[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain stated that it would not recognize the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... administration in Afghanistan absent international consensus at a time when the world’s patience for the group is dwindling.
Bilawal Baby Bhutto Zardari ...Pak dynastic politician, son of Benazir Bhutto and grandon of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As far as is known, Bilawal has no particular talents other than being pretty and being able to memorize political slogans, but he had the good luck to be born into the right family and he hasn't been assassinated yet... , the Foreign Minister of Pakistain, stated on Friday, November 18, that his country would not take a "solo flight" in formally recognizing the Taliban administration in Afghanistan, without an international consensus.
The Pak foreign minister stated, "As far as their [the Taliban’s] official recognition is concerned, Pakistain would not want to take a solo flight and would rather pursue this process with international consensus."
To help avert a humanitarian crisis in poverty-stricken Afghanistan, the Pak government continues to support continued international engagement with the Taliban, according to Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, speaking to media in Islamabad.
Zardari urged the Taliban authorities in Kabul to uphold their commitments to Afghans and the international community that they would combat international terrorism and respect all Afghans’ human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... , including allowing women access to education.
"The world is running out of patience [with the Taliban]," Zardari warned. "But despite these challenges, we appeal and insist on sustaining engagement."
After retaking power in Afghanistan, the Taliban placed stringent restrictions on women’s rights, forbidding them from working in most government offices, closing secondary and high schools for girls, and other measures that severely restrict women’s freedom of movement.
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Pakistain is pushing the international community to recognise the Taliban. This is just a farce.
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It's the diplomatic recognition, embassies and reps that they're opposing, but Islamabad has been the nasal, nagging voice in everybody's ear to 'engage with the Taliban' even before the Doha talks. It was only the 'Stain, UAE and the Saudis who immediately recognised the Taliban government. All this drama about not formally allowing them representation in the international community is only so that Islamabad can continue to control the narrative in the region, which they feel is theirs to manipulate.
Whenever Pakistain says something, it's best to assume they mean the opposite. They want nations to sit and talk about what is to be done with the 'emirate'. They want to be central to that discussion. And they want to be middlemen for the Taliban with China. They want you to waste your money in the 'reconstruction' of something that can't be reconstructed, they want to bring the terrible narrative of flogged and enslaved women to you repeatedly, the onward march of Shariah advertised daily. The world should just forget this fucking country for a decade. But it won't be allowed to. These south asian moslems simply won't let you. They'll provide excuses to remain engaged with this region, no matter if it's against all reason and fruitless an endeavour. That's just one way moslems waste everybody's time and money.
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In my time, I've listened to a lot of seemingly 'credible sources' from the government and/or press, Spike. The majority of them have proven to be well less than credible. There may be a modicum of truth in what they say, but somehow the message is twisted to provide the desired output for the masses.
I'll leave it to the folks who have to live with the problems everyday to give me the straight scoop.
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Nothing but unsourced conspiracy theories here. You'd get better information from the opinion page of the New York Times.
Feel free to do so, Spike the Hairy. Start your own blog :-)
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Pakistain is pushing the international community to recognise the Taliban.
And wanting to be bribed to do so. Nifty little move to make money off of 15 years of Business as Usual. Can't just fly into Kabul anymore, and the main land entry point was just 'closed'.
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What's this embassy do anyway in kabul? And this bearded imbecile? What do they mean by 'will not recognise'? They just want you to recognise it and normalise a Shariah state. Taliban have consulates set up in Karachi, 'slamabad, Quetta and Beijing. Sayed Mohiuddin Sadat is the ambassador in Beijing. It was Islamabad that convinced China to engage with him on power projects and recognise their de facto rule. The only thing they want now is to drag the west into this, make everyone acknowledge there is an emirate. In fact it was last year's Paki foreign secy who had stated that not recognising the Taliban legitimacy shall result in another 9/11.
H.E. Ubaid ur Rehman Nizamani has joined the Embassy of Pakistan,Kabul, as Head of Mission. In his inaugural interaction with the Embassy staff,he emphasized that it would be his priority to work towards enhancing multifaceted bilateral cooperation between Pakistan & Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/NslqpFFyvT
The trouble they are having with Taliban leadership supporting TTP is a systemic symptom of islamism. It will remain until the TTP is crushed or incentivized. That conflict doesn't mean they don't see the Taliban emirate as a civilizational victory and a future base for global jihad. I wish this were a conspiracy theory. Fact is, it's very obvious to all Asian countries because we know the nature of the animal. The American polity is educated about the 'Stain and the subcontinent by deepState flunkies who probably skim money from the 'tranches'. Which is why it's not so obvious from there.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Russian Special Presidential Representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said that participants in the Moscow format consultations on Afghanistan expressed unanimity in support and called for forming an inclusive government in Afghanistan.
The so-called Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan was attended by 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... , The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... , China, Pakistain, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, according to Sputnik news agency’s report.
Kabulov expressed concern over the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s failure to establish what he described as an ethno-politically inclusive government to govern the country, alluding to the country’s underrepresented Afghan minority groups.
A structure such as that of government, according to Kabulov, would foster "a true national reconciliation in Afghanistan."
"We all see the situation in Afghanistan the same way, and we all unequivocally support the formation of an ethno-politically inclusive government in that country as soon as possible," Kabulov said.
The Taliban is still banned in Russia, where it is treated as a terrorist group. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Moscow has granted the Taliban permission to run the Afghan diplomatic mission in Russia.
According to Pakistain’s special envoy, Mohammad Sadiq, the engagement’s guiding principles included supporting political inclusion, combating terrorism, and protecting Afghans’ rights, particularly those of women. However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... he said that the Taliban had not made any progress in those areas.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] In an extraordinary meeting with the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... Minister of Public Health, Pakistain’s special representative for Afghanistan affairs, Mohammad Sadiq Khan, stated that his country will continue to fund the three modern hospitals it has built in Afghanistan.
The Pak official wrote in a string of tweets on Saturday, November 19, that he has met with Qalandar Ebad, the Taliban Minister of Public Health in an extraordinary meeting of the Afghanistan Inter-governmental Coordination Cell (AICC).
According to the tweets, the Pak official gave the Taliban side assurance that Pakistain would cooperate with the Afghan people in the healthcare sector, notably by continuing to provide financial support for the three hospitals Pakistain has built in Afghanistan.
"Pakistain has agreed to extend financial support for smooth operations of these hospitals in short to medium term and support the private sector to run these hospitals under public-private partnerships in the long term," Sadiq Khan wrote.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in Kabul the Afghan capital, Nishtar Kidney Center in Jalalabad of 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.. province, and Amanullah Pashtun-infested Logari Hospital in Pashtun-infested Logar in eastern Afghanistan are three of the modern hospitals Pakistain has built in Afghanistan.
He further stated that in a bid to assist Afghanistan in becoming self-sufficient in the healthcare sector, Khyber Medical University 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 Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... , which has already trained hundreds of Afghan doctors, will establish medical college campuses in Afghanistan.
This comes as the Pakistain-built Mohammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in Kabul was previously transformed into a teaching hospital after the Taliban Ministry of Public Health approved the transformation in mid-June this year.
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[Garowe] A bigwig from Æthiopia's northern Tigray region says Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n forces are still committing atrocities despite the recent deal with Addis Ababa to bring an end to the two-year war.
Tigray People's Liberation Front front man Getachew Reda said Eritrean forces were killing civilians and looting and destroying property.
Several human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... organizations have accused Eritrean soldiers of committing atrocities in Æthiopia in the past, but these claims have been denied by Eritrean officials.
Mr Getachew also said Tigrayan fighters would not lay down their arms until the federal government ensured the withdrawal of Eritrean and other forces from the region.
An Æthiopian official said the Eritrean issue would be resolved as soon as federal troops were stationed in Tigray's border areas.
[Garowe] The Tigray People's Liberation Front [TPLF] has vowed to keep on fighting in defense of their territory despite the recently signed peace deal, noting that this will happen until the Æthiopian government confirms the withdrawal of Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n troops from most parts of northern Æthiopia.
In Nairobi last week, the recently signed deal spelled out the withdrawal of "foreign" troops from the region, an indication that top commanders from the warring parties agreed to have the Eritrean soldiers out as part of the process to stabilize the country which has been at war for two years.
Apparently, this was the first admission that indeed there are foreign soldiers in the Horn of Africa nation, with Addis Ababa and Eritrea disowning their presence all the time. Throughout this period, TPLF has been insisting on the presence of soldiers from neighboring Eritrea.
On Friday, Getachew Reda, the spokesperson of TPLF, insisted that the Eritrean troops are responsible for killing civilians, and carrying out rampant looting and destruction in Tigray, in the latest bombshell which could potentially dismantle the peace deal that was signed in South Africa and Kenya.
He said that the Tigrean fighters will not lay down arms until the Æthiopian government confirms the withdrawal of Eritrea and other forces from the region. Besides the presence of Eritrean troops, TPLF also insists Amhara and Afar regional militias have been operating within the Tigray region.
For two years, the war between Æthiopian National Defense Forces [ENDF] and TPLF has led to the killing of thousands of people besides triggering mass displacement of people from their homes. The Tigray region has been in a total blackout including a lack of basic services such as banking.
The international community, TPLF says, should keep an eye on the implementation of the peace deal by encouraging the Æthiopian government to compost with the agreement. Reda encouraged the community to assist Æthiopia to overcome the challenges which also tore the country apart.
"It’s our hope and expectation that the international community plays its role to support the parties to the recent peace agreement to keep their respective ends of the commitment. Congressman Brad Sherman is obviously doing his part, " said Reda, who was part of TPLF representative in the peace deal.
The US has already threatened to take action against those who may derail the implementation of the peace deal, noting that both parties should respect the peace accord signed by Nairobi. The government of Æthiopia has already pledged to facilitate the implementation of the deal.
[LIBYAREVIEW] On Saturday, a team of Libyan economic experts sent a detailed memorandum to the Libyan Parliament and the High Council of State (HCS) regarding the "legal violations of the oil exploration agreement signed between the Government of National Unity (GNU) and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... They stressed that the deal "includes binding provisions that place the Libyan state in semi-permanent obligations, according to which Turkey shares Libyan resources now and in the future, which harms the national economy."
The experts added that the deal "imposes a burden upon the state to keep an open commitment to the partnership agreement with Turkey."
They added that when Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba was selected by members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) in Geneva as Prime minister, "he was not granted the right to consider any agreements." They confirmed that "this makes the signing of this agreement contradictory in form and substance in terms of the powers granted by the Geneva Forum."
The experts affirmed that the agreement "violated the State Audit Bureau law in controlling public funds. As well as the state finance law of 2008 regarding the management of state funds."
The team explained that Article 5 of the agreement violated the Oil Law of 1955 regarding "resolving any disputes amicably through consultation and negotiation, as it denied the Libyan state’s right to resort to justice and arbitration. The agreement also violates Law No. 69 of 1970 on limiting the import, sale, and distribution activity for petroleum products to the National Oil Corporation (NOC), in addition to the agreement’s violation of the principle of gradual legislation."
Last month, Libya and Turkey signed a series of economic agreements that included potential energy exploration in maritime areas.
The agreements will allow for oil and gas exploration in Libyan waters, and come three years after the two countries signed a maritime border deal, Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said after signing the MoU in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... The EU last month said the deal infringes upon the sovereign rights of third states, and doesn’t comply with the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Law of the Sea.
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[Breitbart] A busload of border crossers and illegal aliens, sent by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), arrived at Vice President Kamala Harris’s Washington, DC, residence on Friday. This is the third busload in three months that has been sent to Harris’s home at the Naval Observatory.
Harris, who was named border czar by President Joe Biden last year, has made a point not to travel to the United States-Mexico border. Harris has said visiting the border would be nothing more than “grand gestures,” although she visited the border in 2018.
On Friday, Townhall’s Julio Rosas captured footage outside Harris’s D.C. residence where about 50 border crossers and illegal aliens were dropped off via bus. Activists with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as Rosas noted, quickly swept the busload away from Harris’s home.
As was the case with the last two busloads sent to the Naval Observatory, Harris did not greet any of the arriving border crossers and illegal aliens.
Abbott’s continued migrant buses to Washington, DC — a sanctuary jurisdiction — comes as Democrats on the City Council have approved a plan that will allow foreign nationals, including newly arrived illegal aliens, to vote in municipal elections.
D.C. Democrats have made clear that border crossers and illegal aliens arriving on buses to the city would be eligible to vote in municipal elections under the ordinance’s nearly non-existent residency requirements.
[The Nation (Pak)] The post-mortem report of slain Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) worker Moazzam Gondal revealed that the slain party activist died after a bullet had hit his head while catching a gunman in Wazirabad attack during PTI long march.
According to the post-mortem report, the bullet was fired from a distance where the PTI worker was standing.
The 36-year-old PTI worker Moazzam Gondal was killed on November 3 during Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight... -led long march in Wazirabad.
The report further revealed that the bullet hit his head above the ear from right side and exited from the forehead, leaving two wounds on his head that later resulted in his death.
However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the Hospital administration refrained from commenting on the post-mortem report.
Earlier, Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf Chief (PTI) Imran Khan met with the family of the dear departed PTI worker Moazzam Gondal, who was rubbed out in the attack on the PTI long march in Wazirabad.
The PTI Chief provided the mother of the dear departed Moazzam with financial aid of Rs10 million.
Imran Khan met with the children, mother and brother of the dear departed PTI worker in Shoukat Khanum Hospital Lahore. The PTI chief expressed his grievances over the unfortunate demise of Moazzam in the attack on PTI long march in Wazirabad.
It is pertinent to mention here that PTI worker Moazzam was rubbed out during a gun attack on PTI’s long march in Wazirabad on November 3. Another PTI worker namely Ibtisam Hassan caught the attacker and hand him over to the police.
Multiple PTI leaders including the PTI Chief Imran Khan were maimed in the attack.
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[IsraelTimes] CENTCOM announcement comes in wake of Iranian dronezap on Pacific Zircon off the coast of Oman
A US-led task force will deploy over 100 unmanned vessels in the Gulf region’s strategic waters by next year to stave off maritime threats, the US Central Command chief said Saturday.
The announcement by General Michael Kurilla at the annual Manama Dialogue conference in Bahrain came after Israel and the United States blamed Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... for a dronezap off the coast of Oman this week that hit a tanker, Pacific Zircon, operated by an Israeli-owned firm.
The attack, which coincided with heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington, was the latest in a string of disruptions in Gulf waters that are a key route for world energy supplies.
"By this time next year, Task Force 59 will bring together a fleet of over 100 unmanned surface and subsurface vessels operating together, communicating together and providing maritime domain awareness," the CENTCOM chief said.
Launched in September 2021, Task Force 59 was created in Bahrain, home to the US navy’s Fifth Fleet, to integrate unmanned systems and artificial intelligence into Middle East operations following a series of drone attacks blamed on Iran.
While airborne and subsea unmanned vessels are quite well developed, unmanned surface boats are a new technology that are essential for security in the future, according to the Fifth Fleet.
In addition to the unmanned vessels, the US is "building an experimentation program here in the Middle East to beat adversary drones with our partners," Kurilla said without elaborating.
The CENTCOM chief called the development of "adversary drones" the greatest technological threat to regional security.
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They say unmanned but that is because a gecko has the deck and conn of one of them
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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.
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