[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan government has suspended the mayors of Jalalabad and western 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... province after receiving complaints from the residents of the two provinces.
Officials in the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG) have confirmed that the two mayors have been suspended by the government.
IDLG spokeswoman Munira Yousufzada said the Afghan government has taken the decision to suspend the mayors of the two provinces after repeated complaints filed by the residents of the two provinces.
She said the two mayors have been summoned to Kabul so that they can defend against the complaints filed by the Herat and Jalalabad residents.
Yousufzada further added that a delegation was tasked to investigate the complaints of the residents of the Herat and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. which led to the suspension of the two mayors.
She also added that further details regarding the suspension of the two mayors will be disclosed later.
This comes as President Ghani had earlier expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s regarding the growing frustrations among the people regarding the failed municipal governance system and insisted that immediate and key steps are needed to bring reforms in the municipality system to provide better services to the residents of the country.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The landing of unidentified helicopters in northern parts of the country cannot be confirmed, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) officials said Monday.
MoD front man Gen. Dawlat Waziri told news hounds in Kabul that no documents or evidences are available to confirm the landing of the unidentified helicopters.
He said only such claims exist that unidentified helicopters have made landings in Faryab, Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... , and Badakhshan provinces.
But he insisted that the Ministry of Defense cannot confirm the landing of the helicopters, urging the local residents to assist the Ministry by providing any kind of document to help the investigations.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Defense says a committee has been formed to investigate the landing of the helicopters.
This comes as a member of the provincial council in Ghazni province claimed that the landing of unidentified helicopters in Waghez and Qarabagh districts have sparked concerns among the local residents.
The secretary of the provincial council of Ghazni, Hassan Reza Yousufi, earlier said some unidentified helicopters have made landings in the two districts.
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[Ynet] Australia announced on Monday it would send an additional 30 military advisers to train Afghan troops and expected other countries to increase their contributions to the restive Central Asian country.
Defense Minister Marise Payne said the increase was requested by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... and supported by the United States. It would bring Australia's commitment in Afghanistan to 300 military personnel in non-combat roles.
"Their role will be to continue in the train, advise and assist roles," Payne told a Senate committee.
"We expect other partners to also enhance their contribution to the Resolute Support Mission," she added.
[SHABELLENEWS] The newly elected Galmudug ...a semiautonomous region in central Somalia, bordering Puntland on the north. Galmudug is not trying to obtain international recognition as a separate nation, but rather considers itself autonomous within the larger Somali federalism, for what that's worth... state president Ahmed Dualle Geelle Haaf is expected to be formally inaugurated in Adado town of Galgaduud region on Monday.
High-level delegates and invited guests, including ministers, MPs, leaders of the regional administrations were invited to attend the inauguration ceremony of President Haaf.
The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia Mohammed Abdullahi Farmajo is set to leave for Adado today for the inauguration, according to sources at Presidency.
The overall security of Adado city has been beefed up by units of Police and Intelligence Agency (NISA) ahead of the state’s President inauguration, to prevent possible attacks.
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[SHABELLENEWS] Security agencies in Garissa county have put in place measures to ensure peace is maintained during and after the election.
Garissa is among the 33 counties identified by the National Cohesion and IntegritySecurity agencies in Garissa county have put in place measures to ensure peace is maintained during and after the election.
Garissa is among the 33 counties identified by the National Cohesion and Integrity Commission as possible post-election violence hotspots.
Addressing the press after leading a grinding of the peace processorion in the streets of Garissa town on Saturday, county commissioner James Kianda said security has been beefed up during the campaign period.
"We might have been listed as a hotspot because of the highly contested seats, including governor, MP and MCA positions, but we will ensure we have proper security arrangements before, during and after the polls," he said.
Kianda continued, "Aspirants will be given an opportunity to air their views and explain their agenda without coercion. We assure members of the public attending rallies of their security."
Aulian Sultan Hamud Mohammed urged politicians to mind their language during campaigns and desist from inciting the public to violence.
He said that although the Garissa Township MP seat is hotly contested, that should not be a reason for aspirants to balkanise the cosmopolitan town.
Commission as possible post-election violence hotspots.
Addressing the press after leading a grinding of the peace processorion in the streets of Garissa town on Saturday, county commissioner James Kianda said security has been beefed up during the campaign period.
"We might have been listed as a hotspot because of the highly contested seats, including governor, MP and MCA positions, but we will ensure we have proper security arrangements before, during and after the polls," he said.
Kianda continued, "Aspirants will be given an opportunity to air their views and explain their agenda without coercion. We assure members of the public attending rallies of their security."
Aulian Sultan Hamud Mohammed urged politicians to mind their language during campaigns and desist from inciting the public to violence.
He said that although the Garissa Township MP seat is hotly contested, that should not be a reason for aspirants to balkanise the cosmopolitan town.
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Reserve banking, Yemeni style...
Aden – Coup militias in Yemen have staged multiple attempts for running and laundering millions of counterfeit Yemeni Riyals, as well as illegal arms, a military source said.
The trafficking largely was directed towards Sa’ada, where the Houthi insurgency leader Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi is based. It also comes a few days after government forces seized hundreds of millions of counterfeit cash in the Jawf province, northeast the country.
Jawf’s National Army and Popular Resistance Spokesman Abdullah al-Ashraf told Asharq Al-Awsat that anti-government militias try, on almost daily basis, to smuggle large sums of counterfeit money, illegal arms and drugs.
He said most of the smuggling routes go through Jawf’s desert region, passing through Al Mahrah Governorate, neighboring the Sultanate of Oman and end at the Sa’ada desert area, the main stronghold Houthis gunmen.
Pro-government tribesmen had seized large amounts of counterfeit banknotes stamped with the value of 5,000 riyals (a bill not circulated or approved by the Central Bank of Yemen) in barren areas near Al Hobil Arouq, located 70 kilometers north of Al-Khanjar in Jawf.
The spokesman pointed out that the seized notes amount to hundreds of millions of riyals.
Resorting to counterfeit currency indicates the severity of the economic collapse suffered, and reflects a stifling crisis that has proved the coup’s inability to provide realistic solutions to people’s problems living under their territory.
Trying to introduce a para-official new currency would lead to serious economic fallout, threatening the value of the national currency, political and youth activist Ayban Mohammed told Asharq Al-Awsat.
“Steps taken by coup leadership, whether it is welfare vouchers or the introduction of a new currency highlight the true disarray and a growing state of public discontent in coup-held areas.”
Already suffering grievously under nearly two years of civil war, many thousands of Yemeni state workers now face destitution as their salaries have gone largely unpaid for months.
It is unclear how many of the 250,000 employees registered nationwide before the Houthis seized Sana’a in 2014 have received incomplete salaries – as a large proportion in government-held areas have been paid.
In 2014, Iran-aligned Houthis allied with armed loyalists backing ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh stormed the country’s capital, driving the internationally recognized government led by Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi out. Coup militias effectively hijacked Sana’a-based public institutions which pushed the constitutionally elected government to relocate to Aden.
[Dhaka Tribune] Terming the re-installation of the statue of Lady Justice a matter of grave concern and disappointment, Hefajat-e-Islam ...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... chief Shah Ahmed Shafi has said they along with the masses were taken aback by the move.
"Despite my long illness, I became happy and expressed gratitude when the statue of the Greek goddess was removed [from the Supreme Court premises]. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... only two days after we have now regrettably come to know that the idol was reinstalled in front of the Supreme Court’s annex building. We are flabbergasted by the re-erection of it," the chief of the radical Islamist platform said in a press statement on Sunday.
He also said: "Earlier, we placed our demand for removing the idol forever. But, it was reinstalled against the people’s will.
"The re-installation has made it sufficiently clear that the government is not paying attention to our calls and peaceful movement. Installing the idol or cloaking it in black during the time of prayers was never an issue. In fact, the issue was whether it will exist or not, and there was no middle way."
Shafi added: "We have repeatedly said that justice is a fundamental concept in Islam. Even, establishing justice in the society was a goal of our Liberation War in 1971. So, when we borrow any symbol of justice from the Greek tradition, it means that we have no concept of justice in our history, tradition and religion."
He urged the government to remove the statue for good, saying: "Do not play with our religious beliefs, national spirit and heritage. Do not push the country towards the curse of Allah through such anti-Islamic activities."
Meanwhile, ...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... describing the reinstallation as a hide and seek game of the government, Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Secretary General Shafiqur Rahman in a separate press statement said they were enraged by the move. He also demanded the statute be permanently removed from the court area.
Islami Andolon Bangladesh’s Ameer and Charmonai Pir Mufti Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim said the reinstallation slandered Islam as a religion and the Moslems as a population.
Alleging that the government is showing disregard for feelings of the Moslems, who constitute 92% of the country’s total population, he said: "In the next general election, people will boycott the ruling party as it is siding with idols."
Mufti Faizullah, secretary general of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote ... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support... , too demanded removal of the statue.
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Terming the re-installation of the statue of Lady Justice a matter of grave concern and disappointment
Grave Concern and Disappointment
Justice is disappointment
There is no peace in my grave
Allah, where are you?
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The question appearing to me is: how soon we see a Muslim with a sign "I condemn terrorism", who'll explode as soon as a big enough crowd gathers around him?
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Lots of great questions but I think Gorb's is the best. 1.8 billion Muslims out there and only two are attempting (presumably honest) outreach? Pretty sad.
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Why would anyone with any sense ever *be* a Muslim, much less admit it to others?
Once Islam is stripped of any notion of being "holy", there's nothing left to adhere to other than unfettered violence. You don't need to swear off liquor and wrap your women in bags if you're just here for the shooting and explosions.
[HeatStreet] A British police officer called for reinforcements, including a helicopter, after getting offended by a parody song mocking the death of terrorist Osama bin Laden being played at a garden party.
Initially, only one police officer was sent to the street around 10 p.m. to respond to a neighbor's complaint about the loud music and alleged anti-Islamic shouting at the garden party, Cambridge News reported.
But after she overheard the song mocking former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at the party, the policewoman hit the "panic button" on her body-mounted camera. In response to the call for support, the local police sent another 10 officers and a police helicopter.
The party-goers denied shouting "anti-Islamic abuse" and said the policewoman "took offense" at the parody song being played, prompting her to call up the unnecessary reinforcements.
One party attendee, Mark Donovan, spoke with the news outlet following the incident, saying: "We were having a summer's evening in my neighbor's garden as we don't have one. We had our karaoke machine on playing music through our phones from YouTube, which are all approved songs.
"It was about 10 p.m. and the music may have been a little loud, but it was before 11 p.m. Someone must have made a complaint, and a police officer attended our address, at which time a song from YouTube called ‘the Bin Laden Song' came on.
"This police officer said she took offense at the song and pressed her panic button on her body cam and that's when about 10 police turned up and the police helicopter.
"They are now investigating it as a racist crime. It is ridiculous."
Police have not made any arrests but have confiscated a phone and a karaoke machine. An investigation is ongoing.
Donovan continued: "This is music which is well known which was put on YouTube when Bin Laden was killed by the British and American army. In the music there is no reference to color, race or religion.
"The police then threatened to arrest everyone if we didn't hand over our karaoke machine and mobile phone.
"At no point were we asked to turn it down or off, and not one member of the public complained about what we were playing, only the level of the volume. If we had been asked to turn it down, we would have.
"In fact, I turned it off on seeing the police officer.
"Our son is black, my brother and sister are black, my brother is in the American army.
"It just seems a bit extreme to have 10 police officers and helicopter attend over a song which is approved by YouTube which we never actually put on. It came on by the shuffle list, and now being investigated as a racial offense, the only person who took offense was the female police officer, and it's not even a racist song.
"Is this not a waste of police resources and public money when no crime was reported?"
The local police spokesperson confirmed to the paper that there's an ongoing investigation on basis of "incitement of racial hatred." I guess we now know where the British outrage about the Manchester incident is going?
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freakin brit twat,, glad they're over there and not here
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The party-goers denied shouting “anti-Islamic abuse” and said the policewoman “took offense” at the parody song being played, prompting her to call up the unnecessary reinforcements. A bit of a overkill on calling out the forces. Does this policewoman who was "triggered" happen to be of the Islamic faith? Hey, it was a private party at a nice home. At most they might have violated a noise ordinance.
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So rather than punishing the officer for inappropriately pressing the oh shit button, scrambling the quick reaction force and putting those officers' lives and those in their path in danger, they blame the party goers and steal private property, presumably for face-saving and justification for the x money and reason to scramble. Officer no-name indeed.
Oh, and the song...it is lewd and shallow and modern pop but it is neither mocking nor racist.
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Not even lewd, actually. But accurate, come to think of it. The Taliban now skulk around attacking the people who rule in their place, and Obama son of Laden the Yemeni spent the rest of his life in the squalor of self-imposed house arrest with several competing wives and all their small children.
But it's Cambridge, so I assume they have all the problems of an elite college town.
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I think Gorb and Charger hit the nail on the head here. An Islamic officer took offense and the department were terrified not to take her seriously.
[Hurriyet Daily News] More than 154,000 people have faced legal probes over suspected links to the movement of the U.S.-based Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen since the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt, widely believed to have been masterminded by the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).
Legal procedures were carried out against some 154,694 suspects and 50,136 people were arrested over suspected links to FETÖ, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
According to the agency, some 2,431 judges and prosecutors on duty in the judiciary were arrested, in addition to 104 Supreme Court members, 41 members of the Council of State, two Constitutional Court members and three members from the Supreme Court of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK).
Some 6,982 soldiers, of whom 167 were generals, 8,816 police officers, 23 governors, 72 deputy governors, 112 district governors and 31,550 civilians and public servants were also arrested.
A total of 45,708 of those detained were freed on condition of judicial control and 12,753 were freed after procedures in the security forces and court.
Some 7,430 of those arrested were released, of whom 7,122 were freed on condition of judicial control. A total of 1,312 soldiers, 1,247 police officers, nine deputy governors, three governors, three district governors, 195 judges and prosecutors, two HSYK members, one Council of State member and eight members of the Supreme Court were also released.
There are warrants for 7,112 suspects, of whom 6,353 were civilians and public servants, 221 judges and prosecutors, six Council of State members, 25 members of the Supreme Court, 137 soldiers, 369 police officers, three deputy governors and eight district governors.
Some 665 suspects are still in detention.
No prosecution was seen necessary for 2,763 of the suspects.
Elsewhere, Defense Minister Fikri Işık said Gülenists in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) were being determined after the attempted takeover and that over 7,800 were dismissed over their suspected links to the movement.
“We are determining the traitors who infiltrated the Turkish Armed Forces one by one. We dismissed over 7,800 people from the TSK due to their links with the group. On the one hand, we are cleaning out these traitors, while on the other hand, we are strengthening our army,” Işık said during an event in the northwestern province of Kocaeli late on May 28, adding that some 305,000 young people applied to the National Defense University.
“Our National Defense University needed 5,200 students for the 2016-2017 academic year. Some 305,000 young people applied since we made the announcement. The people are continuing to own up to their army and they will continue to do so,” he added.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Ali Bardakoglu, the former head of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s top religious body has slammed popular TV evangelists for "abusing Islam" for commercial purposes.
Bardakoglu, who headed the Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) between 2003 and 2010, told daily Hurriyet on May 29 that religious TV shows during Ramadan presented a distorted image of Islam.
"You watch the TV programs during Ramadan, but the shows with the highest ratings are those where anecdotes are told the most and tears are shed. Religion is now presented and perceived as little more than melancholy and tears," he said.
"Could such an understanding of religion pull you upwards on the world stage? They describe the life of the Prophet Muhammad in such a way that it becomes impossible to take that life as an example and live that way ... They are only trying to increase their clients for their own commercial purposes. This embarrasses me," Bardakoglu said.
"We have fed them this way. We have said, ’Religion is pain, tears, melancholy and anecdotes.’ We waste time either missing the past or waiting for a savior. We have destroyed the individual, individual conscience and responsibility. We always talk about what happened to us as being either a result of the anger of God or the evilness of others. We have fed a lottery-like understanding by saying, ’Just keep on praying. Say the most effective and mysterious prayer and you’ll be saved from everything.’ When the public has been fed in this way, they look for religious figures who fit that type," he added.
"Those who talk about religion with anecdotes and superstition just because the people want it are involuntarily supporting the idea that religion numbs society," the former Diyanet head said.
"How will such a religious understanding be met by our children and grandchildren. We are slowly approaching a junction. Our children and grandchildren are questioning, seeing, knowing. A religious narrative that doesn’t include basic values such as the individual, women’s rights, human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , environmental consciousness, information production, social justice, law, and freedom, but instead only includes melancholy, anecdotes, tears, alienation and anger, will end up bringing Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... to our own neighborhoods," Bardakoglu said.
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[IsraelTimes] Western Union and Boeing had better look out. The American giants are in the cross-hairs of an Israeli lawyer with a track record of humbling huge corporations and winning multi-million-dollar settlements for her clients.
Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner has spent the past decade filing lawsuits for the victims of terror attacks against the governments, banks and corporations that enabled or financed the violence. As a result of her efforts, more than $200 million has been collected for terror victims and their families (including out of court settlements), and some $600 million in assets has been frozen.
Darshan-Leitner has also used the courts to fight against what she considers to be unfair lawsuits against Israeli military commanders. In one notable case, she stopped a Spanish lawsuit against Israel’s Chief of Staff Dan Halutz over a bombing raid in Gazoo by filing a similar suit against Javier Solana, a top Spanish politician who had overseen NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... ’s bombing of Kosovo. Spain changed the law.
Last year, she won an unprecedented $655 million verdict against the Paleostinian Authority and PLO on behalf of 11 American families whose loved ones had been killed or injured in attacks in Israel. That decision was overturned by the US Court of Appeal, but Darshan-Leitner says she is not deterred.
Darshan-Leitner and Shurat Hadin, the non-profit law center she heads, are self-funding and do not receive backing from any government, including that of Israel. Sometimes she can be more effective even than the Israeli army: In 2011, she prevented a Gazoo-bound activists’ flotilla from leaving Greece after challenging the seaworthiness of the vessels in a local court.
Now she has discovered that Leb-based terrorist group Hezbollah is using Western Union to channel funds, and Iran is planning to use Boeing aircraft to deliver missiles to Syria. She plans to sue them both.
"Hezbollah is launching a fundraising campaign and using Western Union to accept the donations, so one of the moves that we are planning is to go after Western Union," says Darshan-Leitner. "In addition, we learned that Boeing not only signed a horrible deal with Iran providing them with 80 aircraft with a special waiver for the sanctions, Iran actually is using these aircraft to deliver missiles into Syria and let Hezbollah drive them to South Leb to shoot them over Israel.
"We are suing Boeing now to stop the deal, and we are launching a campaign to put pressure on the administration not to let Boeing continue," she says.
Darshan-Leitner is also suing Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants for their alleged role in "facilitating" terror activity.
"Facebook, Twitter and Google provide material support in the form of social media network services to Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, to ISIS. This is unacceptable. It’s also a violation of American law. So we’ve filed lawsuits against them as well," she says.
Make them live up to their own rules, said Alinsky.
[DAWN] Two Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) officials have been incarcerated Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! and formally charged by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for their involvement in the illegal trafficking of three Afghan women, who were caught using fake boarding passes to board a UK-bound flight from Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... International Airport.
An FIA-lead initial investigation into activities of the the arrested five subsequently unearthed a sizable human trafficking network, sources from the FIA revealed. A man named Dr Altaf has been identified as the ring leader.
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[DAWN] Indian spy Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav continues to provide crucial intelligence with regard to recent terrorist attacks in Pakistain, Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Nafees Zakaria told DawnNews on Monday.
Jadhav's death sentence was stayed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague on May 18, following proceedings in which Pak and Indian lawyers argued over the legitimacy of the death sentence awarded to Jadhav by a Pak military court.
Insisting that Pakistain held enough evidence to prove that Jadhav was a spy, Attorney General of Pakistain Ashtar Ausaf during an exclusive interview to DawnNews said that Pakistain has information on Jadhav that could not be disclosed due to the security reasons.
He said, "The evidence would only be presented before the ICJ once it resumes the hearing."
He said the ICJ's procedural order of May 18 was neither Pakistain's defeat nor India's success and emphasised that when the case re-starts, "Pakistain would be on solid ground to win".
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Indian spy Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav continues to provide crucial intelligence in exchange for his soft parts.
[AlAhram] While Iraq's conventional military has been slowly clearing the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group from inside djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... 's complex urban terrain, Iraq's Iran-backed Shiite paramilitary forces have been working their way through less glamorous territory: vast deserts west and south of the city that run along and across Iraq's border with Syria.
The territory, dotted with small villages and dusty roads, is home to key supply lines into neighboring Syria and connecting Iraq's north to the capital Baghdad. Control of the Iraqi-Syrian border would be a key strategic prize for the mostly Shiite paramilitary forces and their backer Iran, who also supports the government of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Suppressor of the Damascenes... One division of the Iraqi government-sanctioned paramilitary group known as the Popular Mobilization Forces first reached Iraq's border with Syria on Monday after securing a string of small villages west of Mosul and south of Sinjar, according to Ahmed al-Asadi, the group's front man.
"This will be the first step to the liberation of the entire border," he said.
The PMF began Monday's operation by pushing IS holy warriors out of the center of the town of Baaj, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Syrian border. Once the town was retaken a unit was dispatched to secure the village of Um Jrais along the border.
"This victory will also be an important incentive for the Syrian Arab Army to secure the entire border from the Syrian side," al-Asadi said, referring the Assad's government forces.
As the PMF secure more of the border region, they plan to "erect a dirt barricade and dig a trench," said Sheikh Sami al-Masoudi, a paramilitary group leader.
Iraq's border with Syria has long been a haven for smugglers and murderous Moslem activity.
The Nineveh foothold would give the paramilitary forces considerable leverage politically and militarily in Iraq after the fight against IS is concluded, according to Maria Fantappie, the senior Iraq researcher for the International Crisis Group, a non-governmental research firm.
The Iranians have been prioritizing something that the U.S. has overlooked: control over strategic roads, rather than control of the Sunni communities.
"The Iranians have been prioritizing something that the U.S. has overlooked: control over strategic roads, rather than control of the Sunni communities,"
Fantappie said explaining that the U.S.-led coalition's fight against IS has largely focused on retaking cities while the PMF have instead focused on transit and supply lines.
Control of roads and borders also allows the paramilitary forces to divide Iraq's Sunni community geographically and politically, Fantappie said.
"They have been trying to bisect Iraq and prevent a unified Sunni block from emerging," she said.
In Syria, Assad's forces and their allies have also been on the offensive, moving toward the Iraqi and Jordanian border, but are still far from reaching it. U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, IS holy warriors and Syrian rebels are also fighting for territory in an increasingly messy battle space.
After securing the Iraqi side of the border with Syria, Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces are ready to move inside Syrian territories to assist Assad, said Hashim al-Mousawi, a leader with the powerful al-Nujaba militia that falls under the PMF umbrella. Before the PMF was sanctioned by the Iraqi government al-Nujaba fighters openly fought inside Syria, helping prop up the Assad regime during the early days of the uprising against his government.
But, now al-Mousawi said crossing into Syria to fight would require the approval of the Iraqi government in Baghdad
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The Arab paper A-Sharq Al-Awsat published in London reported that Tehran has agreed to renew its financial aid to Hamas.
According to the report, the decision comes after heads of Hamas met with Iranian officials in Lebanon, under mediation by leaders of the Hezbollah terror organization.
[IsraelTimes] Day after reports of Trump shouting at Abbas about incitement, former top official dismisses PA claims that it is making ’social welfare’ payments, saying they are presented as ’salaries’ in Paleostinian budget documents.
The Paleostinian Authority has paid out some NIS 4 billion -- or $1.12 billion -- over the past four years to turbans and their families, a former director general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and ex-head of the army’s intelligence and research division told a top Knesset panel on Monday.
Setting out the figures, Brig.-Gen (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the longer the period for which a Paleostinian security prisoner is incarcerated
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Incidentally betraying their Soviet roots with that organization structure...
[IsraelTimes] Karim Younes is serving a 40-year sentence for the kidnapping and killing of an IDF soldier.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... has appointed a convicted Israeli Arab terrorist to the governing body of his Fatah party, a watchdog group said Monday.
That will most certainly persuade President Trump that the Palestinians will negotiate in good faith. That never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity thingy continues.
Abbas selected Karim Younes to be a member of the Fatah Central Committee, according to Paleostinian Media Watch, an Israeli-based non-government organization.
The report came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his government was placing a focus on Paleostinians’ glorification of gunnies and incitement. Earlier this week, in the face of Israeli pressure, Norway withdrew funding from a Paleostinian women’s center named for a female terrorist who took part in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre. The UN also distanced itself from the center.
Younes, together with his cousin Maher Younis, kidnapped and murdered IDF soldier Avraham Bromberg as he made his way from his base in the Golan Heights to his home in Zichron Yaakov on November 26, 1980.
Sentenced to life in prison in early 1983, Younis, from the Arab town of ’Aara in central Israel, is now the longest-serving security prisoner in an Israeli jail. In 2012, former president Shimon Peres reduced his sentence to 40 years behind bars. Younis was a member of Fatah when he killed Bromberg.
In May, the PA named two squares after the cousins in the West Bank town of Jenin, PMW said, noting that over a period of 30 days earlier this year, the Paleostinian Authority and Fatah honored 44 gunnies who killed a total of 440 people.
Israel has accused the Paleostinians, including Abbas’s Fatah party, of fanning hatred on social media and calling for violence against Israelis.
Paleostinian officials have generally countered the claim by arguing that harsh Israeli measures and decades of occupation, not incitement, instill hatred and inspire terrorism.
Except that the hatred and terrorism predate the formation of the state of Israel.
PLO Director of Prisoner’s Affairs Issa Qaraqe said that the appointment was designed to show that Paleostinian prisoners "are not gunnies and not criminals" but "freedom prisoners and fighters," PMW reported.
"They are freedom prisoners and fighters who enjoy an important national, human, and legal status among their leadership and among their Paleostinian people," Qaraqe said in PA TV report cited by PMW.
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