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11 Killed as Iraq Forces Launch Assault near Fallujah
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India-Pakistan
Let's wait for the next Rashid Rehman to be murdered
[DAWN] It is beyond tragic that the men that shot human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
advocate Rashid Rehman five times, had to pretend to be clients in order to kill him.

After all, why should pious men undertaking God's work ever have to come in disguise like cold blooded cowards?
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Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Analysis: Divided militants
[DAWN] AS if the militancy scene was not confusing enough -- at least for Pakistain's decision-makers and policymakers -- the now almost month-long fighting between two Death Eater groups in South Wazoo has made the situation more puzzling, particularly in the context of the on-again, off-again peace talks.

The fighting between Khan Said alias Sajna and Shehryar -- both Shabikhel Mehsuds -- has raised questions of whether what is essentially a pie fight for leadership and territorial control of the Mehsud heartland will spread to other tribal regions, and engulf the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, causing further fissures in Taliban ranks.

Also, important is the question of whether the festivities will have an impact on the peace talks between the TTP and the government-nominated committee of serving and retired civil bureaucrats.
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Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: TTP


PTI's perplexing protest
[DAWN] POLITICAL protests, rallies and movements are the democratic rights of the people and their representatives and, especially given the paucity of democracy in this country's history, ought never to be impeded or blocked, so long as the programme stays within the parameters of the law. Yet, while it is well within the PTI's right to launch some kind of new movement -- or is it just a daylong protest? -- on May 11, there are many questions that Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
's latest foray into protest politics has left unanswered so far. What, for example, is the point, if any, to May 11? That the leader of a party which won a significant number of votes in the last election and now runs the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
government is willing to plunge into protest mode without it being entirely apparent to the non-partisan observer why and to what end is slightly worrying from a democratic perspective. At the very least, it is puzzling.
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Posted by: Fred || 05/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian Magical Thinking
[PJMedia] The campaign to place pressure on Israel through activism on the international stage is the latest example of this.
Interesting and well argued, and with a hopeful conclusion for Israel, if not for the magically thinking Palestinians and those invested in their replacement theology.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/10/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not to be confused with the liberal magic money tree thinking.
Posted by: P2kontheroad || 05/10/2014 12:08 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2014-05-09
  Syrian Rebels Claim Massive Aleppo Hotel Bombing
Thu 2014-05-08
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Wed 2014-05-07
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  Borno: 29 Killed In Another Boko Haram Attacks
Sat 2014-05-03
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Fri 2014-05-02
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Thu 2014-05-01
  ISIL executes 7 in Syria including 2 crucifictions
Wed 2014-04-30
  Militants raid Libya assembly to stop vote on PM
Tue 2014-04-29
  Iraq Attacks Kill 57, Including 30 Talabani Supporters, as Security Forces Vote
Mon 2014-04-28
  Egypt sentences 11 Mursi supporters to up to 88 years
Sun 2014-04-27
  One Dead, 13 Hurt in Vienna Building Explosion
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