has lost his father, says he wishes that his peers will not lose their fathers like him.
"We are five members in the family, my father was martyred while selling (mobile phone) cards. I ask the government that no more children lose their fathers like me," said Mohammad Yasin, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif.
ISIS group grabbed credit for both blasts.
This comes as last Thursday a blast occurred in the Seh Dekan mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif in which 31 worshipers were killed and 87 others were maimed.
Yesterday we had the attacks in Mazar-e-Sharif claimed by ISIS, today we discover they once again attacked Shiites.
[ToloNews] The US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), released a report indicating that on-budget US reconstruction assistance to Afghanistan completely ceased with the fall of the previous government, but that Afghanistan continues to receive some reconstruction funds from the US through off-budget assistance and multilateral organizations.
"Although on-budget assistance ceased on August 15, 2021, SIGAR found that US agencies continued reconstruction assistance through 100 off-budget activities and activities implemented by multilateral institutions. Specifically, US agency off-budget assistance funded 85 activities, while assistance to multilateral institutions funded the remaining 15 activities. These ongoing efforts covered a range of activities, including emergency food assistance, health initiatives, and demining efforts," the report said.
According to SIGAR’s report, of the six US agencies that funded Afghan reconstruction in the 2021 fiscal year, four were operating in Afghanistan until October 1, 2021, when Washington's development aid to Kabul completely halted with the fall of the republic.
"SIGAR found that six US agencies—State, DOD, USAID, USAGM, DEA, and DFC—funded reconstruction activities in Afghanistan in FY 2021. Of these, only four (State, USAID, USAGM, and DFC) had ongoing reconstruction activities as of October 1, 2021," the report reads.
Based on SIGAR’s report, the 100 activities (off-budget and with multilateral organizations) have pledged more than $670 million to Afghanistan and have provided $ 470 million worth of food and health assistance to Afghanistan.
"As of October 1, 2021, the 100 activities had $676 million in obligations, $470 million in disbursements, and $64 million in unliquidated funds. State acknowledged that programming may benefit the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ," the report reads.
"U.S. agencies stopped providing on-budget assistance to the Afghan government on August 15, 2021, after the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban returned to power. During FY 2021, U.S. on-budget assistance consisted of two USAID-funded activities and DOD’s support to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)," the report further mentioned.
Two Western officials told The Financial Times that Moscow has withdrawn more than a thousand “Syrian and Russian mercenaries” that were deployed in Libya. An indication that the invasion of Ukraine is putting pressure on Moscow’s foreign military deployments.
The report stated that in recent weeks, Russia withdrew about 200 mercenaries from the special military “Wagner Group”, and about a thousand Syrians, from Libya.
A regional official said about 5,000 mercenaries are still in Libya, and are working for Russia. A prominent Libyan official confirmed that it had “withdrawn mercenaries from his country”, without specifying their number.
In recent years, the deployment of Russian mercenaries has given Moscow a foothold in North and West Africa. In countries such as the Central African Republic and Mali, the Kremlin has exploited widespread resentment against France, the former colonial power, to consolidate its influence. Libya remains the focus of this expansion on the continent, according to the Financial Times.
However, the costs of the invasion of Ukraine began to pressure Russian deployments, as it was reported that about 200 Wagner militants had left the Central African Republic.
Russia has reduced its targets in Ukraine, after field setbacks. It also incurred huge losses, believed to be much more than the 1,351 soldiers it admitted to having died in late March.
On Tuesday, the United Kingdom announced the death of at least 15,000 Russian soldiers, in the first two months of the war.
The Financial Times quoted Western officials as saying that Russia had not intended to withdraw any of its soldiers from Libya. The decision was taken after it failed to make huge gains in Ukraine.
The British Ministry of Defense announced in late March, that these setbacks meant that “Russia has likely been forced to prioritize (transfer) Wagner personnel to Ukraine, over operations in Africa and Syria.”
Three Western officials said that the Wagner militants withdrew from Libya, in order to be deployed in Ukraine. Officials in Kyiv said that Syrian militants were killed, while participating in the battles alongside the Russians on the front lines.
Last month, Turkey closed its airspace to Russian military flights from Libya and Syria. This was amid fears of transferring fighters and equipment to Ukraine, according to Turkish and Western officials,
“The Turks had evidence that the Russians were moving personnel, and possibly equipment, (from Syria and Libya) to the battlefield in Ukraine,” the Western official said, noting that Ankara publicly announced the ban last Saturday.
[AlAhram] More than 3,000 people died or went missing in the Mediterranean and Atlantic while trying to reach Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... last year -- double the toll from 2020, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Friday.
A fresh report from the UN refugee agency demanded urgent action to combat surging deaths among refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants colonists trying to reach Europe.
Last year, a total of 3,077 people were lost while trying to cross the Mediterranean and Atlantic routes to the continent, the report showed, up from 1,544 in 2020.
"Alarmingly, since the beginning of the year, an additional 478 people have also died or gone missing at sea," UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo told news hounds in Geneva.
The report showed that for 2021, 1,924 people were reported dead or missing on the Central and Western Mediterranean routes, while another 1,153 perished on the North African maritime route to the Canary Islands.
"Most of the sea crossings took place in packed, unseaworthy, inflatable boats, many of which capsized or were deflated leading to the loss of life," Mantoo said.
The sea journey from countries on the West African coast such as Mauritania and Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... to the Canary Islands was particularly perilous, she said, pointing out that the crossing could take up to 10 days.
"Many boats drifted off course or otherwise went missing without a trace in these waters," she said.
The UNHCR report cautioned that land routes were also "highly dangerous".
"Even greater numbers may have died on journeys through the Sahara Desert and remote border areas, in detention centres, or while in the captivity of smugglers or traffickers," Mantoo said.
IPOB Threatens Governor Uzodinma: You Won't Be Spared If You Don't Ensure Release Of 500 Imo Youths Arrested By Abba Kyari's Police Team | Sahara Reporters https://t.co/Rhz563jMyOpic.twitter.com/jMBEWV99Rj
The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has urged the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma to immediately facilitate the return of 500 youths allegedly arrested in the state and taken to Abuja.
This was contained in a statement issued on Friday by the group's spokesperson, Emma Powerful.
According to the statement, Uzodinma invited security agents about a year ago to arrest about 500 Biafra youths who were taken to Abuja. The group called for the immediate return of their ’brothers’, saying failure to do so will not bring peace.
IPOB further alleged that some of the arrested youths were already being returned to Imo State for prosecution but had been killed along the way by the security agents.
The group also said Friday makes it exactly a year that Ikonso, the Eastern Security Network (ESN) Commander was killed in his sleep by men of the Nigerian Army.
IPOB said Ikonso was killed for doing nothing wrong but defending Igbo land from attacks by killer herdsmen. The group further warned Governor Uzodinma to ensure that the dear departed's family house, which was burnt down, is rebuilt.
A statement from the group reads, "With deep concerns, we the global family of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) ably led by our great and indefatigable liberator Mazi Nnamdi Okwuchukwu Kanu wish to remind Biafrans, friends of Biafra and lovers of freedom across the world that this is a year our gallant comrade Ikonso was murdered by the wicked Nigerian Government and its compromised security agents.
"They murdered the innocent citizen who they saw as a threat to the evil agenda of the Fulani ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity... jihadists masquerading as herdsmen in Biafra land.
"IPOB movement has been looking for the body of this man for one year and we have not seen his lifeless body and all his family houses were burnt down because he was defending Biafra land against occupation by jihadists. Other gallant Biafrans arrested by security agents around this time last year are not yet released.
"This is also one year that Hope Uzodinma and his APC party invited the military to kill innocent citizens in Imo state and they arrested and kidnapped many people who they ferried to Abuja. We are also yet to see them. They kidnapped over 500 Biafra youths in Imo State last year, and we want those youths back for prosecution if they think they committed any crime.
"We gathered through intelligence that those youths were actually being brought back from Abuja to Imo State but unfortunately Nigerian security agents who were escorting them executed them along the way of Abaji and Lokoja in Kogi State. We are about to exhaust our patience. Hope Uzodinma should please return those youths before we lose our patience.
"Hope Uzodinma should be held responsible if anything untoward happens to our comrades. He should not expect to conduct his daughter's traditional wedding in Abuja while the Igbo youths he aided in their abduction were executed by security agents. The spirit of those youths won't allow him to go on a celebration spree after making many innocent families childless.
"Hope Uzodinma should also not forget that he must rebuild the houses of Ikonso's family and his uncles which were burnt down by security agents.
"Couple of weeks back Hope Uzodinma told the general public that IPOB is not responsible for the insecurity in Imo state, but lest we forget, he has arrested many IPOB members in Imo State, killed hundreds of them while thousands are missing under his administration.
"The question is: why is Hope Uzodinma not releasing all our members and non-members he kidnapped and put in detention since last year? Since he declared openly that IPOB is not responsible for the insecurity in Imo state, why is he keeping our members in detention?
"What of those he handed over to Abba Kyari and his IRT team in Abuja? What of those put in Tiger detention facility in Imo state and many other innocent Biafrans suspected to be IPOB Members he transferred to Abuja and Kaduna to detention centres in the Northern part of Nigeria.
"IPOB Intelligence unit has it on record that there are many of IPOB members Hope Uzodinma asked his masters to bring back from Abuja where they were detained with heavy torture to Imo state but Abba Kyari’s team reluctantly agreed to return them, but on the way to Imo state Hope Uzodinma forced them to be executed, saying that he doesn't want them alive to Imo state. They were all killed along the expressway from Abuja to Lokoja. More than 70 of them were executed between Abuja and Lokoja expressway in Kogi state."
[WashingtonExaminer] Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita filed a lawsuit this week against a national Black Lives Matter charity for failing to fork over information about its finances.
The lawsuit is part of an investigation Rokita launched against the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation in February that is seeking to determine whether the embattled charity violated Indiana state law by deceiving donors and misapplying its assets.
The foundation claimed to have raised $90 million in 2020 in the aftermath of St. George Floyd ...the patron saint of Minneapolis, a sterling example for our children and indeed for us all. St. George was martyed by the Devil's agents in blue while standing on a street corner preaching tolerance and racial justice or something like that... 's killing, but the charity has yet to file an IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... Form 990 disclosing what it did with the funds. The charity was exposed in early April for trying to conceal its cash purchase of a $6 million Los Angeles mansion with donor funds in October 2020, which a watchdog group alleged could be a violation of IRS charity laws.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has also yet to announce publicly who has been in charge of the charity since its co-founder Patrisse Cullors ...Sticky fingered co-founder of Black Lives Matter. An avowed communist, she collects real estate like people used to collect stamps, when not checking into luxury resorts for conferences... resigned in May 2021 amid the scrutiny of her own real estate purchases. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the group did disclose in filings to Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and New Mexico in February that Bill and Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... insider Minyon Moore and the law firm run by Democratic lawyer Marc Elias had taken up key roles with the charity.
And in February, the foundation shut off its ability to raise funds amid legal threats from California and Washington over its lack of financial and operational transparency.
Rokita sent a civil investigative demand to the charity on Feb. 23 that requested the charity to disclose all of the property it owns in Indiana, as well as produce a general ledger showing all payments and the recipients of those payments that the charity has made since January 2020.
The foundation did not respond by Rokita's March 25 deadline, he said in his lawsuit Tuesday. The attorney general's lawsuit requested state courts to compel the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation to comply with his records request.
"There are many Indiana stakeholders and donors who have been impacted by these allegations. This lawsuit will allow for a court to swiftly and efficiently resolve the state’s request for information," Rokita said.
He added that the foundation could be barred from future fundraising in Indiana if the charity fails to comply with his demand.
Cullors, who was in control of the foundation while it raked in $90 million in 2020 and spent $6 million on its Los Angeles mansion, said during an event in early April that she finds it "triggering" whenever she hears terms such as IRS Form 990, which is the document charities are required to disclose to the public detailing their financial activities.
The poor darling.
She added that activists suffer trauma and their lives are put at risk when their charities are required to disclose publicly what they did with their tax-deductible donations.
"This doesn't seem safe for us, this 990 structure — this nonprofit system structure," Cullors said. "This is, like, deeply unsafe. This is being literally weaponized against us, against the people we work with."
[Dawn] 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.... ’s All Parties Hurriyat Conference
...an alliance of 26 political, social and religious organizations formed as a united political front to raise the cause of Kashmiri separatism. In other words, a willing tool of Pakistan...
on Thursday appealed to the Indian government to let Moslem worshippers offer the important last Friday prayers of Ramazan — Jummat ul Vida — at Srinagar’s central Jama Masjid as per tradition, but there was no sign of New Delhi yielding.
India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s watch has come under severe criticism for abuse of its religious minorities, which includes censure of its treatment of Kashmiri Moslems. Secular and democratic lobbies in the US have urged US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to accept the report of the alleged mistreatment of Moslems filed in the annual report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The report for 2022 on religious freedoms and human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... the world over was released on Monday.
"Given the worsening human rights and religious freedom situation for minorities and the Modi government’s lack of actions, it is important that USCIRF’s recommendation to include India to be a "Country of Particular Concern" (CPC) be accepted by Sec. of State Blinken," American Moslem Institution said in an appeal.
The group said it applauded the decision of USCIRF to designate India as a CPC country, given that "religious freedom conditions in India significantly worsened in 2021." It said systemic intimidation and violence has moved from the real world and has substantially increased online by "both official and non-state actors...to spread hatred and misinformation."
Furthermore, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led "government, leaders emboldened Hindu-nationalist groups have advocated, instituted, and enforced sectarian policies seeking to establish India as an overtly Hindu state, contrary to India’s secular foundation and at grave danger to India’s religious minorities."
In Srinagar, APHC chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, denounced the repeated closure of Srinagar’s central Jama Masjid by the Indian government.
"Not allowing congregational prayers on the occasion of Jumatul Vida at the central Jama mosque of the valley, which is thronged by lakhs of valley Moslems on this blessed day — when offering prayers at Jama Masjid has greater blessings for the namazis, is outrageous, and against the fundamental human right to religious practice."
The Mirwaiz said in a statement that the same holds true for barring people from praying at Jama Masjid on the holy occasion of Lailatul Qadr. APHC said that such orders against Moslems and circulars being issued by authorities in valley school asking the staff members not to wear hijab, "in a place where Islam is the religion of the vast majority is deeply distressing, causing great angst and hurt to people and further deepening the conflict."
The statement said Mirwaiz asked the authorities to revoke the ban on prayers and allow Moslems across the valley access to central Jama Masjid on these very important and holy days of Ramzan."
APHC said that, people as in the past, will observe Jumatul Vida as ’Youm e Quds’ and Youm e Kashmir’ to stress "the urgent need for a peaceful resolution of the lingering Paleostinian issue and the Kashmir conflict and the human lives they consume."
[Dawn] Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Moazzam Jah Ansari said here on Thursday that faceless myrmidons were infiltrating from Afghanistan in tribal districts to carry out attacks.
Briefing journalists at Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines, he said that such incidents had taken place in Bajaur, North and South Wazoo tribal districts.
Mr Ansari said that on Pak side, kinetic action was being taken against terrorists; however, for the issues emanating from across the border needed to be taken up with Afghan authorities. "We are facing problems from other side of the border," he added.
He said that over past four months, Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested 202 faceless myrmidons including 18, who were carrying head money. He said that about 70 faceless myrmidons including proclaimed offenders were killed in police action during that period.
Mr Ansari said that CTD also killed Daniyal, a terrorist of the so-called 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.... , who was involved in the Koocha Risaldar suicide kaboom. More than 60 people were killed and scores of others were maimed in the attack. He said that the terrorist was also involved in the assassinations of police officials, Sikh homeopath Satnam Singh and Christian pastor William Siraj.
He said that CTD recovered 46 kilograms of explosives, 99 hand grenades, eight suicide jackets, three rocket propelled grenades, 43 RPG shells and other arms and ammunition.
"During the first four months of current year, 30 coppers were martyred," said the IGP. He added that seven of the martyred officials belonged to CTD and seven others were maimed.
He said that police carried out a total of 6307 search and strike operations and arrested 45,697 suspects. He said that police also recovered 8,198 different types of arms and 184,193 rounds as well. In addition, police registered 3,146 FIRs over violation of tenancy laws and 460 FIRs were lodged against hotels for failing to comply with documentation of the guests.
Mr Ansari said that police also checked a total of 87,703 educational institutions and FIRs were registered against 65 for failing to follow the security parameters. In addition to this, a total of 12,506 bus stops were also checked during the past four months and 1,061 cases were registered under Sensitive and Vulnerable Establishments and Places Security Act, 2015.
Also, 296 FIRs were registered over misuse of loudspeakers. A total of 1,199 illegal Afghans were arrested during this period and FIRs were registered against 1,083 of them.
The IGP said that police narcotics eradication teams (NETs) during crackdowns on drug mafia, lodged a total of 3,989 FIRs. He said that police recovered a total of 4,301 kilograms of charas, 418 kilograms of heroin, 246 kilograms of crystal meth, 545 kilograms of opium and 3,599 litres of liquor.
He said that the police also ensured peaceful holding of the local government polls in the province. In addition to this, police also set up Aasan Insaf Marakiz and Madadgar police.
He said that they were also focusing on better training, equipment and communication system for police in tribal districts. He said that besides several of police arms and other needs were also being met under the Accelerated Implementation Programme. "We are going to make setup of CTD in all merged districts by June 30 this year," he added.
Regarding the safe city project, Mr Ansari said that provincial government decided to execute the project in phases, starting with the Hayatabad. He said that the Hayatabad phase of the safe city project would be completed by December at a cost of Rs 500 million.
[IsraelTimes] Terror leader praises Paleostinian terror attacks and condemns Arab normalization deals with the Jewish state, warning them not to let Jerusalem use them as bases to attack Iran
Dozens of Hezbollah supporters protested on Israel’s northern border on Friday marking the Iran-initiated "al-Quds Day," or Jerusalem Day, a traditional show of support for the Paleostinians, as the terror group’s leader praised recent deadly attacks inside Israel.
Usually they gather in their thousands, but after a decade of sacrificing their blood for the Ayatollah, their must be considerably fewer.
The demonstrators gathered across from the Israeli town of Metulla, waving Hezbollah, Lebanese and Iranian flags and chanting about liberating Jerusalem.
The Lebanese army was at the scene, keeping them away from the border fence.
The IDF was also monitoring the protest.
Marches by Hezbollah fighters and rallies were also held in Hezbollah neighborhoods in Beirut to mark al-Quds Day, an annual event on the last Friday of Ramadan.
In a speech to mark the protest rallies, Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... praised a string of deadly terror attacks in Israel in recent weeks and rocket attacks from 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... and Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... saying it showed that Paleostinians had not lost their will to resist Israel.
On Monday a rocket that was fired into Israel from Lebanon landed in an open area near Kibbutz Matzuva, close to the border, without causing damage or injuries.
The IDF responded with artillery fire against the launchers.
There have been several instances of rocket fire from Lebanon into Israel in recent years, with most blamed on Paleostinian factions in the country, not the Hezbollah terror group, which is thought to possess a massive arsenal of missiles that can reach across Israel.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... it is unlikely that holy warriors in southern Lebanon would be able to fire rockets without at least the tacit approval of the Iran-backed group, which maintains tight control over the area.
Nasrallah also warned Israel against any aggression in Lebanon during their upcoming elections, saying Hezbollah would not be "distracted" and also warned that if Israel continues to target Iran’s presence in the region, Tehran could eventually retaliate by striking deep inside Israel.
Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes against Iranian targets, mostly in Syria, including three this month.
As a rule, Israel’s military does not comment on specific strikes in Syria, but has acknowledged conducting hundreds of sorties against Iran-backed groups attempting to gain a foothold in the country. It says it also attacks arms shipments believed to be bound for those groups.
Nasrallah condemned Arab nations that have normalized ties with Israel in recent years, calling their actions "the ugliest form of hypocrisy."
The comments echoed those of Iranian Lord High Potentate and Supreme Leader of All He Surveys Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... who spoke out against the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for normalizing ties with Israel.
"We condemn the treacherous move to normalize relations" with Israel, he said, and reiterated Iran’s support for the Paleostinian cause.
"We have always said this, we have always acted on this, and we have stood by it," Khamenei said.
Nasrallah claimed that Iran ...The nation is 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... would attack any of these countries if they let Israel use them as a base for strikes on Iran.
At the main al-Quds rally in Tehran, demonstrators chanted "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" — slogans that have become tradition in mass rallies in Iran since its revolution — and set fire to American, British and Israeli flags.
Iranian state TV later showed a variety of ballistic missiles on display at the rally, describing them as "Israel hitters."
Top Iranian officials across the country delivered fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... speeches calling for Israel’s destruction and vowing support for anyone who fights the Jewish state.
"We support any front that is formed against this criminal regime, and we will support any community that is ready to fight this criminal regime," Gen. Esmail Ghaani of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard’s expeditionary Quds force said at a speech in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
Iran has been marking the day, the last Friday of the Moslem holy fasting month of Ramadan, since the start of its 1979 Islamic Revolution led by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The name al-Quds Day comes after the Arabic name for Jerusalem. Rallies were also held in Pakistain and Syria.
[AnNahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... on Friday announced that Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia... ’s upcoming parliamentary elections will not prevent his group from responding to any Israeli hostile act.
"I tell the Zionists that their planned exercises do not scare us but we will be prepared," Nasrallah said in a speech marking Quds Day, referring to Israeli military exercises that will begin in early May.
"Over the past few weeks, our jihadist formations were conducting silent exercises," Nasrallah revealed.
"When the Israeli exercises begin, the resistance in Lebanon will be at the highest levels of preparedness and readiness. We tell the Israeli enemy not to bet on exhaustion or hunger. Any act or foolishness will be met with an immediate response," he warned.
"Elections will not keep us busy from responding," Nasrallah said.
Separately, Hizbullah’s chief said that Iran ...The nation is 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... "will strike Israel directly" should the "attacks on Iranian assets in the region continue."
As for the Paleostinian cause, Nasrallah said that the aim behind the "sanctions and siege" on some countries and movements is "pushing us all to abandon Paleostine and Jerusalem and our water, oil and gas."
"The military confrontations have proven to be capable of achieving victories and defeating the enemy, and this path must continue," Nasrallah added.
"The Paleostinians told the Israelis over the past weeks that they cannot occupy Paleostine and still enjoy security," he said.
"Liberating Paleostine might not need great armies or weapons, but rather martyrdom fighters," Nasrallah noted.
Reiterating "the importance of the regional equation for protecting Jerusalem and al-Aqsa," Nasrallah called on the region’s nations to "tell Israel that Jerusalem’s demise would mean Israel’s demise."
"This generation, God willing, will pray in Jerusalem," Nasrallah concluded.
[Rudaw] The streets of Tehran on Friday morning were the scene of the Iranian forces’ latest developed tactical missile, with a range long enough to target Israeli cities, sending a strong message to Iran’s regional foe on Quds Day.
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Thousands of Iranians erupted into the streets of the country on the last Friday of Ramadan to mark Quds Day, an annual day of protest initiated by Iran ...The nation is 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... to support the Paleostinian cause.
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