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Imran [Khan], [Tahir ul] Qadri, and the ISI are our best friends.
Not Fit to Print: An Insider Account of Pakistani Censorship
Imran [Khan], [Tahir ul] Qadri, and the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] are our best friends," our weekly editorial meeting at Pakistan's Express Tribune was (jokingly) told on Aug. 13, 2014, a day before the two political leaders began their separate long marches from Lahore to Islamabad, and plunged the country into crisis. "We know it's not easy, but that's the way it is — at least for now. I promise to make things better soon," said the editor, who had called the meeting to inform us about the media group's editorial policy during the sit-ins and protests that would eventually, momentarily paralyze the Pakistani government.
The senior editorial staff, myself included, reluctantly agreed to the orders, which came from the CEO, because our jobs were on the line. Media groups in Pakistan are family-owned and make all decisions unilaterally — regardless of whether they concern marketing and finance or editorial content and policy — advancing their personal agendas through the influential mainstream outlets at their disposal. A majority of the CEOs and media house owners are businessmen, with no background (or interest) in the ethics of journalism. The owners and publishers make it very clear to their newsrooms and staff — including the editor — that any tilt or gloss they proscribe is non-negotiable. As a result, serious concerns persist about violence against and the intimidation of members of the media. In fact, Pakistan ranks 158 out of 180 countries in the 2014 World Press Freedom Index.
Yet there is also a more elusive problem within the country's press landscape: the collusion of Pakistan's powerful military and the nation's media outlets. I experienced this first-hand while I worked as a journalist at the Express Tribune during the recent protests led by Khan, the populist cricketer-turned-politician, and Qadri, a Pakistani-Canadian cleric and soapbox orator.
During this time, the owners of Pakistani media powerhouses — namely ARY News, the Express Media Group, and Dunya News — received instructions from the military establishment to support the "dissenting" leaders and their sit-ins. The military was using the media to add muscle and might to the anti-government movement in an attempt to cut Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif down to size.
The media obliged.
At the Express Media Group, anything related to Khan and Qadri were inexorably the lead stories on the front page or the hourly news bulletin. I witnessed polls showing support for Sharif being censored, while news stories on the misconduct of the protesters, along with any evidence that support among the protestors for Khan and Qadri was dwindling, were axed. While the BBC was publishing stories about how Qadri's protesters were allegedly being paid and Dawn, the leading English-language Pakistani newspaper — and the Express Tribune's main competitor — was writing powerful editorials about the military's role in the political crisis, we were making sure nothing negative about them went to print.
Day after day, my national editor told me about how he received frantic telephone calls late in the evening about what the lead story should be for the next day and what angle the article should take. First, we were told to focus on Khan. "Take this as Imran's top quote," "This should be in the headline," "Take a bigger picture of him" were the specific directives given by the CEO. Shortly after, the news group's owner was agitated that the newspaper had not been focusing enough on Qadri. We later found out that the military establishment was supporting the two leaders equally and the media was expected to do the same.
In their professional capacities, the editor and desk editors tried to put up a fight: they allowed some columns against the protests slip through; they did not extend the restrictions to publish against Khan and Qadri to the Web version of the newspaper; and they encouraged reporters to focus on the paper's strengths, such as investigative and research-based reports. However, it was difficult for the staff to keep its spirits high with the CEO's interference and his readiness to abide by the establishment's instructions. To be sure, the dictates were never given to the senior editorial staff, of which I was a part, directly. They were instead relayed to the editor or the national editor (who heads the main National Desk) via the CEO and then forwarded to us.
People often speculate about the media-military collusion in Pakistan, but in the instance of the current political standoff in the federal capital, as well as the Geo News controversy — where the establishment was seen resorting to extreme methods, such as forcing cable operators to suspend Geo's transmission and impelling competing media houses to publish news stories against Geo, to curtail the broadcast of the largest and most-watched television channel for accusing then-ISI chief Zaheer-ul-Islam of being behind the gun attack on Hamid Mir, its most-popular anchor — the media and the military worked hand-in-hand.
In most cases, it is common knowledge that the heavyweight broadcast anchors have strong ties to members of the military establishment, and they personally take direct instructions that are then conveyed to the owners of their respective media groups. This bias is often reflected in their coverage.
The anchors not only indulge in inaccurate reporting, but also shape political discourse against the democratically elected government and even the efficacy of democracy itself. Former Pakistani government officials have corroborated this by narrating their experience. One senior official told me: "Television anchors receive funds from the military establishment, if not the civilian Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Today, all the Pakistani intelligence agencies and the military have media departments that ostensibly only disseminate background information and press briefings, but are actually guiding and managing discourses and the national narrative."
And this narrative is pro-army. Consider one example in particular.
On Aug. 31, when Khan's and Qadri's protesters had stormed the Parliament's gates, Mubasher Lucman, a television anchor for ARY News — now the most-watched TV channel in Pakistan after Geo's transmission was illegally suspended — saluted the army during a live broadcast and invited the military to take over "and save the protesters and the country." Earlier on Aug. 25, he welcomed the "sound of boots"(a reference to the military), as he had no sympathy for corrupt politicians who looted the country.
As if this was not enough, Lucman and his fellow anchors at ARY, some of whom are known to have strong ties to the army and the ISI, alsomade unverified claims on live television that seven protesters had been killed by riot police in the ensuing clash. (It was reported by other news outlets that three people had died, one by accident.) Moreover, when Javed Hashmi, the estranged president of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party, came out in public on Sep. 1 to reveal how Khan was banking on the military and the judiciary to end Sharif's government, Lucman slammed Hashmi, while his fellow anchor, Fawad Chaudhry, insisted that Hashmi had been "planted in [the] PTI"by the prime minister's closest aides.
Hashmi, who is known for his principled politics and who has been tortured and imprisoned by the military over the years, made the claims about Khan in a press conference where he revealed that: "Imran Khan said we cannot move forward without the army…He told us that he has settled all the matters; there will be elections in September."
Soon after this, we at the Express Tribune were instructed by the military to highlight statements released by the army's Inter-Services Public Relations office about how it was not a party to the crisis. When the military was on the defensive, issuing rebuttals to Hashmi's "revelations," we saw the instructions lessen and the powerful institution backing off. Yet media discourse throughout Pakistan's history has been influenced by the military, the most powerful institution in the country, or, in a few cases, has been strong-armed and intimidated by civilian heads of state until they were ousted by the military. There is a structural bias against democratic institutions and elected officials in Pakistan, and such a discourse has the not-unintentional effect of making the military seem like a better alternative, thereby reinforcing the notion that democracy does not work.
Delhi girl defied her parents to marry boyfirend; killed 4 days later
Girl defied her parents to marry boyfriend from a different caste; killed 4 days later
Written by Ananya Bhardwaj
New Delhi – A 21-year-old woman, who had married outside her caste, was allegedly killed in Dwarka by her parents and then secretly cremated in her village in Alwar. The incident was reported on Sunday morning.
Police have arrested the woman's father, Jagmohan Yadav and mother, Savitri, based on the complaint filed by the widower. Police said the parents confessed to having killed and cremated their daughter.
The police, however, are working to ascertain that the same woman was indeed cremated, a doubt shared by her mother-in-law.
Bhawna married Abhishek Seth, who works as an assistant programmer at the Cabinet Secretariat in Rashtrapati Bhavan, on November 12. The couple studied together in Delhi's Venkateshwara College and wished to marry but the woman's family objected as Abhishek belongs to a different caste.
The two married anyway, in an Arya Samaj temple in Mandir Marg. They also got their marriage registered in court.
Bharati Seth, Abhsihek's mother, told Newsline, "When Abhishek came home with Bhawna and told me that they are now legally married, I told him that we should call Bhawna's parents and inform them. It was then that both families met."
She said Bhawna's parents were very angry. "I tried to reason with them that the couple had got their marriage registered in court. Since both were adults, they had a right to do so."
Bhawna's parents reportedly told Abhishek and his mother that they would take her home as no proper ceremonies were performed to bless the marriage. They told Abhishek that he should come to their Dwarka house on November 16 to take Bhawna back, Bharati said.
China launches 'world's longest' train route: Cargo train from China to Spain.
Move over Trans-Siberian: China launches 'world's longest' train route
The 82-wagon cargo train is expected to take 21 days to travel 6,200 miles, passing through six countries between China and Spain.
Dubbed Yixinou, the train left Yiwu, an industrial center less than 200 miles south of Shanghai, on Tuesday and is expected to reach Madrid in December after traversing Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and France, reports the Local.se.
Read more » RT
See more » http://rt.com/news/207447-china-spain-longest-train/
Over 70% teachers in Pakistan believe corporal punishment is useful
Over 70 per cent of teachers in Pakistan agree with the statement that corporal punishment is useful, shows a study launched by the education campaign Alif Ailaan.
This was just among the several findings of the study on teachers in Pakistan, especially government school teachers, about whom very little is known, especially when it comes to the challenges they face and the support they need to do their jobs well.
The Voice of Teachers, the study on Pakistani teachers, highlights the struggles of men and women who are charged with the task of educating this country's children, often under the most difficult circumstances.
Conducted by the Society for the Advancement of Education (SAHE), in partnership with Alif Ailaan, the study is based on an extensive survey of more than 1,250 teachers and head teachers in government and private schools across the country.
The survey interviewed 1,264 teachers (823 teachers and 441 head teachers) from 634 government and private schools in 15 districts, covering urban and rural areas in all four provinces. Its findings challenge many of the myths surrounding Pakistan's teaching workforce.
The study also delves into issues that have received public attention in recent years: political interference, the role of teachers' associations, recruitment, transfers and postings. Here too, what teachers have to say is surprising. Most government teachers state that they were hired on merit, with just 20 per cent reporting that their recruitment did not follow official procedures and just one per cent using political influence.
Among the issues that hamper a teachers' ability to perform effectively are overcrowded classrooms, multi-grade teaching, poor quality textbooks, and the lack of facilities and equipment. For government school teachers, non-teaching duties are a major concern. Teachers in the survey claim that they spend an average of 53 days a year on non-teaching duties.
Read more » DAWN
#No more ghosts: Facebook campaign sparks revolution in education sector
SINDH – KARACHI: What the Sindh government could not do with all its resources and powers, a few concerned individuals have managed to accomplish with a little spark of ingenuity and the help of modern technology.
The campaign against 'ghost teachers' that has gone viral on Facebook since it started last month has sparked a kind of revolution in the provincial education sector. The campaign has by now exposed hundreds of prominent figures, including journalists, political and social activists and nationalists who were drawing salaries from public schools but never bothered to attend even once.
The campaign
The major focus of the campaign was on those affiliated with the media. TV channel and newspaper owners were urged to take action against such journalists who were ruining the futures of hundreds of children.
A month on, the campaign has attracted the attention of almost 30 groups of individuals who collect data, including pictures of 'ghost teachers' from different areas and share the information on the page under the inscription, 'He is also a ghost teacher'. The data is then viewed and shared by those subscribed to the page. The remarkable success of the campaign can be gauged from the fact that people from all over Sindh have started posting information on 'ghost teachers' on the page.
With the exception of a few, most of the 'ghost teachers' are male. They are individuals who are quite prominent in their professions. Interestingly, the moderators of the page claim that the number of female ghost teachers is far higher than their male counterparts.
The profiles are shared from one person to another, and within hours, the accused inevitably finds out that they have been identified. Below the profiles follow a string of comments from users, urging the person to do justice to the profession. The comments are shaming, with the users having carefully picked their words to touch a nerve. 'Go ghost go', 'Don't destroy the future of our children' and 'You are not from among us' are some of the popular messages to the ghost teachers.
The campaigners
"The first rally for education started in 2012 from Mithi," recalled one of the senior campaigners, Liaquat Mirani. He is a teacher at a private school and has been threatened several times to stop the campaign. "The campaign has somewhat achieved what millions of rupees spent by the government and donor agencies could not do," he said, adding that several teachers have started joining their duties after the drive was launched on the social media. "It is a social media revolution."
Mirani is one of the campaigners who directly shares posts regarding ghost teachers on his personal Facebook profile. He has also asked others to come forward and help him point out those who cheat the nation.
Suhail Memon, who is himself a journalist, is among those who expose ghost teachers on social media. Speaking to The Express Tribune, Memon said that around 40,000 people have been declared 'ghost teachers' by the provincial government. "We are also collecting data of how many ghost teachers have been identified on our pages," he explained.
What they hope to achieve
"Believe me, no one will dare to be absent from schools in the future," he said. "There will be no compromise on education." Memon added that the bhatta in the form of salaries taken from the government will not be tolerated. Social media had become the most powerful tool of information in the world. "Its impact is being felt in Sindh now."
One of the individual campaigners, Shahnawaz Mandhro, remarked that the response was tremendous. "Common people whose complaints were not being entertained by the education department now contact us and share information on ghost teachers," he said. "The school from where I got my primary education is now closed. It pains me that there is no mechanism to make schools functional again," he commented.
Interestingly, the provincial education department has requested campaigners to share data with the department, with the promise that guilty teachers would be removed from their jobs after proper scrutiny.
Courtesy: The Express Tribune, November 20th, 2014.
Read more » http://tribune.com.pk/story/793902/no-more-ghosts-facebook-campaign-sparks-revolution-in-education-sector/
Huge corruption in Pakistan Armed Forces: Financial irregularities of Rs 50 billion detected in Pakistan Air Force
Financial irregularities of Rs 50 billion detected in PAF
*Audit report for financial year 2013-14 cites embezzlements, violation of rules, unauthorised occupation of public land and related malpractices in PAF
ISLAMABAD: The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has detected serious financial irregularities exceeding Rs 30 billion, including embezzlements, violation of rules, unauthorised occupation of public land and related malpractices, in the annual accounts of Pakistan Air Force (PAF).
In its audit report for the financial year 2013-14 on the PAF accounts, the AGP has found that unauthorised expenditure exceeding Rs 25 billion has been incurred by the PAF authorities in terms of awarding an illegal consultancy contract to a private firm to execute a highly classified project. Moreover, the AGP has highlighted six instances related to unauthorised or illegal occupation of public land by the PAF that caused the national exchequer a loss of Rs 355 million in the last financial year.
According to the audit report, the PAF awarded contract number 08/2008 in an 'unauthorised, illegal and incompetent' manner, valued at Rs 429.234 million, to Kashif Aslam & Associates Private Limited for the development of PAF Base Shahbaz in Jacobabad, instead of awarding this contract to Military Engineering Services (MES), that is the competent authority to carry out such sensitive contracts in the defence sector. The project's initial cost was Rs 7 billion but escalated to a total cost of Rs 25 billion under highly questionable circumstances amid alleged financial foul play committed by the PAF officials in collusion with the consultant.
Imran, Qadri and Altaf are friends of establishment and are anti-people: Says Left wing activists of Sindh
Peasants leaders as well as leaders of Communist Party of Pakistan, including its Secretory General Imdad Qazi has said that Imran Khan, Qadri and Altaf Hussain are the partners of establishment and are anti-people elements.
News Courtesy: Rights and Movements + Sindhi Daily Awami Awaz, 16 Nov. 2014
Read more » http://rightsupdate.blogspot.in/2014/11/qadri-imran-and-altaf-are-friends-of.html
Toyota unveils game changer hydrogen-powered car
Toyota has unveiled the first mass-market hydrogen fuel cell car, which will start selling in Japan next month and in the US and Europe in 2015.
Read more » RT
Militants not dangerous to Pakistan should not be targeted: Sartaj
By Dawn.com
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz on Monday said that Pakistan should not target militants who do not threaten the country's security.
"Why should America's enemies unnecessarily become our enemies," Sartaj Aziz said during an interview with BBC Urdu.
"When the United States attacked Afghanistan, all those that were trained and armed were pushed towards us.
"Some of them were dangerous for us and some are not. Why must we make enemies out of them all?," he said when speaking about the Haqqani Network.
He further said that the Afghan Taliban are Afghanistan's problem and Haqqani Network is a part of it.
"It's the job of the Afghan government to negotiate with them…We can try to convince them, however things are not the same as they were in the nineties," Aziz said.
Read more » DAWN
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See more » http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2014/11/141117_pak_usa_strategic_cooperation_sq
Co-conspirator of 9/11 attacks says Saudi prince financed operation
A former self-described Al-Qaeda collaborator serving a life sentence in prison now says he wants to testify in court about what he claims to know about a Saudi Arabian prince's alleged role in financing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen convicted in 2006 for charges related to his admitted role in the 9/11 attacks, wrote in a letter received this month by a federal court in Oklahoma that he wants to take the stand and explain supposed links between the terrorist plot and Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud.
According to a letter sent by the man known as the "20th hijacker" to the Oklahoma Western District Court dated October 23, 2014, the 46-year-old maximum security inmate says the prince assisted with his "Islamic terrorist activities in Norman" – a reference to the Midwestern town where Moussaoui received flight lessons in 2001, as did 9/11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi.
The prince financed Moussaoui's own flight classes, he asserts, "and was doing so knowingly for Osama bin Laden."
Read more » RT
MQM is threatening and torturing Sindhi and Baloch employees in Karachi: Nadir Magsi
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Member Sindh Assembly and ex-Minister for Local Government while speaking in the sessions of Sindh Assembly Mir Nadir Magsi has said that Mutahida Qomi Movement (MQM) is threatening and torturing the Sindhi and Baloch employees in Karachi which is a racist terrorism. He asked Pakistani establishment that the Police and Pakistan Rangers that ready to enter in Sindhi and Baloch areas of Karachi is reluctant to take action against the MQM terrorists.
Courtesy: Rights and Movement + Sindhi daily Awamiawaz, 18 November, 2014
Anti-Government Protest In Prague on 25th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution
Czechs honor Velvet Revolution, tell President Zeman to resign
In Prague, thousands celebrated the Velvet Revolution's 25th anniversary. The festivities also turned into an appeal for Czech President Zeman to resign. An egg thrown at Zeman hit Germany's president instead.
Thousands gathered Monday on Prague's Wenceslas Square, where, exactly 25 years ago, police assaulted protesters, precipitating the Velvet Revolution a week after demonstrators toppled the Berlin Wall 315 kilometers (190 miles) north.
Read more » DW.DE
Learn more » http://www.dw.de/czechs-honor-velvet-revolution-tell-president-zeman-to-resign/a-18069749
Village Girl From Sindh Launches Tech Startup in San Francisco
Pakistani Village Girl Launches VC-Funded Tech Startup in America
Vida, a San Francisco technology startup co-founded by Umaimah Mendhro from Akri village in Sindh, Pakistan, has received $1.3 million funding from Google Ventures, Universal Music Group and others, according to Tech Crunch.
The startup bills itself as "socially responsible" with the objective of using technology to provide a way for designers, artists and other creatives anywhere in the world to make a viable living through their work.
Vida CEO Umaima Mendhro joins a growing list ofsuccessful Pakistani-American women that includes Shama Zehra in finance, Shaan Kandawalla in technology, Shazia Sikandar in the Arts and Fatima Ali in fine cuisine.
"I am from a very small town in Pakistan and was home-schooled much of my life because we didn't have proper schools around. I taught myself how to cut, sketch, sew, stitch, block print, screen print, oil paint, and more," she told Tech Crunch. "Yet I couldn't get myself to pursue art as a profession because I feared I wouldn't be able to make a living with it," Mendhro said. "With a love for fashion and design, I was also acutely aware of the hundreds of millions of people employed in textile and garment production, who could never get out of a cycle of poverty."
Read more » http://www.riazhaq.com/2014/11/pakistani-village-girl-launches-vc.html
Why Marxism is on the rise again
Capitalism is in crisis across the globe – but what on earth is the alternative? Well, what about the musings of a certain 19th-century German philosopher? Yes, Karl Marx is going mainstream – and goodness knows where it will end
By Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian
Class conflict once seemed so straightforward. Marx and Engels wrote in the second best-selling book of all time, The Communist Manifesto: "What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable." (The best-selling book of all time, incidentally, is the Bible – it only feels like it's 50 Shades of Grey.)
Today, 164 years after Marx and Engels wrote about grave-diggers, the truth is almost the exact opposite. The proletariat, far from burying capitalism, are keeping it on life support. Overworked, underpaid workers ostensibly liberated by the largest socialist revolution in history (China's) are driven to the brink of suicide to keep those in the west playing with their iPads. Chinese money bankrolls an otherwise bankrupt America.
The irony is scarcely wasted on leading Marxist thinkers. "The domination of capitalism globally depends today on the existence of a Chinese Communist party that gives de-localised capitalist enterprises cheap labour to lower prices and deprive workers of the rights of self-organisation," says Jacques Rancière, the French marxist thinker and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. "Happily, it is possible to hope for a world less absurd and more just than today's."
That hope, perhaps, explains another improbable truth of our economically catastrophic times – the revival in interest in Marx and Marxist thought. Sales of Das Kapital, Marx's masterpiece of political economy, have soared ever since 2008, as have those of The Communist Manifesto and the Grundrisse (or, to give it its English title, Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy). Their sales rose as British workers bailed out the banks to keep the degraded system going and the snouts of the rich firmly in their troughs while the rest of us struggle in debt, job insecurity or worse. There's even a Chinese theatre director called He Nian who capitalised on Das Kapital's renaissance to create anall-singing, all-dancing musical.
Read more » the guardian
See more » http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/04/the-return-of-marxism
Why Germans Work Fewer Hours But Produce More: A Study In Culture
When many Americans think of Germany, images of WWII soldiers and Hitler often come to mind. But what many people don't realize is that Germany is the industrial powerhouse of Europe, and is a leading manufacturer of goods for export to developing Asian nations. We don't hear about the superiority of German engineering in Volkswagen commercials for nothing!
This article states the truth. I can't imagine ever living in the US again. Life is too good here in Germany. The Germans work hard and play hard. They know how to live. Conditions are even better in the Scandinavian countries. I have a permanent contract. I'd have to do something very serious or illegal to get fired. First they would have to give me two written warnings. Our health insurance policies cover 100% of our health care; we do, though, have to pay a little bit for prescription drugs.
The economic engine of the EU, Germany single-handedly saved the Eurozone from collapse in 2012. At the same time, German workers enjoy unparalleled worker protections and shorter working hours than most of their global counterparts. How can a country that works an average of 35 hours per week (with an average 24 paid vacation days to boot) maintain such a high level of productivity?
Read more » KNOTE
Pakistan Smart phone App Success
Courtesy: CNN
Japan's economy makes surprise fall into recession
Japan's economy unexpectedly shrank for the second consecutive quarter, leaving the world's third largest economy in technical recession.
Gross domestic product (GDP) fell at an annualised 1.6% from July to September, compared with forecasts of a 2.1% rise.
That followed a revised 7.3% contraction in the second quarter, which was the biggest fall since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Economists said the weak economic data could delay a sales tax rise.
Read more » BBC
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Islamic State Kassig murder: Western jihadists probed
Western intelligence officials are trying to identify Islamic State (IS) militants seen in the video that shows the beheading of US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig and 18 Syrian prisoners. Mr Kassig, 26, is the fifth Western hostage to be killed by IS. One of the militants is likely to be a Frenchman named Maxime Hauchard, 22, France's interior minister says.
Read more » BBC
UAE blacklists 5 Pakistani groups among 83 as 'militant organisations
By AFP
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates on Saturday issued a list of 83 militant groups which it classified as "militant organisations," including five from Pakistan.
The list, approved by the Gulf state's cabinet and published on the official WAM news agency, is similar to an announcement made by Saudi Arabia in March.
It blacklists several arms of al Qaeda, Islamic State (IS), as well as the Muslim Brotherhood and Yemen's Huthi militia. From Pakistan, it has blacklisted the Pakistani Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba Pakistan, the East Turkestan movement in Pakistan, Muhammad's Army in Pakistan and Muhammad's Army in Pakistan and India.
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates on Saturday issued a list of 83 militant groups which it classified as "militant organisations," including five from Pakistan. The list, approved by the Gulf state's cabinet and published on the official WAM news agency, is similar to an announcement made by Saudi Arabia in March. It blacklists several arms of al Qaeda, Islamic State (IS), as well as the Muslim Brotherhood and Yemen's Huthi militia. From Pakistan, it has blacklisted the Pakistani Haqqani network, Lashkar-e-Taiba Pakistan, the East Turkestan movement in Pakistan, Muhammad's Army in Pakistan and Muhammad's Army in Pakistan and India.
Read more » The Express Tribune
See more » http://tribune.com.pk/story/791818/uae-blacklists-6-pakistani-groups-among-80-as-militant-organisations/
Man injects himself with Ebola DELIBERATELY in a bid to battle the deadly disease
By Alex Wellman
Peter Hubbard is part of a clinical trial attempting to find a vaccine against the virus that has so far claimed thousands of lives in west Africa
A man has revealed he has been injected with the Ebola virus ON PURPOSE in a bid to fight the deadly disease.
Peter Hubbard said he hopes the small risk he is taking could help create a vaccine to prevent further outbreaks of the disease, which has claimed thousands of lives in west Africa.
Speaking from his apartment in Alexandria, Virginia, Mr Hubbard, a consultant who specialises in natural gas and peer markets, said: "I get a lot of satisfaction out of the fact that this could potentially develop into a viable vaccine that prevents another outbreak. It might not help out with the current outbreak but it could prevent a future one, so that's a real plus in my book."
Mr Hubbard, 35, is one of 20 people taking part in clinical trials for a vaccine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States.
The vaccine he is trialling, co developed by GlaxoSmithKline and the NIH, consists of a common cold virus, called an adenovirus, that has been engineered to carry TWO genes of the Ebola virus.
Animal testing has shown that when the adenovirus infects cells, the Ebola genes produce harmless proteins that stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies to the deadly disease.
Despite being injected with parts of the virus on September 9, Mr Hubbard revealed that he felt so healthy he has even taken part in a MARATHON.
He said: "I feel great, yeah. In fact, I couldn't tell where the injection site was thirty minutes after it. I ran a marathon on Sunday. I'm alive and kicking."
Hubbard also revealed it was the fifth vaccine study he has participated in, having previously been a test subject for vaccines for malaria, HIV, chickungunya and H1N1.
He said: "I do have a joke that, that with all of these vaccine trials that I've done, that if plague and pestilence were to sweep throughout the land, I'd be the last man standing.
"But honestly, I'm not worried about an Ebola outbreak because I've taken the time to inform myself and I realise that there's very low risk for that."
Around 5,000 people have been killed by Ebola, mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea – the three African nations hardest hit by the virus, which spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person.
The GSK vaccine study is being fast-tracked and, if the results are successful, the company plans to build a stockpile of up to 10,000 doses for emergency deployment.
Read more » mirror.co.uk
Qaimkhani Rajputs, held gathering in Tando Allahyar district of Sindh and said they are neither Urdu speakers nor Muhajirs. They said, "we are Sindhis."
Indian partition migrants from Rajasthan say they are Sindhis, should not be considered Muhajirs or Urdu speakers
The Indian partition refugees from pre-partition Indian state of Rajasthan, known as Qaimkhani Rajputs, held gathering in Tando Allahyar district of Sindh and said they are neither Urdu speakers nor Muhajirs. They said, "we are Sindhis." Such was said through the community leader Sabir Qaimkhani who was also a Vice Mayor (Naib-Nazim) of District Tando Allahyar. He also said that his community wants the unity of Sindh. News Courtesy: Daily Awami Awaz.
Courtesy: Sindhi daily Awamiawaz + Rights and Movement
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Pakistani armed forces' agencies torture and kill another young Sindhi nationalist, mutiliated body thrown out in Karachi
Hundreds of residents of Qmbar town and Larkano attended the funeral rituals of Roshan Brohi, an activist of Jeay Sindh Mutahida Mahaz (JSMM) who was abducted and enforcedly disappeared by Pakistani armed forces intelligence agencies from Larkano. The mutilated dead body, that was thrown out in Malir district of Karachi that have largest military installation of city, was carrying marks of the torture. Almost all Sindh based political parties paid tribute to Martyr Brohi, sung the National Anthym of Sindh and wrapped his coffin with the flag of Jeay Sindh and Ajrak. Flowers were also showered on his coffin and grave. Protests were also observed in both of the cities. This is the second dead body of a young Sindhi nationalist sent by establishment within last seven days. Earlier Paryal Shah was killed by Pakistani armed forces and his dead body was thrown out at Sindh-Punjab border. News Courtesy: Sindhi Newspapers Read News Version in Daily Kawish
Courtesy: Rights and Movements + Sindhi daily Kawish, 14 November, 2014
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GENEVA: ISIS is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity on a large scale in areas under its control in war-ravaged Syria, U.N. investigators said Friday.
In its first report focused squarely on acts by ISIS, the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria presented a horrifying picture of what life is like in areas controlled by the extremist jihadists, including massacres, beheadings, torture, sexual enslavement and forced pregnancy.
"The commanders of ISIS have acted wilfully, perpetrating these war crimes and crimes against humanity with clear intent of attacking persons with awareness of their civilian or 'hors de combat' (non-combat) status," the report said.
"They are individually criminally responsible for these crimes," it stated, and called on the perpetrators to be brought to justice, for instance before the International Criminal Court.
Based on more than 300 interviews with people who have fled areas under the control of the jihadists, as well as photographs and video footage released by ISIS itself, the report paints a blood-chilling picture of life under its rule.
Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Nov-14/277641-un-probe-isis-committing-crimes-against-humanity-in-syria.ashx#ixzz3J3GQOLLf
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Xinhua: A youth was killed Friday when contingents of Indian police and paramilitary troopers fired on protesters in Indian-controlled Kashmir, locals said. The clashes broke out following the killing of two militants at village Chanigam-Frisal in Kulgam district, about 53 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Indian police confirmed the death of the youth. "After the killing of two militants, firing resumed during which two Indian army troopers, one paramilitary trooper of CRPF and a civilian was wounded," a police spokesman said. "The wounded civilian succumbed to his wounds and the condition of one army trooper is critical."
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A Russian Su-24 buzzed the ship and "disabled all radars, control circuits, systems, information transmission, etc. on board the US destroyer. In other words, the all-powerful Aegis system, now hooked up — or about to be — with the defense systems installed on NATO's most modern ships was shut down," reports the Voltaire Network.
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Is Ambassador Robin Lynn Raphel a modern-day female counterpart of Harry St John Philby, who converted to the cause of those she had been assigned to engage with diplomatically?
In November 1917, a British political agent, Harry St John Philby presented his credentials to Emir Ibne Saud of Nejd. Ibne Saud was to revive and/or found the present-day Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In his book God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad, Charles Allen notes, "Initially Philby toed the British line, but in the months that followed there grew within him an admiration for the Emir, coupled with a growing affinity for the culture to which he belonged, that developed into a state bordering on infatuation, and eventually led to a transfer of loyalties." Allen describes Philby as "convert to the cause" who adopted Wahhabism, took on the title Sheikh Abdullah and believed that through the efforts of the "prince and the priest", i.e. Ibne Saud and his Wahhabi cleric cohorts, "the true faith was purged of the dross ecclesiastical pedantry and the salient features of a moribund creed were made to shine forth again as beacons."
The Pentagon's report 'Progress towards security and stability in Afghanistan', submitted to the US Congress last month. The report, which covers the period from April through September 2014, squarely blames the jihadist sanctuaries inside Pakistan for the resilience of insurgents in Afghanistan. It also charges that Pakistan continues to deploy jihadist proxies against India.
Fast-forward to November 6, 2014 when The Washington Post reported that former US Ambassador Robin Raphel, "a veteran state department diplomat and longtime Pakistan expert, is under federal investigation as part of a counterintelligence probe and has had her security clearances withdrawn." The New York Times subsequently wrote that Ms Raphel is "suspected of taking classified information home from the state department" and her residence had been searched. While no country had been named as the potential beneficiary of the alleged information transfer, certain Pakistani analysts and two former Pakistani ambassadors jumped to the ex-US diplomat's defence. The lame and premature — Ms Raphel is yet to be charged with any wrongdoing — defence ranged from paeans to her diplomatic professionalism and prowess, an all-weather friendship with Pakistan, to her being a relatively small fish in the Washington DC pond to be of any material value to Pakistan. We have no reason to speculate about an ongoing investigation but what is known is that Ms Robin Raphel did help lay the foundations of death and destruction in Afghanistan by supporting the barbaric Taliban regime that was imposed by the Pakistani security establishment on the ill-fated Afghans.
Deal to sell MI-35 helicopters 'politically approved': Russian envoy
By Dawn.com
ISLAMABAD: Russian envoy to Pakistan Alexey Dedov on Wednesday said that the MI-35 helicopter deal with Moscow and Islamabad is "politically approved", Radio Pakistan reported.
In an interview with Radio Pakistan, Dedov said that the Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu will visit Islamabad soon. The report further stated that Alexey Dedov said the deal between Pakistan and Russia will help combat terrorism.
While Dedov said the deal has been "politically approved", further negotiations on details of the political-commercial contract are in progress.
The ambassador also said that Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu has talks with Pakistani counterparts on his agenda, to discuss the sale of defence equipment to Pakistan.
Pakistan's request for MI-35 helicopters has been on the table since 2009, but Russia had kept the issue pending because of the Indian factor.
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The Netherlands Is Set To Open The World's First Solar Road
The Netherlands Is Set To Open The World's First Solar Bike Lane
The Netherlands is opening up the world's first stretch of road made with solar cells this week. And in keeping with the road's environmentally-friendly message — and the cycling culture of the Netherlands — the road is built for bikes, not cars.
The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research and the Dutch province of North Holland will open a 230-foot stretch of the project, dubbed SolaRoad, on November 12. The stretch of bike lane contains solar cells that are protected by two layers of safety glass and which can generate enough energy to power about three Dutch homes.
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India: The 'Kiss of Love' campaign
The 'Kiss of Love' campaign has gained momentum all over the India. The movement is a non-violent protest against moral policing that started out as a Facebook page. (TOI photo)
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The school that says Osama Bin Laden was a hero
A hardline cleric in Pakistan is teaching the ideas of Osama Bin Laden in religious schools for about 5,000 children. Even while the Pakistani government fights the Taliban in the north-west of the country, it has no plans to close schools educating what could be the next generation of pro-Taliban jihadis.
"We share the same objectives as the Taliban but we don't offer military training. We work on minds. The Taliban are more hands-on," says Abdul Aziz Ghazi, imam of Islamabad's controversial Red Mosque.
"We teach about the principles of jihad. It's up to students if they want to get military training after they leave here. We don't discourage them."
Ghazi runs eight seminaries – madrassas as they are known – the first of which was founded after his father went on a journey to meet Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan.
"Osama Bin Laden is a hero for us all. He stood up to America and he won. He inspired the mission of the school," says Ghazi.
In one of the seminaries, the library is named in honour of Bin Laden, who was killed by US Navy Seals in Pakistan in 2011.
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Working for Beau Hammon and Jose Ordonez seemed like a good idea as both gentleman present well and promise a rewarding "partnership" for anyone willing to work hard and invest in themself. The store seemed legit, so what was wrong??? EVERYTHING!!!!
1.) The structure of the business requires that all employees create an LLC or Corporation and operate as INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS. This was initially presented as an opportunity to save money at tax time. After working in locations as far as 2 hours away from one another, I quickly realized the benefit to CSOKI-no employer expenses, ALL YOURS! Of course you are also responsible for all inventory and sales meaning any items that are missing, stolen, returned, or damaged will be "sold" to you.
2.) Hope you weren't wanting benefits...health, dental,401K.. better start setting moneyaside from your paychecks.
3.) Sell a phone?! Good Job!! ..as long as itis not returned as you will be required to resell or pay full retail for the device (ranging from $120-$550)
4.)Someone cancel their service or quit paying their bill??? Congratulations because you have not only lost your commission on the device but the difference between selling price and retail price (often several hundred dollars).
5.)You own your own business right? WRONG. You willbe required to text, email, and meet with your bossesoften toensure theirmicromanaging style. You mustattend all meetings, dress and groom as preferred by Beau or Jose (ie no facial hair or shirts not blue or white), receive aschedule (never on time) for your next month,turn in paperwork weekly while you are "off". Essentially, they get all the benefits of having you as an employeeANDcontractor.
6.)Is your paycheck short? Of course it is... EVERYTIME. Want help tracking your missing funds? Uh oh!You may be in trouble for suggestingyou were drastically underpaid.
7.)Phone costs areinflatedto increase profit margin for CSOKI... that means you lose.
8.) Hope you have no morals because CSOKIis designed so that you can sell phones for whatever price you want! ...as long as you don't match competitors low price! If you do, the difference is most likely coming out of your pocket. "SELL YOURSELF, PROMOTE YOURSELF" is a favorite expressionto make you believeit's okayto gouge.Making up fees like "upgrade fee""PDA setup fee""phone book transfer" to make an extra buck. Those fees may have a time and place, but not during a routine sale. Does corporate charge these, nope!
9.) Let's hit bonus, all you have to do is work 8 days a week. Beau and Jose will insist that your store location does not matter... do not fall for this ridiculous logic. You can be the best salesman in the market but if the door isn't swingin you are fallingbehind.
10.) Not willing to drive a ridiculous distance to work? Prepare to be scrutinized and black balled for not wanting to make money. Any 7th grader knows if your spending and extra 4 hours and 50 dollars to possibly make $60, you are better off working at McDonalds.
11.) Cheap owners, managers. Your computers will crash daily. Don't expect a fix as you watch customers leave frustrated.
12.) You are DISPOSABLE.
Long story short, don't be fooled by what seems like an opportunity to make money and advance your career by this Mickey Mouse operation.
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its just a way for them not to pay tax's on you or health benefits or vacations etc etc. I know what it is to really like to work for yourself, I've had several business's.Everything this person is saying is true! They are a Mickey Mouse operation. So whatever you don't work or shop with this so called company because it is the biggest joke that i have ever seen, and you will pay more for your equipment go to a Verizon corp store to get the best deal.
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Ive been taking Sronyx for 2 weeks now and I started my period a week before my inactive pills. What
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26 Nov 2012
Just keep on taking the tablets as per normal. When you first start a new birth control it can cause irregular bleeding/cycles during the first 3 months. If you continue to have irregular bleeding after 3 months of taking it then please discuss with your doctor.
26 Nov 2012
Birth Control pills work 3 ways. They prevent ovulation. They decrease the lining of the uterus, and they thicken the mucous at the cervix.
This means that if you take your pill every day at roughly the same time, you will not get pregnant. There are some medications that decrease the ability of the pill to work. One of them is antibiotics, so that if you're on them you should use a backup method of birth control.
You will not get pregnant when you are on the inactive pills. YOU DO NOT OVULATE WHEN ON THE PILL.
You may have a very light or even no period from time to time because of the decrease in uterine lining.
You do not ever need to take plan B. The only reason for condoms when on the pills is to prevent STDS.
If you forget a pill your chances of getting pregnant increase slightly. The more pills your forget, the more your chance of pregnancy.
When first starting the pill you need to use back up birthcontrol for at least the first week. After you start the pill, when you have your period has nothing to do with taking the pill. You just keep taking them one pack after the other. You do not stop them if you start spotting, you do not stop them if you don't have a period, bleeding has nothing at all to do with when you take your pills, once you've started them.
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After being convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl, the former police chief of Haryana, S. P. S. Rathore, would be stripped of his police medal.
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The CPAC meeting, headed by Union Home Secretary Gopal K. Pillai, also decided that any police officer convicted of "moral turpitude" or bringing "disrepute or disrespect" to the service would be stripped of medals and awards.
"The CPAC has taken two primary decisions. The committee recommended to the President for the withdrawal of police medal given to Mr. Rathore," Mr. Pillai told reporters . Mr. Rathore had received police medal for meritorious service in 1985.
"The committee has also taken a generic decision to authorise the Ministry of Home Affairs to recommend the withdrawal of police medal to all persons who are convicted for moral turpitude and for an act that brings disrespect to police forces, or any officer who is dismissed from the service for an act which brought disrepute to the police," the Home Secretary said.
The decision would mean that former IPS officer R.K. Sharma, convicted in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, also stands to lose his medal.
Earlier, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda recommended withdrawal of the police medal of Mr. Rathore. In a letter to Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Mr. Hooda said that the former DGP brought "disrepute and bad name" to the State and the police force.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Heavy snow stranded thousands of Christmas travelers in parts of Europe on Friday, with Belgium's main airport closed for most of the day to landing and icy roads in Sweden choked with traffic.
Cold weather during the busy Christmas period has disrupted travel and business across Europe this week, and the prolonged period of severe weather is expected to clip economic growth in Germany, Europe's biggest economy.
A spokesman for Brussels' airport said hundreds of beds were ready for stranded passengers after the airport reopened to inbound flights following a day of delays and cancellations.
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"We have already organized hundreds of beds with the Belgian army and Red Cross so that people don't have to sleep on the floor. It is going to be a difficult night."
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OK this might be getting a tad racist to say. If you understood this situation more maybe your inner Hitler wouldn't come out so quick. "Hate these people" is quite strong. "those rich people in China think they are the shit". Rich people every where in this world think they are the shit bro, if you can't see that then maybe you need to meet more rich people.
This situation you saw isn't what you would see normally. I can easily one up this one with a dozen crazier shit that happens regularly from the states (worldstar HH would be heaven), and you probably wouldn't hear anyone say "hey look at those crazy fucking americans with their guns and shit, no wonder they are they biggest target for terrorist activities. BTW, just FYI from what i read, the father and son both fell in love with the same KTV whore. Crashing their cars into each other was probably the safest resolution.
From just the replies on this thread, you seem to be extremely proud to be an american, I personally dont mind that as I am also extremely proud to be a Canadian but honestly you might want to chill on the racist remarks for any type of asians.
wtf? YOU have some serious reading comprehension issues here. I meant, "These People = Rich Chinese". The context is completely how ordinary chinese view rich chinese (many of them are corrupt or run state-sponsored monopolies). Where's the racist remarks here? Get off your high horse and take your twisted "Americans against Chinese people" agenda elsewhere, idiot.
and my point was, I don't give a shit why they're fighting, but to take it out on a public road is outragous. At one point the Z4 driver drove into the traffic and crossed the median...clearly they have no disregard for public safety in that video. That was my whole point, yet you're saying they should have taken it out on a public road, and it was somehow a better resolution?! How twisted are you?
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