Jizya, big time. At least that's what it looks like to the Taliban and their fellows, regardless how the givers intended it.
[ToloNews] Da Afghanistan Bank (Central Bank of Afghanistan) says that more than $ 760 million has been delivered to Afghanistan so far from the international community.
Central Bank officials said the money that the world donated to Afghanistan is beneficial in maintaining the value of the Afghan currency.
"In total, $761,600,000 has been delivered. This aid preserves the value of the Afghani," said Saber Momand, front man for the Central Bank of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... the Ministry of Economy, called on the international community to provide humanitarian assistance in coordination with the institutions of the Islamic Emirate.
"Humanitarian aid provided through the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... should be done in coordination with ministries and government departments so that aid reaches the vulnerable families in a transparent manner and with accountability and reporting," said Abdul Rahman Habib, front man for the Ministry of Economy.
One of the reasons for the internationally-provided cash aid to Afghanistan is to prevent widespread poverty and food shortages. But Afghans say the aid is not being distributed in a fair way.
Seventy-year-old Mirajan is the father of a family of six who spends his days with his cart on the streets of Kabul trying to find a piece of bread for his family. He complains about the lack of humanitarian aid.
"Donations come but they do not give it to us. There are representatives of the people in our area who say that if you share fifty percent of the aid with us, I will put your name on the list. If you do not, I will not take your name," said Mirajan, the worker.
After the fall of the previous government, with the freezing of Afghanistan's assets by the United States, the international community pledged millions of dollars to prevent economic collapse in Afghanistan.
The UN Secretary-General has warned of a liquidity crisis in Afghanistan and stressed that the UN is working with the US Treasury Department and the Bank of Afghanistan to release frozen assets in Afghanistan.
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The big question whether the girls are going back to school.
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The big question whether the girls are going back to school.
Not really a question, Chris. If they were going to be allowed school, it would have happened immediately. Since it hasn’t, it won’t — same as when the Talibs were running things last time.
Thousands of opposition supporters rally in the #Armenia-n capital Yerevan to warn the government against concessions to arch-foe #Azerbaijan over the long-disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.https://t.co/QlrLQRR7us
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[KavkazUzel] The case of a resident of Novorossiysk, accused of deliberately false reporting of an act of terrorism, has been brought to court.
According to investigators, a 45-year-old resident of Novorossiysk, out of hooligan motives, reported an existing threat to the building at her place of work. She was charged with Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
For the period of the preliminary investigation, the accused was chosen a preventive measure in the form of a written undertaking not to leave the place and proper behavior.
According to Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, a knowingly false report about an act of terrorism committed against social infrastructure facilities or causing major damage is punishable by a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison.
The criminal case with the approved indictment was sent to court for consideration on the merits, according to today's message on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory.
Previously, the "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that at the end of March, a court in Stavropol found a local resident guilty of knowingly falsely reporting an explosive device planted in the office of one of the banks and sentenced him to two years of probation.
At the end of December 2021, a resident of Volgograd was sentenced to three years and six months in a penal colony for calling with a message about a bus station being mined.
After packing next door Libya with Syrian mercenaries and claiming the eastern half of the Med for itself.
The Ottoman empire won’t rebuild itself, you know. It will take concentrated effort by both the future sultan and his future subjects to make the inevitable happen.
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[BBC] In late 2011, Saifullah Mohammad Zahed was working as an interpreter for Canadian troops in Afghanistan's Kandahar province when he received a letter from the Taliban.
"They said they knew I was working for 'infidels' and told me to stop," he remembers. "They said they would kill me and my family if I didn't."
Soon after, Mr Zahed was able to move to Canada after six years working with Canadian and Nato forces in Kandahar, a province considered to be the birthplace of the Taliban.
It wasn't an idle threat.
"My dad was shot and killed by the Taliban," he told the BBC from his home in Calgary. "Since then, my family has been moving around, going from province to province. We've all been Taliban targets for a long time."
Mr Zahed is one of hundreds of Afghans who worked for Canadian forces as interpreters and in other jobs. Many are hoping to get their families out of Afghanistan - where they are at risk of retribution from the victorious Taliban - and bring them to Canada.
After the fall of Kabul last August, Canada's federal government vowed to welcome as many as 40,000 refugees and vulnerable Afghans to the country. As of 21 April, more than 11,300 Afghans had arrived in Canada.
As part of that effort, the government in November announced a pathway to permanent residency for extended family members of Afghan interpreters already in Canada.
But critics of the extended family programme have accused the government of burdening family members with unreasonable and often redundant bureaucratic hurdles - including documentation and biometrics - that result in delays.
Several Afghan interpreters in Canada described dozens of pages worth of necessary documents and few, if any, possibilities of family members leaving Afghanistan to complete the required steps in safety.
To date, not a single Afghan has made it to Canada through that programme.
Jenny Kwan is the opposition New Democratic Party's immigration critic, and has been advocating on behalf of at least 300 Afghan families - about 5,000 people in total.
She said that a primary problem is that many families still in Afghanistan are unable to safely travel to a third country where they can do the biometrics and submit the paperwork necessary to get to Canada.
"They're going to have to go to an office that's run by the Taliban right now and ask for passports," she said. "As you can imagine, red flags and alarm bells go off when the entire family shows up saying they need a passport to go to Canada."
Mr Zahed, for his part, said that the lives of family members still in Afghanistan are at risk each day they remain in the country.
While one of his two brothers was successfully smuggled out of the country to Turkey, another - who stayed in Afghanistan - has gone missing. His fate is unknown.
"The Taliban have been searching houses," he added. "I've got two other colleague that live here [in Canada] One has lost 11 [family members]since the Taliban took over. The other's sister was killed in a school. It's been really, really dangerous."
Another former interpreter, Ottawa-based Ghulam Faizi, told the BBC he has 18 members of his extended family left in Afghanistan, where they are living in hiding.
Three other family members have made it to Pakistan, where they have been waiting in vain for permission to travel to Canada.
"They've been there three months and now their Pakistani visas have expired," he said, saying some have never received a response from Canadian officials.
Many of the interpreters and those working on their behalf are frustrated by the treatment of Afghan allies when they look at how Canada is handling the process for Ukrainians fleeing war.
[Breitbart] Fifteen members of one of Mexico’s most violent drug cartels pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court to helping smuggle tons quantities of drugs into Texas. The cartel members will be sentenced later this year.
The convicted drug smugglers are all part of the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas, a criminal organization based in Nuevo Laredo The cartel is responsible for a large part of the violence in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas and for several violent crimes in South Texas.
This week, Gustavo Alberto Duenes-Perez, went before a U.S. District Judge and pleaded guilty to various drug conspiracy charges. Duenes-Perez is the fifteenth member of the CDN-Los Zetas to plead guilty in recent days. All fifteen members will be sentenced in June. The cartel members along with several other individuals who remain unnamed in a multicount criminal indictment are all accused of working for the CDN-Los Zetas cartel.
According to information released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, the case began in March 2019 when agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration learned that the CDN-Los Zetas provided Duenes-Perez and his associates with funds to purchase a utility truck that would be used to transport drugs to a warehouse located in Laredo, Texas.
Authorities monitored the vehicle and through surveillance operations learned that Duenez-Perez regularly drove the vehicle. The drug smuggling cell that operated in Texas used personal vehicles and utility trucks to move drugs within Laredo from various stash houses and onto a ranch.
In April of that year, authorities followed Duenes-Perez as he and his group moved a load of drugs from a ranch to a stash house in Laredo.
Authorities raided the ranch and stash house, seizing a total of 11,240 kilograms (approximately 12 tons) of marijuana with an approximate value of $11.6 million.
The #US homeland security chief #AlejandroMayorkas acknowledges that the nation faces an “extraordinary strain” as it braces for surges of immigrants crossing the #Mexico border once pandemic-related entry curbs are dropped.https://t.co/dc5kU65TB2
[IsraelTimes] Ubai Aboudi is head of Bisan, one of six Paleostinian groups that Israel last year designated terrorist organizations; groups deny terror ties and continue to operate
Israel has prevented the director of a Paleostinian civil-society group from traveling abroad to attend a professional conference in Mexico, the activist said.
Ubai Aboudi is the head of Bisan, one of six Paleostinian groups that Israel last year designated a terrorist organization. Israeli officials declined to comment on the travel ban.
In an interview, Aboudi said he tried to exit the occupied West Bank last week in order to travel to the World Social Forum, an annual gathering of civil society groups that this year is taking place in Mexico. But he said he was stopped by Israeli officials at the crossing into Jordan.
"I was informed that I am banned from traveling. I asked why I am banned from traveling. They said they did not want to inform me," he said. Aboudi, who is a US citizen, said that just a month earlier, he traveled to Jordan without any problems.
The Bisan Center for Research and Development is a nonprofit that says it is committed to promoting a Paleostinian society based on "freedom, justice, equality and dignity." Aboudi has been arrested in the past by both Israel and the Paleostinian Authority, which administers autonomous areas of the West Bank, for his political activities.
Bisan is among six Paleostinian human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. groups that Israel last year effectively outlawed after designating them terrorist organizations.
Israel says the groups have ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine — a small Paleostinian faction with an armed wing that has carried out deadly attacks on Israelis. The PFLP is considered a terrorist group by Israel and its Western allies.
But Israel has provided little evidence backing up its claims against the six groups. The groups all continue to operate, though the Israeli crackdown has concerned international donors and caused some to cut ties.
Aboudi says he has no ties to the PFLP. The activists have said the Israeli move is an attempt to silence groups that have documented alleged harsh treatment against Paleostinians over the years.
"There is no explanation for what happened to me except that this was an attempt to silence the Paleostinian voice," Aboudi said.
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.
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