[ToloNews] Afghan travelers along the Spin Boldak and Chaman crossings along the Durand Line said they face many challenges while crossing. According to people interviewed by TOLOnews, residents who live near the Durand Line, particularly people living in nearby Qila Abdullah and Chaman, can cross with either with Kandahar-issued or Pak ID cards, while other Afghans with legal documents must wait several days.
Bismillah, who is a resident of Ghazni, said that he has tried twice to cross into Pakistain but has not been allowed.
"We were not allowed, we were told that we should have a passport or a sick visa in order to pass at the crossing," said Bismillah, a resident of Ghazni.
"Yesterday I went three times to the crossing, they sent us back, there were women also with us, they mistreated us and also the women. They threw away our IDs," Abdul Rahman Shah, a resident of Uruzgan, told TOLOnews.
According to residents of Kandahar, sometimes even those residents of Kandahar who have ID cards and legal documents cannot cross.
Citizens asked the Islamic Emirate to solve the problem permanently.
"This is the third time that we have gone, they send us back and do not accept our Kandahar ID cards and they are not allowing us through," said Khan Wali, a resident of Kandahar.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Senate, Odius Sepulcher called for war against the Visigoths... local officials in Kandahar said that they are trying to solve this problem through dialogue with Pak officials.
"We have talked to the Pak officials about this problem so that all the people of Afghanistan can move freely so that there is no gap between them and their relatives," said Hafiz Esmatullah, an official.
[ToloNews] The residents living along the Durand Line in Naari district in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... said that the fencing erected by the Pak military has separated the relatives living on either side of the line. According to the residents, the people living on both sides have family, cultural and linguistic ties but they were separated since the fence was erected.
"One brother is on this side and another brother is on the other side. We call to resolve this problem so the families living on the two sides can mix," said Fazal Nabi, a resident of Naari district.
Before the construction of the fencing, the two sides were commuting for daily activities to both sides of the Durand Line.
"Many of our relatives are living on the other side of the line. It has been months since we have not visited each other. We call on both sides to address these problems of fencing," said Sarwar Khan, a resident.
The residents said that they cannot participate in traditional ceremonies, including wedding parties of their relatives, as they areblocked by the fencing.
The district governor of Naari, Abdul Zahir said that they have shared the concern with the central government.
"This is the main point because the residents of the two sides are sharing their happy and sad ceremonies" said Abdul Zahir, district governor of Naari. "We have called several times on the responsible organizations to resolve the problem. We shared this issue with the Ministry of Defense as well."
There are a total of six districts located along the Durand Line in the province of Kunar. The people living on the two sides of the Durand Line have been engaged in long historic, family and cultural engagement.
The tribal elders on the other side of the Durand Line in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa called on local officials to pave the way for travel between the two sides.
[KhaamaPress] Due to non-payment of salary and remuneration, the staff at the Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province have resigned.
According to the local sources, the number of the employees resigning from their jobs in the Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport in Kandahar province, for not receiving their salaries reaches up to 35.
The employees said that they were in dire financial straits and that the caretaker Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... government had failed to pay them for the previous eight months service they had provided for the airport.
The caretaker government’s Ministry of Transportation and Civil Aviation, however, reported the number of resignations at 15, claiming that the resigned employees were housekeepers, maids and janitors, while not specifying whether the workers were paid.
[Garowe] Former al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... , functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... deputy leader and front manMukhtar Robow was photographed in a rare picture following his detention without trial by the former government led by Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo, who lost elections last month.
Robow, who surrendered to the Somali government in August 2017 declared interest to run for the presidency in the Southwest state in 2018, contrary to the desires of Farmajo, who had an interest in the seat through a proxy.
On Sunday, Robow was pictured with the Former leader of Southwest State Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, further eliciting debates on various social media platforms with some reports suggesting that efforts to release the tossed in the clink Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! leader are underway in Mogadishu by politicians against Lafta-Garen.
While it's not clear why Aden visited Mukhtar Robow in detention, the trip, however, comes days after Somalia ushered in new leadership under Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who has been a staunch supporter of freedoms of speech and equal political rights in the federal republic of Somalia.
It's not clear if Mohamud will order the release of political prisoners such as Robow, but there are high chances given that he strongly called for reconciliation during his inauguration. The president asked all stakeholders to work closely for the sake of liberating Somalia.
During the 2018 skirmishes in December 2017, Robow was arrested by the Æthiopian Forces, leading to chaos that left 11 people dead in Baidoa, the interim regional administrative capital of Southwest during a protest against the leader's capture.
Farmajo was accused of plotting the arrest to pave way for the smooth victory of Abdiaziz Lafta-Gareen, the current president of the Southwest state. Since then, thousands of people have been calling for the unconditional release of Robow.
In a previous interview with the Voice of America, Robow decried harsh conditions in detention and asked the country to stand with him. Authorities in Mogadishu denied claims that Robow was subjected to humiliation in detention at that time, adding that he was given access to his family.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Head of the puppet government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition, Maeen Abdul-Malik, has on Tuesday ratified an agreement to hand over the fuel sector in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , as part of a Saudi plan to acquire vital sectors in the south and east of the country.
During his meeting with the ministers of Finance and Oil and Minerals, the puppet Prime Minister demanded to quickly sign the agreement that grants the so-called "Saudi Reconstruction Program" the right to govern the Oil Derivatives Purchase Support Fund, according to southern media.
The agreement grants the Saudi program the right to import and sell fuel to the local market in Yemen.
Although the agreement was put forward years ago and was not decided upon by Maeen Abdul-Malik, his approval nevertheless coincided with news on Saudi Arabia’s approval to remove him from power.
Observers see that is as an attempt by Maeen Abdul-Malik to turn the tables on his opponents in the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council and the businessman Ahmed al-Essa, who has been leading opposition against the Saudi-led puppet government.
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] A prominent sheikh in Marib province announced on Tuesday his arrival in the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... i capital of Sana’a, after having defected from the Saudi-led coalition forces.
Sheikh Ali al- Otaibi Abu Qassi posted pictures with dozens of members of the tribe and his lover companions while he was in the city of Sana’a.
Al-Otaibi’s arrival came days after Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... released him after four years of captivity.
Sheikh al-Otaibi vowed to revolt against those who arrested him, through verses of poem attached to photographs of his arrival in Sana’a.
Over the past years, al-Otaibi was known for his positions in favour of the coalition, and was an influential figure in Ma’rib before being arrested by the Saudi intelligence service and transferred to a prison in the kingdom along with number of pro-Saudi sheikhs whose fate remains unknown.
[ToloNews] The US may let Tajikistan hold on to the Afghan military aircraft which were flown to the neighboring country during the collapse of the former government, Rooters reported, citing a US military commander.
The aircraft were originally donated to the Afghan military by the US, according to Rooters.
The US Central Command commander Gen. Michael Kurilla visited Tajikistan last weekend.
"We are grateful to the Armed Forces of the Republic of Tajikistan for continuing to secure the aircraft that the Afghan Air Force flew into the country last August," he said in comments relayed by the US embassy.
"The United States is working with the Tajik government to determine the best way to effectively use and maintain the aircraft," Kurilla said.
"Our hope is to be able to hand over some or all of the aircraft to the Tajik government. I do not have a timeline on when this will occur, but we are working hard to make this happen," Kurilla added.
The Islamic Emirate said that it is in negotiations with these countries over the fate of the Afghan military aircraft flown abroad.
"The officials of the Islamic Emirate are in contact with the countries. We will share the details after the information is complete," said Bilal Karimi, deputy front man for the Islamic Emirate.
During the collapse of the former government, dozens of military aircraft were flown to the Central Asian neighbors of Afghanistan. More than 50 aircraft are said to be in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
"A part of the blames goes to the former government because it didn’t own the aircraft but received them as a trustee. A part of this also goes to the current government because... they had to engage in talks with the owner of the aircraft--the US," said Asadullah Nadeem, a military analyst.
Earlier, officials of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan said they will not hand over the military aircraft to Afghanistan.
[AlAhram] La Belle France's top administrative court ruled Tuesday against allowing body-covering ``burkini'' swimwear in public pools for religious reasons, arguing that it violates the principle of government neutrality toward religion.
While worn by only a small number of primarily Moslem women in La Belle France, the burkini draws intense political debate in the country.
The city of Grenoble, led by a mayor from the Greens party, voted to allow women to wear burkinis in public pools after campaigning by local activist muppets. At the same time, the city also voted to allow women to swim topless as part of a broader relaxation of swimwear rules.
The prefect, or top government official, for the Grenoble region blocked the burkini decision, arguing it ran counter to La Belle France's secular principles.
The Council of State upheld that decision, saying in a statement that the Grenoble vote was made ``to satisfy a religious demand'' and ``harms the neutrality of public services.''
Clothing rules in public pools in La Belle France are strict, for what authorities say are reasons of hygiene: caps are required, and baggy swim trunks or other voluminous clothing generally banned.
A few other cities and towns allow burkinis in public pools. The city of Rennes is among them, but its decision was aimed at loosening swimwear rules generally and not based on religious reasons.
Grenoble's decision about swimming topless has not been threatened in the courts.
[KhaamaPress] According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) records, the bulk of Afghan humanitarian parole applications to the US are still pending, with over 90% of the fewer than 5,000 fully evaluated requests being denied.
According to the USCIS statistics shared with the CBS News, of almost less than 5,000 evaluated applications of Afghan nationals to enter the US on humanitarian grounds, 90% of them has been rejected due to strict narrow eligibility rules.
Consistent with the USCIS numbers, as of June 2, only 297 Afghan parole applications had been approved, while 4,246 had been refused, implying that the vast majority of the tens of thousands of pending cases will be dismissed under the US government’s narrow standards.
A rejection letter read that parole is offered to those who the USCIS finds to be under a "severe targeted or individualized harm."
The USCIS is said to have received more than 46,000 applications from Afghans seeking to enter the United States under the parole program following the collapse of the previous government to the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Following the Taliban’s reconquest of Afghanistan last august, the US evacuated 124,000 Americans, third-country nationals, and Afghans, while resettling over 70,000 Afghans who aided them in Afghanistan.
[Rudaw] A batch of 150 Iraqi families will be repatriated to Nineveh from northeast Syria’s (Rojava) notorious al-Hol camp in early July, an official from the northern province told Rudaw on Monday.
"From July 1 until July 5, as per an agreement between the Iraqi government and the Syrian Democratic Forces, 150 families which account for around 600 people are set to be brought to Jada-1 camp near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in Nineveh province from al-Hol camp," Deputy Governor of Nineveh Rafaat Smo told Rudaw’s Hemin Baban.
He added that at the beginning of this month, 178 other families were repatriated from Syria and placed in al-Jada camp which is often seen as a rehabilitation center before the families return to their areas of origin.
"On June 21, 2022, the decision was made for 89 families from al-Jada to be returned to their areas in Iraq after receiving mental care," Smo said.
Al-Jada, in Nineveh province, is one of just two camps still open in areas under federal Iraqi control. The camp mainly houses families with suspected links to 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 (ISIS), and has recently received ISIS-affiliated families from al-Hol camp in Syria.
In 2020, the Iraqi government began a push to close 17 camps around the country, three years after the defeat of ISIS, including in the Kurdistan Region. The government has been criticized for this policy.
Six Belgian women and 16 children affiliated with ISIS in Rojava were handed over to Belgium's foreign ministry on Monday.
Around 450 families were transferred to al-Jada camp from al-Hol in April, where they will then be returned on the basis of bails from relatives and tribal leaders.
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[BenarNews] When one of Malaysia’s powerful sultans recently slapped the religious affairs minister with a rare rebuke for saying Moslems shouldn’t participate in a Japanese cultural festival because it had un-Islamic elements, the incident cast a spotlight on growing intolerance here.
"Hands off," the Sultan of Selangor indicated. "[U]nderstand the difference between religion and culture," he said via Facebook in publicly scolding Minister Idris Ahmad, of the Islamic Party PAS, which is a partner in the country’s ruling coalition. A potential diplomatic to-do was averted, but the incident has left observers worrying about a climate of fundamentalism in this religiously and racially mixed Islamic-majority nation. The mood in Malaysia is filled with a pandemic-driven economic malaise as the country faces the prospect of a general election months away or next year.
There is cause for concern, says Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani, deputy managing director at market advisory firm Bower Group Asia.
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[AlAhram] 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 has grabbed credit for Monday's attack on a civilian bus in northern Syria that killed 13 people and maimed three.
The holy warrior group said in a statement late Monday that its button men attacked the bus with automatic rifles. It also posted photos of the attack. The Syrian army said 11 of those killed were soldiers. Three soldiers were also maimed, the military said.
The bus was attacked while on the road in the northern province of Raqqa, heading to the central city of Homs.
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Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates confirms that Turkish presence on Syrian soil is but an aggression and occupation that mounts to war crime. #Syria#Turkeyhttps://t.co/fV6Fhlkxi5
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[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Head of the puppet government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition, Maeen Abdul-Malik, has on Tuesday ratified an agreement to hand over the fuel sector in 
[AlAhram] 
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