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Afghanistan

Clashes Increase Between Islamic Emirate, Pakistani Forces in Dand-e-Patan

2024-05-17

[TOLONEWS] Residents of Paktia said that there have been festivities between the forces of the Islamic Emirate and Pakistain’s border guards for the past three days.

According to locals, during this period dozens of missiles have been fired by Pakistain, hitting people's residential houses.

The festivities started in Aryob Zazi district of Paktia and have recently spread to the Dand-e-Patan district.

The Islamic Emirate has not yet officially provided details about these festivities including any casualties resulting from them.

"It was ten o'clock and the fighting was intense; people with their children went by car towards Samkanai district," said Amir Khan, another resident of Paktia.

Local residents added that Pak forces targeted residential houses, and some families in Dand-e-Patan have been forced to leave their homes.

At the same time with the start of these festivities, the Kharlachi transit route in Dand-e-Patan has also been closed to any traffic.

"We ask them that whenever you commit a violation, you must not target the general public with artillery. The laws of war must be observed here," said Mohammad Anwar Sediqi, a resident of Aryob Zazi.

Don’t be ridiculous. Everyone knows the laws of war only apply to the [all bad things, so pick one or more, dear Reader] West.

"No one could handle their sorrow [about the situation]. The fierce fighting continued, and there were children and women on every side," said Sayedullah, a driver in Paktia.

Military analysts said that border festivities darken the relations between the two countries and that professional individuals should be deployed at the border line.

"The solution is to deploy responsible and professional individuals at the borders to prevent such unnecessary conflicts," said Sarwar Niazi, a military analyst.
Some Pak media outlets reported that in these festivities, one soldier from that country has died and four others have been maimed.

At the same time, a source told TOLOnews that five forces of the Islamic Emirate have also been injured in these festivities.

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India-Pakistan

Seven injured in two Quetta attacks

2023-02-06

[Dawn] Seven people were maimed in two terrorist attacks, one of them said to be a suicide kaboom, on Sunday.

The first incident took place near the Police Lines on Gulistan Road and the other on Mano Jan Road.

Five people, including an office-bearer of the Civil Secretariat Staff Association, suffered injuries in the first attack.

According to police officials, the blast occurred near a bridge.

There was no official word about the nature of the blast, but eyewitness accounts claimed it was a suicide kaboom.

Police collected the ’bomber’s remains’ from the scene of the earth-shattering kaboom, they claimed.

The injured were identified as Qaim Khan Kakar, general secretary of the Civil Secretariat Staff Association, Mohammad Usman, Fazal Mohammad, Mohammad Anwar and Thomas.

The outlawed TTP later grabbed credit for the blast, saying that it was a suicide kaboom.

In the other incident, a woman and her child were maimed when unknown persons riding cycle of violences hurled a grenade into the house of Nazeer Ahmed on Mano Jan Road. The grenade went kaboom! in the courtyard.

The wife and son of Nazeer Ahmed were maimed in the grenade blast. They were admitted to the Civil Hospital’s trauma centre.

The attack took place at the time when Quetta Gladiators and 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...
Zalmi were playing an exhibition match at the Akbar Bugti Stadium a few miles away from the site.

The attacks in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
’s capital were the latest in a series of terrorist attacks which spiked since the outlined TTP rescinded the ceasefire with the government in 2021.

On Jan 30, a jacket wallah targeted a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines, resulting in the death of over 84 people, according to figures released by the city police.

The outlawed TTP had initially grabbed credit for the attack. It later distanced itself from it but sources earlier indicated that it might have been the handiwork of some local faction of the banned group. January was the deadliest month since 2018, in which 134 people bit the dust — a 139 per cent spike — and 254 received injuries in at least 44 krazed killer attacks across the country.

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Afghanistan

Eight Killed, Over 30 Wounded in Baghlan Traffic Accidents

2022-07-17

[Tolo] Islamic MUTCD
At least eight people were killed and 30 more were wounded in two traffic accidents in Baghlan province, health officials said Saturday.

In one of the incidents, a truck and a bus, carrying passengers from Kabul to Balkh, collided in an area near the city of Pul-e-Khumri in Baghlan at around 2am on Saturday, said Malawi Mustafa Hashemi, head of the information and culture directorate in Baghlan.

Mohammad Nabi, a resident of Herat, who was also slightly injured in the incident, said he was traveling to Samangan from Kabul and that his son and his brother were also wounded.

"I was sleeping when the accident happened," he said.

"During the trip, I was falling asleep and the incident happened," said Ali Mohammad, a passenger.

The wounded were taken to two hospitals in Baghlan and Samangan provinces, officials said.

"We admitted 15 injured, including a child and a woman. Some of the wounded were discharged," said Mohammad Anwar Wardak, head of Baghlan Hospital.

Officials said that all the casualties were from the first incident in Baghlan while in another incident, at least four people were wounded when a vehicle lost its control in Doshi district in Baghlan on Friday evening.

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Bangladesh

United States Sanctions Bangladesh’s RAB for ‘Serious Human Rights Abuse’

2021-12-12

Oh dear. It looks like someone has been reading Tales From The Crossfire Gazette, and missed the point completely.

[BenarNews] The United States on Friday imposed financial sanctions on the notorious Bangladeshi police unit RAB and six of its current and former officers, saying they were responsible for serious human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
abuses.

In addition, Benazir Ahmed, a former director general of the force, was barred from entering the United States "due to his involvement in gross violations of human rights."

Washington announced the move on International Human Rights Day, unveiling sanctions against "15 individuals and 10 entities" around the globe.

"Widespread allegations of serious human rights abuse in Bangladesh by the Rapid Action Battalion

(RAB) ... threaten U.S. national security interests by undermining the rule of law and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the economic prosperity of the people of Bangladesh," the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.

The force, which comprises members of the police, army, navy, air force, and border guard, is accused of more than 600 enforced disappearances in the past 12 years, a similar number of extrajudicial killings, and use of torture, the statement noted.

RAB was founded in 2004, and charged with internal security, intelligence gathering related to criminal activities, and government-directed investigations, according to the U.S. treasury.

In Dhaka, prior to the announcement, about 100 relatives of disappeared people marked International Human Rights Day with a protest outside the National Press Club with tears and chants of "Give them back!"

On Thursday, Human Rights Watch had lodged its strongest call yet for action against RAB, saying that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres should immediately ban RAB officers from participating in 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...
peacekeeping missions. HRW also called on the world body to ramp up screening of those officers deployed under its blue-and-white flag to ensure that its human rights screening policy was being effectively applied in Bangladesh.

"Nobody believes the Bangladesh government’s lies about enforced disappearances by its security forces," said Brad Adams. Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "The question now is what donors and the U.N. are going to do about it."

The six officers named by the Treasury Department are Chowdhury Abdullah al-Mamun, the current director general of RAB; Benazir Ahmed, its former director general; Khan Mohammad Azad, an additional director general of the force; and Tofayel Mustafa Sorwar, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, and Mohammad Anwar Latif Khan, all former additional director generals at RAB.

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctions bar U.S. citizens from conducting business with or making contributions to the sanctioned individuals and block access to any property they hold in the United States.

PANTHEON
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo watched the circling Commanches and asked himself What would Geronimo do?...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken named two Bangladeshis on a list of 12 foreign government officials barred from entering the United States.

He cited a 2021 U.S. law enabling the move against individuals and their immediate family members when "there is credible information that officials of foreign governments have been involved in a gross violation of human rights or significant corruption."

The statement named Benazir Ahmed — the former RAB director-general who is currently Bangladesh’s police chief — and Miftah Uddin Ahmed, a current lieutenant colonel and former commanding officer of RAB Unit 7, for the May 2018 killing of Teknaf City Municipal Councilor Ekramul Haque in Cox’s Bazar, in southeastern Bangladesh.

"We are determined to put human rights at the center of our foreign policy, and we reaffirm this commitment by using appropriate tools and authorities to draw attention to and promote accountability for human rights violations and abuses, no matter where they occur," Blinken said.

The U.S. moves placed RAB in a pantheon of the worst rights abusers in the world, including those involved in the racial profiling and mass detention of ethnic Uyghurs in China, the slaughter of civilians in post-coup Myanmar, and the exploitation of North Korea

...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
n workers abroad.

BenarNews tried to contact RAB authorities for a response to the U.S. sanctions, but phone calls and messages were not answered.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal rejected the U.S. sanctions, saying they were "in no way justified."

"The basis on which the action has been taken does not reflect the ground reality," Khan told BenarNews Friday night.

"Ours is a country of 170 million people. Policing here is not as easy as in other countries. The police officials in Bangladesh discharge their duties with much patience," he said.

"While discharging their duties, they must confront many security situations; sometimes they are forced to fire for self-defense. They are entitled to defend themselves," Khan said, referring to allegations of extrajudicial killings.

"In case any members of the law enforcement agencies are found to have violated laws, we punish them accordingly," he added.

In August, while responding to a Human Rights Watch report on enforced disappearances, Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen said they were "fabricated."

"Some people dissociate themselves from their families and then they come back home after some days," he told BenarNews. He said incidents of killings and disappearances happened everywhere.

"When people were killed in America by law enforcement agencies they called it in the line of duty, but when it happens in our cyopeople[journalists] call it extrajudicial killing," he said. "This mentality has to be changed."

’NATIONAL SHAME’
Activist Sanjida Islam, whose group "Mother is Calling" (Mayer Daak) represents relatives of disappeared people, welcomed news of the U.S. sanctions.

Her brother, Sajedul Islam Sumon — a leader of the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP) — went missing in December 2013 after RAB officers whisked him away from a residential neighborhood in Dhaka, she said. He has not been seen since.

"We are glad. This is the first time the state law enforcement agency RAB comes under question from anyone. No domestic institution could [raise] any question about their unlawful activities in Bangladesh," Islam told BenarNews.

"The family members of the victims of enforced disappearances have gone to every institution of Bangladesh to get their sons or brothers back, but in vain," she said.

Nur Khan Liton, a human rights activist and former executive director of the rights advocacy NGO Ain o Salish Kendra, said the U.S. action against RAB was correct.

"We, the human rights activists in Bangladesh, have been clamoring for years that the law enforcement agencies such as RAB have been carrying out extrajudicial killings in the pretext of ’crossfire’ and are responsible for enforced disappearances," he told BenarNews.

"But the state did not heed our concerns. They did not attach importance to our observations. The state repeatedly shrugged off the responsibility for the gross human rights violations," he said.

"I think this is a matter of national shame when we see a foreign country adopts a resolution of sanction on a state agency of Bangladesh for the violation of human rights," Khan said.

"The sanction would not have come had they taken our concerns and observations seriously."

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-Great Cultural Revolution

14-year-old carjacker/murderer sentenced to detention

2021-07-08

[HotAir] Ever since the murder of Uber Eats driver Mohammad Anwar by two underage girls, questions have remained over how they should be punished. At one point, the possibility was raised that they might get off with little more than a slap on the wrist due to their age and various “sentencing reform” efforts intended to keep juveniles out of jail. The final result wasn’t quite as bad as it might have been, however, and now plea deals have been reached with both girls and sentences have been imposed. The younger of the two, who is now 14, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and will be held in juvenile detention until she turns 21. (The Hill)

While I suppose this is better than just cutting them loose, it still seems a bit generous, doesn’t it? The younger girl had all additional charges for carjacking, robbery, and aggravated assault dropped. The older girl, who pleaded guilty to felony murder, similarly had all of her other charges dropped and will also be kept in detention until she turns 21.

What happens after that? Looking over the applicable laws for D.C. when dealing with juvenile offenders, it would appear that they will simply be released with their records being sealed, though there may be some parole involved. Is that really “justice” in this case? What happened to Mohammad Anwar, a legal immigrant who was just trying to earn a living through the gig economy, was something straight out of a horror movie.

We can talk about rehabilitation versus incarceration until we’re blue in the face, but it’s a heavy lift to claim that we’re just talking about “two children” here. Those girls didn’t just decide to drop their chalk and walk away from their hopscotch game one day and go after Anwar. They showed up with a taser and were prepared to execute a clinical carjacking. They had clearly already fallen under the influence of a gang. Their names and records are unavailable, but I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that this was far from the first violent crime they had engaged in.

And what’s going to happen when they are released? They will have few prospects for jobs with this hanging over their heads, but they will probably have achieved hero status among their peers. If they return to their old ways, the only difference will be that they will wind up in adult court after the next time they try to carjack someone.

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-Great Cultural Revolution

The Wall Between Civilization And Our Innate Savagery Is Weakening

2021-04-10

[The Federalist] Civilization is difficult.

Civilization is especially difficult if it means not just political stability and material advancement, but also a decent moral order. We’re all born into this world as tiny barbarians. Without care, we will grow to be larger, more dangerous barbarians.

The murder of Mohammad Anwar, an immigrant working as an UberEats driver, allegedly by two teenage girls attempting to carjack him, is a case in point. Following the fatal accident, video footage shows one of the accused girls complaining that her phone was still in the wrecked car. A man was dead or dying next to her, apparently by her hand, and she was focused on retrieving her technological bauble.

Unfortunately, this horrible event is already receding from our consciousness, slipping out of the headlines and away from our attention. Still, it’s worth more reflection before it fades away, as it shows the frailty of our modern hopes of taming the savagery that lies within us, and the need to remember where our real hope lies.

To begin with, the event illustrates that science cannot save us. Surrounded by material abundance and wondrous gadgetry, human depravity still finds a way. Having enough is not sufficient to make us good. Indeed, humans will often commit evil acts simply out of boredom. Ironically, contained within innumerable texts, podcasts, and videos, the phone the accused was so concerned about retrieving provided free access to the moral wisdom of the ages. Yet, the availability of moral teaching is insufficient to inculcate virtue — indeed, without guidance, we lack even the rudimentary virtue needed to know that we are morally deficient and have much to learn and practice.

Children need personal instruction and examples to develop into good men and women, but our culture no longer shares the same moral vision. Morality is, of course, always contested to some degree, but ours is particularly an age of fractured moral consensus and seemingly intractable moral disagreements. Those who mourn what they see as moral decline must recognize that many symbols and rituals of the older consensus were losing power even before they were discarded, and they will not be efficacious if restored. Official but superficial school prayers, observing the national anthem before games, and other civic or religious ceremonies are no longer representative of a united moral and social order.

The modern illusion that we can leave people to develop their own moral codes is fading, and the need for a shared understanding is becoming clear. Thus, a new moral order is attempting to assert itself — the still-cooking stew of wokeness, intersectional ideology, critical theory, and left-wing social justice claims. Though it lacks a settled name, it makes bold claims about being able to identify and address the evils the plague us.

Unfortunately, while this ideology is a poisonous substitute that erodes society, it has, nonetheless, captured much of our leading institutions as well as America’s upper class. In particular, it is in control of the education system. What we teach children is largely a function of who is doing the teaching, and teachers are increasingly the acolytes of the new moral order. They may not be a majority, but few are willing to resist their programs and priorities.

Among their priorities is bringing demon worship into public schools. When we see, California’s new mandatory ethnic studies program includes prayers to Aztec gods — or, to be more accurate, to Aztec demons — who were worshipped by human sacrifice, including torturing children to death, we’re reminded civilization is no guarantee of good.

While human sacrifice is not (yet) part of the curriculum, its designers are open about wanting to reverse the replacement of native gods by Christianity. Whatever we call this ideology, it is leading to depravity, not virtue. This embrace of evil is, as Cameron Hilditch notes, an attempt to out-Christian Christianity itself, taking Christian concern for the downtrodden to the point of sympathy for the devil.

This ideology is not particularly coherent. The Aztecs, after all, were imperialists who enslaved and murdered the peoples around them, which made it easy for the Spanish conquistadors to recruit indigenous allies. To mourn the demise of the Aztecs’s bloodthirsty gods is to take sides against the indigenous people sacrificed to those gods.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Teens accused in fatal carjacking of Uber Eats driver to reportedly get cushy plea deal

2021-04-06

Two unnamed Black teens murder Pakistani driver, Mohammad Anwar, 66, during carjacking, mourn lost cell phone.

[NY Post] The two teen girls accused of killing an Uber driver in a botched carjacking in Washington, DC, in March are expected to reach a plea deal with prosecutors in the case.

The bargain should be reached in the coming days, but it’s unclear if it will fully resolve the case, according to the Washington Post.

Under DC law, the 13-year-old can’t be charged as an adult — even in a murder case, according to the Post. The 15-year-old suspect could be charged as an adult, but that would increase the burden of proof on prosecutors, the report said.

In juvenile court in the district, defendants who are found "responsible" — meaning guilty — may only be jailed until the age of 21, according to the outlet.

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India-Pakistan

NDS: 'Taliban Leaders Summoned to Peshawar for War Planning'

2021-03-31

[ToloNews] Pakistain’s intelligence agency has summoned the Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
’s shadow governors and commanders to wage war in Afghanistan, said Nazar Ali Wahidi, the deputy head of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), Afghanistan's intelligence agency.

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
he said that the Afghan cops are fully prepared to crush any hostile move by the Taliban if the grinding of the peace processor does not lead to a final conclusion.

"The majority of Taliban governors and military officials have been summoned to 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...
to prepare for the war," said Nazar Ali Wahidi, the deputy head of the NDS.

"I wish Pakistain was kind and would help Afghanistan reach peace and move toward development. But Pakistain always thinks of how to kill the Afghans. They have made preparations for war, but we are also ready for it," added Nazar Ali Wahidi, the deputy head of NDS.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, Gloria again dodged the questing tip of the giant frog's tongue and ran for her life...
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Interior said there are credible intelligence reports that the murderous Moslems are trying to take over picturesque provincial capitals.

"The enemy is trying to launch new attacks to gain points in the political arena," said Mohammad Anwar Baripal, deputy minister of interior.

"There are threats against us in the south, in the west and all provinces, we are fully prepared to crush the threats," said Iqbal Ali Naderi, the first deputy minister of defense.

On Tuesday, the Afghan senate summoned security officials to answer questions about the deteriorating security situation, particularly regarding the surge in casualties among Afghan cops, and the assassinations in big cities.

"Everyone wants security, we do not understand why our security institutions have failed to address the security problems, they should explain the reasons behind this," said senator Mualem Lalagul.

According to the security institutions, over the past 24 hours, 20 provinces of the country have witnessed fighting between the Afghan cops and the Taliban.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

2 teen girls, 13 and 15, have been charged with carjacking and killing an Uber Eats driver in DC

2021-03-29

Follow up to this story from yesterday.

[INSIDER] Two teenage girls have been charged with murder after they stunned an Uber Eats driver with a Taser, attempted to carjack him, then crashed the vehicle and killed him, according to DC police.

The girls, 13 and 15, were charged in family court with felony murder while armed, second-degree murder while armed, carjacking, and reckless driving, according to ABC7. One was also charged with possession of a Taser.

A DC homicide detective testified in family court that one of the girls said the pair had agreed in advance to meet up at a Metro station and do a carjacking together, ABC 7 reported.

Since the girls are being charged as juveniles, their names and personal information remain private.

The victim was 66-year-old Mohammad Anwar. A GoFundMe page set up by his family described him as "a hard-working Pak immigrant who came to the United States to create a better life for him and his family."

The page added that Anwar had been making an Uber Eats delivery when the deadly attack occurred.

Filmed by a bystander, a highly disturbing video circulating online appeared to show the lead-up to and aftermath of the crash. Anwar could be seen struggling with the girls, who were seated in the driver and passenger seats, as he tried to get back in his car.

Anwar and other bystanders could be heard yelling that the girls were trying to steal the vehicle. At one point, the car suddenly zoomed down the street, with Anwar hanging out of the driver's side door, clinging to the frame. The car then crashed at the end of the street and flipped onto its side.

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India-Pakistan

Pak shelling in Uri, Poonch; 4 injured

2019-03-12

[Daily Excelsior] India and Pak troops traded mortar shelling in Kamalkote sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector in which four people were maimed and several houses damaged.

A bigwig said that Pakistain violated ceasefire in the sector by resorting to unprovoked mortar shelling at Indian posts. He said that the firing started at around 3:30 a.m and there was a lull in between and they again violated ceasefire in the afternoon.

The official said that the Army gave befitting reply to the shelling from Pakistain and intermittent shelling continued for the whole day. The shelling created panic among residents and they took cover in their houses.

However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
some shells landed in civilian areas in the village. At least four persons were maimed and they have been identified as Riyaz Ahmad Khatana son of Sardar Mohammad Khatana, resident of Kamalkote, Meeena Begum wife of Mohmad Anwar Mir, Asif Ahmad son of Mohammad Anwar Mir and Ashfaq Ahmad son of Mohammad Maqbool Mir.

They were shifted to Uri hospital by the locals with the help of Police. Two of the injured were referred to Srinagar for treatment.

House of one Mohammad Sadiq Barwal son of Bawar Ali Barwal, resident of Batar Jabda Kamalkote was damaged in the shelling. Damage was also caused to several houses in the village.

The area witnessed shelling last week for at least four days between Indian and Pak troops after Pak troops violated ceasefire in the sector. Army also retaliated leading to intense shelling.

The firing led to suspension of the cross-Line of Control (LoC) trade for four days last week. However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
this week the trade was normal and trucks from both sides crossed the Aman Setu normally.

Sub-District Magistrate Uri, Reyaz Ahmad Malik, told Excelsior that the intermittent firing was going on during the day and four people injured in the shelling were brought to Uri hospital. He said that some houses were also damaged in the shelling but the assessment is yet to be carried out.

When asked about the shifting of the people from shelling prone area of Kamalkote, Malik said that the firing was going on and it was not safe to shift people from the affected area. He said that at this stage people are comparatively safer in their houses. He said that they will assess the situation tomorrow.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian...
Pak troops today resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violations targeting forward posts and villages at four places along the LoC in Poonch district.

The firing was intense in the Krishna Ghati sector, where the Pak troops resorted to mortar shelling and firing by small arms from around 4.30 am, which was retaliated to befittingly by the Indian Army.

The cross-border shelling between the two sides continued till 7.30 am. There was no report of any casualty on the Indian side.

Officials said firing and shelling by Pakistain were also reported from the Balnoi and Mankote (both in Mendhar sector), besides from Shahpur sector, all in Poonch district, for a brief period in the early hours of Sunday.

The firing was mild in nature and lasted for a brief period without causing any harm, they said.

On late Saturday as well, the Pakistain army had targeted Indian positions In Sunderbani sector of Rajouri district for several hours.

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India-Pakistan

Teenage Hindu boy arrested for allegedly posting blasphemous content on social media

2018-08-02

[DAWN] A 19-year-old Hindu boy was booked by police in Mirpurkhas' Mirwah Gorchani area on Tuesday for allegedly posting blasphemous content on social media.

The teenager was nabbed
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
and a case was filed against him under Section 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs) of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) on the orders of Mirpurkhas Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Abid Ali Baloch after local prayer leader Mohammad Anwar Soomro filed a complaint.

Soomro alleged that the suspect had hurt the religious sentiments of Moslems by posting 'highly controversial' posts on his Facebook account starting July 30.

While talking to local journalists, residents of Mirwah Gorchani claimed that the suspect had been upset after his teenage sister Ganga (now Ayesha) had embraced Islam of her own will a few days ago. They added that some other members of his family were also expected to convert to Islam.

The suspect was sent on 14-day judicial remand on Tuesday, soon after his arrest.

Advocate Kashif Bajeer, a human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
activist in the area, demanded a thorough probe into the matter while talking to Dawn.

Despite repeated attempts, the SSP Mirpurkhas could not be contacted for his version on the matter.

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India-Pakistan

FIR to be registered against Axact chief, judge over bribery

2018-02-18

[DAWN] The Islamabad High Court administration has decided to register a first information report (FIR) against Axact chief executive officer Shoaib Ahmed Sheikh for bribing a judge to get acquittal in a fake degree scandal case.

A senior IHC official told Dawn that the court’s administrative committee had recommended registration of the FIR against the Axact CEO and additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) Pervaizul Qadir Memon. He said the matter had been referred to IHC Chief Justice Mohammad Anwar Khan Kasi, and after his approval a formal FIR would be lodged against both with the Federal Investigation Agency under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Pakistain Penal Code.

On Thursday, the IHC dismissed ADSJ Memon from service after he confessed to having received a bribe of Rs5 million to acquit Shoaib Sheikh in the fake degree case.

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