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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Mystery parties seek secrecy in Jeffrey Epstein-related suit
[Politico] The two said they could face embarrassment if the court makes public records from the suit, which accused a longtime Epstein friend of engaging in sex trafficking.

Two mystery litigants citing privacy concerns are making a last-ditch bid to keep secret some details in a lawsuit stemming from wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein’s history of paying underage girls for sex.

Just prior to a court-imposed deadline Tuesday, two anonymous individuals surfaced to object to the unsealing of a key lower-court ruling in the case, as well as various submissions by the parties.

Both people filed their complaints in the New York-based 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which is overseeing the case. The two people said they could face unwarranted speculation and embarrassment if the court makes public records from the suit, in which Virginia Giuffre, an alleged Epstein victim, accused longtime Epstein friend Ghislaine Maxwell of engaging in sex trafficking by facilitating his sexual encounters with teenage girls. Maxwell has denied the charges.

"Wholesale unsealing of the Summary Judgment Materials will almost certainly disclose unadjudicated allegations against third persons ‐ allegations that may be the product of false statements or, perhaps, simply mistake, confusion, or failing memories of events alleged to have occurred over a decade and half ago," former federal prosecutor Nick Lewin wrote in an amicus brief filed Tuesday.

Lewin’s brief doesn’t provide any details about his client ‐ identified in the brief by the pseudonym "John Doe" ‐ beyond saying he "potentially" is mentioned in the underlying court filings and opinion. Lewin, who’s based in Manhattan, declined to comment.

"If the identities of non-parties are not adequately protected, the release of the Summary Judgment Materials in this case would likely cause severe and irreparable harm to a wide variety of non-parties, including those implicated in the conduct and those potentially victimized by it," the brief says.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2019 01:10 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  .....disclose unadjudicated allegations against third persons

Certainly hasn't stopped the Mueller probe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2019 1:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Bill Clinton to the white courtesy phone...
Posted by: Warthog || 03/21/2019 6:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Nor did "allegations that may be the product of false statements or, perhaps, simply mistake, confusion, or failing memories of events alleged to have occurred over a decade and half ago," apply to Judge Kavanaugh.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/21/2019 8:31 Comments || Top||


Outrage in Vietnam over $8 fine for elevator sexual assault
[DAWN] Vietnamese citizens were outraged after a man was fined $8 for forcibly kissing a woman in an elevator, a rare public outburst in a country where sexual assault is scarcely spoken about openly.

The #MeToo movement never took off in Vietnam, a conservative communist country where gender-based violence is widespread but remains a taboo topic.

Citizens took to social media this week after a man was fined 200,000 dong, or $8.61, for forcibly kissing a woman in an elevator in her Hanoi apartment building.

CCTV footage showed the man chatting to the woman before cornering her and suddenly jumping on her before she scrambles out of the elevator as he grabbed her arm.

The footage quickly went viral, stoking public anger.

"The fine... was a mockery and humiliation against the dignity of Vietnamese women," said Facebook user Duong Dai Trieu Lam on Wednesday.

Office worker Nguyen Trang told AFP: "It's ridiculous, I can't accept this... I'm worried for my kids and myself".

Unlike rape, sexual assault is not a criminal offence in Vietnam, but is considered an administrative violation falling under the category of "indecent speech and behaviour". The maximum fine for sexual assault is $13.

An online petition calling for an amendment to the law gathered steam on Wednesday.

Official data on sexual harassment is not routinely published in Vietnam, though 87 percent of women and girls experienced sexual harassment in public, according to a 2014 survey of 2,000 women by the NGO ActionAid.

Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bill Clinton commented “anyone got change for a Ten”
Posted by: Airandee || 03/21/2019 12:16 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Chinese woman narrowly escapes death after home-made IV drip of fruit juice
[SCMP] A woman in central China was so keen on staying healthy that she injected the juice of 20 types of fruit ‐ and almost paid for it with her life, according to local media.

The 51-year-old surnamed Zeng, from Guiyang county in Chenzhou, Hunan province, had developed an interest in unconventional health treatments, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.

On a whim on February 22, while apparently in good health, Zeng made a juice from more than 20 kinds of fruit and gave herself an intravenous infusion by drip.

Despite feeling itchy and a rising temperature, she did nothing about it, but that night when her husband noticed her discomfort and found out about the infusion, she was taken to the county hospital. It in turn sent her to the Affiliated Hospital of Xiangnan University, where she was admitted to intensive care.

Liu Jianxiu, the attending doctor, told the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald that Zeng had a severe infection, damage to her liver, kidney and heart, and was in danger of dying of multiple organ failure and sepsis.

Doctors cleansed her blood using dialysis, injected clotting agents and gave her antibiotics. Zeng’s condition had improved significantly after five days and she was transferred to a kidney unit.

"I had thought fresh fruits were very nutritious and it would not do me harm by injecting them into my body," Zeng was quoted as saying. "I had no idea that would get me into such trouble."

Liu warned against health practices that lack scientific basis, and said injecting into a vein could cause liver and kidney damage or even death.

The news prompted amazement on social media. Lu Zhongyi, a nutritionist in Beijing, said on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, that some fruits were good for vein health but they should never be injected into the vein
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Zeng made a juice from more than 20 kinds of fruit

She should have sterilized the solution with Tequila.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 7:05 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm gonna hafta say Rum. Use Rum.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/21/2019 7:50 Comments || Top||


#4  That story simply won't fly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2019 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5  I blame the Juice for this outrageous outrage.
(oops hit F11 by accident)
Posted by: SteveS || 03/21/2019 9:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Delivered by grub hub.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/21/2019 10:20 Comments || Top||

#7  It's all the buzz these days.
Posted by: gorb || 03/21/2019 11:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Drinking fruit juice isn't any better for you. Might as well be soda.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/21/2019 13:18 Comments || Top||

#9  She cares about size and fly guys,
And cries, compound eyes on the skies,
Though her prize doesn't care,
Cuz he's dancing on air
Through their dating and mating, and dies.

Uh... FGTOW?
Posted by: Clem Lover of the Platypi6766 || 03/21/2019 19:12 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
U.S. judge blocks drilling over climate change, casting doubt on Trump agenda
(Reuters) - A U.S. judge has blocked oil drilling planned in Wyoming because the government failed to adequately consider its impact on global warming - a decision that could complicate President Donald Trump’s broader efforts to expand oil, gas and coal output on America’s public lands.

The ruling, by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was issued late on Tuesday, according to court documents.

It blocked drilling on more than 300,000 acres (121,400 hectares) in Wyoming until the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management conducts further analyses about how the development would impact climate change.

"Having reviewed the record and the relevant law, the Court concludes that - withholding judgment on whether BLM’s leasing decisions were correct - BLM did not sufficiently consider climate change when making those decisions," Judge Contreras wrote in the order.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2019 01:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There are nn climate change laws.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/21/2019 2:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Not surprised by this..He's buddies with Stzrok and had to recuse himself from the Mueller witch hunt.
Tool and partisan hack. This is his way of "resistance".
Posted by: Warthog || 03/21/2019 5:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Wikipedia on the Judge
Posted by: 3dc || 03/21/2019 6:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Correct link vector to #3.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2019 7:25 Comments || Top||

#5  So when it gets reversed in a higher court, the judge should allow faster drilling / pumping to make up the difference...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 8:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Every time a single federal tyrant judge gets reversed over some partisan bullshit, they should fine them $10,000 for wasting the higher court's time.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/21/2019 9:05 Comments || Top||

#7  $10k isn't steep enough. One limb and an organ is more fitting
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/21/2019 9:52 Comments || Top||

#8  I'd love to hear this dork explain what he thinks is 'adequate consideration', as though there's an existing standard.
Posted by: Raj || 03/21/2019 10:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Global warming is a THEORY you Naif.
We don't govern around theories.
Posted by: newc || 03/21/2019 10:34 Comments || Top||

#10  They do if they have an agenda.
Posted by: gorb || 03/21/2019 11:24 Comments || Top||

#11  They could also drill through the flat earth.

Judge could stop them for that...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/21/2019 11:30 Comments || Top||

#12  We don't govern around theories.

The Marxists have been doing it for over a hundred years. The results speak for themselves.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/21/2019 14:01 Comments || Top||

#13  Another Obama judge ruling against Trump. Seems to me that almost all of them have been overturned.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/21/2019 16:06 Comments || Top||

#14  The people in DC don't pay nearly enough for gas at the pump.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/21/2019 22:35 Comments || Top||


Mozambique, Zimbabwe cyclone deaths exceed 300 as UN boosts aid
[DAWN] The corpse count from a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique and Zim-bob-we rose to more than 300 as rescuers raced against the clock to help survivors and the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
led the charge to provide aid.

"We already have more than 200 dead, and nearly 350,000 people are at risk," Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi announced on Tuesday, while the government in Zim-bob-we said around 100 people had died but the toll could be three times that figure.

The UN, meanwhile, said that one of the worst storms to hit southern Africa in decades had also unleashed a humanitarian crisis in Malawi, affecting nearly a million people and forcing more than 80,000 from their homes.

Four days after Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall, emergency teams in central Mozambique fanned out in boats and helicopters, seeking to pluck survivors from roofs and treetops in an inland sea of floodwater, sometimes in the dead of night.

Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
Bolton on Brazil
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Medea Benjamin overnights at Venezuela embassy
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Who let's a picture be taken with the room looking like that? The room's a mess like her thinking.
Posted by: Warthog || 03/21/2019 5:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey Media Benjamins long time who cares.

Meanwhile, according to linke, Maduro has Guaido chief of staff arrested.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/21/2019 14:59 Comments || Top||

#3  The room's a mess like her thinking.

One of Jordan Peterson's rants is (I'm paraphrasing) "Clean up your room. How do you expect to change the world if you can't even clean your room?"
Posted by: SteveS || 03/21/2019 15:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Wish she could get what happens to most human shields in the ME...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 16:23 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Russian 'male slapping championships'
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 08:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is the 'Ottoman slap' legend of the Ottoman empire authentic?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Anyone else see the deal where two fellas would box each other for a round, then go play a round of chess, back and forth until one won an aspect of the challenge?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/21/2019 10:17 Comments || Top||

#3  ...I remember an article in the old Ripley's 'Believe it or Not ' books about Russian face-slapping competitions, pretty sure the original story would have run in the 30s.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/21/2019 14:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Janet Reno a past winner?
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/21/2019 16:04 Comments || Top||

#5  "Your 'Palace,'" sez Don, "smells like crap!
And what's that cacaphonous slap?"
"It's only the Turk
At his favourite work,
Sir... the E------ reach-around fap!"
Posted by: Chalet Ulack4099 || 03/21/2019 19:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Sir... the E------ reach-around fap!"

Oh, my! Perhaps I shall comment when I am done rolling on the floor, assuming I don't sprain myself laughing.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/21/2019 20:31 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Two B-52 bombers of U.S. Air Force fly near Korean Peninsula
[ENGLISH.DONGA] It was confirmed that two U.S. Air Force B-52 bombers had flown over the East Sea of the Japanese archipelago on Tuesday. The bombers, which had not been witnessed recently on the Korean Peninsula in light of the U.S.-North Korea denuclearization talks, have returned.

According to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command on Wednesday, two B-52 fighter jets departed from Andersen Air Force Base on Guam on Tuesday and flew north towards the east coast of Japan near the Kamchatka Peninsula and returned. "These missions, flown by Pacific Air Forces, routinely operate throughout the region in accordance with international law and norms," the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said via its official website.

However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
there are some views that the reappearance of B-52 bombers, which were usually used for flight trainings near the South Sea of China, near the Korean Peninsula signals U.S. warning towards North Korea, which broke off the talks and resumed provocations.

"B-52 long-range bombers are key strategic asset that is most feared by North Korea," a South Korean military source said. "It is seen as a warning that the U.S. can reach the peninsula when North Korea provokes with its nuclear missiles."
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...Miss Buffy sends her regards. She has a marvelous ability to focus one's thoughts.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/21/2019 4:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Fully loaded?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 6:59 Comments || Top||

#3  A B-52 loaded with glide bombs and UAV's could harsh your mellow.
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794 || 03/21/2019 14:07 Comments || Top||

#4  No doubt with escorts
Posted by: Frank G || 03/21/2019 14:25 Comments || Top||

#5  Can you say Long Range Standoff, kids? I knew ya could...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 15:39 Comments || Top||

#6  During a 'bathtub run' we would watch first the EW then FC lightup and could extrapolate the C2 protocols. Deployed simulators would look like AD radars but wouldn't be on the C2 net. Telling.

Wonder what the Buff RCS was shadowing?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 16:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Always good to know the current state of play...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 16:17 Comments || Top||


Pyongyang outlets slam Seoul's military exercises
[KOREATIMES.CO.KR] A North Korean propaganda outlet on Wednesday lashed out at military exercises that South Korea plans to conduct on its own without U.S. troops, even though Seoul and Washington have scaled back their joint drills as part of efforts to keep the dialogue mood with the North alive.

In a commentary, Uriminzokkiri said the South Korean military's Ssangyong and Ulchi Taegeuk exercises are a "vicious challenge" to hopes for peace and a violation of the agreements reached between the two Koreas.

The Ulchi Taegeuk exercise slated for late May is designed to replace the summertime South Korea-U.S. military training as part of efforts to support diplomacy for denuclearization.

The U.S. has also decided not to send any troops or equipment to this year's annual combined regiment-level Ssangyong amphibious landing exercise next month, apparently to facilitate ongoing talks with the North.

Yet, Uriminzokkiri called for the suspension of all "war trainings," saying they could lead to the breakdown of inter-Korean relations.

"South Korean military's provocations, which became more brutal this year, are an act of betrayal that goes against the Panmunjom and September Pyongyang declarations," it said. "Any act that causes the situation to deteriorate should never be tolerated."

Meari, another propaganda website, also said the South Korean military should contemplate the negative results those drills could bring about.
Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Meari, another propaganda website, also said the South Korean military should contemplate the negative results those drills could bring about.

...They do, and on a daily basis. That's an important reason we're over there: as much to keep the South from going North as vice versa. The ROK knows perfectly well the level of superiority they hold over the DPRK, and for decades their military leadership has believed that they would likely be far better off taking the initiative for the time and place than letting the Kims decide it.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 03/21/2019 6:24 Comments || Top||


President Trump Just Sidelined His Own Top Negotiator on North Korea
[TIME] President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has taken increased control of negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, sidelining his own top negotiator and dismissing the warnings of top intelligence and foreign policy advisors in the wake of last month’s failed summit in Vietnam, officials familiar with the developments tell TIME.

In recent days, Trump shut down an effort by Stephen Biegun, nominally the Administration’s lead negotiator with Pyongyang, to reestablish a back channel through the North’s United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
mission in New York, according to four U.S. and South Korean officials.

At the same time, Trump continues to dismiss the conclusions of the CIA, State and Defense Departments and other agencies that North Korea will not abandon its nuclear weapons program,
...they are not the experts on negotiation, he is. Not to mention there’s still the Steele dossier issue, along with accompanying insubordination and purveyance of false information both internally and externally. Public pouting on this scale does not pursuade that they have moved beyond such misbehaviour...
continuing to insist that he and Kim can negotiate a deal, according to two U.S.officials.

Posted by: Fred || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  North Korea, the size of Pennsylvania, needs a deal more than nukes, Pudgy and Trump knows it.
Posted by: Ebbavirt Clunk4147 || 03/21/2019 0:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Glad I moved out of PeeAye at the end of 2017. It's looking more like NKor every day...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  So, negotiations are over.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/21/2019 16:02 Comments || Top||


Europe
Germany = deadbeats?
[NYTimes] Germany, which had already announced that it will fall significantly short of NATO’s defense spending goals, annoying the United States, risks provoking Washington further by failing to reach even its own slimmed-down target.

Now, projected spending levels are expected to fall below even that lower path in a three-year budget plan due to be announced on Wednesday, portending another confrontation with Washington.

Even in Europe, some diplomats in neighboring countries privately complain that Germany’s failure to meet its commitments is putting not just its own relationship with Washington on the line, but that of the whole Continent.

“NATO members clearly pledged to move toward, not away, from 2 percent by 2024,” Richard Grenell, the American ambassador to Germany, told reporters on Monday after budget numbers were first floated. “That the German government would even be considering reducing its already unacceptable commitments to military readiness is a worrisome signal to Germany’s 28 NATO allies.”

Mr. Grenell has demanded that Berlin scrap Nord Stream 2, a planned gas pipeline from Russia, or risk possible sanctions for the companies involved; stop German companies from doing business in Iran, or risk restrictions on doing business in the United States; and ban a Chinese company from building a new communications network, or risk losing access to some intelligence sharing.

The threats have not gone down well in Berlin, with one German politician this week even demanding Mr. Grenell’s immediate expulsion for interfering in Germany’s sovereign affairs, although that is unlikely to happen.

“Any U.S. diplomat who acts like a high commissioner of an occupying power must learn that our tolerance also knows its limits,” said Wolfgang Kubicki, deputy chairman of the opposition Free Democrats.
How about just pull out and let the deadbeats deal with Putin?
Posted by: 3dc || 03/21/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I love it. The Germans are flat out refusing to contribute to their own defense. They are ungrateful freeloaders. Cut them loose. USA out of NATO.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 03/21/2019 13:57 Comments || Top||

#2  There is a weird instinct in humanity to forgive those that threaten you and to dislike those that you feel indebted to.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/21/2019 14:26 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
U.S. may soon pause preparations for delivering F-35s to Turkey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States could soon freeze preparations for delivering F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, officials told Reuters, in what would be the strongest signal yet by Washington that Ankara cannot have both the advanced aircraft and Russia’s S-400 air defense system.

The United States is nearing an inflection point in a years-long standoff with Turkey, a NATO ally, after so far failing to sway President Tayyip Erdogan that buying a Russian air defense system would compromise the security of F-35 aircraft.

"The S-400 is a computer. The F-35 is a computer. You don’t hook your computer to your adversary’s computer and that’s basically what we would be doing," Katie Wheelbarger, acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, told Reuters.

While no decision has been made yet, U.S. officials confirmed that Washington was considering halting steps now underway to ready Turkey to receive the F-35, which is built by Lockheed Martin Corp.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/21/2019 01:25 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Some commie said "The capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them." Same observations apply to beltway bandits and muzzists. We need to make some examples...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 8:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Modern space sensors and SLBMs make Turkey superfluous to America's defense posture. But because there are rows of seats at the Pentagon devoted to keeping Incirlik open, unadulterated stupidity prevails...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/21/2019 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Send them a couple of Cessnas with "F-35" painted on.
Posted by: Woodrow || 03/21/2019 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Please install the previous version of 737 max flight control module prior to delivery
Posted by: Airandee || 03/21/2019 12:13 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Bahawalpur student stabs professor to death over 'anti-Islam' remarks
[DAWN] A third-year student at Bahawalpur's Government Sadiq Egerton College on Wednesday allegedly stabbed a professor to death over what he vaguely described as the academic's "anti-Islam" remarks, police sources and persons familiar with the incident said.

Associate professor Khalid Hameed, the head of the English department, was seated inside his office at the college when he was allegedly accosted and attacked with a knife by the student.

According to initial information noted by police at the scene of the crime, Khateeb Hussain, a 5th-semester BS student enrolled in the English department, had exchanged hot words with Prof Hameed at around 8:40am over the arranging of a 'welcome party' at the college.

The event, which Hameed was overseeing, was to be held on March 21 to welcome new students to the college, police said.

Police sources told DawnNewsTV that Hussain was averse to the event being organised because he viewed the mingling of male and female pupils at the function as "un-Islamic".

Following an argument, Hussain stabbed the professor in the abdomen and head, police said. Hameed was taken to the Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital, where he departed this vale of tears.

Police have enjugged
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
the suspect along with the murder weapon and registered an FIR under Section 302 (intentional murder) of the Pakistain Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act on a complaint of the dear departed teacher's son.

'PROMOTING OBSCENITY'
In the application submitted to police for the registration of a First Information Report (FIR), Prof Hameed's son stated that the incident took place when he had gone to drop his father off at the college along with two others. He said his father proceeded to enter his office while he (the son) was still in the parking; he said he saw the attacker hiding behind a pillar and then suddenly charging at the teacher.

"As my father was about to step into his office, the guy attacked him with a knife, hitting him on his head and stomach," he told AFP.

"My father then fell down and I rushed to him; the student held his knife and started shouting 'I have killed him, I had told him that a gender mix reception is against Islam'," he said.

According to the dear departed's son, the attacker also said he had killed Prof Hameed because he supported the scheduled function in which "obscenity is promoted".
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KP Assembly unanimously passes resolution against Aurat March, terming it 'shameful'
[DAWN] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution condemning the Aurat March, which was held across Pak cities on March 8.

The resolution, presented by Rehana Ismail of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), claimed that women had taken part in the march holding placards and raising slogans that were "obscene".

"Some hidden forces have sped up their efforts to destroy our family system and social customs, the practical demonstration of which took place on March 8, 2019, in various big cities on Women's Day," the resolution stated.

It said the demands made at the event for women empowerment were "shameful and un-Islamic".

The document stated that although the provincial assembly supports the rights granted to women and minorities by Islam, the "obscenity" witnessed on March 8 was not acceptable to it.

It asked the KP government to request the federal government to "expose" such forces and their "conspiracies" and prepare a strategy to deal with such incidences in the future.

The resolution in its original form was opposed by MPAs of the ruling 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), but after some redaction and negotiations, they agreed to unanimously pass the measure.

Speaking during the session, PTI MPA Ayesha Bano said they supported organizations that speak for women's rights, however, "We do not accept any demands of women which are against Islam."

Opposition leader Akram Khan Durrani, who also belongs to MMA, recalled that a banner at the Aurat March had read "Apna moza khud dhundo (find your own sock)" and said: "If I have pain in my back and my wife helps me put on a sock, what is wrong in that?"

PML-N's parliamentary leader in the KP Assembly, Sardar Muhammad Yousaf Zaman, claimed that certain NGOs were working against Islamic injunctions and the Constitution. "Shamelessness is being spread in the name of 'change'," he stated.

Women in large numbers, as well as men, had participated in the Aurat March held across the country to mark International Women’s Day on March 8. The first such march took place 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...
in 2018; this year, the rally was extended to more cities including Lahore, Multan
Home of the Multan Sultans...
, Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
, Larkana and Hyderabad.

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Iraq
Political rivalry bigger threat to Mosul than ISIS
[Rudaw] Large parts of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
remain in ruins and political rivalries have crippled the city’s ability to rebuild. Against this backdrop, there is a worrying trend of crime by persons taking advantage of the instability, say officials, stressing that ISIS is not the problem.

"Numerous incidents" have happened in the city, said Gen. Hamad Nams, head of Nineveh Provincial Police, in a presser on Tuesday. He listed multiple homicides and bombings, including the November 8 kaboom in front of a popular restaurant.

The police concluded that these were not terror acts, said the police chief.

"Most people attribute these incidents to ISIS... However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
some incidents that happen are aimed at creating sedition and confusion in the province," Nams said, adding that local quarrels are to blame for some of the crimes.

Sherwan Dubardani, a Kurdish member of the Iraqi parliament from Mosul, is a member of the parliamentary committee looking into the fall of Mosul to ISIS.

He agrees with the police assessment that ISIS is not responsible for recent crimes and insecurity.

To the west and south of Mosul, there is a lot of ISIS movement and 1,000 square kilometres devoid of a military presence, said Dubardani, but the snuffies are not responsible for bombings in the city.

"These kabooms are far from ISIS," he told ISIS. "There is political and economic competition in Mosul, thus such kabooms happen."

The police are struggling to rebuild their force that was decimated when they failed to stand against ISIS snuffies when they swept across northern Iraq in 2014. Thousands of members of the security forces were sacked.

The Ministry of Interior has reinstated some 3,700 police in Mosul and Nams said they have the names of more than 7,000 who they want to see back on the job.

The province is also populated with a glut of gangs ‐ Hashd al-Shaabi militias backed by political forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) smuggling weapons, oil, and cigarettes, according to Dubardani.

"The Mosul operations command, the police, and even the governor can’t handle them. They work publicly in Mosul," he said.

The Sunni tribal Hashd, he claimed, are not being paid salaries so have resorted to blackmailing to come up with money.

"There is a lot of money and a lot of stealing," he said.

Many businesses have fled Mosul because of the situation, leaving locals worried about how the city will rebuild.

"This is affecting the movement of trade," Zaid Abduljabbar, a civil activist from Mosul, told Rudaw. "Investors won’t return to an area where there isn’t any security."

He accused political factions of destabilizing the province with their rivalries and then striking fear in the hearts of people by attributing security incidents to ISIS.

"There are security breaches. They are not from terrorists. They are from political forces," he said.

These groups are free to operate as "even the prime minister doesn’t have influence over them," Abduljabbar added.

The people of Mosul voted for former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in the election last year. He was denied a second term in office after deadly protests erupted in the south of the country over the summer. Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has put a lot of focus on the southern province of Basra and has little connection with Mosul.

The parliamentary committee looking into Mosul, which Dubardani sits on, released a report on March 14 accusing the governor of corruption. It is expected Governor Nawfal Hamadi will be stripped of major powers, summoned to parliament, and eventually fired.

After living under the horrors of ISIS and seeing their city smashed in the war to oust the bad boys, the people of Mosul hope to see a new era of peace and stability. They "won’t allow the return of terror," said Abduljabbar
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