[Khaama (Afghanistan)] President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. welcomed the announcement of a ceasefire by the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... group leadership. What else is he gonna say? "Oh, damn. A Ceasefire?"
"We welcome the three days ceasefire announced by the Taliban starting on the first day of Eid. This comes following the bold decision by the Islamic republic of Afghanistan to cease the fight for a period of time," President Ghani said in a statement.
He said "I would like to thank our international partners such as the US, UK, EU and the Islamic Conference and in particular Afghans who supported us in this decision."
Presidential spokesperson Haroon Chakhansuri told news hounds earlier that the government welcomes any move that leads to prevention of violence and bloodshed.
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"Hudna!"
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[Dhaka Tribune] Senior BNP leader Barrister Moudud Ahmed said they will wage a "harsher movement in due course" to oust the current government.
"They [government] have no future. Their fall will come soon. Have patience and wait for that day," he said.
Speaking at a discussion on Saturday, Moudud further said: "A tougher movement will be waged in due course as we know it is not possible to oust a fascist ...anybody not a leftist... and autocratic regime with peaceful programs."
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[AA.TR] Eight former Ottoman Turkish soldiers, who had fled The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... during the 2016’s defeated coup attempt, are under heavy protection in Greece, a Greek newspaper reported on Saturday.
Athens-based Ta Nea newspaper reported that eight former soldiers were transferred to a military barrack in Greece under heavy protection due to fear of kidnapping or of an liquidation attempt as they were released after their 18-month detention period ended.
The former Ottoman Turkish soldiers are staying in a special area protected by an 80-strong police force including snipers, according to the paper.
The newspaper said the Greek government was alarmed after Ottoman Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag’s remarks in which he said: "It is our duty to bring these putschists to Turkey wherever they are."
The eight former Ottoman Turkish servicemen fled to Greece a day after the defeated 2016 Ottoman Turkish coup. They are accused by Ottoman Turkish authorities of involvement in the coup and being members of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO).
In January, the Greek Supreme Court ruled against extraditing the former soldiers -- a move Turkey called "politically motivated".
The Greek Council of State decided in May to provide a right of asylum to the former soldiers.
Turkey has repeatedly called for the extradition of the suspected coup-plotters, including during President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... 's official visit to Greece last December.
FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup on July 15, 2016, which left 250 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
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You can say what you'd like about the Soviet of Hellas, but they're one of the few polities to tell Caliph YipYip I to stick it where the sun don't shine.
[AA.TR] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... 's President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... on Saturday criticized Austrian Prime Minister Sebastian Kurz for its government's decision to shut down seven mosques and expel 40 imams.
"I am afraid that the steps taken by the Austrian prime minister would bring the world closer to a crusader-crescent war," said Erdogan during an iftar dinner organized in Istanbul.
Erdogan said Turkey would respond to the decision of expelling imams as well.
During a news conference with Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache and EU Affairs Minister Gernot Blumel, Kurz said the move came as part of a crackdown on "political Islam".
Kurz said that the investigation on several mosques and associations conducted by the Ministry of Interior and Office of Religious Affairs had been concluded and that the activities of seven mosques were found to be forbidden -- one of them belonging to the Ottoman Turkish-Islamic Cultural Associations (ATIB).
The Austrian chancellor added that the imams would be deported on grounds of being foreign funded.
In 2015 when Kurz was Austria's minister for Europe, integration and foreign affairs he backed Austria’s "law on Islam" (Islamgesetz) -- legislation that, among other things, banned the foreign funding of mosques and imams in Austria. The controversial law, which eventually passed through parliament, was intended to develop an Islam of "European character", according to Kurz.
"We act decisively and actively against undesirable developments and the formation of #parallelsocieties -- and will continue to do so if there are violations of the #law on Islam," Kurz wrote on his Twitter account.
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Erdogan can STFU until there's a mass said in the Hagia Sophia every week.
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Erdogan's defense of the systematic suppression of the Greek Orthodox faith in Turkey is...?
[DAILYCALLER] Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... refused to respond Friday to accusations that she attempted to shut down an investigation related to a former IT staffer of hers who made unauthorized access to House servers.
The IT aide, Imran Awan, plus his wife, two brothers and friends are suspected of breaching House IT network rules.
Two House sources told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Luke Rosiak that the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman told House Chief Administrative Officer Phil Kiko, "you will not so much as take away their parking spots."
According to TheDCNF, Wasserman Schultz was also being investigated for intervening on a Pak land deal Awan was involved in with his father.
The Daily Caller asked Wasserman Schultz repeatedly Friday if she would respond to the insinuations that she attempted to shut down the Awan probe and the Florida Democrat gave no response to that or that she accused a staffer of being an Islamaphobe.
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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, one of the few reps. that rivals Anthony Weiner for being obnoxious and maybe being criminal.
[NATION.PK] The party of Pakistain’s former military dictator Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... announced Saturday that he will run for a seat in parliament in July 25 national elections.
The move comes after the country’s Supreme Court conditionally allowed Musharraf to return from Dubai, where he has been living in self-exile to avoid arrest on criminal charges. Musharraf’s party said he will campaign for a seat representing the northern town of Chitral.
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[NATION.PK] The United States has called for cooperation from Pakistan to facilitate peace talks and assistance in the peace process in Afghanistan reported Radio Pakistan. I think that's been so since late 2001.
This was stated by the Deputy Assistant to the US president and Senior Director for South and Central Asia at the National Security Council, Lisa Curtis in her keynote address to 'The Long Search for Peace in Afghanistan' organized by the US Institute of Peace in Washington.
She said the US has also sought to understand Islamabad's core security concerns.
White House official said regional engagement is central to America's efforts in Afghanistan.
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Translation, "Please stop pouring gasoline on the fire."
[NATION.PK] The army fully supports investigation into the alleged abduction of TV host and columnist Gul Bukhari in Lahore, the military's media wing said in a statement. The Nation finally comments!
Unidentified men abducted Gul Bukhari from cantonment area in Lahore on June 5 when she was on her way to appear in a TV show. She returned home after few hours.
Director General Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Asif Ghafoor told a group of reporters early Saturday that the army had no role in the incident and that the incident must be investigated.
Bukhari's abduction had evoked strong criticism on social media and calls were made for investigation into the incident.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The leader of the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... Party, Samir Geagea ... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ... , stated during an interview with the al-Modon News Agency on Saturday that he is opposed to Leb normalizing relations with the Syrian government.
"There is no regime in Syria ‐ the equation is international. We want normalization and reform of relations with all of Syria and not one part of the Syrian people," Geagea stated.
Geagea stressed that refugees do not desire to go back to Syria because the government is the reason why they left for Leb.
"It is impossible to normalize with this regime...It is the one to have caused their displacement and does not desire their return...Leb will not normalize relations with a regime that does not exist...We want normalization with Syria in full."
The Lebanese Forces leader also took the offensive against Hezbollah, stating that Leb did not approve their role in the Syrian War.
"Even if Hezbollah claimed victory, the reality on the ground is known...The State was not the one to ask Hezbollah to go to Syria and therefore, it will not be rewarded," he added.
Geagea has long been a political opponent of Hezbollah and the Syrian government; he vocally supported the overthrow of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... on a number of occasions.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qeshm Airlines flew from Tehran to Damascus, tonight, Yoruk Isik of the Bosphorous Observer news hound.
According to Isik, the IRGC aircraft flew from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport to the Damascus International Airport, tonight, before flying back to the Iranian capital.
Isik added that the Boeing 747 aircraft used by the IRGC was recently acquired from Afghanistan via an Armenian intermediary.
Despite acquiring this 747, Boeing refused to sell the Iranian government their jets after the U.S. imposed sanctions against the Persian Gulf nation.
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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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
...anybody not a leftist...
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
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[NATION.PK] The army fully supports investigation into the alleged abduction of TV host and columnist Gul Bukhari in Lahore, the military's media wing said in a statement.
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