Mines in Black Sea
Biden to meet soldiers
ANKARA (TASS): The Turkish
Ministry of National Defense will
take the necessary measures in
connection with information about
drifting mines in the Black Sea,
Turkish President Erdogan said on
Tuesday. "Currently, this information is being discussed. In this
regard, our Ministry of National
Defense is taking all precautions.”
WARSAW (TASS): US President
Biden during his visit to Poland
will meet with US soldiers and
deliver "an important speech for
world public opinion." Zbigniew
Rau, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Polish OSCE Presidency,
stated this on Tuesday at a joint
press conference with Swedish
Foreign Minister Ann Linde.
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Prime Minister stresses unity of the Muslim world
Muhammad Asad
ISLAMABAD:
Prime
Minister Imran Khan on
Tuesday stressing unity of
the Muslim world said a
strong voice of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as the representative body of 1.5 billion
population was crucial to
address the lingering issues
of Kashmir and Palestine.
“We have failed both the
Palestinians and Kashmiris.
I am sad that we have not
been able to make an
impact despite being the
massive voice of 1.5 bil-
lion,” the prime minister
said in his keynote address
at the 48th Session of the
OIC Council of Foreign
Ministers, after Pakistan
assumed the Chair.
The two-day meeting of
the 57-member body of
Muslim countries that held
at Parliament House under
the theme of ‘Building
Partnerships for Unity,
Justice, and Development’
highlighted the challenges
facing the Muslim world
and the common opportunities through joint efforts.
Secretary-General OIC
Hissein Brahim Taha, President Islamic Development
Bank Dr Muhammad Suleiman Al-Jasser, Foreign
minister of Saudi Arabia Prince Faisal bin Farhan AlSaud, Chinese State Councilor and foreign minister
Wangi Yi and other foreign
ministers joined the session.
The prime minister, who
commenced his speech
with the prayer of seeking
Allah Almighty’s guidance
for the righteous path,
focused on the issues
including Islamophobia,
global conflicts and the situation
regarding
Afghanistan,
Kashmir,
Palestine and Ukraine.
Imran Khan pointed out
that the international community decades ago had made a pledge with Kashmiris to let them decide their
fate. However, he regretted
that the status of the Valley
had been changed illegally
with the residents facing
severe human rights situation.
“I ask OIC that unless
we have a united front, we
keep having seen these
abuses,” he said, adding
that altering the demography of a population by turning the majority Kashmiri
Muslims into minority was
a war crime under Geneva
Convention.
Imran Khan warned that
the world was heading
towards a cold war with the
chances of the countries
being divided into blocs.
“Unless we as Islamic platform get united, we will
stand nowhere,” he said.
On the Ukraine situation, he proposed to consider the ways where the OIC
countries along with China
could play their role in diffusing the rising conflict.
Khan said he would hold
discussion with the visiting
Chinese foreign minister
Wang Yi on how China and
OIC could step in to mediate towards a ceasefire of
Ukraine war which had
already started impacting
the world in shape of rise in
prices of oil, gas and wheat.
On Afghanistan, he
termed the stability of the
country extremely important after the 40 years of
conflict and called for lifting of international sanctions to avert the looming
humanitarian crisis. He said
the only way to stop terrorism in Afghanistan was to
encourage and support a
stable government in place.
“As a word of caution,
please do not push the
proud and independentminded
people
of
Afghanistan. Let us help
CJP forms larger bench to
hear presidential reference
ISLAMABAD
(APP):
Chief Justice of Pakistan
(CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on
Tuesday constituted a fivemember larger bench to
hear the presidential reference seeking the apex
court's opinion on Article
63-A and a petition of the
Supreme
Court
Bar
Association (SCBA).
The larger bench headed
by the CJP and comprising
Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan,
Justice Mazhar Alam Khan
Miankhel, Justice Muneeb
Akhtar and Justice Jamal
Khan Mandokhel will hear
the presidential reference
seeking interpretation of
Article 63-A of the
Constitution and the SCBA
petition for restraining
political parties from holding public meetings in
Islamabad before voting on
the no-confidence motion
on March 24.
According to the written
order of the apex court’s
hearing held on Monday,
the Inspector General of
Police (IGP), Islamabad
had filed a report in relation
to the incident at the Sindh
House.
The IGP assured that
strict measures were being
taken to avoid any repetition of such an incident
anywhere in the Red Zone
in relation to the moving
and voting upon of the noconfidence motion.
The IGP stated that the
FIR (first information
report) already registered
would be vigorously pursued in accordance with
law.
The Advocate General
Sindh expressed strong
reservations as to the FIR
and desired for the province’s version to be put on
the record. The Advocate
General Islamabad assured
that any representation made by the province through
the Advocate General
would be dealt with in
accordance with law.
The SCBA counsel stated that the political parties
had filed the no-confidence
resolution, and expressed
strong reservations and
concerns that the speaker
had summoned the session
of the National Assembly
requisitioned by the said
parties for March 25, which
was beyond the stipulated
14 days period.
"Our attention has been
drawn to order issued by
the speaker in this regard.
We are not inclined to take
up this matter as it is collateral to the questions of constitutional interpretation
raised before the court not
only in terms of CP 2/2022
but also the reference filed
by the President today in
terms of Article 186
(Reference 1/2022). In any
event, for such matters the
Constitution envisages a
remedy before Parliament
itself," the court order read.
The order stated that the
Attorney General had made
a categorical statement
before the court that the
Federal Government would
not in any manner hinder or
obstruct, or interfere with,
any members of the
National Assembly (including those of the Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf) who wish
to attend the session summoned as above, and to
participate in, and cast their
votes, on the no confidence
resolution.
Regarding the “grave
concerns” expressed about
political
rallies
in
Islamabad and the influx of
supporters into the Federal
Capital and especially in
the Red Zone, the AGP suggested that representatives
of the political parties sit
with Islamabad’s administration and work out a
mechanism to the holding
of rallies, as well as their
days and venues. The apex
court dubbed this a reasonable and practical sugges-
tion.
The written order stated
that counsel for various
political parties accepted
the suggestion, but highlighted that the counsel for
PPP, PML-N and JUI-F
have expressed reservations as to whether any
fruitful outcome will be
achieved. However, the
order said that the counsel
maintained that good faith
effort would be made by
all. The court directed the
AGP to coordinate with the
political parties’ counsel to
arrange the meetings with
the administration on an
urgent basis as suggested
by him.
The order stated that the
court was cognizant that the
matter was time-constrained and directed all
counsel to file concise
statements of their submissions by or before March
24, so that the oral hearing
could be completed within
an acceptable timeframe.
The court stated that the
two matters would be heard
together. “For this purpose
notice is issued to the petitioner SCBA. Notices are
also issued in relation to the
Reference to the political
parties who are before us in
terms of our previous
order."
“Support the troops!”
Jacob G. Hornberger
W
hile the mainstream media
and American
statists remain transfixed
on the Russian invasion of
Ukraine, it’s difficult not
to notice their moral
blindness with respect to
the evil and hypocrisy of
the Pentagon and the
CIA, which have spent
years ginning up this
deadly and destructive
crisis as part of their
political gamesmanship
against Russia.
After all, let’s face it:
When it was the Pentagon
and the CIA invading Iraq
and Afghanistan, the reaction of the mainstream
media and American statists was totally opposite to
how they have responded to
the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During those deadly
and destructive invasions,
there was hardly ever any
sympathy for the victims
and instead accolades,
praise, and glorification of
the invaders. Don’t forget
the daily mantra that everyone was exhorted to recite,
“Support the troops!”
But let’s leave Iraq and
Afghanistan aside and let’s
go back to the early 1960s,
when the CIA and the Pentagon were doing everything they could, including
committing fraud, to induce
President Kennedy to
invade Cuba, which is
every bit as sovereign and
independent as Ukraine.
Let’s begin with a recent
statement by U.S. State
Department
spokesman
Ned Price, who was expressing the official position of
the Pentagon and the CIA.
Price stated that Russian
President Putin was trying
to violate “core principles,”
including “the principle
that each and every country
has a sovereign right to
determine its own foreign
policy, has a sovereign
right to determine for itself
with whom it will choose to
associate in terms of its
alliances, its partnerships,
and what orientation it
wishes to direct its gaze.”
Price was referring to
Ukraine’s “right” to join
NATO, the corrupt bureaucratic dinosaur that should
have gone out of existence
at the ostensible end of the
Cold War. Price’s statement
confirms, of course, the
point I have long been making — that the war in
Ukraine is not about freedom, it’s about NATO.
Keep Price’s statement
in mind as we go back to
the height of the Cold War
and see how the Pentagon
and the CIA were hell-bent
on doing to Cuba what
Russia is now doing to
Ukraine.
That’s what the CIA’s
invasion of the Bay of Pigs
in Cuba was all about — an
effort to invade the island
for the sake of ousting the
Castro regime from power
and replacing it with another corrupt and brutal U.S.
puppet dictatorship, such as
that of Fulgencio Batista,
the brutal pro-U.S. dictatorial puppet that the Cuban
revolution succeeded in
ousting from power.
But that’s not all there is
to the Bay of Pigs story. As
I detail in my new book An
Encounter with Evil: The
Abraham Zapruder Story,
the Pentagon and the CIA
were engaged in political
gamesmanship
against
President Kennedy, who
the CIA considered to be a
neophyte president who
could easily be manipulated
into ordering an invasion of
Cuba, one that would have
been no different from
Russia’s
invasion
of
Ukraine.
The CIA told Kennedy
that its invasion would succeed without direct U.S.
military air and ground support. It was a lie — a deliberate, knowing, intentional
lie. The CIA was just playing and maneuvering what
they considered was an easily manipulable president.
The CIA figured that once
the invasion began faltering, Kennedy would have
no choice but to send in air
support, followed by a fullscale military invasion of
Cuba. The Pentagon played
its part in the fraudulent
scheme by falsely telling
Kennedy that the invasion
had a high chance of success, when, in fact, the
Pentagon knew otherwise.
In other words, the Pentagon and the CIA, who are
both pontificating in righteous tones about Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine, were
manipulating a U.S. president into doing to Cuba
precisely what Russia is
now doing to Ukraine.
Kennedy refused to fall
for the scheme and the
CIA’s invasion went down
to ignominious defeat at the
hands of the communists,
which is one big reason
why the Pentagon and the
CIA still maintain their brutal economic embargo
against the Cuban people to
this day. They’ve never forgotten or forgiven their
defeat at the hands of the
Cuban Reds.
Unfortunately, that was
not the end of the story.
After the CIA’s fraudulent
fiasco at the Bay of Pigs,
the Pentagon began exhorting Kennedy to undertake a
full-scale military invasion
of Cuba — yes, the same
type of military invasion
that Russia has undertaken
against Ukraine.
This was when the
Pentagon
presented
Kennedy with one of the
most infamous plans in
U.S. history, one based on
falsehoods and fraud. It
was called Operation
Northwoods. The Pentagon
succeeded in keeping it
secret from the American
people for some 30 years. It
was uncovered in the 1990s
by
the
Assassination
Records Review Board, the
entity that was charged
with securing the release of
JFK-assassination related
records from the military,
the CIA, the Secret Service,
and the FBI, which had
succeeded in encasing the
assassination in “national
security” rubric.
Operation Northwoods
called for real terrorist
attacks against American
citizens,
in
which
Americans would die. The
attacks (and murders)
would be carried out by
Pentagon agents secretly
posing as Cuban communists. The president would
then use those attacks as a
pretext for invading Cuba
— an invasion no different
from what Russia is now
doing to Ukraine.
To his everlasting credit,
and to the ire and rage of
the military establishment,
Kennedy
rejected
Operation Northwoods.
His relationship with the
military did not improve
when he walked out of a
meeting in which the military was endorsing a plan to
initiate a surprise full-scale
nuclear attack on Russia,
similar to the Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor, but
with carpet bombing using
nuclear bombs. That was
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them and involve into the
international community,”
he said.
Imran Khan stressed that
self-belief could help the
Islamic world revive its
glory to address their common challenges.
The prime minister welcomed the visiting foreign
ministers at the OIC platform which coincided the
occasion of Pakistan Day.
He especially congratulated the OIC members
over the landmark resolution passed in the United
Nations for declaring
March 15 as the Day to
Combat Islamophobia.
The March 15, he mentioned, was in connection
with the barbaric incident
when a gunman opened fire
on Muslims at a mosque in
New Zealand calling all
Muslims terrorists.
He stressed that Islam
did not equate terrorism
and rejected the notion of
differentiating between a
“moderate and terrorist
Muslim”.
“The moment someone
describes as moderate
Muslims automatically tags
others as radical,” he said,
urging the Muslim countries to take a stand on this.
He emphasized that there were no different forms
of Islam and Muslims, but
the one in line with the
teachings of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon
Him).
He pointed out that the
9/11 incident led to demonizing of Muslims across
the world and also dismissed the criticism against
Muslims and said mocking
or ridiculing the Prophet
(PBUH) in the name of
freedom of expression was
unjustified and unacceptable.
Imran said Pakistan was
the only country that was
created in the name of
Islam with its Objective
Resolution based on the
vision of Islam’s first sociowelfare State of Medina.
He
said
Prophet
Muhammad (PBUH) was
sent to the world as a blessing for the entire humanity
and not specific for the
Muslims only.
Imran Khan regretted
that the world was witnessing a situation where the
poor countries were being
robbed with almost 1.6 trillion dollars illegally transferred to rich countries.
He said an Islamic state
must protect the rights of
minorities, and imbibes the
spirit of compassion and
humanity for all.
The prime minister mentioned that one of the ideals
of the OIC was to protect
Islamic values, however, he
expressed concern over the
culture of obscenity on of
social media, which he said
was leading to sex crimes.
He sought consideration
by the Islamic platform to
suggest ways for combating
vulgarity impacting the
social values and family
system.
While speaking on the
session, foreign minister
Qureshi said that the OIC is
the collective voice of nearly 2 billion Muslims.
It is a bridge among
Muslim
nations
and
between the Muslim world
and the international community.
While deliberating on
the
global
situation,
Qureshi said that the world
is witnessing unprecedented
turbulence,
while
Conflict in Ukraine has
rekindled East-West tensions, threatens international peace and security.
A new global arms race
is underway and conflicts,
among and within nations
have proliferated increasingly, Political and military
blocs are competing for
more power at the cost of
global equilibrium.
He said that the Muslim
world is faced with conflicts in the Middle East,
prolonged foreign occupation, and the denial of the
right to self-determination,
most notably to the people
of Palestine and Kashmir.
According to him, the
Muslim world’s resentment
is increasing due to frequent external interventions
in Muslim countries.
Wang: China ready to build
partnerships with Islamic world
F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD:
Chinese
State
Councilor and Foreign Minister
Wang Yi Tuesday said China was
ready to build partnerships with the
Islamic world for the promotion of
multilateralism and democracy in
international relations as well as for
unity and cooperation.
“China is ready to build four partnerships with Isla-mic countries. We
should be partners of unity and cooperation… We need to be partners in
development and revitalization… We
ne-ed to be safe and stable pa-rtners,”
Wang Yi said in his address as a special guest at the opening ceremony of
OIC’s Council of Foreign Ministers.
It was the first time for the Chinese
foreign minister to attend the OIC
Fore-ign Ministers’ meeting, wh-ich,
he said, fully demonstrated the sincere desire of China and the Islamic
wo-rld to strengthen exchanges and
cooperation, and would surely push
bilateral relations to a new level.
He said China was ready to work
with Islamic countries to promote a
multipolar world, democracy in international relations and diversity of
human civilizations, and make
unremitting efforts to build a community with a shared future for mankind.
Wang said China would continue
to support Islamic countries in apply-
ing Islamic wisdom to solve contemporary hotspot issues, and firmly hold
in "our own hands the key to maintaining stability and promoting
peace".
He said that China would continue
to stand firmly on the side of the
Palestinian people and support the
early convening of a more authoritative and representative international
peace conference on the basis of the
two-state solution to promote a comprehensive and just settlement of the
issue. He said China would respect
the choice made by the Afghan people, and support Afghanistan in
achieving an inclusive government
and steady governance.
The Frontier Post, Peshawar
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Pakistan committed to
early, peaceful resolution of
Kashmir dispute: Qureshi
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Minister of Palestine, Dr. Riyad al-Maliki, called on PM Imran Khan, on
the side-lines of the 48th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM).
CPEC second phase to
reinforce Pakistan’s efforts for
economic development: PM
ISLAMABAD
(APP):
Prime
Minister Imran Khan Tuesday said
the ongoing second phase of ChinaPakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
would reinforce Pakistan’s efforts for
the economic development with
enhanced cooperation in areas such
as industrial development, agriculture
and information technology.
The prime minister, in a meeting
with Chinese State Councilor and
Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the sidelines of 48th Session of Council of
Foreign Ministers of the Organization
of Islamic Conference, also welcomed
Chinese investors to benefit from
attractive opportunities in Pakistan.
The prime minister warmly welcomed State Councilor Wang Yi to
Pakistan, and conveyed his heartfelt
condolences on the loss of precious
lives in a crash of China Eastern flight
on Monday. The prime minister and the
state councilor discussed the current
trajectory of Pakistan-China bilateral
ties, and the evolving regional and
international scenario. He fondly
recalled his recent visit to China and his
meetings with the Chinese leadership.
The two sides discussed the situa-
tion in Ukraine and reiterated the need
for a solution through sustained dialogue and diplomacy. Prime Minister
Imran Khan briefed on India’s egregious human rights violations in the
Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and
Kashmir (IIOJK) and its irresponsible
behaviour that was an impediment to
regional peace and security.
The prime minister also apprised
about the so-called “accidental” firing of a missile from India into
Pakistan’s territory, underlined
Pakistan’s call for a joint probe, and
stressed the need to ensure that it did
not occur again. He also emphasized
that both countries must continue
deeper engagement to promote peace
and stability in Afghanistan, and avert
the humanitarian crisis there.
PM for intensified trade, connectivity
cooperation
between
Pakistan, Kazakhstan: Prime
Minister Imran Khan Tuesday, while
recalling Pakistan’s ‘Vision Central
Asia’ policy, underscored the need to
intensify cooperation in enhancing
trade and connectivity between
Pakistan and Kazakhstan.
The prime minister said this in a
meeting with Foreign Minister of
Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi, here
on the sidelines of the 48th Session of
the
Organization
of
Islamic
Cooperation’s Council of Foreign
Ministers. During the meeting, they
discussed the bilateral relations as
well as regional and international
issues. Views were exchanged on various regional and international issues,
including Afghanistan.
The prime minister recalled his
meeting with President KassymJomart Tokayev on the sidelines of the
SCO Summit in September 2021.
Foreign Minister Tileuberdi briefed
the prime minister on the developments in Kazakhstan and its bilateral
cooperation with Pakistan.
The prime minister reaffirmed
Pakistan’s commitment to continue
enhancing cooperation between the
two countries in all areas of mutual
interest, including at regional and international forums like the United
Nations, OIC, Shanghai Cooperation
Organization
and
Economic
Cooperation Organization. He also
looked forward to the visit of President
Tokayev to Pakistan later this year.
ISLAMABAD (APP): Foreign
Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi
Tuesday said Pakistan remained committed to the early, just and peaceful
resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir
dispute in accordance with the United
Nations Security Council resolutions
and wishes of the Kashmiri people.
Speaking during the meeting of
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC) Contact Group on Jammu and
Kashmir here, he said today’s interaction would help in taking stock of the
political and security environment, and
the deteriorating humanitarian and
human rights situation in the Indian
Illegally Occupied Jammu and
Kashmir (IIOJK), and consider ways
and means to address those challenges.
“The right to self-determination is
the fundamental tenet of international
law. The right to decide one’s own destiny is the essence of freedom and is
critical to human dignity. Unfortunately,
the people of Jammu and Kashmir are
yet to enjoy this inalienable right.”
“For the last 70 years Kashmiris
have been living under the most atrocious occupation ever since the
Indian forces illegally landed in
Jammu and Kashmir. There is nothing as painful as a brutal occupation,
and nothing as moving as the voice
and plight of those braving it.”
“Unless addressed, the monumental betrayal of the Kashmiri people in
contravention of the cardinal principles of international law, the UN
Charter, and key human rights instruments, will continue to haunt the
world conscience,” he added.
The minister said generations of
Kashmiris had grown up under the
shadow of fear, torture and intimidation. “It is a tale of heart-wrenching
suppression and trauma caused by
indiscriminate and unrestrained use
of power. History has witnessed few
parallels of such flagrant violations of
fundamental rights as in the IIOJK.
Gross violations of human rights,
shameless brutality, remorseless
moral bankruptcy and appalling
atrocities characterize the reality of
Indian occupation of Jammu and
Kashmir today. A military force of
over 900,000 Indian troops has turned
the heavenly valley of Kashmir into
the world’s largest prison.”
He recalled that Indian repression
had intensified manifolds since the
illegal and unilateral Indian actions of
August 5, 2019. “It is beyond belief
that almost the entire Kashmiri leadership remains incarcerated under inhuman conditions, often dying while in
custody. Kashmiri youth is a specific
target as they suffer illegal detentions,
torture, enforced disappearances,
indiscriminate use of pellet guns, and
extra-judicial killings in staged cordon-and-search operations.”
The Muslim majority in Kashmir
was being turned into a minority in
their own land through illegal demographic changes in violation of the
international law and the Fourth
Geneva Convention, he added.
He said the moral bankruptcy of
Indian occupation forces was laid
bare by the callous and inhuman attitude in handling the mortal remains
of Syed Ali Geelani, the iconic
Kashmir leader and freedom fighter.
The scale and spectrum of Indian
abuses in the IIOJK, he said, had
exponentially grown with devastating
human toll. Operating under draconian laws with complete impunity, the
Indian occupation forces were committing unspeakable atrocities to
break the will of Kashmiris and to
resist the occupation, he added.
The recent arrests and reprisals
against human rights defenders and
journalists on fabricated charges in the
IIOJK were another example of India’s
continued persecution and intimidation
of civil society, Qureshi noted.
“India continues to out-rightly
deny access to UN Special
Procedures, independent human rights
observers and global media, thereby
evading independent assessment of
the ground situation in IIOJK.”
He said in September last year,
Pakistan unveiled a dossier that
extensively documented irrefutable
evidence of India’s state terrorism
and gross and systematic human
rights violations in the IIOJK.
“The 131-page dossier covers
accounts of 3,432 cases of war crimes
perpetrated by Indian occupying
forces. It is corroborated by meticulously gathered audio and video evidence. These reports and the Dossier
provide sufficient evidence for the
international community to hold
India to account for its reprehensible
conduct in the IIOJK which is repugnant to every canon of civility and
international humanitarian law.”
He said the Jammu and Kashmir
dispute was one of the longest standing items on the agenda of the UN
and the OIC. He called on India to
immediately reverse its unilateral and
illegal measures instituted in the
IIOJK since August 5, 2019, and also
end human rights violations there.
He also asked India to withdraw
the occupation forces from the IIOJK
so that the people of Kashmir could
enjoy their right to live freely and
reverse the demographic changes in
the occupied territory.
The minister asked India to release
all political prisoners and stop the persecution of Kashmiri political leadership,
lift curbs on educational institutions in
the IIOJK and allow the Kashmiri
youth, especially girls to fulfill its obligation of holding a free and impartial
UN supervised plebiscite to let the
Kashmiris exercise their inalienable
right to self-determination as enshrined
in numerous UNSC resolutions.
He said in view of the deteriorating
situation in the IIOJK, it was imperative that the OIC doubled its efforts to
facilitate a lasting solution to the
Jammu and Kashmir dispute. “The
oppressed people of Kashmir, now
more than ever, count on OIC and the
Muslim Ummah as saviors.”
Pakistan Day message from Air Chief
Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu
F.P. Report
ISLAMABAD: 1. On the
happy occasion of Pakistan
Day, I extend my heartiest
felicitations to all citizens
of Pakistan.
2. 23 rd March is a landmark in the glorious history
of Pakistan. On this very
day, the Muslims of the subcontinent for the first time
formally articulated their
demand for a homeland of
their own. On the strength of
their unity and indomitable
will, they eventually realized their dream of Pakistan
under the inspiring leadership of Quaid-e-Azam
Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Certainly, Pakistan Day
is a symbol and reminder
of the determination, sacrifice and epic struggle of
our forefathers for independence.
3.
My
Dear
Countrymen! This year,
Pakistan Day has special
significance, as the Nation
witnesses the newly-
inducted J-10C aircraft on
the wing during Pakistan
Day Parade, symbolising
PAF’s modernisation strategy. Let me assure you that
we
are
continuously
endeavouring to augment
our potential in all spectrums. Our prime focus
remains on Modernization
through indigenization as
well as collaboration with
friendly countries.
To this end, PAF continues to harness new technologies like Stand Off
Weapons,
Precision
Munition,
Electronic
Warfare, Unmanned Aerial
Systems and Artificial
Intelligence. Alhamdulillah!
We have made good
progress in enhancing our
capability in Space and
Cyber domains in line with
the dictates of Modern NonContact Warfare.
The absorption of these
cutting-edge niche technologies is made possible
through focused Training
and Human Resource
Development. I am glad that
through Triple Helix Model
of Innovation, major strides
have been made in
Aerospace
Industry,
Academia and Government
Linkages. I am sure that
these initiatives would pay
dividends in the times ahead.
Let us resolve on this
day that we will not rest on
our laurels but will redouble our efforts for the
progress and prosperity of
Pakistan, as indeed the
development of Pakistan
Air Force. On this historic
occasion, we also reiterate
support
to
Kashmiri
brethren in their just struggle for self-determination.
4. Let us bow our heads
before Allah in humility
for his benevolence, seeking strength and guidance
to be the enduring
guardians of Pakistan’s
free blue skies, Aameen.
MPA from
Tareen Group
meets CM Buzdar
LAHORE (INP): Another
lawmaker from Jahangir
Tareen group — a disgruntled faction within
the
ruling
Pakistan
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
(PTI) met with Chief
Minister Usman Buzdar.
According to sources
privy to the matter, the
Tareen group MPA Syed
Rafaqat Gillani met with
CM Usman Buzdar to discuss political situation of
Punjab.
It seems that cracks
have started to appear
within the group of
estranged
Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf
(PTI)
leader Jahangir Tareen
after as many as six members of Punjab Assembly
(MPAs) met Punjab CM
Buzdar.
The meetings between
Usman Buzdar and five
MPAs from Tareen group
occurred two days back in
Lahore. “Those who made
contact included Taimoor
Lali,
Bilal
Asghar,
Iftikhar Gondal, Faisal
Hayat,
and
Aslam
Bharwana,” they said.
The sources said that
the MPAs approached the
provincial government
after they failed to get
assurances of a PML-N
ticket.
One member of the
Tareen group shared that
the meeting with Hamza
Shehbaz was a failure as
he did not offer PML-N
ticket during the meeting.
The Frontier Post
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
PHC grants
bail to alleged
culprit
F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: Justice Roohul-Amin of Peshawar High
Court has granted bail to
alleged fraudulent in bounce
cheque of Rs,1.8 million.
According to prosecution,
the alleged culprit Faisal
Shahzad resident of Takh-iNasrati area of Karak district
had issued bounce cheque of
Rs,1.8 million.
The counsel for petitioner Amin Khattak Lachi
Advocate appeared and
argued the case before
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan inspecting the model of New court. After conclusion of
General Bus Stand.
arguments the single bench
of PHC has ordered release
of alleged culprits on bail.
Establishment of crush plants
in residential areas
PHC directs DC, DPO Mardan to take stern action
Humayun Khan
PESHAWAR: A divisional bench
comprising of Chief Justice
Peshawar High Court Justice Qaiser
Rashid and Justice Ijaz Anwar
directed Deputy Commissioner and
District Police Officer Mardan to
take action against crashing plants
working illegally or established in
residential areas which has creating
environmental issues and directed to
further strengthen monitoring in this
regard, on Tuesday.
During hearing Chief Justice
Qaiser Rashid remarked that stern
actions shall be taken against factories which are causing environmental problems while added that if
lease was granted it will be scraped
likewise the past. The counsel for
petitioner Zar Badshah Advocate,
Additional Advocate General Syed
Sikandar Shah, DC Habibullah Arif,
DPO Dr. Zahidullah and mining
department’s lawyer Barrister Asadul-Mulk appeared before court.
The petitioner namely Bahadar
Sher filed writ petition stating that
crushing plants are established in
residential areas across Mardan district which caused respiratory diseases among residents and creating
pollution in the premises.
Deputy Commissioner Habib
Ullah Arif informed that administration has took stern actions on court’s
directives against crushing plants
and several have been sealed on violation while DPO informed that 71
FIRs have been registered including
18 FIRs in 2022 and 21 persons had
also arrested in this regard.
DPO Dr. Zahidullah informed that
police is ready to cooperate with
other departments and taking stern
action immediately on reporting
such activities while claimed that
force is available to institution on
request and deploying on the spot.
During hearing Chief Justice
remarked that on one hand rivers are
destroyed while on the other hand
Mining department had created
problems. The counsel for leaseholders informed that plants had established 700 meters away from residential areas under law but it was
also sealed while DC argued that
legal and units established in proper
premises from residential areas shall
be reopen because administration is
monitoring situation.
Chief Justice directed spot inspection of the plants and added that
court does not want to close business
of anyone but shall never allowed to
play with health of public at large.
PHC has directed Deputy Director
Legal Environmental Protection
Mumtaz Ali to inspect to the plants
and inquired that where Standard
Operating Procedures (SOPs) is not
following while adjourned further
hearing till 17 May.
48th session of
the OIC
welcomed
F.P. Report
PESHAWAR:
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Minister for
Elementary and Secondary
Education Shahram Khan
Tarakai Tuesday welcomed
the representatives of over
57 countries to the 48th
session of the Organisation
of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC) Council of Foreign
Ministers in Islamabad.
In a tweet, the provincial
minister said that it is an honour for Pakistan to host this
session. The provincial minister in his tweet also shared
pictures of the representatives of foreign countries
where the Prime Minister
Imran Khan welcomed them.
KP govt forms
Environmental
Advisory panel
F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: The government
of
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa has notified
the formation of an
Environmental Advisory
Committee
under
KP
Environmental Protection
Act,
2014
and
KP
Environmental Assessment
Rules 2021, said an official
handout issued here on
Tuesday. The Director
General (DG) Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) KP
will head the committee
while members will include
Regional Director EPA, representatives of Forests,
Environmental and Wildlife
of not less BPS-18, representative of the Department of
Environmental
Science,
University of Peshawar and
representative of a non-governmental organization with
experience in the matter.
The committee will
extend technical assistance to
governmental agencies and
non-governmental organizations especially working in
the environment sector.
ANF recovers
146 kg narcotics,
arrests smuggler
F.P. Report
PESHAWAR:
Anti
Narcotics Force (ANF)
Peshawar, on a tip off, intercepted a Toyota Corolla car
recovered 146 kilograms
narcotics and arrested
alleged smuggler, said ANF
Spokesman on Tuesday.
The police checked a
suspected car bearing LE8705 near Noshehra Cantt
district Noshehra and
arrested an accused namely, Manzoor Khan resident
of District Khyber.
Upon search of the vehicle 96 KGs of hashish
along with 48 KGs of
opium, which were concealed in different secret
cavities of said vehicle.
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KP CM felicitates
nation on
Pakistan Day
PESHAWAR
(APP):
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa
Chief Minister Mahmood
Khan felicitating the nation
on Pakistan Day said that it
reminds the historic day
when 82 years ago the
Muslims of South Asia
established an independent
Islamic state for themselves. This day reminds us
of the great sacrifices made
by the founders of Pakistan
for the sake of this country
and requires us to do collective efforts to make this
country a true Islamic state
in the world.
In his message in connection with Pakistan Day,
he said that a long struggle
and great sacrifices of the
Muslims of the subcontinent resulted in creation of
Pakistan where today we
are living a free life according to our religious and cultural values.
That is why today we
pay tribute to the sacrifices
and struggles of our forefathers and express our determination that we will continue to adhere to the ideas
and ideology for which the
struggle was made.
The Chief Minister said
that the present government
under the leadership of Prime
Minister Imran Khan is striving to make Pakistan a truly
Islamic welfare state, a state
where justice, rule of law,
merit and law prevail. Today,
let us all renew our commitment to play out role in making Pakistan a great country in
accordance with the vision of
the founders of Pakistan while
setting aside political and personal interests, he added.
‘PM Imran emerges ray
of hope to pull Muslim
Ummah out of political’
F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: PTI senator
Dost Muhammed Mehsud
Tuesday said that Imran
Khan has emerged the a
ray of hope for the Muslim
World in the present circumstances to pull the
Muslim Ummah out of
political, economic quagmire by bringing much
needed unity among them.
Commenting on Prime
Minister Imran Khan’s
address to the OIC meeting
in Islamabad, he said that
establishing a Muslim
Block was an unfulfilled
agenda of true Muslim
rulers who became the victims of imperialists’ sinister
designs, adding that Prime
Minister Imran Khan would
make it a reality.
He said that adoption of
the
Islamic
Phobia
Resolution at the UNO
was a great symbolic victory of the Muslim World
owing to the untiring
diplomatic endeavours of
Imran Khan at all levels to
pass this resolution despite
opposition to the contrary.
He criticized the opposition parties and said that
the no confidence move
against Prime Minister
Imran Khan was a deep
rooted conspiracy by the
inimical foreign powers
who are hell bent to settle
scores with him for pursuing an independent foreign
policy in the wake of
changing regional and
international scenarios.
He said that those raising that issue should bear
in mind that the very
progress, development and
security of this Nation and
country is linked to the
leadership of Imran Khan
and minus Imran Khan is
akin to jeopardising the
very integrity and unity of
this nation.
He came down hard on
those airing such types of
abnoxious
news
and
termed them paid agent
and fifth columnists, who
had been tasked by their
mentors to spread such
narrative with a view to
achieve their nefarious
designs. He questioned the
yesterday opposition threat
to foil holding of the OIC
summit at Islamabad
which later on retracted in
the wake of extreme public
pressure, adding that the
the threat by opposition
clearly implies that the
opposition at the behest of
their foreign mentors
wants to spoil unity of the
Muslim Ummah.
Establishment of grad station
on agriculture land
Humayun Khan
PESHAWAR: Peshawar
High Court has constituted
Commission
for
inspection of site acquired
for establishment power
grad-station and directed
to submit comprehensive
report before court, on
Tuesday.
The commission shall
comprising of Additional
Advocate General Arshad
Khan, Rhaman Ullah,
Shah
Mahmood
and
Shahid Munir Advocates
along with experts shall
visit the spot and will capture picture along with
comprehensive report of
the acquired land for grad
station.
The divisional bench
comprising of Chief
Justice
PHC
Justice
Qaiser Rashid and Justice
Ijaz Anwar hearing writ
petitions of Iftitah Ullah
and Zahirullah against
establishment of grad station on agriculture land
while Additional Attorney
General Amir Javeed,
Wasim-u-Din
Khattak
Advocate,
PESCO’s
lawyer Asad Jan, Land
Acquisition
Collector
along with counsel for
petitioner Rahman Ullah
and
Shah
Mahmood
Advocates
appeared
before court.
During hearing Chief
Justice Qaiser Rashid
remarked that future of
coming generation is
dependent on CPEC
because it is a project of
international importance
but court’s concerned over
construction on agriculture instead of utilizing
barren land. Justice Ijaz
Anwar remarked that
expect provincial government no department is
protecting agriculture land
from commercial activities.
The counsel for petitioner informed that grad
station is constructing on
agriculture land near
Swabi interchange which
is providing tobacco and
vegetable of standard
while additional attorney
general argued that land is
acquired to provide power
to industrial estate under
CPEC project and added
that government has discretionary
power
to
acquire land as per
Supreme Court’s judgments. Land Acquisition
Collector informed on
court’s inquiry that a
power transmission lane is
constructed
from
Tajikistan which will provide electricity to proposed grad station for
industries and it is
acquired after Chief
Engineer survey.
Chief Justice remarked
that why should agriculture land is acquired for
grad station instead of
barren land and added that
must be established on
available barren land. The
divisional bench observed
that must identify barren
land for construction and
adjourned further hearing
20 April.
Food Authority seizes over
4,000 litres of fake beverages
F.P. Report
PESHAWAR:
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety
and Halal Food Authority
Tuesday seized over 4,000
litres of substandard and
fake energy drinks during
a raid on a processing unit
in the Charsadda Road
area of Peshawar.
The unit was producing
fake energy drinks in the
bottles and labels of
multinational companies.
According to Director
General
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Food Safety
Authority Shahrukh Ali
Khan, the Authority has
intensified the crackdown
against fake and substandard carbonated drinks
ahead of Ramadan-ulMubarak.
The Food Safety team
during the raid with
packed bottles of energy
drinks also confiscated
packing material and
locally
made
filling
machines. The unit used to
supply energy drinks to
various areas of the cities.
The condition of the unit
was also found very unhygienic.
In addition, the crackdown against the adulteration mafia was also carried out in the rest of the
province. The Food Safety
teams inspected various
food-related businesses in
Charssada, and imposed
heavy fines on a number
of shops for carrying
expired food products.
According to Food
Safety Authority, a number of other shops were
served with warning
notices for improvement.
Similarly,
the
KP
FS&HFA teams also carried out awareness and
training sessions for food
handlers in various districts of the province;
where they were sensitized on the basic hygiene
principles, and provided
them
the
Standard
Operating
Procedures
(SOPs) for their relevant
businesses.
Director General KP
FS&HFA Shahrukh Ali
Khan said due to the high
demand of beverages in
the holy month of
Ramadan-ul-Mubarak, the
Authority is making sure
that the customers must
get safe and standard
products in the market. He
said during the recent
crackdowns against such
setups with substandard
products has so far resulted in the discard of thousands of litres of fake and
substandard beverages,
while a number of such
units have been sealed.
District
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Govt working for
uplift of tribal people,
districts: Governor
In brief
Six miners
injured in blast
HARNAI (INP): At
least six coal miners
sustained injures when
a gas explosion occurred in coal mine in
Balochistan’s Harnai
district on Tuesday
morning.
Deputy
Commissioner Harnai
Muhammad
Rafiq
Tareen has said that the
incident took place at
the Zarghoon Ghar area
of Harnai. “Six coal
miners were injured in
methane gas blast at a
mine and three of them
have been taken out of
the mine,” deputy commissioner Tareen said.
“Relief efforts have
been underway to
retrieve other three
injured trapped in the
coal mine,” district official said. The coal miners were extracting coal
from the mine when the
gas blast took place,
official
said.
The
injured coal miners
were rushed to district
headquarters hospital
Harnai for medical
attendance. According
to reports, the district
administration
approached
the
Provincial
Disaster
Management Authority
(PDMA) to ensure
unhurt recovery of the
trapped miners. A large
number of people and
coal miners from nearby mines gathered at the
affected mine pit.
Hindu girl
shot dead
SUKKUR (INP): A
Hindu girl was shot
dead allegedly for
resisting a bid of her
abduction at her house
here on late Monday
night
in
Rohri.
According to Patni
police on Tuesday, one
accused identified as
Wahid Bakhsh Lashari
was arrested. During
investigation he confessed to killing the
Hindu girl named
Pooja Kumari Oadh.
The police said that the
accused, along with
accomplices, barged
into the girl’s house
and
attempted
to
abduct her. They shot
her dead for putting up
stiff resistance. A case
was registered against
the accused on the
complaint of the girl’s
father.
Women drug
peddlers escape
DADU (INP): Two
women drug peddlers
allegedly from Punjab
managed to escape from
a women police station
in Dadu district of
Sindh on Tuesday. Both
the accused were arrested for selling drugs.
When the escape incident occurred, two male
and a female constable
were on duty at the
police station. Further
investigation
was
underway.
Sasta Bazaars
to be setup
F.P. Report
MARDAN: Commissioner Mardan Division,
Syed Abdul Jabbar
Shah has directed the
concerned authorities
for establishment of
Sasta
Bazaars
on
March 28, 2022 before
Ramazan. He issued
these directives while
presiding
over
a
monthly revenue meeting in his office on
Tuesday.
Besides,
Deputy Commissioner
(DC) Swabi Sanaullah
Khan,
Additional
Deputy Commissioner
(ADC) Mardan Naeem
Akhtar, ADC Mardan
Mujeeb-ur-Rehman,
A s s i s t a n t
Commissioners,
Additional Assistant
Commissioners
and
other concerned officers attended the meeting. The Divisional
Commissioner directed
solid steps to ensure the
provision of edibles to
people during Ramazan
on the officially fixed
cheap rates to the people. He said that artificial price and increase
in profiteering is usually witnessed during
Ramazan and directed
deputy commissioners
to focus on pricechecking during the
month. He especially
directed regular checks
on the cleanliness and
quality of edibles.
The Frontier Post
F.P. Report
TIRAH: Governor Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Shah Farman
Tuesday said that the PTI
government was well
aware of the plight and difficulties of tribal people
and together the civil and
military institutions were
working for the development of the tribal people
and districts.
He expressed these
views after inauguration of
Community Based Fruits
Orchard Project at Peenda
Cheena, Lawar Kalay,
Tehsil Tirah in Khyber tribdistrict.
Inspector
NOWSHERA: Commandant Elite Force Muhammad Wisal Fakhar Sultan presenting souvenir to al
General Frontier Corps
Inspector General of Police Muzzam Jah Ansari.
Major
General
Adil
Yameen also accompanied
the Governor.
During the briefing,
Secretary
Agriculture
Muhammad Israr informed
that orchards have been
planted on 5 acres of land
in Lowar Kalay Zaka Khel
under the auspices of
Frontier Corps (North) in
collaboration with the
Department of Agriculture
and Forests.
He said that thousands of
fruit plants have been provided while eight different
types of fruit plants including olives have been planted in the orchards. At-least
6,000 acres of orchards are
being developed under the
Frontier Corps Enforcement Project and 597,000
saplings will be planted by
the end of this year.
Similarly, he said the agriculture and forest department would plant 5.67 million saplings on 5182 hectors of land.
Addressing on the occasion the Governor said that
Allah has endowed the
country with immense natural potential and district
Khyber, especially the
Tirah Valley, was one of the
most attractive climatic
zones. He said that the
present government was
paying full attention to the
proper use of natural
resources adding that cultivation of Saffron is the
most valuable asset and
serious steps are being
taken to increase its production.
The Governor said that
Frontier Corps and Forest
Department, in collaboration with Agriculture
Department, were planting
trees in Khyber District for
economic and environmental benefit.
Security of country depend
on best training: KP IGP Residents flay spread
Syed Waliullah Shah
NOWSHERA: The Inspector General
of Police Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Moazzam Jah Ansari has said that
maintenance of law and order internal
security and integrity of the country
depend on the best training, preparedness and commitment of the police
force and directed the jawans to fully
equip themselves with latest modern
training so as to combat the impending challenges in an effective manner.
This, he said, while addressing the
passing out parade of the 18th Basic
Elite Course, 7th Special Combat
Unit (SCU) and 3rd Basic Ladies
Commandos Course at Joint Elite
Police Training Center Nowshera
today. A toal of 464 commandos participated in the parade which included 344 basic course jawans, 66
PASIs, 29 Special Combat Units and
25 Ladies Commandos. the 7th contingent of SCU completed the 9the
months rigorous training. It may be
recalled that Basic Elite course is
called induction course of the Elite
Force and after its successful completion the jawans is formally inducted
in the Elite Force.
The police chief informed that no
force of the country could match the
bravery and courage of the Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa police added that with
the induction of Elite Force jawans
and Special Combat Unit jawans in
the KP police, the professional accumen and capabilities of the police
force would be further improved to a
great extent. The IGP especially
praised the bravery and capabilities
of the SCU by saying that this unite
consist of best of the best jawans of
the Elite Force which have been posted in different districts after completion of the hard and rigorous training.
The IGP informed that the SCU
contingent has been trained on the
pattern of Pak Army SSG Zarar
Company and capable enough to
meet any eventualities. While referring to the training standard of Elite
police training center Nowshera the
IGP Moazzam Jah Ansari said that
the training standard in the center had
improved a lot and the jawans are
being imparted latest modern training. The IGP also informed that the
present govt introduced several
reforms in police force which led to
further improve the police image in
public and thus become a role model
for the rest of the province of the
country.
The IGP commended the hard
work and efforts of the instructions
and participants of the parade on
splendid turnout in the parade and
hoped that they will make best use of
the training in the filed and will bring
more laurels for the force. The IGP
also hoped that they will show their
mettle in eradication of crimes and
ensuring protection of life, honour to
the general public.
The IGP also vowed that 1000
jawans would be trained in the com-
ing course and the Elite force would
be made a more professional force of
the country. The IGP also announced
processing of water filtration plant,
sanction of PC1 for swimming pool
for the jawans in the center as well as
approval from the govt for the construction of road leading to the center.
Earlier the commandos demonstrated different training skills which
include combat firing, different rappelling skills, Judo Karades and
received standing ovation from the
audience. Commandos Shah Roze of
distt. Abbottabad was declared 1st in
firing, Muhammad Rizwan of distt:
Swat in four kilometer run,
Muhammad Umair of distt: Haripur
in Physical Training, Mohsin-ul-Haq
of distt: Chitral in PASI course,
Najam-ud-Din of distt: Battagram, in
Spcial Combat Unit course,
Muhammad Maroot of distt:
Kohistan in Basic Elite Course and
Lady Commando Usra Bibi of distt:
Mardan in ladies course. The IGP
awarded the winner with special
shields.
Earlier, commandant Elite force
Muhammad Wisal Fakher Sultan
while presenting welcome address
highlighted the achievements of Elite
Police Force in different operations,
training standard of the center and the
confronting problems and difficulties.
The commandant also presented a
suvenior to the IGP on the occasion.
High ranking police officer largely
attended the function.
Pakistan Day festival
kicks-off in Orakzai
F.P Report
KALAYA: Major General
Akif Iqbal Orakzai said that
the tribal people have an
important role to play in
building Pakistan and tribal
district is now the cradle of
peace.
Seeing the plight of
Muslims in India, March
23, 1940, the decision of
our elders was correct.
Army FC cannot succeed
without people's support
Orakzai Tribal. This he said
on the occasion of Pakistan
Day on March 23.
Commandant Orakzai
Scouts Col. Rai Kashif
Amin,
Deputy
Commissioner
Orakzai
Tribal District Muhammad
Asif Rahim, DPO Nisar
Ahmad
Khan,
Wing
Commander
Lt
Col
Kamran, Wing Commander
Lt Col Naeem Malik Habib
Noor Orakzai, Captain
Imran and other Pak Army
officers Sharan attended the
festival in large numbers.
General
Officer
Commanding
(GOC)
Major General Akif Iqbal
and DC Muhammad Asif
Rahim said on the occasion
to maintain law and order
in the area Army, Pakistan
Frontier Corps and police
have played the role of
front line and to the sacrifices of security forces and
tribes, complete peace has
come in Orakzai tribal is on
the path of development.
GOC said that the tribal
people have played an
important role in building
Pakistan. If it were not for
the tribes, it would not have
been possible to build
Pakistan. FC and other
security forces cannot succeed.
In connection with the
sacrifices of security forces
and tribes, today we have
organized a fair in an
atmosphere of peace. In
beauty there are vast opportunities for tourism here.
GOC Major General Akif
Iqbal said that we were hit
by the Corona epidemic but
we
defeated
them.
Similarly, Orakzai Scouts
231 Wing today will display 500 meters of national
flag made of cloth at
Orakzai Scouts lara headquarters.
Chairman IIC for
focusing on peace, trade
F.P. Report
DARA ADAM KHEL: Chairman Islamic
Ideological Council (IIC) Dr Qibla Ayaz
Tuesday said that the voice of any nation is
heard in a dignified manner at every forum
on the basis of peace, trade and better economy.
Addressing
Pagham-e-Pakistan
Conference as the chief guest at the auditorium of FATA University Dara Adam Khel, he
emphasized on focusing more on these
important factors to attain a prominent posi-
tion among comity of nations. He said that
those who depend on others in the world are
passing through a very challenging time,
adding that it has become necessary for the
new generation to set the right goals for their
bright future.
Addressing on the occasion Vice
Chancellor FATA University Dara Adamkhel
Jahanzeb Khan said that it was imperative to
expand the intellectual capacity of the new
generation and make them aware of the aims
and objectives of the Pagham-e-Pakistan
conference and its need and importance.
of Leishmania in Karak
F.P. Report
KARAK: Leishmania rule
in different areas of Takht
Nusrat Tehsil, Health
Department is silent! In an
open meeting held by
Deputy
Commissioner
Karak at Government
Higher Secondary School
Shahidan Banda Khushal
Nawaz, former Nazim of
Village Council Shahidan
Banda, had also mentioned
the ongoing Leishmania
war in the area, but the
present health department
officials have so far no positive steps have been taken.
Now the rule of
Leishmania has spread
from the hilly areas to the
plains. Hunting was going
on in all the hilly areas of
Mamani Lavaghar, Pooyah
etc., but now the scope has
been extended to the plains
areas. And there are complaints from children that it
is very unfortunate that for
many months the mosquitoes of Leishmania have
been camping in the above
mentioned areas.
As long as it crawls, if
leishmaniasis is sprayed in
a timely manner, it is possible to prevent it. It was not
difficult, but there are still
times if the health department officials wake up
from the rabbit dream and
break the fast of silence,
then it is still possible.
District performance
review meeting held: A
high level meeting was
held under the chairmanship
of
Deputy
Commissioner
Karak
Khalid Iqbal. In the meeting DC Karak appreciated
the performance of the
officers and urged for further improvement.
According to details, a
high level meeting was held
under the chairmanship of
Deputy
Commissioner
Karak Khalid Iqbal in con-
nection
with
District
Performance Review in
which Additional Deputy
Commissioner Karak Riaz
Muhammad,
Assistant
Commissioner Karak and
TMO Karak Ajmal Khan
were present. Heads and
representatives of all
departments attended.
On this occasion Deputy
Commissioner
Karak
Khalid Iqbal while reviewing the monthly performance of all the departments
appreciated the efforts of
the best performing officers
and directed others to
improve their performance.
Furthermore,
Deputy
Commissioner
Karak
Khalid Iqbal directed the
TMOs of the three tehsils in
the light of the orders of the
provincial government to
complete the preparations
for holding a cheap bazaar
in the coming Ramadan and
submit a DC office report
within two days.
Two Afghan
killed in
mishap
F.P. Report
LANDI KOTAL: Two minor
boys killed and another sustained injury when an Afghan
returned truck ran over them
here at Pak-Afghan border,
Torkham on Tuesday.
Border security official in
Torkham said that in an
attempt to smuggle trading
goods (apples) to Pakistan
from Afghanistan, the truck
ran over it, while Afghani
children hiding under it.
Immediately after an incident, the officials on the spot
shifted the body and the
wounded to Pak-Afghan
friendship hospital, Torkham
where from the injured was
shifted to headquarter hospital for further treatment, the
official said.
The deceased kids were
identified as Azeemullah son
of Sharif Ullah, 10 years,
unknown, 10 years and
injured Alhajuddin 11 years
of age. According to the hospital sources after mediclegal formalities the bodies
were
transported
to
Afghanistan. The official
informed that hundreds of
Afghan children aging 10 to
15 years are involved in child
labor (smuggling activities)
with support of their parents
across the border. Beside the
proper border management
system, the poor controlling
arrangements of the Afghan
government, the mal-practice
cannot be controlled, he
added.
Urs starts
SEHWAN SHARIF (INP):
Three-day celebrations in
connection with the 770th
annual Urs of Hazrat Lal
Shahbaz Qalandar (RA) will
begin in Sehwan Sharif today
(Tuesday).
A large number of devotees from all the four
provinces and foreign countries have arrived in the city
to participate in the three-day
celebrations of the annual
Urs. Strict security arrangements have been made in this
regard. Police and Ranger
personnel
have
been
deployed on duty for security
of devotees whereas walkthrough gates have been
QUETTA: Senior Superintendent of Police Operations Abdul Haq Umrani installed at all the entry
addressing a press conference.
points of the shrine.
SEHWAN: Police personal searching devotees before attending 770th Urs
celebration at shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.
Centers set up for treating
leishmaniasis patients
F.P. Report
TIMERGARA: District health officer Dr
Irshad Rughani on Monday said the health
department had set up four centers in the
district to overcome the growing cases of
leishmaniasis.
Talking to a group of local journalists
at his office the DHO said that enough
stock of Glucantime injections had been
provided to those centers which are useful
for treating cutaneous leishmaniasis. He
said that so far 927 cases of the leishmaniasis had been reported in Lower Dir out
of which 434 had come from other districts. He said that a total of 57 cases of
the disease had recently been reported in
the district that forced the health department to set up special centers for its treatment.
He said the centers were set up at
Khall, Timergara, Chakdara and Badwan
where the patients would be examined
and injected properly. He asked the affected patients to visit those centers on specified days i.e Monday and Tuesday at
Khall, Saturday at Timergara, Wednesday
and Thursday at Chakdara and Badwan
centers. The DHO said that leishmaniasis
was a curable disease so the patients
should not be afraid of it.
Malakand Board’s meeting: The
chairman board of intermediate and secondary education Malakand Chakdara
Prof Zameen Gul has said the board was
taking concrete initiatives to eradicate the
culture of cheating in examinations. He
was chairing a meeting of the district education officers of the elementary and secondary education department, principals
of the colleges and schools at Chakdara
the other day. Besides others, principal
government post graduate college Dargai
Jalal ud Din, assistant professor Ameer
Zaman, ADEO female Malakand Mrs
Saadia, DDEO male Hidayatullah, post
graduate college Timergara’s Shahid
Khan, principal post graduate college
Khar Bajaur Anwar Shah, principal government higher secondary school
Chakdara Tahir Khan, Principal Kameen
Khan and BISE Malakand Bakht Ameen
were in attendance.
Prof Zameen Gul said that eradication
of cheating in examinations and ending
the tradition of ‘rata’ based education
(rote memorization) badly affected the
quality of students’ learning. He said the
board was taking some practical steps to
end cheating in exams and the tradition of
rote memorization by students. He said
that both these practices were a menace
for quality education and learning. He
said that all educationists and heads of
educational institutions should realize the
fact and cooperate with the boards for
transparent conduction of class X and XII
examinations this year.
The board chairman said that neither
the examination staff nor the students
would be allowed to use the mobile phone
sets in the examination centers during the
examinations. He said the board had
asked all heads of schools and colleges to
install CCTV cameras in the examination
halls which would be monitored by the
board’s staff on a daily basis. He said that
separate control rooms for male and
female centers in this regard had been set
up at the board office for effective monitoring. He asked the participants to ensure
the implementation of the initiatives taken
by the board.
Also in the day the Pakistan Tehreek
Insaf MPA Humayun Khan while
addressing an inaugural function of a private educational institution at Ouch said
the private schools and colleges showed
better results as compared to the government sector. The function was also
addressed by former minister of state
Malik Azmat Khan, former senator
Maulana Gul Naseeb Khan, Hafiz
Hussain Ahmad, PML-N leader Barrister
Attaullah Khan, PPP leader Khurshid Ali
Khan and others.
The Frontier Post
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Student arrested in
Sweden after two
teachers killed
MALMO (Agencies): Two
female teachers have been
killed by a student at a high
school in southern Sweden,
police said on Tuesday. The
18-year-old student was
arrested at the scene in
Malmo, Sweden’s thirdlargest city. The victims
were in their 50s, police
said. The suspect was not
previously known to the
police and had no criminal
record, and police did not
disclose how the teachers
were killed. A motive has
not been established.
“For now it is far too
early to comment on that,”
Malmo police chief Petra
Stenkula told a news conference. She said officers
found the suspect and two
victims on the third floor of
the downtown Malmo Latin
School 10 minutes after
they were alerted, adding
that the situation was then
“under control”. Stenkula
did not confirm a report by
the Aftonbladet newspaper,
saying the male student
himself called authorities to
say he had killed two people, had put down his
weapons and was on the
third floor.
Police made “seizures”
and a forensic examination
“will allow us to better
understand what happened”, Stenkula said,
adding authorities have no
information of any further
injuries.
Police said they were
called at 5:12pm (16:12
GMT). Scores of ambulances and patrol cars
rushed to the school and
armed police were seen
entering the building,
which was cordoned off.
Students at the school,
which has about 1,100
pupils, had gathered to
work on a musical and students locked themselves
inside classrooms.
Sweden’s
Prime
Minister
Magdalena
Andersson reacted “with
sadness and dismay” to the
killings, according to the
Swedish news agency TT.
All classes were suspended
on Tuesday and the school
was closed. The killings
took place in a modern
annexe of the school, which
was founded in 1406 when
the pope issued a letter of
privilege allowing for its
construction and operation.
It was originally meant to
educate local youth on
Christian doctrine and the
Latin language.
Corsican nationalist
Colonna dies in jail
PARIS (Agencies): Yvan
Colonna, a jailed Corsican
nationalist who became a
symbol of the Mediterranean island’s tensions with
mainland France, has died
after falling into a coma
following an attack by a
fellow inmate, according to
the French government.
Corsica has a history of
separatist violence and the
government is set to keep a
close eye on any signs of it,
just weeks before France’s
presidential election.
Violent protests rocked
the island after Colonna was
strangled by another prisoner in early March. “The dramatic circumstances in
which he was killed are
clearly very shocking,”
French
government
spokesman Gabriel Attal
said in an interview with
Europe 1 radio on Tuesday.
“It’s necessary now to call
for calm and for dialogue.”
Mourners
peacefully
gathered in two Corsican
towns to pay respects to
Colonna, local media
reported. Colonna was
serving a life sentence at a
prison in the southern
French city of Arles for the
1998 murder of Claude
Erignac, who as prefect of
Corsica embodied the
power of the French state
on the island. Corsican protesters clashed with police
after the attack on Colonna,
prompting an emergency
visit by Interior Minister
Gerald Darmanin who said
Paris could discuss autonomy for the island.
Roger Antech, editor-inchief of newspaper Corse
Matin, told FranceInfo
radio that he felt the situation would calm down out
of respect for Colonna’s
family until his burial, but
that there was “no guarantee as to what happens
afterwards”. French prosecutors launched a “terrorism” investigation after the
attack on Colonna. “All
light must be shed on the
sequence of events that led
to this unacceptable situation,” Attal said.
Russian Nobel laureate
donates medal to refugees
MOSCOW
(Agencies):
Russian journalist Dmitry
Muratov, a co-winner of
last year’s Nobel Peace
Prize and the editor of the
independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, plans to
donate his prestigious
medal to raise funds for
Ukrainian refugees.
“Novaya Gazeta and I
have decided to donate the
2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Medal to the Ukrainian
Refugee Fund,” Muratov
wrote in the paper on
Tuesday.
“There
are
already over 10 million
refugees. I ask the auction
houses to respond and put
up for auction this worldfamous award.” Muratov’s
newspaper is one of the last
remaining Russian outlets
critical of the Kremlin and
has denounced the war on
Ukraine.
But after President
Vladimir Putin’s administration cracked down on
independent media and
essentially banned journalists from using the word
“war”
to
describe
Moscow’s military campaign, the newspaper said
in early March it would
remove some material
related to Ukraine. Last
week, Novaya Gazeta’s
front page carried the
image of a news editor’s
anti-war protest, which saw
her condemn Russia’s
actions during a state television news broadcast, but
blurred out part of the
poster’s slogan.
Russia sent tens of thousands of troops into
Ukraine on February 24 in
what it calls a “special
operation” to degrade its
southern neighbour’s military capabilities and root
out what it describes as
dangerous
nationalists.
Ukrainian forces have
mounted stiff resistance
and the West has imposed
sweeping sanctions on
Russia in an effort to force
it to withdraw its forces.
Muratov and Novaya
Gazeta have previously
said five things needed to
be done right away: “Stop
combat fire, exchange prisoners, release the bodies of
the dead, provide humanitarian corridors and assistance,
and
support
refugees.” Novaya Gazeta
has become one of the few
remaining media outlets
publishing viewpoints in
opposition to the Kremlin.
Since 2000 it has seen six
of its journalists and contributors killed, including
investigative reporter Anna
Politkovskaya. Muratov,
who won the award jointly
with Maria Ressa of the
Philippines, co-founder of
news site Rappler, dedicated his Nobel Prize last year
to those who had “died
defending the right of people to freedom of speech”.
Malawi begins polio
immunisation campaign
BLANTYRE (Agencies): At
the Gateway Clinic in
Blantyre, Malawi’s secondbiggest city, a sense of fulfilment overwhelmed Gloria
Kasula after she had her
three-year-old child vaccinated against polio. “I always
want to put the well being of
my child first at all times,”
the 31-year-old fruit seller
told Al Jazeera, her baby nestled on her back. “That’s why
I had to put everything aside
and come here to have my
child fully protected because
right now we are at a very
scary moment.”
As she left the hospital, 10
other mothers were seated on
benches, waiting for their
children to get the free oral
vaccine too. Malawi rolled
out the first round of a mass
oral polio vaccine campaign
for children under the age of
five after the southern
African nation recorded its
first case of wild poliovirus
(type 1) in 30 years, last
month. The case was a 3year-old girl in the country’s
capital, Lilongwe, who was
paralysed as a result of the
infection.
It remains the only confirmed case in the country but
authorities said since the
virus spreads quickly and
silently, even one case is considered an outbreak. They are
hoping that other parents follow Kasula’s move and take
their children for immunisa-
tion. “This vaccination is
very important in the sense
that we need to protect our
young ones,” said Dr Charles
Mwansambo, principal secretary at the Ministry of Health.
“This one case might tell that
there are other cases that we
are not able to pick up, that’s
why we are very serious with
this issue.”
Polio, a viral disease with
no cure, is capable of crippling those affected by it. It
can be passed from one person to another through ingestion of food or water contaminated with the faeces of an
infected person or with other
bodily fluids. Doctors say
children under five are more
susceptible to the disease.
Blinken’s
call with
French FM
F.P. Report
WASHINGTON: Secretary
of State Antony J. Blinken
spoke yesterday with
French Foreign Minister
Jean-Yves Le Drian about
ongoing efforts by NATO
Allies and EU partners to
provide vital security assistance and humanitarian aid
to Ukraine.
The Secretary condemned President Putin’s
increasingly brutal tactics
that continue to kill civilians in this unjustified and
unprovoked war of choice.
They discussed further economic and diplomatic
measures to hold the
Russian Federation and
Belarus accountable. They
also discussed this week’s
Extraordinary
NATO
Summit and the strengthening of Allied Defenses on
the eastern flank.
Sri Lanka deploys
troops as fuel shortage
sparks protests
COLOMBO (Agencies): Sri Lanka stockpiling and inefficient distribu- showed a group of angry women
has ordered its military to post sol- tion, said government spokesman blockading a coach carrying tourists
diers at hundreds of petrol stations to Ramesh Pathirana.
to protest against shortages of
help distribute fuel after a sudden rise
“The military has been deployed to kerosene needed for cooking stoves.
in prices of key commodities and the help the public, not to curtail their Numerous petrol stations saw people
accompanying shortages forced tens human rights,” he added. Tension camping overnight to wait for diesel
of thousands of people to queue for over the scarcity of supplies has led to and gasoline purchases, police said.
hours.
sporadic violence among residents
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s
The Indian Ocean island nation is jostling to buy fuel and other essen- office announced a summit of all
battling a foreign exchange crisis that tial items. Police said a man was political parties on Wednesday to disforced the devaluation of its currency stabbed to death in an argument with cuss the economic crisis, but opposiand hit payments for essential the driver of a three-wheeled vehicle, tion groups said they planned to boyimports such as food, medicine and while last week three elderly men cott the meeting. Sri Lanka’s finanfuel, prompting the government to died while queueing to buy fuel in cial crisis stems from a critical shortapproach the International Monetary sweltering heat.
fall of foreign currency, leaving
Fund. The decision to position troops
“Tempers are getting frayed as traders unable to finance imports.
near petrol pumps and kerosene sup- queues get longer,” a top defence
The COVID-19 pandemic throtply points came after three elderly official told AFP news agency on tled the island’s tourism sector – a
people dropped dead during their condition of anonymity. “A decision key foreign exchange earner – and
wait in long queues, officials said on was made to call out soldiers to rein- remittances from Sri Lankans workTuesday.
force the police. This is to discourage ing overseas have also declined
“At least two army personnel will any unrest.”
sharply. Rajapaksa announced last
be deployed at every fuel pump,” milMilitary officials said soldiers week that the country will seek an
itary spokesman Nilantha Premaratne were deployed at pumping stations of IMF bailout. Shortages have
told Reuters news agency, adding that the state-run Ceylon Petroleum wrought havoc on almost every
the soldiers would help organise fuel Corporation, which accounts for two- aspect of daily life, with authorities
distribution, but would not be thirds of the fuel retail business in the last week postponing term tests for
involved in crowd control. The move nation of 22 million people. Visuals millions of students because of a
JAKARTA (Agencies): A was a response to complaints of of an incident shared on social media lack of paper and ink.
southeast Asian envoy has
met Myanmar’s military
rulers on a controversial first
trip to the crisis-hit country.
Prak Sokhonn, special envoy
for the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN), began his threeday visit by holding talks BEIJING (Agencies): Rescuers in Youth Daily quoted a resident as say- pened.” Chinese President Xi Jinping
with armed forces chief Min China are scouring heavily forested ing.
has called for a full investigation into
Aung Hlaing, who seized slopes in southern China where a
“Although I was far away, I could the crash. China Eastern grounded its
power in a coup in February China Eastern Airlines crashed and still see that it was a plane. The plane fleet of 737-800 planes, state media
2021.
exploded in flames, as state media did not emit smoke during the fall. It reported. It has 109 of the aircraft,
The two men discussed reported no survivors had been found. fell into the mountains and started a according to FlightRadar24.
“the situation of protests and Some 132 people, including nine fire.” State media have described the
Boeing Chief Executive Dave
violence stemming from crew, were on flight MU5735 when it situation as appearing “grim” with Calhoun told employees that the
political disagreement” and crashed in the mountains of southern hundreds of firefighters and paramili- manufacturer had offered the full suphumanitarian cooperation, Guangxi on a flight from Kunming to tary forces, some with dogs, deployed port of its technical experts in the
the junta’s information team Guangzhou.
to the scene. Local villagers also crash investigation. “Trust that we
said in a statement. ASEAN
The Boeing 737-800 crash is the rushed to help after seeing the flames. will be doing everything we can to
Secretary General Lim Jock first involving a commercial aircraft Describing the difficult terrain, state support our customer and the acciHoi, who is from Brunei, in China since 2010. Debris was media said the crash site was dent investigation during this difficult
was also at the meeting along strewn across mountain slopes with hemmed in by mountains on three time, guided by our commitment to
with the military’s foreign the official Xinhua news agency sides, with access provided by a sin- safety, transparency, and integrity at
minister Wunna Maung reporting that the crash had created a gle, tiny path. Rain is forecast for the every step,” Calhoun said in an email
Lwin. The visit was reported deep pit in the mountainside. Other area this week.
to employees. China Eastern is one of
extensively in the state-run outlets reported that the burned
The last crash of a commercial air- the country’s three major airlines and
newspaper Global New remains of identity cards, purses, and craft in mainland China was in 2010, operates dozens of domestic and
Light of Myanmar, where it wallets had been seen.
when an Embraer E-190 regional jet international routes.
dominated the front page,
“Wreckage of the plane was found flown by Henan Airlines crashed on
The airline changed its website to
and on state-run MRTV.
at the scene, but up until now, none of approach to Yichun airport in low visi- black and white after the crash and
Cambodia, which current- those aboard the plane with whom bility, killing 44 of 96 people on board. has opened an emergency assistance
ly holds the ASEAN chair, contact was lost have been found,” Accidents typically involve multiple phone number for the families of
declined to say who else the state broadcaster CCTV reported. factors, and experts said it was too those on board. At Guangzhou airenvoy,
who
is
also The plane was flying at a cruising early to draw conclusions on the poten- port, staff in full personal protective
Cambodia’s deputy prime altitude when it suddenly plunged tial causes of crash. Hassan Shahidi, equipment held up signs to direct disminister, will meet. ASEAN from the sky.
president and CEO of the Flight Safety traught relatives to a waiting area
has been leading diplomatic
Flight
tracking
website Foundation said accidents at cruising marked by high black screens emblaefforts to end the chaos FlightRadar24 showed the aircraft altitude were “certainly rare” whether zoned with the word “emergency”
unleashed by last year’s dropped from an altitude of 29,100 in China or elsewhere.
and guarded by officials and police.
power grab when the mili- feet (8,870 metres) to 7,850 feet
“The investigators will be looking One airport staffer told the AFP news
tary removed elected leader (2,393 metres) in just over a minute. at all aspects of this flight, including agency her colleagues were “focusing
Aung San Suu Kyi’s govern- After a brief upswing, it then plunged any mechanical, or structural issues,” on taking care” of the relatives of
ment, triggering mass to 3,225 feet (982 metres), the tracker Hassan told Al Jazeera in an email. those involved in the crash. A man
protests, national strikes and said. Chinese media carried brief “They will be looking into the main- surnamed Ye told the news agency his
conflict in rural areas and highway video footage from a vehi- tenance history of the aircraft as well colleague Tan was on the plane.
with ethnic armed groups.
cle’s dashcam showing a jet diving to as records of pilot training. Boeing is “When we heard the news… [we]
More than 1,600 people the ground behind trees at an angle of expected to be part of the process to called him over and over for hours,
have been killed in the vio- about 35 degrees off vertical. The provide the necessary expertise. but never got through,” Ye said,
lence and at least 10,000 footage could not immediately be Investigators would want to find the adding he had alerted the man’s pardetained with some half a verified. “The plane fell vertically flight data recorder and the voice ents, who were “going through some
million people forced from from the sky,” state-run Beijing recorder to find out exactly what hap- very complex emotions”.
their homes, according to
Tom Andrews, the United
Nations special rapporteur
on human rights in
Myanmar. Prak Sokhonn’s
trip comes amid frustration
in ASEAN over Min Aung
Hlaing’s failure to honour
the five-point ASEAN “con- NAIROBI (Agencies): Johnson ole
"We are in pain for all the young men
sensus” to end hostilities and Kiyaipi was buried with full military hon- who have died while in Somalia. It's time
start a peace process that he ours in his Kenyan home after he was for them to come back home and guard our DR CONGO (Agencies):
agreed to last year at a sum- killed by a roadside bomb in Somalia, borders," Joseph Tasur continued. Family The government of the
mit in Jakarta, the Indonesian even though neither the army nor the gov- members of soldiers are angry about the Democratic Republic of the
capital.
ernment has publicly acknowledged his government silence when Kenyan troops Congo has announced that it
Cambodia, whose strong- death.
die in action. They say the blackout and has evacuated at least 223 of
man leader Hun Sen has
The killing of the 35-year-old and nine lack of public honouring is disrespectful. its citizens out of Ukraine
been in power for more than of his colleagues last week, reportedly at The authorities have not explained why since the start of the Russian
30 years, is hoping it can the hands of al-Shabab, has fuelled calls they keep quiet about military deaths.
invasion, according to local
kick-start dialogue after for Kenya to withdraw its troops from
Current estimates suggest hundreds of media. Citizens made it
ASEAN took the unprece- Somalia, where they have been fighting Kenyan soldiers have died in Somalia, home thanks to diplomatic
dented decision to bar the the militant group since 2011. The official with the 2016 El Adde attack by Islamist and consular efforts amid
generals from its summits. silence has only worsened the frustration militants resulting in around 200 deaths. ongoing
violence
in
MRTV said Min Aung of Mr Kiyaipi's family in Kilgoris, south- The military said it would launch an Ukraine, Les Echos du
Hlaing told the envoy the western Kenya.
inquiry and release details of the soldiers Congo Brazzaville reported
military was cooperating on
"How many other young men are we who had died in the attack six years ago, on
Saturday,
quoting
the ASEAN agreement and going to lose before our boys are brought but so far this has not been done.
Foreign Minister Jeantrying to restore peace and back home? How many more families
"We know you are protecting our coun- Claude Gakosso.
order, but his country was should bear the pain of this war fought in try, you are protecting us. Why do we hide
According to the minis“under attack” and beset by distant lands?" asked his elder brother, Dr our soldiers when they die in action?" ter, who gave an update to
lawlessness.
Joel ole Kiyiapi. "If our boys should die, asked Prof James ole Kiyaipi, another of the senators over the issue,
The ASEAN envoy was they should die protecting our country Johnson's brothers, and a former politi- Congolese evacuees were
in Myanmar as the United within our borders."
cian. Prof Kiyaipi said he was surprised mostly students, 171 of
States declared the military’s
At the funeral service, the casket of Mr there was no debate amongst lawmakers or whom are currently in
brutal 2017 assault on the Kiyaipi was carried shoulder high by sol- the public about the goal of Kenyan forces France. At least 42 have
Rohingya minority as geno- diers to a small tent at the front of the cer- in Somalia.
taken refuge with host famicide and crimes against emony attended by hundreds of villagers.
"We need to rethink our strategy and lies and 10 others have been
humanity. The crackdown The coffin was draped with the Kenyan have a clear end-date for our troops there. in a shelter in Poland. The
forced hundreds of thou- flag and on top of it were placed his mili- It cannot be an indefinite mission and we minister said there were still
sands of people to flee across tary cap, belt and boots.
sure can't afford to keep losing our young some 20 students who were
the border into Bangladesh
Mr Kiyaipi's wife broke down in tears men in this war," he told the BBC. "Every yet to leave Ukraine but
where they remain in refugee when the tribute she had written for her fallen soldier is a father, a son, a daughter. stressed that the government
camps five years later. The husband was read out by a friend: "Your The president needs to publicly acknowl- was working to get them out
US said the military had children and I will miss you and your love- edge our heroes," he continued. "We are of the country.
been using the same tactics ly smile. Shine on your way my love," the the taxpayers and the government has a
Meanwhile, the families
since the coup.
speech read. "You've been the best part of responsibility of being open," he said.
of the children, who have
Andrews,
meanwhile, my life and the love of my life. You've
There was further fury online in Kenya been stranded in Ukraine
told the UN Human Rights never left me down since we said: 'I do'," just last week when the US military hon- and elsewhere, remain worCouncil that “war crimes and it continued.
oured three Kenyan soldiers for their brav- ried back at home.
crimes against humanity are
As Mr Kiyaipi's body was lowered into ery during the Manda base attack in Speaking to France-based
being committed every day the grave, his army colleague gave him a January 2020, while the Kenyan govern- Africanews,
Solange
with impunity by the military 21-gun salute as some mourners over- ment and armed forces did not offer any Kahindo, a resident of
junta of Myanmar” and whelmed by grief fell down and wailed. commendations. The only official Goma, said she had been
urged the international com- Speaker after speaker said many families acknowledgement of the Kenyans who've unable to reach her children
munity to take concrete had lost loved ones since Operation Linda been killed in action is the monuments Djodjo
Katanga
and
action to end the bloodshed. Nchi (Operation Protect the Country) which have been inaugurated by President Kasereka Katanga, both
Prak Sokhonn had previous- began 11 years ago.
Uhuru Kenyatta on the annual Kenya students in Ukraine. After
ly requested to be allowed to
The military intervention was triggered Defence Forces day - a tradition was start- the war broke out in the
meet members of the by the militant group's kidnapping of two ed after the military went into Somalia. country, they informed her
National Unity Government tourists in Lamu county near the Kenyan- The monuments inside military barracks that they were able to cross
established by lawmakers Somalia border. Two years later, the troops feature a gun, two boots and a helmet on into Poland, but there was
from Aung San Suu Kyi’s were incorporated into the African Union top of the rifle. They also bear the names total silence after that. “We
party after they were forced Mission in Somalia (Amisom), a force of those killed fighting al-Shabab, so the have heard that the
out of government, but the formed to help Somalia stabilize and fight name of Johnson ole Kiyaipi is expected to Congolese government is
military, which has declared al-Shabab. "If the US withdrew from be added. However, these military bar- going to intervene so that
the group “terrorists”, reject- Somalia, who are we Kenyans to continue racks and monuments inside them remain the children come back,”
ed the request.
staying there?" a village elder asked.
closed to the public.
she said.
ASEAN
envoy meets
generals
China Boeing crash: Grim search
as rescue teams comb hillside
Kenyan soldiers
killed in Somalia
DR Congo:
223 citizens
rescued from
Ukraine
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compass
HE Council of European Union has formally approved the Strategic Compass on
Monday and expressed resolve to pursue
an ambitious plan of action for strengthening the
EU's security and defense policy by 2030.
According to the group, an increasingly hostile
security environment requires the EU to
increase its capacity and willingness to act,
strengthen its resilience, and invest more and
better in its defense capabilities. According to
EU officials, the objective of the EU Strategic
Compass is to make the EU a stronger and more
capable security provider to be able to protect its
citizens and to contribute to international peace
and security. It became more important at a time
when war has returned to Europe, following the
unjustified and unprovoked Russian aggression
against Ukraine, as well as major geopolitical
shifts. The Strategic Compass will enhance the
EU's strategic autonomy and its ability to work
with partners to safeguard its values and interests. According to western analysts, a stronger
and more capable EU will contribute positively
to global and transatlantic security and is complementary to NATO, which remains the foundation of collective defense for its members.
According to reports, the EU Strategic Compass
will cover all the aspects of the security and
defense policy and is structured around four pillars. i.e., act, invest, partner, and secure. The EU
has planned to establish a strong EU Rapid
Deployment Capacity of up to 5000 troops for
different types of crises and make preparation
for fast deployment of 200 fully equipped CSDP
(Common Security and Defense Policy) mission
experts within 30 days, along with the regular
demonstration of its firepower through live exercises in the air, sea, and the land.
The 27 members' regional bloc of the European
nations had been feeling an urgent need to strengthen its defense and security arrangements in the face
of growing threats to its member states and the
weakness of the bloc in dealing with threats to territorial integrity and national sovereignty of its
member nations, after Russian forced annexure of
Crimea in 2014. Although several EU member
nations such as France and Germany have strong
militaries even then these nations lack critical
strategic enablers and remained dependent on the
United States for key intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance during tactical operations in the
past. Furthermore, the EU's foreign policy and
trade were extremely influenced by American policies throughout history.
The EU policymakers had been deliberating on
the formation of the EU Strategic Compass over the
recent years and the EU's SIAC (Single Intelligence
Analysis Capacity) had issued its first threat analysis in late 2020 and endorsed the idea for the establishment of Strategic Compass to deter those
threats. Presently, France, the current President of
the Council, wants to see the EU as a powerful and
decisive force in the world, President Macron is
leading the efforts for the establishment of a powerful EU military that can perform a key role in global affairs while protecting EU citizens and interests
around the globe. Although the EU leaders had formulated concrete and actionable proposals with a
clear timeline to achieve full expertise in cyber,
space, and outer space military capabilities besides
achieving self-sufficiency in conventional
wargames. In fact, the European Union has a long
way to go to grasp the destiny of a sovereign and
autonomous bloc of the world.
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The miseries
of South Sudan
HE United Nations Commission on Human
Rights in South Sudan has revealed in its latest
report that widespread rape is being committed
by all armed groups across the country and turned the
state a hellish existence for women and girls in the
ongoing conflict in South Sudan. According to the
Commission, sexual violence has been instrumentalized by the armed groups as a reward and entitlement
for the soldiers. The global human rights defender
accused the government and military leaders of their
intentional failure or negligence to curb these incidents through the prosecution of the culprits.
The Sudanese political crisis had erupted dating back
to 2003 when a rebel group launched an insurrection to
protest the Sudanese government's alleged disregard for
the western region and its non-Arab population. The
years-long conflict resulted in the collapse of government
institutions, industrial and agricultural infrastructure and
led to an acute humanitarian crisis in Sudan. Despite the
partition of South Sudan, it could not get rid of political
stability, lawlessness as well as famine crisis over more
than a decade of its independence. According to reports,
millions of people are facing acute food insecurity, livelihoods, water, and sanitation problems, scarcity of medical facilities, and Internal displacement. The political
rivalry and armed conflict have turned the country into
hell for its disadvantaged sections of society, particularly
women and girls. The UN Commission has accused the
political elites of failure to deal with security sector
reform and to provide for the very basic needs of armed
forces on all sides, continuing to contribute to a permissive environment in which South Sudanese women are
regarded as currency, with complete impunity for rape
and sexual violence of the perpetrators.
The countless incidents of sexual violence and inhumane treatment of women and girls in South Sudan merits global censure of the Sudanese government which
intentionally did not act to control these heinous crimes.
In fact, the global community must adopt punitive economic and diplomatic measures against the Sudanese
government to ensure the implementation of global
human and women rights standards and accountability of
culprits in the African nation.
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URING a recent
seminar, a student
asked me to rank
the influence of classical
liberalism in the world
today. My response was
“Somewhere
between
‘low’ and ‘marginal.’”
I’m not the only one who
thinks so. Whether it is in
the realm of policy or the
marketplace of ideas,
classical liberal priorities
simply do not exercise the
influence they did in the
1980s and early 1990s.
On the left, illiberalism
reigns in the form of cancel
culture, wokeness, disdain
for the Western civilization
from which classical liberalism emerged, the propagation of junk history like
the 1619 Project, disinterest
in rule of law, and an ongoing desire to use the state to
engage in extensive social
engineering. Meanwhile on
D
was very much a fringe
position. In America, New
Dealism was the orthodoxy.
Communism reigned in
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and was close
to taking China. Throughout Western Europe, socialism and Keynesianism
dominated political discourse. The primary nonleft alternative on the continent, Christian Democracy,
was heavily influenced by
corporatism and attracted to
interventionist policies.
On the face of it, these
were inauspicious conditions for a classical liberal
revival. There were, however, some points of light.
Two books authored by
prominent market economists—Friedrich Hayek’s
The Road to Serfdom
(1944)
and
Wilhelm
Röpke’s The Social Crisis
of Our Time (1942)—had
Samuel Gregg
complicated back-and-forth
that invariably characterizes the launching of such
endeavors, Caldwell stresses that Hayek and Röpke
were determined to take the
conversation far beyond
economics.
This conviction was
reflected in the organizers’
efforts to ensure that
thinkers working in different disciplines and belonging to varying shades of liberal opinion were included.
As it turned out, economists were the biggest contingent of attendees. Yet
many of them—especially
the Europeans—were more
than capable of speaking
with erudition about topics
outside economics.
Indeed, of the 19 sessions, only six addressed
economic subjects, while
for those interested in the
history of ideas and classical liberalism. In general
terms, there was less discussion of policy than
occurs at similar gatherings
today. The conversation
was more focused on questions of philosophy, law,
history, geopolitics, and
economic
theory.
Undergirding everything,
however, was a desire to
understand why collectivist
outlooks had established
such a grip on the Western
imagination, and how that
vice might be loosened.
Overshadowing the proceedings was the specter of
totalitarianism—not just
the recently vanquished
National Socialist variety
but also the Communist
version then enveloping
Eastern Europe.
recently
vanquished
National Socialist variety
but also the Communist
version then enveloping
Eastern Europe. In addressing these topics, the participants at the Mont Pèlerin
conference were strikingly
realistic in their comments.
They also avoided viewing
these matters primarily
through an economic lens.
Röpke framed this discussion by stating that “The
problem of Europe is
Germany, and the problem
of the world is Europe.” If a
relatively free society did
not arise from the ashes of
Nazi Germany, there was
good reason to worry about
liberty’s future in Europe as
a whole, especially given
the Soviet Union’s obvious
aggression and the strength
of Communist parties in
Western Europe. This
theme was echoed by
basic
incompatibilities
between, say, a natural law
case for a free society compared to those inspired by
various forms of utilitarianism. Such dissimilar premises will often result in
quite divergent conclusions
about the proper scope of
state action. If anything,
these philosophical differences among classical liberals are even sharper in
our time than they were in
1947.
Does this mean that
establishing
agreement
around a relatively cohesive classical liberal set of
principles is impossible?
The Statement of Aims
agreed upon by all but one
(the French economist
Maurice Allais) of the participants at that first meeting of what came to be
called the Mont Pèlerin
Society suggests not.
If you put enough intellectuals in a room, you can be sure that disputes will quickly emerge, even if the individuals concerned adh-ere to similar philosophical outlooks. The meeting at Mont Pèlerin was no exception.
Whether the topic was the possibility of a Euro-pean federation or monetary reform, the conference transcripts illustrate that consensus was the exception rather than the rule. The transcripts, it should be noted, are
not verbatim. They consist of a few longer texts and shorthand notes of the proceedings taken by Hayek’s secretary, Dorothy Hahn. The latter were designed, Hayek stated, “to indicate the general trend of discussion.”
Nonetheless, some presentations and comments were recorded more closely than others. Parts of the transcripts consist, Caldwell notes, of “rough and often incomplete summaries.” At times, I found myself wondering (based on my knowledge of particular scholars’ books) if Hahn’s rendering of someone’s comments sufficiently captured their thoughts on a given topic. Despite these limitations, there is much to be gleaned in the
transcripts for those interested in the history of ideas and classical liberalism.
the right, there has been
serious regression towards
forms of economic interventionism not so different
from policies long advocated by the left. Some conservatives also want to use
government power in ways
that indicate an illiberal
impatience
with
due
process and constitutionalism’s checks and balances.
In a way, these conditions represent a return to
normalcy. Classical liberalism’s influence has always
been uneven at the best of
times. One reason for this is
classical liberalism’s longstanding difficulty in sustaining the type of mass
support that translates into
political power in democratic systems.
Another is classical liberalism’s propensity to
fragmentation. That owes
something to the different
foundations upon which
classical liberals often
draw. Some look to sources
like natural law theory or
the thought of Edmund
Burke. Others, however,
draw upon different traditions like Kantianism, positivism, evolutionary theory,
or utilitarianism. Such dissimilar starting points are
bound to translate into significant disagreement about
many subjects. Even on economic topics, uniformity
is far from the rule. Questions of monetary order,
for instance, remain strongly contested among contemporary market liberals.
Renewing Liberalism
A desire to discuss such
challenges was among the
factors leading to the first
significant gathering of
classical liberal thinkers
after World War II. At the
time, classical liberalism
made a considerable impact
upon segments of AngloAmerican and Western
European opinion respectively. These texts’ strong
critique of statist policies
resonated with many people in the post-war context.
Yet neither Hayek nor
Röpke shied away from
asking why liberalism had
fallen into disrepute across
the West. Both concluded
that there were problems
with nineteenth-century liberalism which had helped
precipitate its downfall.
Such conclusions pointed to the necessity of fresh
thinking. But that requires
thinkers willing to question
assumptions and bringing
such people together to
engage in spirited debate.
So it was that 75 years
ago a group of European
and American classical liberal thinkers gathered in
April 1947 for a ten-day
conference at a hotel overlooking Switzerland’s Lake
Geneva. The record of their
conversations has now been
published for the first time
under the title Mont Pèlerin
1947: Transcripts of the
Founding Meeting of the
Mont Pèlerin Society.
Edited and well-contextualized by Bruce Caldwell and
preceded by a helpful foreword by John B. Taylor,
this book provides readers
with insights into the
thought and worries preoccupying these liberals,
some of which resemble the
concerns of our time.
Caldwell’s preface and
introduction illustrate that
Hayek was the primary
organizer of the gathering,
with important supporting
roles played by Röpke as
well as the Volker Fund.
Alongside detailing the
seven considered political,
historical, and philosophical themes. The remaining
sessions were devoted to
organizational questions
like the structure and purpose of a permanent organization and its name. Hayek
was not interested in a oneoff event. He was thinking
about the long-run.
Debate, Disagreement,
Dissension
If you put enough intellectuals in a room, you can
be sure that disputes will
quickly emerge, even if the
individuals concerned adhere to similar philosophical
outlooks. The meeting at
Mont Pèlerin was no exception. Whether the topic was
the possibility of a European federation or monetary reform, the conference
transcripts illustrate that
consensus was the exception rather than the rule.
The transcripts, it should
be noted, are not verbatim.
They consist of a few
longer texts and shorthand
notes of the proceedings
taken by Hayek’s secretary,
Dorothy Hahn. The latter
were designed, Hayek stated, “to indicate the general
trend
of
discussion.”
Nonetheless, some presentations and comments were
recorded more closely than
others. Parts of the transcripts consist, Caldwell
notes, of “rough and often
incomplete summaries.” At
times, I found myself wondering (based on my
knowledge of particular
scholars’ books) if Hahn’s
rendering of someone’s
comments sufficiently captured their thoughts on a
given topic.
Despite these limitations, there is much to be
gleaned in the transcripts
Some sessions were
more productive than others. There was considerable
agreement that liberals
needed to devote more
attention to the legal frameworks
within
which
economies
operated.
Likewise, the discussion of
history raised many participants’ awareness of just
how much the writing of
history, especially the popular histories in which
Marxist historians often
specialized, shapes the trajectory of contemporary
political debates.
Other sessions yielded
more meager results.
Hayek had insisted upon
putting
the
topic
“Liberalism
and
Christianity” on the program because he thought
that the tensions between
liberalism and Christianity
in continental Europe had
been very damaging to
both. That discussion, however, was opened by the
Chicago economist Frank
Knight. He was an outspoken atheist and, judging
from the transcripts, was
deeply skeptical of the
prospects of any meaningful reconciliation. The transcripts also suggest that
Hayek and the philosopher
Karl Popper (both agnostics), as well as Röpke and
another ordo-liberal economist Walter Eucken (both
convinced
Christians),
thought that Knight’s comments were uninformed and
largely missed the point of
having the discussion.
Totalitarians to the
Right, Totalitarians to the
Left
Overshadowing
the
entire proceedings, however, was the specter of totalitarianism—not just the
Eucken, whom Hayek later
described as the star of the
conference.
Unlike the other participants, Eucken had spent the
war inside Nazi Germany.
He had been involved in
anti-Nazi resistance circles
associated
with
the
Lutheran
theologian
Dietrich
Bonhoeffer.
Eucken had been arrested
and was lucky to escape
with his life after the failure
of the attempted assassination of Hitler by the
Catholic army officer Claus
von Stauffenberg on July
20, 1944. Some of
Eucken’s acquaintances,
including Bonhoeffer, had
not been so fortunate.
Among the messages
that Eucken brought home
to the other participants
was direct confirmation of
how much the Nazi state’s
increasing control of the
economy had contributed to
the dictatorship’s grip on
power—a theme central to
Hayek’s Road to Serfdom.
Changing these conditions
wasn’t, however, simply a
matter of retracting the
government from the economy as much as possible.
That in itself, Eucken stated, did not resolve the question of the type of underlying order required by a free
society and the role of different entities, including
the state, in maintaining
that order. Nor did it
address the related question
of which philosophical
foundations were most likely to sustain such societies.
Is a Classical Liberal
Consensus Possible?
These questions remain
at the heart of some of the
deeper fractures among
classical liberals today.
There will always be some
Yes, Eucken and Knight
may have had very different assessments of the
prospects for a rapprochement between liberalism
and Christianity, and
Ludwig von Mises may
have disagreed with almost
everyone else’s view of
laissez-faire
liberalism.
Nevertheless, 38 of the 39
participants could affirm
that: “The central values of
civilization are in danger”;
that “The position of the
individual and the voluntary group are progressively undermined by extension
of arbitrary power”; that
freedom was threatened by
“the growth of a view of
history which denies all
absolute moral standards
and . . . theories which
question the desirability of
rule of law”; and that,
absent “private property
and the competitive market,” “it is difficult to imagine a society in which freedom may be effectively
preserved.”
These are not small
things. Moreover, expressions like “civilization,”
“rule of law,” and “absolute
moral standards” are suggestive of substantive normative content and principles that are as much under
threat today in much of the
world as they were in 1947.
Policy will always matter.
But discussing and debating the meaning of such
principles and their significance for liberty today is
surely one way for classical
liberal ideas to regain traction in a world in which
many on the left and right
seem very happy to subordinate freedom to just about
everything else.
He can be followed on
Twitter @drsamuelgregg.
Biden administration flirting with Armageddon
OE Biden deserves
credit for having
ruled out the most
irresponsible
policy
options for dealing with
Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine. Nevertheless, US
officials continue to
embrace other options
that have alarming potential to embroil the United
States in an armed confrontation with Russia.
Early on, he stated
emphatically that the
United States would not
send troops to Ukraine or
otherwise directly confront
Russia militarily. Since
then, he also has resisted
pressure from hawks in
both parties to impose a nofly zone over Ukraine — a
scheme that would be
almost as reckless as sending US ground forces.
Enforcing a no-fly zone
would require a willingness
to shoot Russian planes out
of the sky. Biden has been
prudent enough to recognize that the move would
likely trigger a US war with
Russia, with probable
nuclear consequences.
The president even overruled a more limited, but
still dangerous, plan being
pushed by some NATO
allies, especially Poland, to
transfer jet fighters to Ukraine. That proposal seemed
to have some support
among Biden’s advisers.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where Secretary of State Antony
there is no path and leave a trail.
Blinken stated in one press
— Ralph Waldo Emerson interview that the United
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States was giving a “green
light” to Poland’s request to
make such a transfer.
The
White
House
backed away from that
plan, however, when it
became clear that Warsaw
wanted to ship the jets to a
US airbase in Germany.
The United States would
then be responsible for
transferring those planes to
Ukraine,
making
Washington the point man
in an escalating confrontation with Russia. The administration has held its
ground even when more
than 40 GOP senators signed an open letter pressuring the president to support
Warsaw’s dangerous plan.
But there are other
options getting a full
embrace from the White
House and administration
that could escalate violence
and drag the US into direct
conflict
with
Russia
nonetheless. Even before
the first Russian forces
crossed the Ukrainian border, Washington and some
of its NATO allies were
lavishing arms on Kyiv and
training Ukrainian military
forces. Those arms packages included Javelin antitank missiles that have
done so much damage to
Russian armored columns.
Shipments approved since
the invasion have included
more Javelins, plus Stinger
anti-aircraft missiles.
A $3.5 billion aid package announced by Biden
Ted Galen Carpenter
last week includes 800 antiaircraft missiles; 9,000 anti-armor systems; 7,000
small arms, 20 million rounds of ammunition; body
armor, and so-called ‘kamikaze’ Switchblade drones.
The US and its allies
also are considering shipping S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine.
This arms aid constitutes
an extremely risky step.
Moscow
already
has
warned that convoys carrying such weapons are legitimate targets of war. Yet an
attack on one of those convoys might well result in
casualties among American
or other NATO personnel—
even if the interception
occurred inside Ukraine.
Moreover, the Kremlin’s
declaration that the arms
shipments are legitimate
targets is not even the most
worrisome indicator. In his
first speech announcing the
“special military operation”
in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
warned all outside parties
(clearly meaning NATO
members) not to interfere.
“Anyone who tries to interfere with us …must know
that Russia’s response will
be immediate and will lead
you to such consequences
as you have never before
experienced in your history.” [Emphasis added]
Putin could easily interpret the US-orchestrated
cascade of NATO weapon-
ry to support Ukraine’s military resistance as unacceptable interference. The
same is true of another
Biden administration measure—sharing intelligence
data with Kyiv, possibly
even providing Ukrainian
forces with real-time targeting information.
By engaging in such
conduct, US leaders risk a
direct military confrontation with Russia. That
means that they are flirting
with triggering World War
III and the prospect of a
devastating
nuclear
exchange. Ukraine’s security, territorial integrity, and
even independence are not
even
remotely
worth
enough to the United States
to incur such a risk to the
American people.
The best way for the
United States to stay out of
a catastrophic war is to
remain far back from any
red lines that could trigger a
confrontation. It is the
height of folly to see how
close we can get to such
lines without inadvertently
crossing one. Yet with its
arms shipments to Kyiv and
the sharing of military
intelligence with Ukrainian
forces, the Biden administration has adopted precisely that approach.
Extreme caution is perhaps even more essential in
dealing with Russia than
with any other major
power, both because that
country possesses several
thousand nuclear weapons
and bilateral relations have
become so toxic. In the
years leading up to
Moscow’s decision to
invade Ukraine, the United
States and NATO blew
through warning light after
warning light that the
Kremlin flashed with
respect to the Alliance’s
overall
expansion
to
Russia’s borders, and especially NATO’s growing
military collaboration with
Kyiv. The Kremlin warned
specifically that adding
Ukraine to the Alliance
would cross a red line that
would require a harsh
Russian response.
Just 2 months before the
start of the war, Putin
demanded that NATO provide security guarantees on
an array of issues, including that Ukraine would
never be invited to join
NATO and that NATO
forces would never be
deployed on Ukrainian soil.
The United States and its
allies failed to respond positively
to
Moscow’s
demands. Such arrogance
and myopia with respect to
Russia’s core security interests played a significant
role in producing the current crisis.
Given that unfortunate
track record, we must take
Putin’s new warnings about
the Ukraine war with far
greater caution. Instead, the
administration seems to be
adopting a strategy toward
Ukraine based on the model
Washington used against
Soviet
forces
in
Afghanistan from 1979 to
1989. By providing funds
and weapons to the Afghan
mujahidin, the United
States bled Soviet forces
and created a massive
headache for its superpower rival. That move was
similar to (and payback for)
the strategy that Moscow
had used against the illfated US intervention in
Vietnam.
In both cases, the targeted superpower refrained
from striking back with
military force against its
tormentor. We dare not
assume, however, that
Russia will play by the
same proxy war rules with
respect to Ukraine. In his
speech announcing the
invasion, Putin described
the operation as a “question
of life or death” that Russia
was facing as a result of
NATO’s expansion.
That comment strongly
suggests that the Kremlin is
prepared to do whatever is
necessary to achieve victory. By bolstering Russia’s
enemy and both impeding
and bleeding Russian
forces in an arena that Putin
considers vital to his country’s security, Washington
is pursuing a provocative,
very risky strategy. The
Biden administration is
flirting with Armageddon.
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Territorial defense
ATER this week,
NATO leaders will
gather in Brussels
for an extraordinary snap
summit, building upon
the defense ministerial
last week and the virtual
leaders’ summit held in
late February 2022.
Top of the agenda will
be adapting the alliance to
the new normal in European security, characterized
by a reckless, aggressive Russia apparently bent on reestablishing a sphere of influence across Eastern Europe. Part of NATO’s adaptation should include an uncompromising re-embrace of
territorial defense. To some
degree, the alliance has
been re-embracing territorial defense since 2014,
when Russia first invaded
Ukraine and illegally
annexed Crimea.
The Kremlin’s actions
then prompted a dramatic
reappraisal of the alliance’s
ways and means. As a
result, defense spending
grew across the alliance
after having declined, on
average, for nearly a quarter century. Equipment
modernization was given a
kickstart through these
budgetary increases, and in
some cases allies expanded
their military manpower.
Readiness—an otherwise esoteric topic left to
defense policy experts—
became the subject of conversation among presidents
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and prime ministers as
NATO expanded its exercises and rejuvenated its
rapid response forces. And
the alliance decided to
deploy four 1,200-person
multinational battlegroups
among the three Baltic
states and Poland on a persistent basis, to both help
defend those countries and
act as a kind of tripwire
should Russia attack.
Today, though, these
measures may not be
enough to defend against
Putin’s unpredictable military aggression. Although
Putin is unlikely “mad,” no
strategic logic can reasonably explain his economically, diplomatically, and
militarily disastrous decision to invade Ukraine and
brutalize its people.
Layered on top of this,
the Kremlin’s demand that
NATO roll back to its 1997
borders causes existential
concern among the alliance’s newest members in
Eastern Europe. Moreover,
the increased presence of
Russian forces in Belarus
amounts to a kind of soft
annexation of the latter,
effectively pushing Russia’s borders farther west.
To adequately defend
allied territory and bolster
stability going forward, the
alliance should consider
several key strategic and
operational moves.
Among the first of these
is a more fulsome embrace
John R. Deni
of collective defense as the
core NATO task for the
foreseeable future. There’s
no more appropriate vehicle for this than the
alliance’s new strategy,
which is currently under
development. While it
would be nice to think that
NATO could devote equal
attention to its other core
tasks—crisis management
and cooperative security—
allied resources are not limitless. Given the scale of the
Russia challenge, prioritization of collective defense
makes sense.
At the operational level,
a 360-degree approach to
alliance security—that is,
devoting equal attention to
threats from all directions—seems equally a
bridge too far, at least in the
short run. Most of the major
European allies are in the
midst of trading capacity
for capability; that is, they
are limiting or even reducing total military force levels in order to invest in
advanced military capabilities.
Although this effort at
qualitative, technological
improvement is necessary,
it means NATO allies will
be somewhat hampered in
trying to achieve a more
robust territorial defense
capacity, especially as their
more advanced capabilities
take time to come online
over the next several years.
Only by prioritizing the
multifaceted threat from
Russia—as well as China in
terms of cyber threats—
will the alliance best position itself to meet the
demands of the new security environment in Europe.
As NATO places a priority on the collective defense
threat from Russia, it
should also move toward a
posture of deterrence by
denial across Eastern
Europe.
This type of deterrence
differs from what the
alliance has primarily
emphasized in recent
decades—namely, deterrence by punishment.
Under the latter, the
alliance deters Russia by
clearly indicating it will
strike back in devastating
fashion if Russia initiates
aggression. NATO accomplishes this by stationing its
multinational battlegroups
across the Baltic states and
Poland. These units are
small and cannot hold off a
large-scale Russian invasion, but they include
troops from across the
alliance, meaning that
Russia would be taking on
nearly all of NATO if it
attacked into Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania,
or
Poland.
Under deterrence by
denial, NATO’s posture in
the East would need to be
beefed up both qualitative-
ly—to counter specific
Russian offensive capabilities such as its artillery and
rockets—and quantitively—to meet the scale of the
Russian threat. The goal
would be for NATO to stop
and repel an attempted
attack into allied territory,
not merely respond to one
after the fact.
This sounds appealing—
especially if you live in
Lithuania, for example—
but it means the alliance
will most likely need to
return in some measure to
larger scale territorial
defense through so-called
“in-place forces.” This
doesn’t mean NATO needs
to match Russian forces
soldier-for-soldier or tankfor-tank, but it probably
would mean a return to
some level of conscription
among more European
allies, to keep costs relatively low while generating
the necessary force levels.
The extraordinary summit this week provides the
alliance an opportunity to
further
refine
and
strengthen its response to
Russia’s
actions
in
Ukraine as well as
Belarus. By privileging
the collective defense mission, at least temporarily
shelving its 360-degree
approach, and doubling
down on territorial defense
capabilities, NATO can go
far in ensuring the war
doesn’t expand.
Europe not ready to pay for new migrant crisis
HERE are three
circumstances of
place and time
when both a person and a
post-industrial society are
truly tested for strength:
natural disasters, manmade disasters and the
migration crisis.
When, in a matter of
moments, both state structures and ordinary citizens
should instantly shake off
the husk of selfishness and
caution, answering the fate
knocking on the door with
dignity and calmness.
Today, for the united
Europe, the same alarm
sounded, calling on the city
and the world, so that every
representative of the "golden billion" would at least
pay attention to what is
happening on the borders of
the community.
The UN reports that at
least ten million people,
residents of Ukraine, have
either become displaced
persons in their country or
fled abroad. Proud of its
humanism and respect for
the person, every person, a
united Europe should - theoretically - confirm these
inspiring (as those who
flaunt them) slogans with
deeds.
That is, to put it quite
simply, a united Europe
now, right at this very moment, must open its arms to
those who, including as a
result of united Europe's
indifference to other countries and other peoples,
have lost their homes. And
their homeland, whatever
that word means.
So, over three million
Ukrainians, mostly women,
children and the elderly,
found themselves on the
promised continent, which
is known to be full of
democracy, many freedoms, personal and public,
and milk rivers flow in jelly
banks. How could it be
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without it.
All of the above is what
is customary to talk about a
united Europe.
But what is the reality.
But first, a little historical digression.
Fast forward seven
years.
The bloody conflict in
Syria, unleashed not without the help of the EU and
under the banner of protecting, as usual, "human
rights", the purpose of
which (now no one hides
this) was to shift the legitimate government in Damascus, drove millions of citizens from their places.
Living in their own country,
on their land, according to
their customs and traditions, and speaking their own
or their own languages.
These people, by hook or
by crook, tried to break into
Europe. In Europe, as we
all remember, at first there
was a swoon, and the borders of the community were
locked up. It took a lot of
time, statements, meetings,
until finally, under the
political weight of the then
German
Chancellor
Merkel, the gates of a democratic united Europe succumbed and opened.
It is worth noting that
without pathos, quietly and
calmly, in categorically
(according to European
progressives) undemocratic
Saudi Arabia, almost twice
as many refugees from
Syria
were
received.
Another Middle Eastern
kingdom, Jordan, has not
lagged behind, having sheltered
several
million
Syrians in a neighborly
way. These people were not
just instantly accepted, they
were almost automatically
given the appropriate documents so that they could
work, study and build a
new life in a new place and
in the new proposed cir-
Elena Karaeva
cumstances.
The reception of Syrians
in Europe, directly in the
meta-state called the European Union, on the other hand, caused such consequences that the very existence
of the community was at
some point in jeopardy.
Since such a memorable
Brexit happened precisely
because more than half of
the subjects of the crown the other, not absolute, as in
Saudi Arabia, but constitutional and democratic - to
see Syrians as equals and
accept them, as it is supposed to be accepted as equals, which Brussels insisted on, refused. Immediately
voted to leave the EU.
Neither Poland nor the
Baltic countries wanted to
accept refugees then.
Remember?
Well, then, after all,
then, in order to have measures of influence on these
states, the EU proposed to
legislatively
introduce
mandatory quotas for the
admission of those who,
let's say this again, were
forced to flee their country,
partially transformed including as a result of the
behavior of the European
Union - into a bloody and
lawless mess under "the
auspices of IS".
Having somehow stuffed
the Syrians into cheap
social housing, handed
them benefits, residence
permits and thinking that
this solved the problem, the
European Union hoped to
take a breath, just as six
months ago the United
States and its allies on the
continent were forced to
shamefully drape out of
Afghanistan.
Throwing
those who believed them.
And taking out only those
who made it possible to
boast, using the saved as a
background to demonstrate
their pseudo-humanism.
The current crisis with
the admission of Ukrainian
refugees is without precedent in the modern history
of Europe, not only because
their number is measured in
millions, but also because a
united Europe will have to
deal with the weakest and
most vulnerable. It would
seem that the powerful continent has every opportunity to show everything that it
is capable of, demonstrating the full breadth of its
collective soul.
And here are a few features that characterize this
soul.
Poland was the first to
groan, saying that its possibilities were practically
exhausted. The Baltic countries are not too zealous
either: "We are not too rich
anyway, but here it is..."
In Hungary, the volunteers themselves say (sometimes social networks are
not so evil as it is commonly thought) that, after pushing and poking around,
some refugees are ready to
return home. Not all, but
this vector is characteristic
in its own way.
So far, the two richest
EU countries, France and
Germany, are still accepting refugees. This is if you
glance at the inspired
reports. If you look closely,
you can find out that the
reception is a reception, but
the terms of cordiality are
limited. According to the
decision, they are ready to
accept (tolerate?) those
who come for three years.
Accelerated legal status
means that protection is
valid for a year, then it must
be renewed. Twice. Both
times per year. Nobody
knows what to do next.
In terms of property, the
situation also looks good
only on paper: refugees are
entitled to an allowance of
less than 20 euros per day if there is a child, for both.
If there are more children,
then the amount increases,
but not by much. And even
if we imagine that housing
is free, then all the same,
this money is so as not to
die of hunger.
It remains, of course, the
possibility of finding a job.
And it is in Germany and
France, if you approach the
search without complaints,
there is. True, it can hardly
be called a "dream job",
just as it is doubtful that
they will pay for it as much
as they pay the locals. Not
because the Europeans are
so tight-fisted, but because
such is the state of affairs
here in principle. So here
they value, so to speak,
someone else's work.
Moroccan masons and
millers (in France), as well
as Turkish scavengers and
cleaners (in Germany), can
certainly complete this oil
painting with their colorful
touches.
So, having consistently
failed the exam for humanism seven years ago, then
demonstrating its own fears
and phobias during the pandemic, Europe this time,
apparently, is trying to save
face by putting on a good
face in an unimportant
game (“we will accept you,
but on three years and for
the minimum cost for us"),
at the same time taking a
big step towards humanitarian bankruptcy.
On the other hand, to
betray on time - this, as the
old joke said, does not
mean a violation of obligations, but shows the presence of the gift of foresight.
Be that as it may, in
today's violent world for
Europe, human lives again
turned out to be a bargaining chip for its vanity and
unrestricted selfishness.
What the 23rd March Reminds?
VERY year, people
of Pakistan celebrate the 23rd of
March as the Pakistan
Day, with great enthusiasm and zeal. But, this
time, this very day has
come at a time when
Pakistan is facing multifaceted internal and
external
challenges,
which are worrying all
the citizens.
At present, a rift which
had already been created
between the ruling party
PTI-led by Prime Minister
Imran Khan and the PDMan alliance of the opposition parties which also
includes PPP and PML-N,
intensified after March 8,
this year when the
Opposition had submitted
the no-confidence motion
against Prime Minister
Imran in the National
Assembly Secretariat. In
this regard, the National
Assembly Speaker Asad
Qaiser has summoned the
session of the National
Assembly on March 25,
2022.
Since the Opposition
presented the no-trust
motion, a political crisis is
rapidly brewing as various
negative
developments
such as police operation at
Parliament Lodges in
Islamabad, attack at Sindh
House in the federal capital
where some 13 lawmakers
from PTI had taken shelter,
who joined the Opposition,
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withdrawing support for the
prime minister ahead of the
no-confidence
motion,
blame game between leaders of the government and
the PDM, allegations of
horse trading, threat of the
PPP chief Bilawal BhuttoZardari to disrupt the
National Assembly session
by staging a sit-in in front
of the assembly and to
hamper the Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
conference, scheduled to
take place on March 22-23
in Islamabad, if no-trust
vote against Prime Minister
Imran Khan is delayed,
decision of the long march
by the united opposition on
March 25, this year and
public rally at the DChowk, announcement of
the PM Imran to address
the public gathering on
March 27 at the same place
etc. show that the political
parties are not only widening gulf against each other,
but are also dividing the
general masses.
However, it was due to
the selfless practical unity
among the Muslims under
the leadership of Quaid-iAzam Quaid-i-Azam that
Pakistan became a tangible
reality on August 14, 1947.
But, that unity started
declining after passing
through various crises, and
the result was separation of
East Pakistan in 1971, as
India manipulated differences
between
East
Sajjad Shaukat
Pakistan and West Pakistan.
Now, more than two and
half months have passed.
But, Indian fanatic government led by the extremist
Prime Minister Narendra
Modi continued military
lockdown in the Indian
Illegally Occupied Jammu
and Kashmir (IIOJK).
In this respect, Modi-led
regime unilaterally abrogated the special status of the
IIOJK on August 5, 2019
when Indian Parliament
revoked articles 35A and
370 of the Constitution.
The act split the IIOJK into
two territories to be ruled
directly by New Delhi.
The purpose was to turn
Muslim majority into
minority. While, Indian
fanatic rulers are also escalating
tensions
with
Pakistan to divert attention
from the drastic situation of
the IIOJK and from time to
time, continued shelling
inside Pakistani side of
Kashmir and other sectors,
including
Working
Boundary by violating the
ceasefire agreement of
2003—pledged to implement it as agreed in
February 2020 in relation to
the Line of Control (LoC).
Pakistan’s armed forces had
been boldly responding to
India’s unprovoked firing at
the LoC.
Notably, Indian Prime
Minister Modi-the leader of
the extremist ruling party
BJP had got a land sliding
victory in the Indian general elections 2014 and 2019.
During the election-campaigns, Hindu majority was
mobilized on ‘hate Muslim’
slogans and ‘anti-Pakistan’
jargons. Hence, Modi continues anti-Muslim and
anti-Pakistan policies.
Pakistan’s civil and military leadership has repeatedly stated that in order to
divert attention from various internal crises and border dispute with China,
New Delhi can arrange
another Pulwama-type false
flag terror attack in the
IIOJK to justify military
adventure against Pakistan.
Chief of the Army Staff
Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa
and Prime Minister Imran
Khan have frequently said
that Pakistan’s armed
forces are fully ready to
meet any Indian prospective aggression.
Internally, Pakistan’s
armed forces and country’s
primarily
intelligence
agency ISI have successfully broken the backbone of
the foreign-backed terrorists. Peace has been
restored in the Balochistan
province and Karachi,
including other vulnerable
regions.
Nevertheless, the 23rd of
March 1940 was a watershed in the history of the
Sub-continent, when All
India Muslim League
passed the Resolution in
Lahore for the creation of
an independent state. Now,
it is popularly called as
Pakistan Resolution.
Earlier, in his address to
the Muslim League at
Allahabad in 1930, the idea
of a homeland for Muslims
in their majority areas had
been envisioned by the poet
Allama Sir Muhammad
Iqbal, and had become the
aspiration
of
Indian
Muslims.
In fact, the British colonialists in connivance with
majority Hindu population
had manipulated and targeted Muslims through every
possible way. In that background, Muslims started
struggle for a separate state.
Prior to the Lahore session of Muslim League,
Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad
Ali Jinnah had specified to
this historical congregation
of the Muslims, the watchwords of ‘Faith, Unity and
Discipline’ which were not
only necessary for waging
the battle for an independent homeland, but also for
present
Pakistan.
Nonetheless, the government, the opposition leaders, including all other segments of society must act
upon the essence of the
Pakistan Day by showing
selfless national unity to
pull the country out of the
ongoing serious crises and
to meet the Indian warmongering designs.
The ‘star dust’
FTER the end of
hostilities, there
will be not only the
former Ukraine, but also
the current Russia. Our
country has already
changed - we just do not
yet realize how deep the
changes will be, because
so far the process has only
"started". But the postSoviet transitional era is
over: the era of ambiguity, double faith, indistinctness and other double-mindedness. We will
again live in the USSR,
but not in the one that the
anti-Soviet fears or the
communists dream of. No,
we are starting to build a
just, solidary, sovereign
Russia. Reviving the best
that is embedded in our
national code, strengthening and creating what will
allow us to live in conscience and mind.
We have no alternative:
no other Russia will stand
the test in the era of global
storm and stress. A new
Russia will not emerge by
magic, it will be much
more difficult to build it
than to win now on the battlefield, this process will
require the mobilization of
spirit and will, strength and
faith, it will take not a year
or a decade. But we have
already embarked on this
path, even if we ourselves
do not understand it. It was
not Putin who put us on it,
but our Russian history,
which many of us did not
know, and did not want to
know and understand.
The spirit of Russian history, the spirit of our ancestors gives us a chance not
just to atone for the collapse of the USSR - it gives
us a chance to correct
through creation, through
the revival of great Russia.
If we do not use it, if we
grab hold of the ruins of the
old world, try to limit ourselves to simulacra and
fakes, we will be crushed,
and not even by our enemies. We will be crushed
by the rink of world history,
our own impotence and lies
will kill us. Therefore, we
simply do not have the right
to even doubt our ability to
achieve the result we need.
What was the main vulnerability of the outgoing
Russia ? In its dependence
on the outside world, in the
mental slavery of a considerable part of our "elite"?
No, it was only a derivative
of the internal weakness of
our way of life - transitional and temporary, but which
suited very many in the
"elite". Post-Soviet state
capitalism carried the original sin of the thieves' privatization of state property,
when the nouveaux riches
and temporary workers
decided that from now on
they are the power and
masters of life here. Their
ideological dependence on
the West, their mental slavery to advanced Western
civilization was only the
result of contempt for their
own people - people who
can be deceived and
robbed. Because they are
rednecks, stupid and backward people, not like the
cunning and smart people
who became successful in
the 90s.
Later, Vladimir Putin
deprived the oligarchy of
power, but a large part of
our "thinking estate" continued to live (and educate
future generations) precisely according to this scheme.
There are "better people"
who know what the right
modern values are, and
they should have power and
money. And there are herds
of the plebs that need to be
properly herded and fooled.
A
Petr Akopov
The "elite", including the
self-appointed intellectual
one, was oriented towards
the West as a model for imitation and restructuring of
this "barbaric Russia".
In the last decade,
Vladimir Putin has made
really great efforts to
nationalize the elites, but
the gap, property and value,
between the people and the
"elite" has become ever
larger. Far from the entire
"elite": there are quite a few
honest, nationally minded
officials and entrepreneurs,
and even in the creative
environment, especially if
you wade through the "star
dust". But they were not
noticeable, both in our
country and in the West.
But when the West
decided to "cancel" Russia,
hitting the money and property of only a few rich and
famous, an amazing thing
happened: many members
of our "elite" simply fled
the country. Yes, it was
banal. Someone out of fear,
someone because of the
impossibility to continue to
"breathe the same air with
the cattle." That is, it was
not just a betrayal of our
own people, what happened
was what Putin very correctly called the natural and
necessary process of selfpurification of our society.
Everyone saw what the
Motherland means to anyone in a difficult hour.
And there is no way
back - not in the sense that
they will not return (many
will just return). We no
longer have a way back:
there will be no former attitude towards those who
fled. And not even because
they will be despised or
deprived of their jobs, they
were simply left overboard,
the ship set sail without
them.
The formation of a new
elite is the most important
national task, but it is
impossible based on ratings
alone, be it officials or television personalities. The
formation of a new elite
depends much more on the
goals that it has to solve: it
is for this that people will
come and teams will be created. And these goals are
clear, because they do not
need to be invented,
because our traditional values are our "model for
assembling" a new system.
Justice is such a socioeconomic way of life in
which the worker, creator,
producer, engineer, inventor, creator is encouraged.
Someone who creates
rather than packages and
resells. This is not a denial
of the importance of marketing and trade, but a different hierarchy of values,
a different pyramid in the
labor market. Yes, the
market, albeit with great
state influence, because
we do not need to return to
Soviet socialism, but also
the illusions about the
"invisible hand of the market" must be urgently disposed of.
Justice is never abstract,
it is always concrete and
even national, traditional. A
teacher, a doctor, a warrior
are not state employees and
security officials, these are
professions respected by
our people and valued by
the state.
Only a just way of life
will be accepted and supported by our people, will
become the foundation of
the social system - and then
no one will be able to
destroy it. Because in fairness - this is after all in conscience, and is the main criterion with which our per-
son approaches everything,
any problem and any business. What is conscientious
is honest, and therefore
strong. A system that meets
national ideas about good
and evil, truth and justice,
has great internal resistance
to any trials.
Solidarity and conciliarity. These are different concepts, but they are close.
Sobornost means joint,
common, embracing everyone: from the rich to the
poor, from the old to the
young. Shared decisionmaking, common cause
and, most importantly,
common ideals and understanding of values. General
creed. In the Soviet years,
sobornost and communality
was replaced by the concept of collectivism, but it
is already more technocratic, and besides, it carries a
taste of unanimity that is
completely unnecessary for
us.
And catholicity is, after
all, our principle of organizing the state, and at all
levels, from self-government to supreme power.
This is not a dictatorship,
not a denial of diversity, not
an imposition of unanimity,
on the contrary, it is a form
of searching for the common good, the development
of a common opinion
through what is now called
consensus. Hence the solidarity, that is, a sense of
responsibility for the whole
society in all its diversity
and complexity. Sobornost
resists the atomization and
fragmentation of society
into endless minorities, not
abolishing them, but gathering them together - into
one people.
Sovereignty or, speaking
in Russian, autocracy. In
other words, independence,
and not only on the world
stage or in the economy
(the latter, by the way,
should not be confused
with complete economic
self-sufficiency, which is
unattainable for any country in the world, unless, of
course, it is forced to live in
isolation,
like
North
Korea). The most important
sovereignty is in the heads,
brains, thinking. Only a
nationally minded power
can be truly sovereign.
No, this is not about the
fact that "Russia is the
birthplace of elephants",
but about relying on one's
own ideas and principles.
Own, that is, worked out by
all our historical and spiritual experience, all our ups
and downs, exploits and
experiments (and we have
had as many of them in the
last century alone as most
peoples have not had during their entire existence).
And here is the main thing
that we lack, and the only
thing that we really need to
learn from foreigners: the
idea of Russia as the center
of the world. This is not
pride, not self-conceit, and
not even great-power chauvinism. Our thinking (and
not only geopolitical, it is
only derivative) should
become Russian-centric.
That is, the way it has
always been with the
Chinese, who perceive the
whole world as the outskirts of the Middle
Kingdom.
And if our worldview
becomes similar, that is,
national, this will only
strengthen mutual understanding with our neighbor
and make the union of two
great civilizations much
stronger than it was during
the Soviet era. Because the
new USSR - a just, solidary, sovereign Russia will stand on the most reliable foundation possible.
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etc VS Mst Rahat Sultana
Begum etc. Notice to no.
21.Gohar Zaman son of
Khan Ghalib resident of
Totalai at present Sharigh ul
Matena
Dubai
UAE.,
23.Anwar Hayath son of
Hamid resident of Titalai at
present MRM Astabal Bubai
UAE.32.Mohammad Sheraz
son of Gil Bar resident of
Totalai. 41.Norul Basar son
of Mer Ahmed Shah resident
of Totalai at present Building
No11,Plot No 6 Amhamriya
Dera
Bubai
UAE.54/1.Mohammad Fayaz
son of Abdul Maten resident
of Kass Kuruna Totalai at
present Alburakh Fridge
Marar Dubai UAE.70.Aqbil
Husain son of Fazal Karim
alias to Pakin resident of
Totalai at present Sharigh ul
Matena
Dubai
UAE.
Whereas in the above mentioned case the above mentioned defendants cannot be
served in the ordinary way, it
is, therefore, proclaimed
that if the said defendants
will /shall not appear personally or through a duly authorized agent or pleader in
court at 8 .30 am on
24/3/2022, the proceedings
will be taken ex-parte. Given
under my hand and seal of
this Court.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
ening government debt management, this new program will also
help to mobilize more domestic
resources which support the government’s efforts to finance sustainable growth and respond effectively to crises.”
Pakistan’s finance sector is dominated by banks and this lack of
diversification increases the risk of
the country not being able to withstand financial shocks and periods
of uncertainty.
Moreover, the Pakistan Stock
Exchange lacks depth in terms of
the number of investors which
access it and the number of companies
raising
capital,
while
Pakistan’s bond market is almost
completely dominated by government borrowing.
ADB’s program supports policy
actions that will strengthen market
stability and attract investor capital
to Pakistan. These include structural reforms within the Securities and
Exchange Commission of Pakistan
that will improve governance and
regulatory capacity. It supports
measures that will strengthen the
government debt market and
enhance market surveillance systems that facilitate information
exchange.
The program also promotes an
enabling environment to expedite
access to financing for growth
companies and state-owned enterprises.
“These reforms will help to
mobilize financial resources for
productive investment, especially
by the private sector, and help
facilitate economic growth by
developing the bond and equity
capital markets,” said ADB
Economist Sana Masood. “This
will help reduce the cost of financial intermediation and help stabilize systemic vulnerabilities in the
bank-dominated finance system.”
The ADB said it was committed
to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia
and the Pacific, while sustaining its
efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. Established in 1966, it is owned
by 68 members.
in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD
(APP):
President
Islamic
Development Bank (IsDB)
Muhammad Sulaiman Al
Jasser Tuesday sought generous support from the member countries of Organization
of Islamic Cooperation
(OIC), development partners, humanitarian organizations and donors to successfully operationalize the
newly formed Afghanistan
Humanitarian Trust Fund.
He said the establishment
of Afghanistan humanitarian
trust fund is strong message
of solidarity with our brothers
and
sisters
in
Afghanistan.
Since 76% of the
Afghanistan population lives
in rural areas, the primary
focus of the fund would be to
save lives by preserving rural
livelihoods and integrated
holistic approach is proposed
to be adopted to ensure that
the fund’s limited resources
are deployed most effectively to maximize developmental impact, he said in his
address at 48th Session of
the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) Council
of Foreign Ministers here.
He said the extraordinary
meeting of OIC FMs held in
Islamabad on December 19,
2021 asked the IDB to establish, operationalize, and
manage the fund to channel
humanitarian
assistance
through Afghanistan and
partnership with the international and regional stakeholders.
“I am pleased to update
that the charter has been
signed with the OIC. This is
the first but very pivotal step
that will take the way for
operationalization of the
fund”, he added.
He said the IDB was
strongly committed to ensure
strict guidelines to govern all
of the fund’s activities.
“Accordingly we guarantee
utmost transparency, and all
aspects of the fund’s activities and adherence to the relevant international standards
and best practices.”
Given the gravity of the
challenges
faced
by
Afghanistan
today,
Muhammad Sulaiman Al
Jasser said there was consensus that the international
community needed to collectively provide a holistic practical, sustainable and comprehensive solution learning
from the lessons of the past
and leveraging this strength
of all stakeholders to address
the daunting challenge in
Afghanistan. He said since
last December, the Bank had
been engaged in its continued coordination and consultation with the OIC, development partners, humanitarian
organizations and donors.
“We have also consulted
with countries supporting the
Afghan people. We are committed to benefiting the all
relevant experiences and
exploring potential cooperation opportunities to ensure
formulation of an impact for
partnership to undertake collective efforts to achieve the
fund’s objectives”, he added.
The IsDB President said
We are committed to working with all our partners to
break the prevalent vicious
cycles of poverty and initiate
a cycle of hope and self
reliance in the country”.
Depending on the fund’s
amount and possible replenishment, the IsDB President
informed that a comprehensive approach would be
adopted to promote long
term peace and stability. This
could be achieved by
enhancing agriculture productivity to ensure food
security, ensuring access to
quality education specially
for females, provision of
healthcare facilities to rural
communities, women and
youth empowerment as well
as facilitating rural electrification.
He said the the fund in
close coordination with partners was also actively
exploring opportunities to
leverage the private sector to
support the humanitarian
efforts specially by focusing
and creating meaningful
opportunities in the agrobusiness through supporting
micro and small medium
enterprises.
“The IDB is also ideally
positioned to provide the
necessary platform for
neighboring and regional
member countries to play a
positive role by optimally
leveraging the IDB SouthSouth programme benefiting from the experience,
expertise of several OIC and
IDB member countries.”, he
said adding that the IDB
under the overall umbrella
of the fund was keen to
facilitate the capacity building in key sectors such as
banking and finance, medicine and agriculture.
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The Frontier Post
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Pakistan trails
Australia by 301 runs
2 days into 3rd test
In brief
Pakistan Day
hockey matches
tomorrow
KARACHI
(APP):
Olympian Islahuddin
and Dr Muhammad Ali
Shah
Hockey
Academy will host two
exhibition
hockey
matches
on
Wednesday, March 23
in connection with
Pakistan Day. The first
match will be played
between Begum Rana
Liaquat Ali Khan and
Fatima Jinnah XI consisting of women players of the academy at
10am, according to a
communique.
Dr.
Asma Ali Shah will be
the Cheif guest and
2nd match which will
be played between
Muhammad Ali jinnah
and Liaquat Ali Khan
XI. The game will be
played at five o'clock
with special guest
Olympian Akhtar-ulIslam.
28th National
Junior Table
Tennis C’ship
from March 24
PESHAWAR (APP):
The 28th National
Junior Table Tennis
Championship will be
played from March 2427,2022 at Kohat Sports
Complex. This was stated by Shahid Khan
Shinwari, Chairman
Organizing Committee
while talking to media
men here on Tuesday.
He said, it will be the
first time that the
National Table Tennis
Championship will be
played in Kohat, in
which four provinces,
Azad
Kashmir,
Islamabad, OGDCL,
NHA,
Army
and
WAPDA men will participate. Tournament
Chairman
Shahid
Shinwari
and
Organizing Secretary
Kafitullah addressed the
press conference that
the overall 100 players,
which are 40 girls, will
participate in U15 and
U18 singles, team
events and U18 doubles
categories. He said out
of the Championship a
team would also be
selected for the South
Asian Table Tennis
Champion in Maldives
to be starting from April
9-11, 2022. He said that
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
hosted the 27th National
Junior Table Tennis
Championship and it
will be the 19th chance
that
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa will host
this event. He also paid
tribute to Chief Minister
Mahmood Khan on
making sports facilities
in every district. That is
why we are able to hold
every event at national
level in our districts. He
said all arrangements
have been made for
smooth conduct of the
National Junior Table
Tennis C’ship in Kohat.
2016 Olympic
champion
weightlifter
disqualified
LAUSANNE
(AP):
Olympic weightlifting
champion
Nijat
Rahimov was stripped
of his 2016 gold medal
and banned for eight
years for doping on
Tuesday. The Court of
Arbitration for Sport
said the Kazakh lifter
was guilty of “four
urine substitutions” and
disqualified from all his
results since March
2016. Rahimov’s world
record at the 2016 Rio
de Janeiro Olympics
was controversial even
at the time. It came one
year after he served a
previous ban for doping
while competing for
Azerbaijan. His integrity was publicly doubted
by rival Mohamed
Mahmoud of Egypt,
who took the bronze
medal in the 77-kilogram class. “Maybe
after some doping controls, some things will
change,”
Mahmoud
said in Rio. Mahmoud
is now in line to get the
silver medal with
Chinese great Lyu
Xiaojun likely to be
upgraded to become a
three-time
Olympic
champion. Lyu became
the
oldest
men’s
Olympic champion in
weightlifting last year
in Tokyo by winning
the 81-kilogram class at
the age of 37.
LAHORE: Abdullah Shafique drives, Pakistan vs Australia, 3rd Test, 2nd day.
Lanning century leads
Australia to sixth
straight World Cup win
W E L L I N G T O N
(Agencies): Meg Lanning
scored a magnificent
unbeaten 135 as Australia
beat South Africa by five
wickets to make it six
straight wins at the
Women's World Cup.
The captain's 15th oneday international century
helped Australia chase 272
with 28 balls to spare.
Laura Wolvaardt's 90 and
52 from captain Sune Luus
had taken South Africa to
271-5 in Wellington.
South Africa remain
second in the table behind
Australia despite their first
defeat of the tournament.
South Africa take on
West Indies on Wednesday
knowing a win will clinch
a spot in the semi-finals.
Australia,
who
have
already qualified, can
complete a clean sweep in
the group stage with victory over Bangladesh on
Thursday.
Asked to bat first, South
Africa started strongly
with opener Wolvaardt and
Lizelle Lee putting on 88.
Alana King trapped Lee
lbw for 36, but, after Lara
Goodall departed cheaply,
Wolvaardt and Luus put on
91 before falling in successive overs. Marizanne
Kapp, with an unbeaten
30, and Chloe Tryon, who
made 17 not out, pushed
the innings on in the closing stages.
Australia lost Alyssa
Healy early in their reply,
caught behind off Shabnim
Ismail, who finished with
2-33. A stunning catch
from Mignon du Preez at
deep mid-wicket accounted for Rachael Haynes to
leave Australia 45-2 and
give South Africa hope of
upsetting the tournament
favourites.
There was no panic
from Lanning, though, and
partnerships of 60 and 93
with Beth Mooney and
Tahlia McGrath respectively put the six-time
champions firmly in the
ascendancy.
Lanning
reached her century from
92 balls and put the result
beyond doubt long before
Annabel Sutherland hit the
winning run.
India win to boost
semi-final hopes
India eased to a comprehensive 110-run victory over Bangladesh in
Hamilton to boost their
chances of reaching the
semi-finals. After an opening stand of 74 between
Shafali Verma and Smriti
Mandhana, India lost three
wickets in five balls
before a patient 50 from
Yastika Bhatia helped
them recover to post 229-7
at
Seddon
Park.
Bangladesh were unable to
generate any sort of
momentum in their reply
and slumped to 35-5 as
India's spinners took hold.
They were eventually
bowled out for 119, with
Jhulan Goswami taking
the final wicket and offspinner Sneh Rana claiming a career-best 4-30.
The win lifted India up
to third in the table, above
West Indies on net run-rate
and two points ahead of
England in fifth, although
they have played one
game more than Heather
Knight's side.
Jason Roy
handed
suspended
2-match ban
LONDON (AP): England
batter Jason Roy was handed a suspended two-match
international
ban
on
Tuesday for bringing the
sport into disrepute.
Details about the exact
nature of Roy’s disciplinary
breach were not disclosed
by the England and Wales
Cricket Board. The ECB
said Roy admitted to a
charge of “conducting himself in a manner which may
be prejudicial to the interests of cricket or which
may bring the game of
cricket, the ECB and himself into disrepute.”
His ban is for the “next
two England matches for
which he is eligible for
selection” but it is suspended for 12 months, dependent on good behavior, the
ECB said. The 31-year-old
Roy was also fined 2,500
pounds ($3,310).
Roy, who played a key
role in helping England win
the 50-over Cricket World
Cup in 2019, is expected to
be in England’s squad for
the Twenty20 World Cup in
Australia this year.
He recently announced
he was taking a “short
indefinite break” from
cricket after withdrawing
from the upcoming Indian
Premier League, citing
bubble fatigue. He was due
to play for Gujarat Titans.
Ibrahimovic warns he is
'an old guy' as World Cup Polo Super
League: Zacky
playoff looms
Reapers
MILAN
(Agencies):
Zlatan Ibrahimovic said
Tuesday that Sweden fans
should not expect too
much of him in the World
cup playoffs and that he
was "panicking" at the
prospect of retiring.
The 40-year-old striker
is suspended for the World
Cup playoff semi-final
against
the
Czech
Republic on Thursday but,
if Sweden win, could
make his return against
Poland in a match for a
place in the finals in Qatar.
But, while he showed
he could still play a blinder in a press conference,
he warned that he did not
think he could keep going
for a whole football
match.
"I don't have 90 minutes in my legs. But we
knew that before this
gathering,"
he
said,
adding he was "an old
guy, but fit". Ibrahimovic
was joined at the press
conference by the 19year-old
Manchester
United attacker Anthony
Elanga, whose father,
Cameroonian international Joseph Elanga, was a
team-mate of Zlatan's at
Malmo in 2000-1.
"Enjoy it while I'm on
the pitch, because you
won't see anything like it,"
triumphant
Ibrahimovic said. "You
will see Elanga. I say that
with all respect, but you
will not see Ibrahimovic.
So enjoy it while you
can." Ibrahimovic has
appeared in 22 games for
Serie A leaders AC Milan
this season, scoring eight
goals.
"I have this little fear:
what will happen next? I
know that I will have different opportunities afterwards, that I will have
many offers. But this adrenaline that I have on the
pitch I will not find it anywhere else," he said. "So
that's why I have this panic.
I will continue as long as
possible and just enjoy."
Ibrahimovic returned to
the Sweden team after
more than four years for
the World cup qualifying
campaign. He played in
each of the first two
games, then missed the
next 12 internationals,
including Euro 2020, with
injuries.
He came back for the
last two qualifiers, starting
a surprise loss to Georgia
before coming off the
bench for another defeat,
to Spain, when he picked
up a second yellow card of
the campaign to earn a
suspension. Sweden have
younger options.
In addition to Elanga,
there are 21-year-old
Dejan Kulusevski, a
Juventus player on loan at
Tottenham, and 22-yearold Alexander Isak, of
Real Sociedad. "They are
the future, we should not
invest or bet on me, but on
them. I'm here to help
them move forward," said
the veteran.
LAHORE (APP): Superb
hat-trick each by Mustafa
Aziz Anwar and Saif Hayat
Noon helped Zacky Reapers
overpower Platinum Homes
Tigers by a huge margin of
10-5 in the Tower 21 Polo
Super League match here at
the Lahore Polo Club
ground on Tuesday.
Zacky Reapers dominated the match right from the
word go and maintained
their supremacy till the
end, winning the encounter
with a huge margin of 10-5.
Mustafa Aziz Anwar and
Bilal Hayat Noon emerged
as heroes of the day from
the winning side as they
played outstanding polo
and amused the spectators
with their excellent mallet
and pony work and also
contributed with tremendous three goals each.
The other two members
of the side Shah Qubilai
Alam and Nazar Dean Ali
Khan played equally well
and thrashed in two brilliant
goal each to guide their side
with an emphatic victory.
For Platinum Homes Tigers,
Amirreza Behboudi and 12year-old Umar Ashfaq contributed with two goals each
while Aleem Tiwana converted one goal.
LAHORE (AP): In-form
opening batter Abdullah
Shafique and veteran Azhar
Ali led Pakistan to 90-1
after Australia was bowled
out for 391 on the second
day of the third and final
test on Tuesday.
Sedate half-centuries by
Cameron Green and Alex
Carey
earned
them
Australia’s highest sixthwicket stand in Pakistan,
worth 135. But they were
broken up after lunch and
Australia was all out on
the strike of tea.
Recalled 19-year-old
fast bowler Naseem Shah
and Shaheen Shah Afridi
share eight wickets as
Pakistan took Australia’s
last five wickets for 50
runs. “You have to be
patient on such wickets
where you have to wait for
the ball to get old for
reverse swing and get
results,” Afridi said.
“You have to give them
(Green and Carey) credit
for batting very well in the
first session, but that’s the
beauty of test cricket, you
win some sessions, you
lose some sessions.”
Australia could snare the
wicket of only Imam-ulHaq for 11 on the slow
pitch before Shafique and
Azhar shared a gritty 70run stand in two hours.
Shafique made an unbeaten
45 and Azhar reached 30
until play was called off
due to bad light five overs
before the scheduled end.
Pakistan trailed by 301
runs in the series-deciding
test. Captain Pat Cummins
had Imam trapped off his
first delivery from round
the wicket when he
switched bowling ends
after Pakistan crawled to 20
runs in the first 12 overs.
Shafique scored his
maiden test hundred in the
drawn first test and followed with 96 in the epic
drawn second test.
Earlier, allrounder Green
made 79 in his 12th test
match and Carey scored 67
in nearly three hours
against the persistent
reverse
swing
from
Naseem, who took 4-58,
and Shaheen, who picked
4-79. Naseem bowled his
heart out in 31 overs of
relentless pace and reverse
swing in hot conditions as
he and Afridi wrapped up
Australia’s tailenders.
“He (Naseem) bowled
really well all day, he was
getting the ball to reverse
pretty largely both ways,”
Green said. “Unfortunately,
just a lack of concentration
(by me) when you’ve been
batting out there for a while.
I thought I saw the ball go
away from me but it came
back in. That’s kind of what
you face over here.”
Green and Carey came
together late Monday. With
Australia on 232-5, they
added 88 runs on Tuesday
in the first session, when
both reached their fifties.
Left-hander Carey successfully overturned a controversial caught behind
decision. Umpire Aleem Dar
adjudged Carey out on 27
off Hasan Ali’s full-pitched
delivery, but video suggested the ball missed Carey’s
bat and might have clipped
the off stump as wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan
caught the bumped ball.
Carey raised his second
half-century on the tour off
73 balls when he smashed
two successive boundaries
in offspinner Sajid Khan’s
one over before pushing the
ball to wide mid-on for a single. Green, resuming on 20,
reached his half-century off
117 balls when he drove past
a diving Sajid for two runs.
Pakistan broke them up
in the fourth over after
lunch. Left-arm spinner
Nauman Ali ended their
stand when Carey was
plumb leg before wicket as
the batter tried to play
across the line and was hit
on the front pad. Carey
faced 105 balls and dominated the spinners with his
reverse sweep shots.
Green showed lots of
patience and used his feet
well against the spinners
during his 163-ball knock
that spanned well over 3 1/2
hours.
Naseem,
who
replaced allrounder Faheem
Ashraf in the only change to
Pakistan from the second
test, denied Green his maiden test hundred when he
clean bowled the tall righthander off a delivery which
shaped into the batter and
hit the stumps through a big
gap between bat and pad.
Nadal out injured at
least 1 month in lead-up
to French Open
MADRID (AP): Rafael
Nadal will be sidelined for
four to six weeks because of
a rib injury, putting in jeopardy his preparations for the
French Open in two months.
Nadal said Tuesday he
underwent exams after
arriving in Spain from the
United States and results
showed he has a stress fracture on one of his left ribs.
The injury was sustained
in the semifinals at Indian
Wells
against
Carlos
Alcaraz. Nadal then lost in
the final to Taylor Fritz in
two sets on Sunday.
“This is not good news
and I didn’t expect it,”
Nadal wrote on Twitter.
“I’m devastated and sad
because it comes after a
great start to the season.”
Nadal was 20-0 to begin
the season, including winning the Australian Open,
before losing to Fritz 6-3,
7-6 (5) at the hard-court
tournament in California. It
was the third-best start to a
season since 1990 on the
ATP Tour. Nadal also won
titles in Melbourne and
Acapulco.
“I was getting to a very
important part of the season
feeling well and with good
results,” Nadal said. “But
well, I’ve always had this
fighting spirit and what I’ll
do is be patient and work
hard after recovering.”
The 35-year-old Nadal
was treated by a trainer during the final against Fritz
and afterward said the
problem began the night
before during the semifinals against Alcaraz.
Nadal had said he was
not sure what exactly
caused the discomfort, saying it was “painful” and
“very
uncomfortable”
when he tried to breathe.
Nadal’s winning streak
to begin 2022 included his
record-breaking 21st Grand
Slam title at the Australian
Open in January.
The third-ranked Nadal
will try to win a recordextending 14th French Open
title at Roland Garros this
year. He lost to eventual
champion Novak Djokovic
in the semifinals of last
year’s tournament in Paris.
Nadal’s participation at
the Madrid Open at the end
of April will likely depend
on how his recovery progresses. The Spaniard is a
five-time champion in
Madrid. He is not likely to
play in the Monte Carlo
Masters and the Barcelona
Open next month.
Nadal had already decided to skip this week’s tournament in Florida and head
home to Spain to prepare
for the clay-court season.
Pakistan blessed with
immense boxing talent:
Punjab sports minister
LAHORE (APP): Punjab
Minister for Sports and
Youth Affairs Rai Taimoor
Khan Bhatti Tuesday said
that Pakistan had been
blessed with immense boxing potential and Sports and
Youth Affairs Department
Punjab was devising a special programme for promoting and preserving the valuable talent.
He said this while talking to young talented boxer
Usman Wazir, who called
on him here. Boxer Asif
Hazara was also present.
Rai Taimoor said that the
doors of Sports and Youth
Affairs Department Punjab
are open for all talented
athletes. "Sports and Youth
Affairs Department Punjab
is encouraging all those
athletes who won sports
titles at national or international level," he further
said.
Punjab Sports Minister
expressed his best wishes
for Usman Wazir's success
in his world title fight
scheduled to be staged in
Dubai on March 26, 2022.
"Usman Wazir is earning
a good name for the country at international level
and the entire nation is
praying for his success in
the upcoming world title
fight," he added.
He said Sports and
Youth Affairs Department
Punjab is taking extraordinary measures for the welfare of male and female
players during the last three
years.
"It is Sports and Youth
Affairs
Department
Punjab's top standard facilities and guidance due to
which Pakistan athletes
won international titles in
the recent past".
Rai Taimoor Khan
Bhatti said that Sports and
Youth Affairs Department
Punjab provided all kinds
of facilities to para-athlete
Haider Ali for his preparation and participation in
Paralympic Games and in
return Haider Ali exhibited
glorious performance and
clinched Pakistan's first
ever gold medal in
Paralympic Games to make
the whole nation proud.
LeBron posts triple-double in Lakers' win against Cavaliers
WASHINGTON (Agencies):
LeBron James posted a tripledouble in the Lakers' 131-120
victory against Cleveland
Cavaliers on Monday.
The Cavaliers led 35-28 at the
end of the first quarter but the
Lakers had a good start at the
second period, building a 39-27
lead.
By the end of the third quarter, Cleveland were leading 9796 as they produced 35 points at
Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse.
James led LA Lakers to the
victory, racking up 38 points, 12
assists, and 11 rebounds.
Russell Westbrook scored a
double-double with 20 points
and 11 assists while D. J.
Augustin produced 20 points on
a perfect shooting, 6-for-6 from
the three point line.
Darius Garland was the highest scorer of the Cavaliers with
29 points and 17 assists.
Finnish power forward Lauri
Markkanen finished with 18
points and nine rebounds.
LA Lakers have 31/41
win/loss in West standings,
while the Cavaliers improved
their record to 41 wins and 31
losses
in
the
Eastern
Conference.
Celtics beat Thunder 132123, Tatum scores 36
Boston Celtics defeated
Oklahoma City Thunder with a
132-123 score at Paycom
Center.
Jayson Tatum finished with
36 points while Grant Williams
had a double-double with 20
points and 10 rebounds for the
Celtics.
For the losing side, Tre Mann
played with 35 points.
Boston Celtics have 45/28
win/loss in the East standings.
Blazers’ Lillard, Pelicans'
Zion out for rest of season
The Portland Trail Blazers
confirmed Monday that their
"Trail Blazers guard Damian
guard Damian Lillard would Lillard has progressed well
miss the remainder of the 2021- through the reconditioning
22 season.
phase of his rehab protocol fol-
lowing his January abdominal
surgery," the Blazers said in a
statement.
"He has met several key performance benchmarks to date
and will continue end-stage
rehab over the next few weeks,"
it added.
Lillard, 31, averaged 24.0
points, 7.3 assists, and 4.1
rebounds in 29 matches this season for the Blazers.
Also, Zion Williamson, who
hasn't played in an NBA game
since May 4, 2021, is not expected to return to play this season
due to his nagging foot injury,
NBA insider Shams Charania
reported.
Results:
Charlotte Hornets - New
Orleans Pelicans: 106-103
Cleveland Cavaliers - Los
Angeles Lakers: 120-131
Detroit Pistons - Portland
Trail Blazers: 115-119
Brooklyn Nets - Utah Jazz:
114-106
Philadelphia 76ers - Miami
Heat: 113-106
Houston
Rockets
Washington Wizards: 115-97
Oklahoma City Thunder Boston Celtics: 123-132
Chicago Bulls - Toronto
Raptors: 113-99
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Timberwolves: 110-108.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022
FM Qureshi calls upon
OIC states to act as
“reliable partners, not
accomplice in aggression”
In brief
Courageous
leader of Ummah
calls for unity
ISLAMABAD (NNI):
Minister of State for
Information
and
Broadcasting Farrukh
Habib said on Tuesday
that Imran Khan, the
courageous leader of the
Muslim Ummah PM
Khan, during his address
to the meeting of OIC
Foreign
Ministers
Council, called for unity
and joint efforts of 57
Islamic countries of the
world to tackle the challenges. In a tweet,
Farrukh remarked that the
PM bluntly said that 1.5
billion Muslims of the
world should show their
strength for peace instead
of getting entangled in
divisions and conflicts.
ANF recovers
39,600kg drugs
ISLAMABAD (NNI):
Anti Narcotics Force
(ANF) Intelligence and
ANF Quetta held a joint
operation and recovered
39,600kg of hashish
from two female members of the inter-provincial drug trafficking
gang. According to ANF
spokesman, the two
women were arrested
from a passenger bus
near Khanozai Tehsil in
Pishin District. A total of
39,600kg hashish was
recovered from the personal possession and
belongings
of
the
accused. The accused
included Mehr Mahosh,
a resident of Pishin and
Rehana Yasmeen, from
Rahim Yar Khan. The
two women were smuggling drugs from Pishin
to Faisalabad. A case has
been registered against
the accused under the
Anti-Narcotics Act and
further investigation was
underway.
Shehbaz’s
presser reveals
his frustration
ISLAMABAD (NNI):
Minister for Information
and
Broadcasting
Chaudhry
Fawad
Hussain on Tuesday said
the press conference of
PML-N
President
Shehbaz Sharif on the
testimony of Broadsheet
owner Kaveh Moussavi
revealed his own frustration (in the wake of ongoing corruption cases
against him). Ironically,
Moussavi himself was an
accused of the National
Accountability Bureau,
he added in a tweet. The
minister said the bank
accounts to the expensive
apartments in London
spoke volumes about the
corruption of Sharifs. All
their tactics, including the
fake affidavit in Calibri
font, Maryam Safdar’s
statement, and others
were parts of the narrative as how to hide the
corruption.
Eight miscreants
arrested
ISLAMABAD:
Islamabad Golra police
team has arrested eight
accused of 03 different
gangs involved in
numerous robbery incidents,
a
police
spokesman said. Police
has also recovered 04
motorbikes, 04 pistols,
14 mobile phone and
cash worth Rs. 850,000.
He said that Following
the orders of IGP
Islamabad Muhammad
Ahsan Younas crackdown against the criminals is continued. A
police team of golra
police station under
supervision of SP
Saddar Zone Tassawar
Iqbal headed by SHO
Golra Nadeem Tahir
along with other officials arrested eight
accused of three notorious gangs. The accused
involved in snatching
mobile phones are identified as Hasnain Gulzar
and Mazah Younas
while two accused
involved in looting citizens coming out banks
are identified as Ghulam
Murtaza and Laiq Zada.
Similarly, 04 accused
involved in looting people on different roads
are identified as Bilal
Ahmad, Aman Ullah,
Mati Ullah and Mateeq
Ur Rehman. All the
arrested have confessed
their involvement in
numerous cases in areas
of Ramna, Karachi
Company,
Shalimar,
Noon and westridge
police stations.
ISLAMABAD: Chief of South African Navy Vice Admiral Mosuwa Samuel
Hlongwane Tuesday called on Chief of the Air Staff, Pakistan Air Force (PAF)
Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu at Air headquater. ––INP Photo
PM, Saudi FM
discuss matters of
mutual interest
ISLAMABAD
(APP):
Foreign Minister of Saudi
Arabia Prince Faisal Bin
Farhan Al Saud called on
Prime Minister Imran
Khan here on Tuesday
and discussed matters of
mutual interest.
The prime minister conveyed cordial greetings for
the Custodian of the Two
Holy
Mosques
King
Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al
Saud, and Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman.
He underscored the special significance of the
Pakistan-Saudi Arabia relationship, which was based
on close fraternal ties, historic links, and support at
the gross-roots level.
Recalling his visit to
Saudi Arabia in October
2021, the prime minister
took stock of the latest
developments and stressed
the importance of exploring
new avenues of cooperation
to further deepen bilateral
relations in diverse fields.
The prime minister commended the leadership role
of the Kingdom to advance
the Organization of the
Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
into a vital platform for the
Islamic world’s causes.
Recalling the issues faced
by the Islamic world, the
prime minister stressed the
need for enhanced cooperation for addressing the myriad of challenges confronting
the Ummah. Highlighting
the contemporary challenge
of Islamophobia affecting
the Muslims around the
world, the prime minister
underscored the importance
of collective action by the
OIC member states for
dealing with this pernicious
phenomenon.
Views
were
also
exchanged on various
regional and international
issues. The situation in
Afghanistan and the Indian
Illegally Occupied Jammu
and Kashmir (IIOJK) came
under discussion.
The prime minister
thanked the Saudi FM for the
Kingdom’s steadfast support
for the just cause of Jammu
and Kashmir. Prince Farhan
congratulated the prime minister on the successful holding of the 48th Session of the
OIC Council of Foreign
Ministers in Islamabad.
ISLAMABAD
(APP):
Foreign
Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on
Tuesday said it was time for the Muslim
Ummah to forge a collective response to
the current turmoil inside its borders and
the ongoing global transition.
“We must be a reliable partner in
forging unity, justice, and development across the globe, but not anyone’s accomplice in aggression or
domination,” he said in his address at
48th Session of the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of
Foreign Ministers after Pakistan
assumed the Chair.
The foreign minister said time
had come for OIC to strengthen and
equip itself to address contemporary
challenges and conflicts confronting
the Muslim Ummah. He mentioned
that the Muslim world was facing
the conflicts in the Middle East, prolonged foreign occupation, and the
denial of the right to self-determination, most notably to the people of
Palestine and Kashmir.
“The Muslim world’s resentment
is increasing due to frequent external
interventions in Muslim countries,”
he said. He pointed out that left unaddressed, these conflicts and disputes
undermined the unity and solidarity
of OIC countries, exposed the countries to foreign interference and intervention, fueled terrorism and extremism, and deflected attention from
development goals.
FM called upon OIC states to act as
“reliable partners, not accomplice in
aggression” To help forge a collective
response, and under the theme of
‘Partnering for Unity, Justice, and
Development,” the foreign minister
stressed uniting for justice for the rights
of Muslims under occupation and conflicts with countries beyond the
Ummah. “This should also include the
urgency of addressing the pervasive
Islamophobia facing Muslims in nonMuslim majority countries,” he said.
FM Qureshi emphasized partnering
for development by effectively addressing the triple global crises of COVID19, development, and climate change.
He mentioned the verses of the Holy
Quran as saying: “Hold fast all of you,
to the cord of Allah and be not divided”
The foreign minister proposed convening an OIC Ministerial Conference
during 2022-2023 to assess the need
for establishing a peace and security
architecture akin to all other regional
organizations. He said Pakistan stood
ready to play its part as a bridgebuilder in promoting regional and
OIC-driven solutions to internal conflicts. He said it was a matter of pride
for us to host this meeting in 2022
which marked the 75th Anniversary of
Pakistan’s independence.
“Promoting solidarity and cooperation within the Muslim Ummah is one
of the central pillars of Pakistan’s foreign policy. As Chair of the OIC-CFM
during 2022-23, Pakistan’s overarching
goal shall be to solidify this bridging
role further,” he said.
He commended the leadership role
of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the
OIC Summit Chair. Qureshi termed the
OIC as the collective voice of nearly
two billion Muslims and also a bridge
among Muslim nations and the international community. He also highlighted
the collective recent achievements
including holding the CFM on
Afghanistan, establishing the OIC
Humanitarian Trust Fund appointment
of Special Envoy of the OIC Secretary
General and launch of Afghanistan
Food Security Programme. He mentioned Pakistan's role in strengthening
OIC’s presence in Afghanistan by reinforcing the OIC Mission in Kabul.
Welcoming the recent designation of
15 March as the “International Day to
Combat Islamophobia” by the UN
General Assembly, he said Pakistan
was gratified to have played its role in
garnering consensus on this important
issue. “Through the observance of this
Day, the OIC will enhance greater global awareness of Islamophobia and
advance solutions through collective
action,” he said.
He said the Islamic Chamber of
Commerce, Industry and Agriculture,
based in Karachi, is galvanizing investment, influencing policy making and
undertaking initiatives for the development of the private sector.
The foreign minister said Pakistan
was witnessing unprecedented turbulence at the global level, adding that
conflict in Ukraine which had rekindled
East-West tensions, threatens international peace and security.
Qureshi regretted that even after 50
years of the OIC’s establishment, the
organization was far from seeing justice
for Muslims in many parts of the world.
“The Muslims of Palestine and the
Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and
Kashmir (IIOJK) are still reeling under
abominable subjugation,” he said. He
highlighted the Indian actions violating
the resolutions of the UN Security
Council and the OIC on Jammu and
Kashmir. “These illegal acts increased
the threat of a conflict between India
and Pakistan. Kashmiris are looking
towards their Muslim brothers and sisters for support,” he said.
To forge partnership for development, he proposed for the OIC countries to mobilize international support for a comprehensive strategy on
vaccine equity, increased development financing, accelerated climate
action and getting resolute action
against illicit financial flows. He also
called for taking advantage of a
Preferential System Trade among the
OIC member states. The foreign minister encouraged the efforts of the
Afghan authorities to eliminate
Daesh (IS-K) and stressed effective
strategies needed to deal with other
terrorist groups in Afghanistan like
TTP, ETIM, IMU, and Al-Qaida.
urged
OIC Secretary General calls upon concerted toOIC
help move
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efforts to tackle contemporary challenges warICJcrimes
ISLAMABAD
(APP):
Secretary General of the
Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) Hissein
Brahim Taha Tuesday
stressed upon concerted
efforts by all the OIC member states to tackle various
challenges being faced by
the Muslim Ummah.
Addressing the inaugural
session of the OIC-Council
of Foreign Ministers, he
said that the 48th session
was being held under the
theme of ‘Partnership to
build unity, justice and
development’, and called
for making of the joint
efforts to realize the collective objectives of the OIC.
About the Kashmir issue,
he said it had not found
solution for a very long
time. Terming the Indian
government’s acts of August
5, 2019 by changing the status of occupied Jammu and
Kashmir as violations of the
UNSC resolutions, he reiter-
ated OIC’s call to support
the rights of the Kashmiri
people to self-determination
in line with the resolutions
of the UNSC.
The secretary general
said that Palestinian people
had been facing illegal
Israeli occupation and the
forceful colonization of
their lands. Condemning
the ethnic cleansing of the
Palestinian people, he said
Israeli actions were stark
negation of the international laws and the UN resolutions for the peaceful settlement of the issue, by
protecting the Palestinian
rights to life and land.
About the issue of
Afghanistan, he emphasized
upon further efforts to bring
stability and peace. He
termed the establishment of
Afghanistan Humanitarian
Trust Fund on the margin of
the OIC-CFM session as
another effort by the member states for the financial
and humanitarian support to
the Afghan people.
Hissein Brahim Taha
further said that Yemen situation also caused deep
concerns for the OIC, and
called for immediate end to
conflict through peaceful
means. The OIC secretary
general also condemned
Houthis attacks against
civilians and installations.
He said the world was
facing racial discrimination,
calling upon the OIC member countries to put their
acts together to fight this
challenge. He also welcomed the recent adoption
of the UN resolution by
designating March 15 of
each year as a day to fight
against Islamophobia.
The secretary general further said that fighting terrorism was an absolute priority
of the OIC and called upon
protection of the rights of
children, women and families laws, besides, capacity
building of the Muslim
youth in the fields of latest
science and technological
fields and modern education.
Referring to the Covid
pandemic, he observed that
the world had not been yet
out of it which created huge
economic difficulties for the
developing and poor countries. The OIC secretary general underlined the need to
intensify the joint efforts to
ensure OIC objectives aimed
at eradication of poverty,
disease, illiteracy, extremism
and galvanizing efforts for
promotion of interfaith harmony, and making progress
in the fields of science and
technology.
He said the high level
education would be an optimal means to removing
backwardness of the developing countries. He also
appreciated the member
countries for contributing
towards the collective
objectives and goals of the
member states and called
upon making of further concerted efforts to realize the
programmes and action
under OIC’s umbrella.
He also expressed his
gratitude to the government
and the people of Pakistan
for the warm welcome and
hosting of the session. He
lauded Pakistan for its strong
commitment to the charter of
the OIC and its contributions
for the unity and solidarity of
the Muslim Ummah.
It was indeed a great
pleasure to attend the OICCFM session which also
coincided with the celebrations of Pakistan’s national
day, he added. He also
wished further progress and
prosperity of Pakistan and its
people. The Saudi foreign
minister Prince Faisal also
reiterated support to the role
and objectives of the organization. For ensuring peace
and stability in Afghanistan,
he said efforts should be
made to enable Afghans to
contribute towards the future
building of their country.
Faisal also called upon
Afghans to help themselves
by ensuring that Afghan
lands were not used as a
haven for extremist groups
by ensuring respect for
human rights, including
women's right to education.
He also reaffirmed
Kingdom’s support to the
OIC efforts for the just resolution of the Palestinian
and Jammu and Kashmir
issues. The foreign minister
denounced Houthis’ attacks
against KSA, adding that
Saudi Arabia had been providing humanitarian support and relief to the
Yemeni people.
Chinese State Councilor
and Foreign Minister
Wang Yi, in his speech,
said that their shared goals
were motivated through
mutual respect and cooperation.
Preparations for OIC-moot: Guterres underlines
Pakistan Day
close cooperation, strategies
Parade finalized in face of abounding challenges
ISLAMABAD (APP): The nation will celebrate the 82nd
Pakistan Day with full zeal and fervour Wednesday as the
preparations for the Pakistan Day Parade in the Federal
Capital to show the country’s military prowess and cultural diversity are in full swing.
The joint services parade will include contingents of the
tri-services, paramilitary forces and civil armed forces
whereas troops from friendly countries will also participate.
The parade will also include the troops of Armoured
Corps, Artillery, and Air Defence Engineers, which will
be equipped with awe-inspiring weapons whereas missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will also be
part of it as a symbol of Pakistan's invincible defence.
One of the important highlights of this year’s Pakistan
Day Parade will be the flypast of the most modern J10-C
fighter jets, besides the aviation flypast.
The J10-C fighter aircraft, all weather jets with cutting
edge technology, have been recently inducted into the
Pakistan Air Force’s fleet. The commandos of Special
Services Group (SSG) will demonstrate a free fall at the
scenic Parade Ground in the heart of the Federal Capital.
The colourful attraction of the Parade will be the cultural floats from all the provinces, including Azad
Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.
Most importantly, the participants of 48th Session of
the Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Council
of Foreign Ministers have been specially invited to attend
the Pakistan Day Parade. Therefore, a special float of the
OIC has been prepared, which will also be part of the cultural floats.
The theme of this year's Pakistan Day is "Shad Rahe
Pakistan" (May Pakistan Be Happy) and the prayer theme
is part of the national anthem "Markaz e Yaqeen Shad
Bad" (Blessed be the Citadel of Faith).
The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) has also
released an enthralling national song on the theme "Shad
Rahe Pakistan", written and sang by lyricist and singer
Shuja Haider, with vocalist Yashal Shahid.
Moreover, the ISPR have also issued short public service messages to pay homage to the nation and father of
the nation.
ISLAMABAD
(APP):
United Nations Secretary
General Antonio Guterres
Tuesday, noting the close
relationship between the
UN and Organization of
Islamic Cooperation (OIC),
said that it was more urgent
than ever to accelerate
cooperation and devise
common strategies to face
the abounding challenges.
“Today, the imperative to
join forces, devise common
strategies, and draw on our
comparative advantages is
more urgent than ever. In my
recent report on Our
Common Agenda, I have
offered proposals – guided
by the beacon of the Charter
– to update global governance, better manage risks
and threats, and build the
safer, more resilient, and
inclusive world set out in the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development,” the UN secretary general said in a video
message during the 48th session of the OIC-Council of
Foreign Ministers.
He said the United
Nations and the OIC
enjoyed a close, decadeslong relationship rooted in
trust and based on the
shared belief in the values
of multilateral cooperation,
dialogue, and solidarity.
Across Asia, the Middle
East, Africa and beyond, he
said the two organizations
had worked together to nurture a culture of peace, tolerance, and understanding.
In recent years, they have
successfully deepened their
collaboration on key areas of
mutual concern – including
mediation, countering terrorism, preventing violent
extremism, combatting anti-
Muslim hatred, and promoting religious tolerance, he
added. “Only together, in
unity with partners at all levels, we can confront shared
challenges and create a better
future for all,” he maintained.
The UN secretary general
further said that challenges
abound – from the war in
Ukraine and its global ramifications,
to
growing
inequalities and proliferating assault on human rights.
“Developing countries in
particular face crises on so
many fronts. Vaccine
inequity is blocking recovery. Poverty is deepening, as
countries are paralyzed by
debt and liquidity issues. We
must reform a morally
bankrupt global financial
system,” he opined.
Malaysian Islamic
Organization assures support
for Kashmir cause
ISLAMABAD
(APP):
Malaysian
Consultative
Council
of
Islamic
Organisation here on Tuesday expressed
concern over human rights situation in
Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and
Kashmir (IIOJK) and assured worldwide
support for the cause of Kashmir.
The commitment was made during a
meeting of council delegation, comprising
its president M Azimi Bin Abd Hamid, Mrs
M Azmi, Vaqar Ahmed Bin Muhammad
Director, with APHC AJK Convener
Muhammad Farooq Rehmani , Mehmood
Ahmad Saghar, Sheikh Abdul Mateen ,
Altaf Ahmad Wani, and Mrs Shamima
Shawl, according to press statement issued
by All Parties Hurriyat Conference.
The council delegation said that they
would raise the humanitarian issue in different forums and apprise their govern-
ment and OIC Malaysian members about
the plight of the Kashmiris under the
Indian occupation.
There was also exchange of views on
latest political and human rights situation
developing after 5 August 2019, due to
India's repeal of 370 & 35A Acts of the
constitution of India.
The APHC leaders briefed the delegation on India's laws extended to Kashmir
and said that India was fast moving on the
path of Hindutva State in India and was
changing demography of the Muslim
majority IIOJK with the help of sweeping
constitutional and legal transformation.
For this purpose Kashmiri leaders
have been indicted in different criminal
cases without giving them right to
defend themselves before the NIA courts
in Delhi and Kashmir.
in IIOJK
ISLAMABAD
(APP):
Organization of Kashmir
Coalition
(OKC)
on
Tuesday
urged
the
Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) to help
move International Court of
Justice (ICJ) for war crimes
and investigate mass and
unknown graves in Indian
Illegally Occupied Jammu
and Kashmir (IIOJK).
In a letter to the OlC’s
Secretary-General,
Ambassador
Hissein
Ibrahim Taha, the OKC
leaders Prof Nazir Ahmed
Shawl and Barrister A Majid
Tramboo welcomed the
48th Session of the Council
of Foreign Ministers (CFM)
of OIC in Islamabad.
Recognising that OIC
has always advocated
Sawt-Al-Hikmah (voice of
wisdom), through Centre
for Dialogue, Peace and
Understanding. However,
they regretted that the government of India continued
to formulate and execute
extremist policies in the
occupied territory.
The OKC leaders urged
OIC to refer and file,
through one of its member
states, with the ICJ the
crime of genocide in
IIOJK against all the perpetrators who have acted
or act at the behest of
Indian government.
They said, OKC has
accumulated substantial
evidence on the crime of
genocide against the people
of IIOJK and said OIC has
the duty to prevent genocide and the responsibility
to protect Kashmiris under
the international law.
They highlighted the
atrocities those are being
encountered by ordinary
Kashmiris for peace and
human rights in their dayto-day life including lockdowns particularly from 5
August 5, 2019 when the
Indian government abrogated the articles 35(A) & 370
of its own constitution and
which extended special status to Jammu & Kashmir
recognising the state being
a disputed territory pursuant to the UN mandate.
"The people of Jammu &
Kashmir have found solace
in the OIC’s principled support for the realisation of
their legitimate right of selfdetermination, in accordance
with the UN Resolutions' ',
the letter stated. The OKC
also urged OIC to commence, under its human
rights mechanism, full investigation into the ”Mass and
Unknown Graves” which
are spread all over IIOJK.
Russian LPG suppliers
‘323 children have died’
KABUL (Tolo News): Numbers of the Ministry
of Public Health (MoPH) indicated that at least
323 malnourished children have died since the
beginning of 2022 across Afghanistan. Jawid
Hazhir, spokesman of the Ministry of Public
Health, said that nearly 200,000 children have
been affected by malnutrition in the past year.
“Since the beginning of the new year (2022),
59,883 severe malnutrition cases were registered, 137,096 children had moderate malnutrition, and 323 have died,” said Hazhir.
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KABUL (Tolo News): Russian producers plan
to resume LPG supplies to Afghanistan in
March, rail data in Refinitiv Eikon showed,
after they lost traditional westbound routes due
to the Ukraine conflict. Russian producers have
not supplied LPG to Afghanistan. The GPP in
the Russian city of Orenburg owned by
Kazrosgaz, the joint venture of Kazakh stateowned Kazmunaigaz and Russia's Gazprom,
plans to ship to Afghanistan 10,000 tonnes of
LPG, rail data showed.
Asia is comparable to a living body composed of soil and water. The heart that beats inside the body is Afghanistan. The destruction of Afghanistan would be the destruction of Asia. And in its progress and prosperity lies the well-being of Asia. - Allama Iqbal
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Ghani calls for national
cars accident
dialogue to address challenges
KABUL (Tolo News): Former president Ashraf Ghani in an audio message on the occasion of Nowruz
called for a national dialogue in the
country to address the humanitarian
and economic challenges and to
achieve lasting stability.
He also mentioned seven areas to
address the challenges. He said the
country is now at a critical juncture
and if the situation is not managed
properly, the past’s mistakes will be
repeated. “It is necessary to start a
national dialogue and reach a conclusion,” he said. “God willing, we have
physical property and assets and also
the capacity by which we can free
ourselves from poverty.”
Transparent management of international humanitarian aid, peace and
reconciliation in the country to reach
stability, a national consensus for
legitimacy, paving the way for all
Afghans' participation in the government, using domestic sources to
become self-reliant, adopting a neutral policy, and implementing major
national and regional projects are the
approaches he mentioned. He said if
implemented, these steps will address
the problems in the country.
“If we repeat the past’s mistakes,
do not accept each other, and rely on
exclusion and elimination, bad events
will be repeated and the war will
restart,” he said. “The alternative way
is the way of acceptance and national
unity, concentration on economic
evolution, and seeking national,
regional and international legitimacy.”
A number of analysts said Ghani’s
suggestions and approaches are academic and good, but they stressed
that he himself did not put into practice such abstract ideas during his
presidency. Sayed Javad Sajjadi, an
international analyst, said: “In principle, we should accept logical and
and culture have many programs
including buzkashi, and poetry competitions,” said Ata Mohammad
Saho, head of the provincial department of information and culture.
Nawroz was previously also celebrated with many festivals including
music, cultural and sports events and
various types of exhibition.
Meanwhile, hundreds gathered in
Kabul city --the first day of the 1401
solar year--to celebrate the traditional
event of Nawroz at the Karta-e-Sakhi
Shrine. The participants of the event
hoisted a flag (Janda Bala), which is
traditionally done every year for
Nawroz. “The festival happened in
the early morning when there was a
smaller number of people,” said
Mohammad Baseer, a resident of
Kabul.
“We hoped our leaders would hold
this ceremony and the people would
be celebrating it together,” said Bilal
a resident of Kabul. However, the
current government of the Islamic
Emirate announced that there would
be no official celebration of Nawroz
this year in Afghanistan.
Sayed Suhrab, a resident of Paktia,
came to Kabul with his family to participate in the event of Karta-e-Sakhi
Shrine. “Last year there was a large
crowd, but this year there were not so
many people,” he said. Other residents of Kabul gathered in the Tapae-Gul Ghondi area for celebration.
“There were a lot of people and
many families in previous years. This
year there were a lot of single people,
but the number of families was low,’
said Mahmood, who came to Tapa-eGul Ghondi. Many Afghan citizens
said Nawroz was a traditional and
ancient event and suggested that this
day should be celebrated to bring
NEW DELHI (AP): The
family of a Pulitzer Prizewinning Indian photographer who was killed in
Afghanistan last year filed
a formal complaint with the
International
Criminal
Court on Tuesday to investigate his killing and bring
to trial the Taliban’s top
leadership for “committing
war crimes.”
Siddiqui worked for the
Reuters news service and
was embedded with Afghan
special forces in July last
year when he was killed as
the commando unit battled
for control of the Spin
Boldak crossing, on the
border.
The family’s complaint
cites several media reports,
including from Reuters,
that say Siddiqui was captured by the Taliban and
later executed. The com-
plaint also says his body
was mutilated while in the
custody of the group.
A Taliban spokesperson
last year had denied that
Siddiqui was killed by the
group and that his body was
mutilated in their custody.
Lawyer Avi Singh, who is
representing
Siddiqui's
family, said the complaint
seeks to bring to book at
least six high-ranking
Taliban leaders and highlevel commanders for war
crimes and crimes against
humanity. He said the complaint has been sent to ICC
Prosecutor Karim Khan and
its Victims and Witnesses
Unit on behalf of Siddiqui's
parents.
“The Taliban targeted
and killed Danish because
he was a journalist and an
Indian. That is an international crime. In the absence
of rule of law in
Afghanistan, the ICC has
jurisdiction to investigate
and try the perpetrators of
Danish’s murder,” said
Singh. He said the family
will also seek the Indian
government's support for
an independent and impartial investigation into
Siddiqui’s killing.
India is not a signatory
to the Rome Statute, the
treaty that established the
International
Criminal
Court. “It is important to
look for justice,” said Omar
Siddiqui, the slain journalist's brother. Siddiqui, 38,
and his colleagues were
honored with 2018 Pulitzer
Prize for what the judges
called “shocking photographs that exposed the
world to the violence
Rohingya refugees faced in
fleeing Myanmar.”
fundamental remarks without considering who is saying it. Legally
and politically Ashraf Ghani has a
right to express his idea about big
issues of the country. But morally,
considering his past, he is not in
such a position.”
“This message’s content is good.
But Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai’s behavior during his presidency was completely against his new suggestions,”
Wais Nasiri, a political analyst said.
The Islamic Emirate has yet to comKABUL (Agencies): Criment on Ghani’s remarks.
cket fans across Afghanistan have welcomed the
news that this year’s TATA
IPL 2022 Season will be
broadcast live on Ariana
Television after ATN KABUL (Tolo News): the voice of people. The process in the country. The
secured broadcasting rights Amnesty International in a report said that the ongoing reasons for arrests should
of this exciting annual report expressed concerns violations have created an be shared with the people
tournament. over the violation of human intimidating environment and media,” he said.
happiness to the faces of the people. cricket
In the western province of Herat, Securing the rights to rights by the current for the victims’ families
The US special envoy
families came out of their homes and broadcast this year’s tour- Afghan authorities. “The and others to “openly report for Afghanistan Thomas
nament is yet another nine cases that we have violations and advocate for West said that he is
celebrated in entertainment areas.
The people in Herat are celebrat- achievement for ATN, documented contribute to a redress and change.”
"deeply concerned by the
ing Nawroz through a special event— which continues to bring growing pattern of arbitrary
Heather Barr, associate recent arbitrary arrest" of
which is called Haftsin—involving a world class events to arrests, unlawful detentions director of the Women's TOLOnews journalists.
combination of seven kinds of fruits Afghanistan for the public and enforced disappear- Rights Division at Human “We seriously deny the
and vegetables whose name starts to enjoy in the comfort of ances by the Taliban Rights Watch said that they report and allegations of
with the letter “S” in Dari. “This is their own home.
against those who have have seen a deterioration of Amnesty International.
This year’s tournament tried to question the Taliban media freedom under the Their information is based
our cultural heritage. This culture will
remain forever,” said Ali Zamani, a will run from Saturday and by way of peaceful protests ruling of the current gov- on incorrect information.
resident of Herat. The Afghans are all matches will be held in or by exercising their right ernment.
After the Islamic Emirate
and
Pune. to freedom of expression,”
celebrating Nawroz as their country Mumbai
“We have seen very seri- swept into power, the
faces an unprecedent humanitarian According to the IPL the report read.
ous deterioration in media rights of all Afghans and
crisis, with millions of children suf- Governing Council, key
“In the last two months, freedom under the Taliban all elements were ensured.
fering from malnutrition and millions decisions regarding this January and February, more with journalists being The Islamic Emirate is
of others also facing starvation and a year’s IPL were made than 60 people including detained even in recent making provisions to
recently at a meeting given children faced either arbi- days and some brutal address the rights of the
high-level of poverty.
UN Secretary-General António concerns about the spread trary arrest, unlawful deten- attacks on some journal- people,” said Bilal Karimi,
Guterres shared a post on the occa- of COVID-19.
tion or enforced disappear- ists,” she said.
deputy spokesman for the
“The 15th edition of the ance at the hands of Taliban
sion of Nowruz on Twitter. “As
Masroor Lutfi, of the Islamic Emirate. Earlier,
humanity faces unprecedented chal- Indian Premier League will authorities in Afghanistan.” Afghanistan
National many human rights watchlenges, let us be guided by the be played in a bio-secure
Amnesty International Journalists Union (ANJU), dog groups and other
Nowruz spirit of solidarity and renew environment at a single hub called the arbitrary arrests, said that the journalists organizations expressed
our pledge to live in harmony and to avoid air travel which is unlawful detentions and should be treated based on concerns over the violaprotect our planet,” Guterres tweeted. considered as a major enforced disappearances the law. “There is a need for tion of human rights by the
Guterres also wished all who cele- threat for the spread of the latest tactic by the journalists to be treated current Afghan governinfection, Islamic Emirate to silence based on law and due ment.
brate the start of the new solar year, COVID-19
on the Persian calendar, a happy thereby affecting the players and the League/matchNowruz.
IPL
Governing
“I wish everyone a happy, healthy es,”
and peaceful Nowruz,” he tweeted. Council said in a recent
His comments came after the Islamic statement. The council also
Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) can- stated that the 10 teams will
celed the holiday said there would be play a total of 14 league
no public holiday but stated they matches followed by the
would not stop people from celebrat- four playoff matches.
Each team will play five
ing the festival. Persian New Year,
known as Nowruz and celebrated teams twice and the
throughout Iran and Central Asia, is a remaining four teams only
popular festival in Afghanistan and is once. Afghans meanwhile
usually marked by a public holiday, welcomed the news that
when families gather to prepare fes- they will be able to watch
tive dishes and welcome the begin- the tournament live. Zalmai
Hussain, a Kabul resident,
ning of spring.
said: “This is good news
for us cricket fans. We welcome Ariana Television’s
decision. IPL is always
very exciting to watch.”
Another Kabul resident,
men stormed the campus, killing 22
people and wounding 50 others. Khalid Takal said: “The
Several weeks ago, Mohammad’s Afghan cricket fans enjoy
family had a very close call with the watching the cricket matches live on TV. They enjoy
Taliban.
“They were doing a house to house watching matches on a big
search, looking for guns, and they screen together with their
came into my family’s home,” he said, friends, families, and coladding the Taliban threw items all leagues. “While watching
around, “trashing” the place. The fol- matches on TV, they share
lowing day, they came back and their feelings and views
searched again. “I told my family to about their favorite players KABUL (Khaama Press): schools as new educational place for admitting new
delete my number from their phone or teams. They enjoy As the new educational years unfold. “Before the students to schools and the
because it may be dangerous for exchanging their ideas and year begins on Tuesday reopening of schools that process has already begun.
them,” he said. Eileen Monaghan has feelings about their favorite across 24 non-tropical takes place on Hamal 3rd, The IEA has announced
been helping to make Mohammadi teams and players while provinces in Afghanistan, UNICEF Afghanistan asks that schools of all levels
feel at home by cooking Afghan dish- watching matches live on United Nations Interna- all Afghan parents to pre- both for boys and girls will
es — with Mohammadi’s mother on TV.”
tional Children Emergency pare their eligible children be reopened but there will
Takal
said
despite Fun asked people in and send them to schools not be co-education in
WhatsApp, tweaking recipes as
matches being broadcast Afghanistan to send their across Afghanistan.” Reads place and girls will only be
they’re cooking.
He said the biggest culture shock is live on social media, minors to schools.
the Tweet.
taught by female teachers.
the cold weather, since Afghanistan “Afghans still prefer to
UNICEF Afghanistan in
Ministry of Education of UN Secretary-General has
never gets as cold as the US. “He is watch matches on TV since a Twitter post urged all the Islamic Emirate of also welcomed the move
constantly cold,” Eileen Monaghan they do not have access to Afghan parents to prepare Afghanistan has announced and asked for implementasaid. Mohammadi has recently been high-speed internet.
their eligible children for that there is no limitation in tion of that.
hired as a translator with New Milford
Refugee Resettlement. He hopes to
get a driver’s license soon and enroll
at Western Connecticut State
University this summer. He eventually would like to get his MBA at
Harvard University in homeland security and accounting. Members of the
public may sponsor Mohammadi. KABUL
(Agencies): Khalid the country a week before the grateful to be able to support his
Checks should be made out to Payenda who once oversaw and pre- Taliban took control of the capital family in any way he could. He also
Mohammad Mohammadi and sent to sented a 6 billion dollar budget as city due to straining relations with said he blames the United States of
Webster Bank, 53 Main St., New Afghanistan's Finance Minister in Prime Minister Ashraf Ghani.
America for Afghanistan's current
Milford CT 06776.
Kabul is now an Uber driver in
He tweeted back on August 10 situation, as the withdrawal of
With everything Mohammadi has Washington DC to support his fami- saying “Today I stepped down as the troops had allowed the Taliban to
been through in his young life, Eileen ly. Talking to The Washington Post Acting Minister of Finance. Leading take over.
Monaghan said he represents the he said he earns “a little over 150 MoF was the greatest honor of my
In a text message to a World Bank
“resiliency of the human spirit — to dollars for six hours' work, not life but it was time to step down to Official in Kabul, the day the capital
fight to get out and to be as focused, counting his commute”.
attend to personal priorities.” He fell he wrote “We had 20 years and
as positive.” Since Mohammadi
Afghanistan is currently facing a left Afghanistan due to his fear of the whole world's support to build a
began living with the Monaghans, financial and humanitarian crisis, being arrested by the government system that would work for the peothey’ve gotten very attached to him. with many countries around the and joined his family in the United ple…All we built was a house of
“We will keep him until he’s estab- world hesitant to recognize the States of America.
cards that came down crashing this
lished,” Eileen Monaghan said. “But Taliban government that overthrew
In his interview with The fast. A house of cards built on the
hopefully, he’ll be part of our lives the US backed regime. Payenda had Washington Posthe said moving had foundation of corruption,” as quoted
forever.”
resigned as the Finance Minister of been “quite an adjustment”, but was by The Washington Post.
Balkh celebrates Nawroz but
without customary flag-hoisting
KABUL (Tolo News): Nawroz, the
solar new year, was celebrated in a
different way this year in the northern
province of Balkh, as no “flag hoisting” happened after the government
said it will not officially celebrate
Nawroz festival. The festival was celebrated in past years with the presence of government officials and
thousands of people including foreigners attending the ceremony.
A special ceremony of Janda Bala
(flag hoisting) was traditionally held
at Rawza-e-Mubarak (Hazrat Ali
Shrine) in the provincial capital of
Mazar-e-Sharif, but this year no such
celebration took place. “This year,
unfortunately there was no flag hoisting. This is a tradition which has been
performed for thousands of years,”
said Ahmad Sharif, a resident of
Balkh.
“Nawroz was a glorious ceremony
in the past years in Mazar-e-Sharif.
This is the tradition of the people,”
said Mirwais, a resident of
Badakhshan who came to Mazar-eSharif to attend the festival.
However, many influential Afghan
leaders in a greeting message welcomed the new year (Nawroz) and
wished the Afghans a happy year
ahead.
Faqir Hossein, 72, came from
Kabul to take part in the festival of
Nawroz. “Everyone was trying to be
part of the flag hoisting event. They
were chanting “Allah Akbar" with
happiness,” he said. The people who
came to Mazar-e-Sharif to attend the
ceremony of the new year said they
wished the festival would have been
held. Provincial officials said there
are many other programs including
sports.
“The department of information
KABUL (Khaama Press):
Security officials of the
eastern Nangarhar province
said that a car accident in
the provincial provinceJalalabad City has claimed
the lives of eight people
and injured two more.
The officials added that
the accident happened on
the ring road of the city.
They added that the deadly
accident took place after an
auto collided with a mini
truck in Police District six
of Jalalabad city. Head of
the Traffic management of
the Jalalabad city Jawad
Shirzad said four women,
three men, and a child were
among those who lost their
lives adding a man and a
woman were other passengers who have been hurt.
Those injured have been
dispatched to the city’s hospital. Substandard roads,
lack of drivers’ caution, and
not obeying traffic rules are
reasons behind deadly accidents across Afghanistan
that claim the lives of tens
of people every year.
Family of slain
journalist takes
Taliban to ICC
Afghans hail
ATN’s move
Amnesty voices concerns
over HRs violations
Parents asked to send
children to schools
Refugee finds home in New Milford
NEW
MILFORD
(Agencies):
Twenty-year-old Afghan refugee
Mohammad Mohammadi spends his
days taking online classes, sightseeing
and bonding with his New Milford
family.
Mohammadi has come a long way
from his homeland, where last
August, he, along with a cousin and
uncle, were able to get on a plane and
escape the bombings after the fall of
Kabul to the Taliban. They were
among 800 people on a US C-17 in an
Air Force evacuation flight from
Kabul to Qatar.
Since coming to New Milford in
late January, Mohammadi has been
living with residents Eileen and
Gerard Monaghan. He plans to stay
with them at least six months or
longer, while he acclimates himself to
his new culture and plans the next
chapter in his life. Mohammadi’s path
to New Milford began through Eilieen
Monaghan’s involvement with New
Milford Refugee Resettlement, a
group of volunteers from four local
churches whose mission is to help
immigrants successfully integrate into
the New Milford community.
“We got this email that said this
young man in Fort Pickett, Virginia,
and his cousin have been taken out of
Afghanistan and placed in a home in
Pennsylvania, and they were looking
for a place for a cousin, Mohammad,”
said Eileen Monaghan, 77, who previously taught fifth grade at John
Pettibone School in New Milford. Her
husband Gerard Monaghan, 76, was a
newspaper journalist. The couple,
who is retired and has four grown
children and nine grandchildren, were
immediately interested in getting
involved.
“I worked with refugees in the past.
Also, Gerard took a Cambodian family into his home for a year in 1975,”
Eileen Monaghan said. To take in
Mohammadi, the couple worked with
the Sponsor Circle Program, a community-led resettlement initiative. To
get the financial support to bring
Mohammadi to Connecticut, the couple collected donations.
“We raised the money by sending
letters to our friends,” Eileen
Monaghan said. In total, the couple
raised over $6,000. They were interviewed over Zoom and went through
an extensive background check. After
the fall of Kabul in August,
Mohammadi and his five siblings and
parents had been trying to get out of
Afghanistan, since conditions were
becoming increasingly dangerous
there.
However, there never seemed to be
a safe opportunity to do so. “The situation was not good and the Taliban
was hurting everyone,” Mohammadi
said. He and his family made several
trips to Kabul International Airport,
only to turn around and go back home.
On Aug. 22, they tried one more time.
Due to traffic, it took them about four
hours to make the 45-minute trip to the
airport. They stayed there for two
days. At the airport, Mohammadi’s
father gave Mohammadi documentation, showing proof of working for an
American company, and Mohammadi
was able to board the plane with his
uncle and cousin.
“The rest of my family was supposed to get out a day after I did but,
after a (suicide) bombing in Kabul airport on Aug. 26, they didn’t try again
and decided to stay in Kabul instead
of risking death in the airport,” he
said. Nearly 200 people were killed in
that bombing. Mohammadi said he’s
afraid for the safety of his family back
home and hopes to get them out of
Afghanistan as soon as possible.
He recalled an incident in 2020
when a friend of his, who was also
named Mohammad, was shot and
killed by the Taliban inside a classroom at Kabul University. Three gun-
Afghanistan’s ex-minister now
drives an Uber Cab in US
The
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Frontier Post
Russia-Japan talks
Mikhail Sheinkman
W
e go out. And
you stay. With a
nose. With an
eye that sees. With a tooth
that is numb. With an ear
that is from a dead donkey. Maybe it's not a shot
in the leg, but hara-kiri
with a blunt sword.
"This is unacceptably
harsh, absolutely unjustified and unacceptable," perhaps, he over-expanded
the classic "What are we
for?" Japanese Prime
Minister Fumio Kishida.
Although, it is clear - emotions, nerves. Moscow took
him by surprise. When she
announced her withdrawal
from the peace treaty dialogue, it was dead of night
in Tokyo - he was sleeping
and he could see the "northern territories" under a
huge red dot on a white
background. Woke up - and
then he and "good
evening." It's a shame. But
now he can tell his parliament. Well, and girlfriends
in the "Big Seven". They
are there for this purpose
and are going to wash the
bones of the Russians.
And with us all the guys
came. Ultimate. No more
Kuriles. Forget to even
think. You are here, however, and so nothing shone.
But there was a visa-free
visit, options for joint eco-
nomic activities on the
islands were being worked
out. Now there is no such
topic. The shop is closing.
No, but how "to discuss the
fundamental document on
bilateral relations with a
state that takes openly
unfriendly positions and
seeks to harm the interests
of our country"? No way.
We have endured for a
long time. They clearly
explained that the issue of
ownership of the southern
ridge had been settled. And
they didn’t even hint that
the absence of a peace
agreement is an occasion to
remember that Hokkaido
was also ours. Diplomatically tried to embroider
contradictions. But with
them, each new prime minister became, in this sense,
Sisyphus. And the current
one has completely begun
to roll the barrel. Moreover,
even before the Ukrainian
crisis, he began to allow
himself too much. Our special operation only helped
him completely lose his
sense of proportion and requalify Sisyphus's work as
a monkey.
Licked almost everything from the USA. The
demeanor, the rhetoric, the
sanctions packages, the
decision to end normal economic relations with us.
After all, "under the current
circumstances, the continu-
ation of the dialogue is
impossible," - this is his
phrase. We just agreed: no,
no.
In general, what did they
fight for ... Wanted to
agree? Here you have
agreed. We go out. And you
stay. With a nose. With an
eye that sees. With a tooth
that is numb. With an ear
that is from a dead donkey.
And with another organ,
which is also of three letters. Maybe it's not a shot in
the leg, but hara-kiri with a
blunt sword. You will live,
but don’t go to the bathhouse with the peasants they will laugh.
However,
this
can
always be corrected. In any
case, it seems to the
Japanese prime minister
himself that he knows how.
"The rampage of Russia,
which is a permanent member of the United Nations
Security Council, requires
the organization of a new
world order," he revealed
his secret plans a week ago.
Decided that now is the
time to revisit the old one.
But no one suggested: be
afraid of your thoughts they can come true. Fumio
with understanding, feels
alignment. The wrong side,
sorry, I chose the barricades. Do you want order?
Give, Kishida, time. If you
have a squirrel, there will
be a whistle.
SOFIA (TASS): Poland and
Bulgaria have agreed on
technical support for MiG29 aircraft of the Bulgarian
Air Force. Bulgarian President Rumen Radev annouImogen Foulkes
nced this in a statement following talks with Polish
President Andrzej Duda.
here’s one dominant
“I thank Duda for being
topic in internationready to immediately send
al Geneva these
experts to assist Bulgaria in days, and that is Russia’s
supporting the MiG-29
with the capabilities of the
Polish industry and the Air
Force. The situation with
fighter aircraft is especially
critical for us, the engine
life of some aircraft of
which is running out by the
end of this year, and the
operational readiness of the
new F-16 aircraft [which
we acquired in the US] can
only be expected by 2030.
If urgent measures are not
taken, then we risk losing
our air sovereignty and
compromise the project to
acquire new fighters, for
which we simply do not
have there will be pilots,"
Radev said. He shared
plans to modernize his
armed forces, announcing
an increase in funding for
this area to 4% of GDP and
an increase in the number
of armed forces to 500,000
people. "We are ready to
fulfill all agreements on the
acquisition of weapons
from US, including two
squadrons of F-35 fighters.
T
“Support the troops!”
Continued from F. Page itself with whom it will
choose to associate in terms
when JFK stated in disgust of its alliances, its partneras he left the meeting, “And ships, and what orientation
we call ourselves the huma- it wishes to direct its gaze.”
n race.’’ During the Cuban
Whoops! Well, except
Missile
Crisis,
the for Cuba! To Kennedy’s evPentagon was doing every- erlasting credit, he refused
thing it could to pressure to succumb to the PentKennedy into ordering a agon’s pressure to invade
full-scale bombing and mil- Cuba. In fact, by this time
itary invasion of Cuba to he held the military-intelliretaliate for Cuba’s installa- gence establishment in detion of Soviet nuclear mis- ep disdain, and, of course,
siles in Cuba. The Pentagon the feeling was mutual. To
and the CIA took the posi- the rage of the Pentagon antion that Cuba didn’t have d the CIA, Kennedy struck
the “right” to do that.
a deal with Russian Premier
Let’s revisit State Depa- Nikita Khrushchev in
rtment spokesman Ned Pri- which he vowed that there
ce’s pontifical words with would be no more U.S.
respect to Ukraine: “the p- invasions of Cuba by either
rinciple that each and every the Pentagon or the CIA.
country has a sovereign
Adding insult to injury,
right to determine its own in a secret codicil to the agforeign policy, has a sover- reement, Kennedy promiseign right to determine for ed
to
remove
the
Pentagon’s nuclear missiles
in Turkey that were aimed
at the Soviet Union. Yes, you read that right: The Pentagon and the CIA claimed
that Cuba had no “right” to
install nuclear missiles in
Cuba while maintaining that the Pentagon and the CIA had the “right” to install
nuclear missiles in Turkey
aimed at the Soviet Union.
That’s one reason why
the Pentagon and the CIA
knew that Russia would
invade Ukraine when
NATO threatened to absorb
Ukraine. The absorption
would enable the Pentagon
and the CIA to install their
nuclear missiles on Russia’s border. The Pentagon
and the CIA knew that
Russia’s reaction to that
possibility would be no different from the Pentagon’s
and the CIA’s reaction to
Can UN get a true
picture of China?
Poland will
help Bulgaria
the installation of Russian
nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Needless to say, neither
the Pentagon nor the CIA
has ever apologized for
their Cold War machinations against both Kennedy
and Cuba. That, of course,
is not surprising. The reaction of their Operation
Mockingbird assets in the
mainstream press is also
not surprising.
What is disappointing,
however, is how so many
Americans refuse to acknowledge, criticize, and condemn this manifest evil and
rank hypocrisy within their
own country. As I point out
in my book An Encounter
with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story, that’s because all too many Americans,
unfortunately, have come to
view the national-security
establishment as their god.
assault on Ukraine. United
Nations aid agencies are
scrambling to cope with
this new and terrible
humanitarian crisis, diplomats are pressuring
Russia in every UN arena
possible, and all of us are
wondering how and when
this violence will end.
But there are other, very
important, issues that need
attention too. The UN Human
Rights Council is currently
holding its annual five-week
session,
and,
before
Moscow’s invasion, one thing
that was supposed to be top of
the council’s agenda was
China. For years human
rights activists have been
pointing to chilling evidence
from Xinjiang province,
where Beijing has reportedly
interned over a million
Uighur Moslems in so-called
“re-education” camps.
There are reports of forced
sterilisation, forced labour,
and other violations which
could amount, some say, to
crimes against humanity or
even genocide. Yet the few
journalists
and
other
observers who have been
allowed (accompanied by the
obligatory Chinese officials)
into Xinjiang have been
shown only consistently
smiling – singing and dancing even – young members of
the Uighur community.
What’s needed, human
rights groups say, is independent scrutiny of China, a
UN investigation, and, ideally, a full access unfettered
visit by the UN Hu-man
Rights Commissioner herself, Michelle Bachelet..
Surprise
announcement
No UN Human Rights
Commissioner has visited
China for 17 years. Beijing
regularly says UN officials
are welcome anytime, but
remains vague when it
comes to agreeing to the UN
terms of “meaningful unfettered access” for such visits.
Since Michelle Bachelet
took office, she has made
clear her wish to go to China,
but the wish and the reality
have appeared very far apart.
Her announcement, then,
slipped into her speech to
the human rights council on
March 8th, that her office
was “pleased to announce
that we have recently
reached an agreement with
the government of China
for a visit”, took journalists
in Geneva aback.
“Surprise, for all the
obvious reasons,” New
York Times contributor
Nick-Cumming Bruce tells
Inside Geneva.
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