Once again the New York Times attempts to create facts on the ground.
[KhaamaPress] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... group has rejected reports suggesting that the leadership of the group has ordered a halt to suicide kabooms in the cities.
A front man for the Taliban group Zabiullah Mujahid issued a statement rejecting the statement attributed to him in a report in which he was quoted as saying that the group will not carry out suicide attacks in the cities anymore.
Mujahid further added that no such statement has been made during the interview in response to a question that why no suicide attack has been carried out in Kabul or other main cities.
He also added that the operations in the cities need more time as the Taliban fighters carefully conduct attacks to prevent civilian casualties.
However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... he said that the attacks would be carried out in the cities once the targets have been fully ascertained.
This comes as the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... stated in a report that the Taliban group front man Zabiullah Mujahid has said that the leadership of the group has ordered to halt the suicide attacks in the cities.
The report further adds that the decision and change in the tactic was made after the declaration of ceasefire between the government and the group on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr.
[AsiaTimes] Pakistan, Russia, China and Iran are joining forces against terrorist group the Islamic State Khorasan Province in Afghanistan.
A new strategic fault line appeared in the Afghan conflict last week when Islamabad hosted an unusual meeting of the heads of the intelligence agencies of Russia, China and Iran on July 11.
The focus was on joint measures to stop the terrorist group Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-K) from threatening the territorial boundaries of the four regional states. In the Russian estimation, there could be up to 10,000 fighters in IS-K’s ranks already and the group is already active in nine of the 34 provinces in Afghanistan.
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I do not think they know what a pickle they are in.
[PRESSTV] Madrid has inked a military deal with the Riyadh regime, which would see a Spanish firm build five warships for 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... , despite an international cry against the sales of military equipment to the kingdom amid its bloody war on impoverished Yemen.
The agreement was signed between the state-owned Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and Spain’s shipbuilder, Navantia, on Thursday, paving the way for the two sides to set up a joint venture in the kingdom for constructing the five battleships, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
The deal is part of a broader framework bilaterally agreed in April -- when Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... visited Spain -- which is estimated to be worth around 1.8 billion euros ($2.2 billion).
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"despite an international Iranian/Houthi cry against the sales of military equipment to the kingdom amid its bloody war on impoverished Yemen."
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No, most of London already has their kebab served from the Hand That Wipes™. Can't imagine why they'd need utensils...
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Also released today by the Home Office are figures revealing that only in nine per cent of crimes are the suspects charged or summonsed with 48 per cent of cases being closed because the suspect could not be identified.
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Well, at least the gun crime has slowed, to a 2% increase. They should stress that; Londoners would feel better.
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So...if the bobbies wanted to end the crime wave...they could just stab all the criminals they do catch to death, claim it was someone else and criminals are punished without being jailed.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. - July 4, 1776 [written by Englishmen the day before]
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There was nothing worse than for a British bureaucrat or policeman to be accused of racism against “Asian” Muslims. And anyway, so many British actors and politicians have been credibly accused of child s3xual exploitation over the same time period, and their staffs of covering for them, that it’s understandable the same pleasure taken by the lower classes would be likewise ignored, sick though it is.
The Labour Party has much to answer for. Whether the Tories are much better I could not say, but at least on their watch things are coming out and somewhat being prosecuted.
ISIS won't be allowed to run amok there like they did in Iraq and Syria.
[KhaamaPress] The Russian and Tajikistan forces have launched joint military exercises close to the border with Afghanistan amid growing instability in the key northern provinces of Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan has confirmed that the joint exercises have been launched to prepare the armed forces to respond to possible threats from the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and other gunnies in Afghanistan.
According to reports, at least ten thousand Tajikistani forces have participated in the joint military exercises.
Around 400 Russian troops have also taken part in the military exercises with the Tajikistani officials saying at least 80 military vehicles will also be used.
This comes as the growing instability in the northern provinces of Afghanistan has sparked concerns among the officials of Central Asian countries having borders with Afghanistan.
The Talibs as well as the gunnies affiliated with 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.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) are actively operating in some of the northern provinces of Afghanistan.
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Oldoz Javidi, a member of Sweden’s Feminist Initiative (FI) party, suggested in an interview that was published on Friday on the party’s website, that all Jews should be deported from Israel.
The FI member, with Iranian roots, Why does this sounds familiar?
sees parallels between the United States and Israel. She says both like to steal lands: Israel from the Palestinians and Americans did it from the Native inhabitants of their continent.
She suggests Jews should leave Israel and move to the U.S. to make room for the Palestinians:
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Speaking of stealing lands little is remembered of Norway's long fight for independence from Sweden after its annexation in 1814. That's the problem, seems everyone does it. See - Kaliningrad (which just happens to be across the Baltic from Sweden, you see the Swedes demanding 'right of return' there?)
[DAWN] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s main opposition leader was fined on Wednesday for defaming President Tayyip Erdogan and his family over claims about international money transfers, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
Erdogan has dismissed the allegations by Republican People’s Party (CHP) chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu, saying in November last year that his family "haven’t sent a dime abroad".
Officials at the presidency could not immediately be reached for comment.
The president, who was re-elected three weeks ago and assumed sweeping new executive powers, had vowed to take Kilicdaroglu to court, saying he would "pay the price".
Kilicdaroglu has since been ordered to pay Erdogan moral damages in several court cases, but Wednesday’s ruling ordering a 359,000 lira ($75,000) payment to the president and his close circle marked the largest sum yet.
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[SputnikNews] US President Donald Trump has slammed Turkey for keeping a US pastor in custody on charges of aiding a terrorist group behind the failed coup.
"A total disgrace that Turkey will not release a respected U.S. Pastor, Andrew Brunson, from prison," US president tweeted on Wednesday.
The US pastor has been held in a Turkish jail since October 2016 for allegedly threatening national security by having ties to the organizers of the July 2016 coup attempt to depose President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
US media reported that Brunson and his wife ran a ministry in the Turkish coastal town of Izmir for nearly 20 years.
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In 1983, Robert Irwin wrote a fantasy novel The Arabian Nightmare about a young Englishman who was dragged into a whirlwind of sinister and ridiculous events in Cairo. The Arabian nightmare, he learned, was like a disease or a curse. It was terrible and obscene, monotonous, but yet fearful. It brought countless sufferings without the realization of such...
The Arabian nightmare has come to the West. It has come invisibly and struck it like an evil curse. It subdued Western people gradually - through arson, sexual violence, "Salafi" vice squad and Muslim parties, all under the slogans of tolerance and multiculturalism.
The miserable Eloi (see H.G. Wells, The Time Machine) do not even understand that they were turned into cattle being slaughtered in the light of day on their streets. In a desperate attempt to escape from admitting to The Arabian Nightmare, the ruling elites use all conceivable methods of escapism.
Method #1: to level terror with other types of violence.
Method #2: to declare that Islamic terror isn’t Islamic at all.
Method #3 (the most common one) is to declare that fanatics are mere psychopaths.
Method #4: to hide both the ethnic origin of the terrorists and their motives.
Method #5: to accuse of Islamophobia anyone who dares calling the name and religion of a terrorist.
Method #6: to blame the terror phenomenon on some social problems.
Method #7: terror as a marginal spontaneous and irresolvable phenomenon in principle - something like seasonal flowering or inconveniences caused by pigeons.
Method #8: Finally, here goes the last method from the arsenal of totalitarian regimes: censorship, fines, prohibitions and a mere withdrawal of posts, like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube do.
..."There is no sex in the USSR". No, this is not a joke. It was said during the Leningrad-Boston US-Soviet Space Bridge on July 17, 1986 by the administrator of the Leningrad Hotel, Lyudmila Ivanova. In the USSR sex was associated with debauchery and pornography, and there was none of this in the country. In the USSR there was also "no crime, homosexuality, prostitution and drug addiction".
Today there is no Muslim terror in the West. Bullets accidentally fly out of guns, shops and subway cars explode spontaneously, cars squash pedestrians on their own, machetes and knives fly in the air on their own cutting, chopping and stabbing passers-by. Is it all a consequence of global warming? Quite possible.
[AsiaTimes] Pakistan curbs imports amid a foreign exchange crisis.
The economy faces a potential collapse as foreign currency reserves fall below $9.5 billion.
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has moved to curb the country’s bulging import bill to ease pressure on its dwindling foreign exchange reserves. Reserves have tumbled to US$9.5 billion, less than enough to pay for one month’s worth of imports, representing a major crisis for South Asia’s second largest economy.
Faced with a current account deficit of US$16 billion, the SBP on Monday slapped a 100% cash margin on 131 “non-essential” items to arrest the deterioration in the reserves position. The move will discourage imports as many will find it difficult with liquidity constraints to make the 100% advance payments needed for opening a letter of credit.
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[DAWN] The jacket wallah behind the Mastung attack has been identified by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), Balochistan...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... police said on Thursday.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) CTD Aitzaz Ahmed Goraya made this announcement at a presser held in Quetta to brief the media regarding the investigation into the attack.
The Mastung bombing which took place on July 13 during a corner meeting organised by Mir Siraj Raisani ‐ a Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) candidate for PB-35 (Mastung) ‐ claimed the lives of 128 people while injuring more than 200. The attack was the deadliest since the 2014 carnage at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Army Public School.
DIG Goraya said that the man behind the suicide kaboom has been identified as Hafeez Nawaz. He was a resident of Mirpur Sakro, 33km away from Thatta.
The bomber's brother and sister had reportedly moved to Afghanistan two years ago.
The senior officer appreciated the efforts and cooperation of the Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... CTD towards the investigation.
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[DAWN] Three banned outfits ‐ the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP), Ansarul Sharia Pakistain (ASP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... (LJ) ‐ have developed a nexus to target politicianship in the metropolis to "sabotage forthcoming elections and trigger destabilisation in the country", said a senior police official on Wednesday.
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[DAWN] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam ...the political wing of the Pak Taliban... i-S chief Maulana Samiul Haq ...the Godfather of the Taliban, leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as Mullah Sandwich for his habit of having two young boys at a time... on Wednesday welcomed a US offer of direct talks with the Afghan Taliban ...Arabic for students... In a statement issued here, the JUI-S chief termed the US peace overture as pragmatic. He said talks were the only way to restore peace in the country and seek an honourable exit for Washington from there as well.
He said the US should not hesitate to acknowledge the fact that the Taliban were the most formidable political and military reality of the country. He said the world would also welcome resumption of talks between the US and Taliban.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... he warned that forces inimical to the peace and vested interests won’t let peace overtures to succeed as their survival rested on the continuing bloodshed in the country.
Mr Sami also demanded removal of important Taliban leaders’ names from the most wanted list.
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I do not think they know what a pickle they are in.
[DAWN] Adiala jail authorities have limited the movement of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... after some prisoners started chanting slogans against him as he was out for a stroll in the courtyard of his barrack early in the morning.
Sharif will now also not be allowed to pray in the mosque.
According to sources, the jail authorities are considering moving Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz to Safwat Lodge, commonly referred to as Sihala Rest House, located on the premises of Sihala Police College.
"A bomb disposal squad visited Sihala Police College Wednesday night to comb the premises to ensure there are no explosives in case the former premier and his daughter are moved to Sihala," a security bigshot said.
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[DAWN] IN a small house on the busy College Road in Township, a few Milli Moslem League men are entering details of each of the 170,000 voters from provincial assembly constituency PP-167 on printed slips to help them find their polling stations.
The slips will be distributed among voters during the ongoing door-to-door canvassing for Allah-o-Akbar Tehrik’s candidate Hafiz Khalid Waleed.
Outside, panaflex signage is being handed to volunteers for display on roads in different parts of the constituency, which mostly comprises lower to middle income groups, small traders, and babus government employees, as well as a significantly large number of Christians.
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[Conservative Tribune] It was President Donald Trump’s move, but it looked like it was right out of the Ronald Reagan playbook.
The Trump administration this week refused to grant visas to six "experts" from the Palestinian Authority to travel to the United Nations for a report on how the Palestinian government plans to achieve its goals for the year 2030, according to The Associated Press.
And while the reasons the visas were denied weren’t available Thursday, it was a solid reminder of just how the world has changed with Donald Trump in the White House.
(Syria News) The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported, on Wednesday, that Russia has killed 1771 children, since its intervention in the Syrian conflict.
In a report released today by the network, it said that the Russian troops committed brutal massacres and killed 6187 civilians, including 1771 children since its intervention in the Syrian conflict.
Russia intervene in Syria in September 2015 after an official call from the Syrian regime, to fight the so-called terrorist groups, which resulted in the killing of thousands of civilians due to the ongoing raids on the rebels-held areas.
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Just a very very small blip in the sum total of all innocents killed in fighting by all parties, in the Near East and Middle East since the end of WWII. Look! a squirrel!
[PRESSTV] Iran's foreign minister has denounced the United States as the world's leading weapons seller, saying Washington's excessive arms exports undermine global peace.
In a tweet on Thursday, Mohammad Javad Zarif reacted to a stunning timelapse video dubbed 'The United States of Arms', which went viral earlier this week, depicting the massive flow of American exports of military equipment to different continents over the last 67 years.
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Arms sales or transfers for say a $10M jet ightr is far less destabilizing than a shipment of AK's costig 100K
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
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... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
