[KhaamaPress] The previous government failed to end the grassland dispute between Kochi and Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... ethnic groups.
A group of a delegation headed by acting Minister Mullah Noori has departed to Ghazni province to address the grassland dispute between Kochi and Hazara, the Official said on Sunday.
The delegation includes Mullah Noorullah Noori, Acting Minister for Tribal and border Affairs; Mowlavi Fazal Bari Fazli, acting deputy Minister for Agriculture, Haji Najib, acting director for General Directorate of Intelligence, Haji Khalifa, a representative for the Interior Minister, Mawlavi Obaidullah, Representative for Attorney General Office.
The Official asserted that the acting government saw conflict resolution as part of its mandate and would mobilize all resources to that end. Therefore, the delegation aimed to find a permanent solution in the Nawar District of Ghazni.
The grassland dispute has a long history between Pashtun nomad-Kuchis and Hazara ethnic groups. The Ghazni people expressed concern about the advancement of armed Kuchis in their agricultural land last year.
Several disputes existed in other parts of the Ghazni province, such as Malistan and Jaghori. In addition, a similar situation has been in other central provinces of Afghanistan, such as Maidan Wardak, Bamyan, and Ghor.
Although the local people have frequently sought the local authorities to fix the problems, there was no intention of doing so. The head of the deployed delegation hoped that the dispute would end soon if both sides cooperated with the delegations.
Mohammad Gul Kochi, representative of Kochi tribe, told Pajhwok Afghan News Hazara people often resort to violence and attacked Kochies over grassland dispute in Nawar district in the past years.
"During republic regime Hazara people on the direction of their elders Mohaqiq, Qasami and Changiz often attacked Kochies in which over 20 people were killed, scored injured and some were tortured."
Mohammad Mehdi, a tribal elder from Hazara ethnic group, said: "A mistake that the governor of Nawar district committed was the kidnapping of a woman from Kochi tribe and she was murdered after some time."
He added Hazara tribe collected 10 million afs and gave it to Kochi tribe as ransom money.
Civil society activist muppet Sydullah Taraki said tribal and ethnic disputes cause insecurity and fighting adding that government should find permanent solution to such issues.
Nawar district is known for its massive grasslands, greenery, hillsides and beautiful weather. Past government dubbed Nawar as national park.
[8amMedia] Mawlawi Nabi Ghafori, a holy man in the northwestern Faryab province, addressed the public in a speech, regarding the marriage of girls with Taliban ...Arabic for students... forces, saying the girls must "either be a mullah’s wife or his cow!"
In the video footage that sources sent to Hasht-e Subh on Saturday, the holy man is talking about the situation of women in the country and encouraging girls to marry Taliban forces.
Speaking in a public gathering, he says that mullahs are the kindest and most knowledgeable people in society. For this reason, "Either be a mullah’s wife or be a mullah’s cow."
In this speech, he encourages families to convince their daughters to marry Taliban forces.
This is despite the fact that Mawlawi Nabi Ghafori issued a fatwa during the now-former republic government, stating that the war being waged by Taliban forces against the ANDSF is forbidden.
Nothing about this yet posted in the Libya Review site — perhaps it will show up soon.
[AlAhram] Libyan authorities on Sunday said they have found 18 bodies buried in a mass grave in a former stronghold of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group along the conflict-stricken North African nation's coast.
The Missing Persons Authority said in a statement the bodies were unearthed in the Sabaa area of Sirte, a city in central Libya. The bodies were taken to a local hospital, it added.
Sirte, the birthplace of former longtime dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... , fell under the control of Islamic State snuffies between 2015 and 2016. The holy warriors, along with al-Qaeda, gained a foothold in oil-rich Libya amid the chaos that engulfed the country after the 2011 uprising and a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... intervention in the conflict.
The snuffies were eventually driven out of the city in December 2016 by Libyan forces supported by the U.S. and allied with the U.N.-backed government in the capital 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... . Hundreds of alleged former Islamic State fighters remain incarcerated in Libyan prisons, many of whom are awaiting trial.
Since Ghadafi's overthrow and killing, Libya has been split between rival authorities. Sirte is now controlled by forces loyal to military leader Khalifa Hifter based in the country's east.
In its statement, the Missing Persons Authority said they collected samples of the dead bones in an effort to identify the bodies. Further details on the cause of death for those found were not provided.
Several mass graves have been uncovered across Libya recently. In October, officials said they found 42 bodies in a mass grave in a school site in Sirte.
In December 2018, the bodies of more than thirty men were discovered near Sirte, believed to be the corpses of a group of Æthiopian Christians whom Islamic State fighters executed in a video the group published years earlier.
In the western town of Tarhuna, hundreds of corpses have been uncovered across several graves after militia fighters loyal to Hifter retreated from the area in June 2020.
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[AlAhram] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group said Saturday that it had carried out a deadly attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia the previous day.
"A cell of soldiers of the caliphate managed to attack an Egyptian police roadblock... with a machine gun," the jihadist group’s Amaq news agency said.
Three Egyptian coppers were killed in the attack, the first of its kind in nearly three years in mainland Egypt, which has largely been spared the deadly insurgency in the nearby Sinai Peninsula.
In the past few years, attacks against Egyptian security forces have been concentrated in the Sinai, where jihadists affiliated with IS operate.
Ismailia is one of the key cities overlooking Egypt’s Suez Canal, a vital waterway between Asia and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... that sees about 10 percent of the world’s maritime trade
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[AlAhram] More than 45,000 migrants colonists crossed the Channel to the UK from mainland Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... in 2022, surpassing the previous year's record by more than 17,000, according to government figures released Sunday.
The issue has become a huge political problem for the Conservative government, which has promised to bring down illegal immigration and break the smuggling gangs that carry out the crossings.
In total, 45,756 people made the dangerous small-boat crossing of one of the world's busiest shipping lanes last year, compared with 28,526 in 2021.
Four people died last month when a small boat packed with migrants colonists capsized in freezing temperatures in the Channel.
A fishing boat in the area plucked 43 people from the frigid waters.
That incident occurred just over a year after at least 27 people drowned when their dinghy capsized, a disaster that sparked soul-searching on both sides of the Channel.
2022 also saw the highest-ever single-day total of migrants colonists making the crossing, with 1,295 making the journey on August 22.
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[KavkazUzel] In Dagestan, in January-November 2022, the most crimes related to the illegal circulation of weapons were registered among the regions of Russia. The Krasnodar Territory also entered the top three in this indicator, follows from the statistics of the Prosecutor General's Office.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that Dagestan also topped the rating of regions according to the statistics of registered crimes of a terrorist nature in January-October 2022. Chechnya and Ingushetia took the third and fourth places in the ranking of the Prosecutor General's Office.
In Dagestan, in January-November 2022, the most crimes related to the illegal circulation of weapons (1097) were registered, follows from the rating posted on the portal of legal statistics of the Prosecutor General's Office.
The top three in the rating for the specified period also included the Moscow Region (884 crimes) and the Krasnodar Territory (571 crimes). North Ossetia, where 493 such crimes were registered, also entered the top ten of the rating from the regions of southern Russia.
The smallest number of such crimes in the regions of the North Caucasus Federal District and the Southern Federal District, judging by the data of the Prosecutor General's Office, was registered in Adygea and Kalmykia - 49 each.
[ToloNews] A prison official in 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... , Pakistain, said they would start deporting Afghan women who had been sentenced for living in the country without legal documents from the first week of January.
Pak police in multiple raids detained at least 1,200 Afghan nationals, including women and kiddies, who had entered the southern port city of Karachi without valid travel documents, officials said Thursday.
"In the first week of January, the process to deport around 58 of them will start," said Sheeba Shah, the superintendent for the Central Prison for Women in Karachi as quoted by AP.
Some imprisoned women said that they will return to Afghanistan after their release from prison.
"Please let us go. We have been here for over two months. For God’s sake let us go now. Please release us. We have served our two-month sentence. We should be released now. Have mercy on us for God’s sake," said Gul Khanda, 65, prisoner in Pakistain, from Paktia, Afghanistan.
"We came from Afghanistan. We are poor. My husband is old. He can’t work. My two sons used to work for a brick kiln. If you don’t want us to work here, let us go back to Afghanistan. We have a house there. We will go back home. I am sick and so are my two daughters in law. For God’s sake, release us so we may go back home." said Nilofar, 67, prisoner in Pakistain, from Parwan.
Meanwhile, ...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... the charge d'affaires of the Afghan embassy in Pakistain, Sardar Ahmad Khan Shekib, in an interview with TOLOnews said that nearly 2,000 Afghans are imprisoned in Pak prisons and that their situation is concerning.
"Some of them don’t have documents, and some of them have been detained in Karachi previously. There are about 2,000 of them. They were arrested by the police because they did not have legal documents, and were put in jail," he said.
Following the fall of the previous government, a large number of Afghans went to Pakistain in the past 16 months.
Islamabad has recently stepped up the process of arresting Afghans without legal documents.
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[Dawn] Pakistain and India on Sunday exchanged the lists of nuclear sites and prisoners in each other’s custody as part of various agreements in place between the two countries, the Foreign Office (FO) said.
According to the FO, the tradition of exchanging the nuclear installations and facilities list has existed since January 1992, whereas the first exchange of the prisoners’ list took place in 2008.
"The Government of Pakistain shared with the Indian High Commission in Islamabad a list of 705 Indian prisoners detained in Pakistain, including 51 civilian prisoners and 654 fishermen," reads a blurb from the FO.
It confirmed that the Indian government also shared with the High Commission for Pakistain in New Delhi a list of 434 Pak prisoners in India, including 339 civilian prisoners and 95 fishermen.
The FO said that Pakistain requested for early release and repatriation of its 51 civilian prisoners and 94 fishermen, "who have completed their respective sentences and their national status stands confirmed".
"Furthermore, a request for grant of consular access to missing defence personnel of 1965 and 1971 wars and special consular access to 56 civil prisoners have also been made," the blurb added.
The FO said the simultaneous exchange of lists took place in pursuance of the Consular Access Agreement of 2008, adding that both countries are required to exchange the lists of prisoners in each other’s custody on Jan 1 and July 1, every year.
Maritime trespassing is common in India and Pakistain because of disputed maritime boundaries and small fishermen lacking good navigational tools.
Therefore, the arrest of fishermen found violating the maritime boundary is common, but their release is a complicated process due to hostile relations between the two countries.
It may take a year or more for arrested fishermen to be released, but in most cases, they lose their fishing boats, which are usually kept by the authorities that arrest them.
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Another blurb said the list of nuclear installations and facilities in Pakistain was officially handed over to a representative of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today.
"Simultaneously, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs also handed over the list of India’s nuclear installations and facilities to a representative of the Pakistain High Commission in New Delhi," the blurb added.
The FO said the Agreement on Prohibition of Attacks against Nuclear Installations and Facilities between Pakistain and India was signed on December 31, 1988, and ratified on January 27, 1991.
The blurb added that under the agreement, both countries have to inform each other of their nuclear installations and facilities on Jan 1 of each calendar year.
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[OneIndia] In 2022, the security forces have shot full of holes 172 Lions of Islam in 2022 in a total of 93 counter-terror operations, additional director general of police, Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... Zone Vijay Kumar said.
He said that a majority of these Lions of Islam who were shot full of holes belonged to the The Resistence Front a derivative of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, followed by Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... , Hizbul Mujahideen ...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003... , al-Badr and al-Qaeda's proxy Ansar Ghazwat ul-Hind.
He also informed that the life span of newly recruited Lions of Islam declined drastically in 2022 as 89 per cent of the newly recruited Lions of Islam were neutralised within the first month of them joining a terror group.
"This year, 100 fresh recruitments into terrorist ranks were reported showing a decline of 37% compared to last year. Maximum (74) joined LeT. Out of total recruitment, 65 Lions of Islam neutralised in encounters, 17 Lions of Islam arrested and 18 Lions of Islam are still active," Kumar said.
"During year 2022, total 93 successful encounters took place in Kashmir in which 172 Lions of Islam including 42 foreign Lions of Islam got neutralised. Maximum Lions of Islam neutralised from LeT/TRF(108) outfit followed by JeM (35), HM (22), al-Badr (4) and AGuH(3) outfits," Kumar was quoted as saying on the official handle of the Kashmir Zone Police.
This year the security forces further intensified operations amidst Pakistain trying to push more Lions of Islam in the Valley. There had also been an increase in the number of civilian killings. As many as 29 civilians, including 21 locals were killed by Lions of Islam this year. Of the 15 killed in assassinations, 15 were Moslems and six were Hindus. Kumar added that all Lions of Islam involved in these killings had been neutralised, barring two who have been identified as Basit Dar and Adil Wani. He assured that they would be neutralised soon.
Kumar added, rather they appeal them to return back, curse Lions of Islam openly and work with Jammu and Kashmir Police for the return of their wards.
[OneIndia] India's premier agency probing terrorism, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in 2022 registered 73 cases.
This is an increase of 19.67 per cent when compared to 2021 where the NIA registered 61 cases. This is the highest number of case registered by the NIA since its inception following the Mumbai 26/11 attack.
These cases include 35 related to Jihadi terror in the various such as Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... , Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh.
The National Investigation Agency has been probing scores of cases. One of the biggest operations that the NIA took over this year was the raids on the Popular Front of India (PFI)
…the latest identity of Pakistan sock puppet National Development Front (NDF) and the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). They’re fond of IEDs, swords, Al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda, feeding volunteers to Al Qaeda and ISIS, the perverse pleasures of Love Jihad, and have surprisingly well-trained connections with jihadis in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Unlike the usual Muslim Brotherhood branches, their political front — the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) — has not won anything. They’ll probably do worse now that they’re banned...
following which the outfit was banned. During the three different raids conducted since September, the NIA has raided nearly 200 locations and arrested over a 100 persons associated with the PFI.
The NIA was set up in 2009 following the Mumbai 26/11 attacks.
That was when members of Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai, controlled by Pakistan’s ISI, murdering 166 and maiming over 300.
In the year 2019 the government amended Schedule 6 of the Unlawful Prevention (Activities) Act following which the NIA is able designate an individual as a terrorist. Prior to this only organizations were designated as terrorist organizations.
As of August 2022, the conviction rate of the NIA stood at 93.25 per cent which is the highest for any central agency. In all the the agency has apprehended nearly 3,000 persons and among those 391 were convicted as per data available until August 2022.
Speaking at the NIA Raising Day in April, Union Home Minister, Amit Shah said that in a span of 13 years, the agency has performed exceptionally. He said that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for a terror-free India, the NIA and the UAPA were amended to strengthen the agency.
One of the key successes that the NIA was able to achieve is in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). It has literally wiped out separatism in the Union Territory since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. The NIA targeted the funding routes as a result of which the separatists lost interest in their so-called cause.
[Rudaw] A senior police official in Iran has confirmed that the authorities in the country have started enforcing a new scheme which confronts those that do not observe the head cover, a month after international media reported that Tehran had ended the morality police patrols across the country.
Photos were published on Iranian social media displaying a message sent to the occupant of a vehicle, saying that the crime of removing the hijab was committed and issuing a warning to the occupant.
Fars News, an outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), claimed on Sunday that their reporter covering police affairs has spoken to a senior police official who confirmed that a new scheme known as “Nazer 1” is underway across the country to monitor the enforcement of the hijab
In early December news circulated erroneously on international media stating that Iran had ended the enforcement of the hijab and that the morality police had stopped its patrols that would enforce the head cover.
Young Kurdish woman Zhina (Mahsa) Amini died in the custody of Iran’s morality police in September, three days after she was detained for allegedly wearing a lax hijab. Her death sparked a nationwide protest movement, challenging authorities in the country and calling for overthrowing the Islamic regime.
At least 508 protesters, including 69 children, have been killed and over 19,000 have been arrested since the protests began over three months ago, according to US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
The nationwide protests gripping Iran have entered their fourth month, as both the authorities and the protesters are refusing to back down despite the government’s continued attempts to quell the demonstrations through violent crackdowns.
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If there was a sane voice in the Iranian regime, they were dragged out and beaten to a pulp long ago. This is a dumb plan.
Also, not sure why Iran accepted a World Cup invitation and televised the games during national riots. Moroccan citizens, for instance, were rioting in other countries both when they won and when they lost. If you are already experiencing riots, participating in the quintessential international riot fest is not a good idea. Next time naturalize a soccer coach from an American college like Oberlin and put him in charge of the national team. He (I don’t need to say him or her because Iran) will exceed expectations with respect to hating America and you won’t have to worry about qualifying.
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When you call yourself an Islamic Republic you're pretty much stuck with all the 7th century morality code. So be it and so help us all Mohammad.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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