[KhaamaPress] A delegation of the Islamic Clerics of Pakistain led by Muhammad Taqi Usmani, a well-known Pak Islamic scholar, met with the leaders of the Tahreek-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Pakistain (TTP) in Kabul, according to sources.
During the meeting with the delegation, TTP repeated their demands — including the release of its members from the Pak prisons — saying they won’t compromise in their demands, the sources said.
"Yesterday, the delegation of Islamic Clerics of Pakistain has met with Noor Wali, leader of the Taliban Pakistain in Kabul, and from my point of view the trip is an improvement," said Tahir Khan, a journalist, as TOLOnews quoted.
In a photo shown by Pak media, a number of leaders of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain can be seen talking to the Pak delegation in Kabul.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... the Islamic Emirate leadership confirmed their meeting, saying Pak delegation came to Kabul to discuss bilateral relation between the two countries, but avoided further details on the matter.
"The delegation of Islamic Clerics of Pakistain have come to Kabul to discuss education, economic and bilateral relations between the two countries—there are no more details in this regard," said Bilal Karimi, deputy front man of the Islamic Emirate, as local media quoted.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... a number of analysts shared various thoughts on the trip Pak delegation made to Kabul in order to meet the PPT members.
"If Afghanistan can make peace between them, it will be good for Afghanistan, but the most essential thing is that Afghanistan must preserve its home," said Waheed Faqiri, political analyst.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), commonly known as the Pak Taliban, is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed bully boy groups operating along the Afghan—Pak border. Formed in 2007 by Baitullah Mehsud, its current leader is Noor Wali Mehsud, who has publicly pledged allegiance to the Afghan Taliban.
TTP has a number of demands from the government of Pakistain, which includes lifting of all sanctions imposed on its leaders, the return of the Taliban to Pakistain’s tribal areas, the release of all prisoners, and the withdrawal of the Mighty Pak Army from these areas.
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The TTP see Tak Usmani as a lap dog of Arabs. Wali Mehsud is a pashtun from Waziristan. Not as much a scholar as a fighter. Usmani has clearly been sent to appeal to their mutual moslemnity.
But the rights which run deep in the very fabric of their society, those cannot be overcome by eye-slam alone. For decades, the pashtun was treated like a menial labourer, his women for prostitution in Karachi and Lahore. The predominantly punjabi leadership of Pakistain, both military and civil, are now trying to contain the taliban's coming revenge. These people do not forget. You can't appeal to them in Allan's name and hope for them to play ball. They are getting their own 'tranches' now, and China doesn't need 'slamabad as middleman because they have been assured Taliban cooperation. Even if they do make some kind of apparent peace with 'slamabad, it'll be only so they can stab them up close. And they should.
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Deep breath, my dear. Perhaps some soothing chamomile tea? Valerian, if you want the big guns... Chai — as we in the West call that wonderful concoction simmered with milk and warm spices to differentiate from the simple brewed version we’re accustomed to — is stimulating rather than soothing, I’d think.
[KhaamaPress] When the Taliban ...Arabic for students... took control of Kabul, the Afghan capital, 1,800 ISIS bandidosfaceless myrmidons were released from Bagram and Pul-e-Charkhi prisons, according to Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Foreign Minister of the Taliban, who made the statement at the Tashkent international conference in the capital of Uzbekistan.
Foreign Minister Muttaqi conceded the release of ISIS prisoners during his speech at the Tashkent conference on Tuesday, July 26. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... he claimed that during the previous 11 months of Taliban administration, the group had grown strong enough to subdue ISIS fighters.
He asserted that when the ISIS members were besieged by the Taliban in Jawzjan province in northern Afghanistan, the previous administration flew them to Kabul. He further claimed that for the previous 11 months, the same ISIS had been causing unrest in Afghanistan.
Previously, American officials even said the Taliban’s release of bad boy Islamist ISIS prisoners from the prisons of Pul-e-Charkhi and Bagram had strengthened the group.
After taking control of every province last year, the Taliban pardoned all the prisoners with all the detention centers and prisons in Afghanistan were emptied when this group took Kabul.
Even though the Taliban have underlined time and time again that ISIS does not physically exist in Afghanistan and does not pose a threat, since the Taliban’s gaining control, ISIS has grabbed credit for deadly attacks on mosques, schools, and cars.
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A signal that the next turning of the screw is imminent.
[ToloNews] Islamic Emirate front man Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement that the leader of the Islamic Emirate, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, held a gathering with the provincial governors in Kandahar.
Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada stressed the need to preserve Islamic values, according to the statement.
Mawalawi Hibatullah called for the implementation of Sharia law, saying that the laws which are made by humans are not acceptable and that every problem should be solved by Sharia.
"Over the past 20 years, there have been a lot of anti-Shari and Islam rhetoric and laws which are made by the people is not implementable," he was quoted in the statement.
Analysts say that the implementation of other laws is important in addition to Sharia.
"The laws should be implemented so as not to be against and in contrast with Sharia, so if it is something like this, that is an Islamic law," said Ghulam Sakhi Ihsani, university instructor.
A part of the statement said that all rights based on Sharia must be provided to women and also the previous decree of the supreme leader which had six articles must be implemented
COAS Bajwa appeals to US for immediate release of $1.2 loan trance
I'm sure they mean tranche. Or maybe it is trance, a guy would have to be in a trance to give them 1.2 b.
[DailyTimes.pk] As Pakistan faces the risk of debt default due to depleting foreign reserves, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has pleaded with Washington to assist in securing an early disbursement of $1.2 billion in funds under an International Monetary Fund loan programme.
The sources, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak publicly, claimed that Bajwa appealed to the White House and Treasury Department to pressure the IMF to provide Pakistan with the nearly $1.2 billion under a resumed loan programme.
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Gosh, we're all tapped out, General. Did you ask Xi?
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One would feel for them, truly, if it all didn’t go to support the whisky collection and the pet jihadi groups that they fancy are clever extensions of diplomacy
[Rudaw] Kurdish forces seek coordination with the Iraqi army in the disputed areas in a bid to put an end to a series of recent rocket attacks against a key gas field controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Chamchamal, a Peshmerga commander said on Thursday.
Khor Mor gas field, operated by the UAE-based Dana Gas, has been targeted with rockets several times since June. Despite the deployment of more Kurdish troops to the area, the attacks continue, with the latest one being on Monday.
Mustafa Chawrash, who commands the Peshmerga forces who protect the field, told Rudaw's Sirwan Abbas on Thursday that they "will begin talks with the Iraqi army to fill this security vacuum," referring to areas disputed by Erbil and Baghdad.
"We do not want to unilaterally set up bases there in order to avoid issues with the Iraqi army. We will speak with them and try to [convince them] that the area should be controlled by one of us," he added.
The absence of Peshmerga and Iraqi army in parts of the uninhabited areas located between both forces has been exploited by 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.... (ISIS) and some Iraqi militia groups who often carry out rocket and drone attacks against the Kurdistan Region.
The Kurdistan Region has been facing an unprecedented number of rocket and drone attacks since the beginning of the year, mostly blamed on Iran-backed militias.
Khor Mor field produces 452 million standard cubic feet of gas per day, according to Dana Gas.
Peshmerga forces said on Wednesday that they discovered the location where attacks against the gas field were carried out, confiscating a Kia truck with projectiles onboard - prepared for a new attack.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Artemy Sharapov
[REGNUM] Iraqi groups of radical Shia Muslims declared jihad on Turkey. Military bases, diplomatic missions and other Turkish facilities located on the territory of Iraq are being attacked. Shiite leaders accuse the Turkish military of killing Iraqi civilians and promise to transfer the war to Turkey in the near future. For Ankara, the opening of a “new partisan front” is a serious threat that could significantly change Turkish plans in the Middle East.
The actions of the Turkish army became the main subject of discussion in the Iraqi parliament in July 2022. After the Turkish army attacked the outskirts of the city of Zakho in the north of the country on July 21, a number of political figures demanded that the Iraqi authorities take measures against the Turkish military presence. Despite the fact that Ankara denies any involvement in the incident, Iraqi politicians are calling for an end to diplomatic and economic ties with Turkey.
However, while discussions and discussions are going on in the country's parliament, the radicals "on the streets" use popular discontent to their advantage. Demonstrators smash Turkish shops and picket diplomatic missions. In a number of Iraqi media, Turkish troops are referred to as the “Ottoman occupying army”, hinting at the imperial ambitions of the Turkish government, which wants to revive the Ottoman Empire. The protest gradually gains momentum and, as is often the case in Iraq, turns into a full-scale military confrontation.
A number of new armed groups appeared in Iraq, which declared jihad on Turkey and declared their readiness to transfer military operations to Turkish soil. The Saraya-aulia-l-Dam grouping launched several missile attacks on the bases of the Turkish army in northern Iraq. Another group, Saraya Ababil, launched several kamikaze drones at Turkish military bases, which led to losses in the ranks of the Turkish army.
It can be assumed that there are much more serious forces behind the groups that have declared jihad on Turkey. Earlier, Turkey's actions were condemned by the leaders of the Iraqi Shia Muslim militia "Hashd al-Shaabi" and supporters of the Mahdi Army organization. Both groups have solid experience in guerrilla operations, equipped with modern weapons, drones and missiles.
In all previous operations in the Middle East, Turkey has dealt with Kurdish guerrilla units that are capable of providing only patchy resistance. But the Hashd al-Shaabi organization, which has hundreds of thousands of fighters in its ranks, is a completely different enemy.
In the spring of 2022, the Turkish General Staff launched Operation Clenched Fist, aimed at eliminating the PKK bases in northern Iraq. The operation was partially successful as the Kurds suffered heavy casualties. However, now that not only the Kurds but also the Iraqi Shiite Arabs are opposed to the Turks, the situation is changing dramatically. Now Turkish military installations are becoming a target for shelling, the intensity of which will only increase.
Launch sites for missiles and drones are located deep in Iraqi territory, so Turkish troops cannot reach them. The use of the Air Force on the territory of Iraq can lead to an increase in anti-Turkish sentiment in the country and, accordingly, new rocket attacks.
The current situation leads the Turkish military and political leadership into a situation of "execution cannot be pardoned." Staying in Iraq is becoming extremely dangerous due to the sharply increasing losses in the ranks of the army. So, you need to either increase your military contingent, or leave. The first option is guaranteed to lead to an even greater increase in losses and increase tension in the region, and the second, in turn, will jeopardize Turkey's authority in the region.
Such an alignment will sooner or later force the Turkish leadership to turn to Iran for mediation, which can influence the Iraqi Shiite Muslims. However, for now, there is a feeling that the Iraqis are serious about a long-term guerrilla confrontation, in which they simply have no equal (since 2003, an almost uninterrupted war has been going on in the country).
Further events will show whether the Turkish army is the very “gendarme of the Middle East” that it wants to appear to be, or whether there are still other forces in the region that can act as an obstacle to the growth of Turkish influence.
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New guerrilla war in Iraq
...How can you tell?
Mike
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[IsraelTimes] Institutes given conditional permits, told to rectify curriculum after textbooks found to glorify armed struggle against Israel, contain conspiracy theories.
Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton announced Thursday that she had given instructions to cancel the permanent licenses of six schools in East Jerusalem due to incitement against Israel and the Israeli army.
The schools will be given a conditional license for a year, during which they will be required to make changes to their curriculum or lose their operating license entirely.
The schools were found to be using textbooks that included "the glorification of prisoners and their armed struggle against the State of Israel, conspiracy theories about withholding treatment from patients and intentional harm to medical staff, accusations of [Israel] being responsible for the water crisis in the Paleostinian Authority and grave claims about killings, displacements and military massacres," the Education Ministry said in a statement.
Directors of the Ibrahimieh College and five other schools run by the al-Eman organization were summoned for a hearing on the material. Together, the schools have around 2,000 pupils.
"Incitement against the State of Israel and IDF soldiers in children’s school textbooks is an intolerable phenomenon that will be dealt with severely," Shasha-Biton said.
Earlier this month, an East Jerusalem high school drew outrage after video footage showed a school play that had students dressed up as button men pointing weapons at other students dressed up as religious Jews, blindfolded and on their knees.
The incident took place at the Anata High School in East Jerusalem, according to a report Wednesday by Channel 12.
A video of the play, which appeared to draw a large audience, was uploaded to TikTok and went viral.
Responding to the reports, the Education Ministry condemned the incident but clarified that the school was under the full administrative control of the Paleostinian Authority.
[IsraelTimes] Decision to raise taxes on imported clothes and school supplies comes at a time already marked by financial hardship; clothes merchants stage protest in 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... City.
The Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, terror group, the de facto ruler of Gaza, has imposed a slew of new taxes on imported clothes and office supplies just ahead of the new school year, sparking limited but rare protests in the impoverished coastal strip.
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Given, Hamas is overspending its budget already.
Plus, spending vast amounts of $$$$$$$ attacking Israel, which causes a obligated greater retaliatory strike. All of which cause the PA citizens greater suffering, greater $$$$ loses & needless innocent family deaths.
Just because Iran-Hamas' has a bug up their butts about Israel.
Yeah! I can see where the PA citizens would be ticked off and might even consider replacing the IRANIAN controlled HAMAS leadership.
[An Nahar] Israeli Energy Minister Karen Elharrar said Thursday that Israel is not negotiating with Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... over sea border demarcation with Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
"We are conducting those negotiations through U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein," Elharrar said in a radio interview, hoping an agreement will be reached between Israel and Lebanon.
Baabda sources meamwhile told OTV that the presidential palace is "waiting to hear what U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein will carry regarding Israel's stance."
"The general impression is that there is a desire to activate the sea border demarcation file and finalize it before September," the sources added.
Sources close to Speaker Nabih Knobby Berri ...Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... also said that "there are positive indications that have been informed to the relevant officials."
"But we have to wait," the sources added.
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[IsraelTimes] Morad Tahbaz, 66, at family home in Tehran, Foreign Office says; prominent conservationist, held since 2018, is serving 10 years on charges of spying for US that West calls a sham.
Morad Tahbaz, a UK-born environmentalist who has been enjugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! in Iran ...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both... for more than four years, has been released on furlough, the British government said Wednesday.
The Foreign Office said Tahbaz has been allowed to leave Evin Prison and is at his family’s home in Tehran. The 66-year-old wildlife conservationist is one of several people holding both Iranian and Western citizenship imprisoned by Iranian authorities over allegations of espionage. The West says the charges are a sham and claims Iran uses dual-national prisoners for political leverage.
Two high-profile detainees, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori, were released in March and returned to Britannia. Tahbaz was allowed out on furlough at the same time, but later sent back to prison.
His case is complicated because he holds US, British and Iranian citizenship.
Iranian security forces arrested Tahbaz in January 2018, as part of a wide crackdown targeting environmental activist muppets in the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
A prominent conservationist and board member of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation that seeks to protect endangered species, Tahbaz was sentenced to 10 years in prison with his colleagues on vague charges of spying for America and undermining Iran’s security.
UK Foreign Office officials said "we continue to work closely with the United States to urge the Iranian authorities to permanently release him and allow his departure from Iran."
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#Turkey increases threats to launch a military operation on #Syria’s north and Syrian government confirms readiness to confront any Turkish aggression. #SDF#SNAhttps://t.co/xHRJ6gkWAy
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) July 28, 2022
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[NPASYRIA] The visit of the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS, formerly al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front) to Christian villages in Jisr al-Shughour countryside, and before that to Jabal al-Summaq of Druze majority in the northwestern countryside of Idlib, northwest Syria, contradicts the policy pursued by the HTS towards the two sects.
Recently, the HTS leader, Abu Muhammad al-Julani, has revealed that he seeks to form a "Sunni project", after his successive appearance in civilian clothes in many public occasions.
Since the beginning of this year, al-Julani has recorded 15 public appearances in non-military clothes in his areas of control in northwest Syria on different occasions, the first of which was at the inauguration of Aleppo-Bab al-Hawa highway, and the last of which was his visit to IDPs camps north of Idlib.
He also visited Deir Hassan camps and one of the HTS camps, and reviewed in Ariha the achievements of the HTS, as well as he visited the Druze-dominated villages of Jabal al-Summaq.
Observers and politicians believe that by appearing as a moderate person, al-Julani tries to show himself as a civilian figure who can control the region and assume a role in the Syrian government.
Previous North Press reports indicated that the villages of Jabal al-Summaq (Jabal al-Druze) are marginalized and lack the basic services such as schools, medical posts, and civil institutions unlike other areas, which the residents described as deliberate.
Jabal al-Summaq includes the villages of Qalb Loze, Banabil, Bashandalenti, Kafr Kila, Kafr Maris, Helleh, Talteta, KuKu, Bshendlaya. All are populated with more than 15,000 residents, the majority of whom are Druze, and it is administratively part of Harem region, north of Idlib.
Most of the hard-line factions, since their takeover of Idlib regions in 2015, led by HTS, have followed a restricting policy against the Christian community, not to mention confiscating their property and homes, closing their churches and preventing them from practicing their religious rituals.
Two days ago, al-Julani’s visit to Christian villages in Jisr al-Shughur area, southwest of Idlib, provoked widespread controversy among the anti-HTS bad boy circles, who viewed the visit as a clear challenge to the bad boy movement whose voices began to rise within HTS and threaten it internally.
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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
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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.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
[DailyTimes.pk] As Pakistan faces the risk of debt default due to depleting foreign reserves, Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has pleaded with Washington to assist in securing an early disbursement of $1.2 billion in funds under an International Monetary Fund loan programme. 
...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 
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
...The word 
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
