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JOWZJAN, Feb. 26 – Over 22 enemy soldiers have been killed and at least 37 others wounded in a series of Mujahideen attacks amid Operation Azm in northern Jowzjan province of Afghanistan over the last few days, Al-Emarah News says.

3 weeks ago a large convoy of tanks and armored fighting vehicles backed by aerial power was deployed in Qushtifa district of the mentioned province in a bid to launch offensive against Mujahideen stationed there, reports say, further adding that Dostum has also been participated in the operation for the past 4 days.

Our reporter says Mujahideen counterattacked the enemy offensive and pushed back its advance in different points of the district, chasing Dostum and his militia away.

As many as 22 puppets including key commanders are reported to have been killed and more than 37 others were wounded during the fighting, where 9 armored tanks were destroyed by IEDs and direct fire.

Mujahideen also took 3 enemy soldiers prisoners amid the operation in which Mujahideen captured from the enemy possession 1 DShK, a heavy vehicle mounted antiaircraft machine gun, 2 PK, heavy machine guns, 2 rocket propelled-grenades, 6 US-made M16 automatic machine guns, 3 Kalashnikovs, 2 mortar shelling cannons and a great deal of ammo and military equipment.

Three Mujahideen combatants are reported to have been wounded in the operation.

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”

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KUNDUZ, Feb. 26 – Reports arriving from northern Kunduz province say that Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate once again launched attacks on Dasht-e-Archi district center yesterday, triggering a fierce battle during which the enemy deployed drones, jets and helicopters as well as embedding the hireling forces with American SOF.

The enemy carried out indiscriminate blind air strikes, failing at harming any Mujahideen all the while a bomb was dropped on a police check post in Kunduz Bandar area where the US troops were also present as a result 2 invaders along with 9 hirelings were killed and 3 other invaders wounded.

Similarly an enemy APC and 11 hirelings were also eliminated in the direct attacks of Mujahideen, prompting enemy to airlift the casualties in helicopters.

2 Mujahideen were also reported injured in the said fighting which came to an end late afternoon hours.

The enemy likely suffered more losses at night time as Mujahideen engaged and repelled their counter attacks multiple times.

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”

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Media outlets and the Kabul regime have been circulating reports for the past 2 days that Dostum is headed towards northern Jowzjan province to carry out an operation while today propaganda was launched that Taliban Mujahideen have evacuated Qushtepa district with the arrival of Dostum.

We reject all such rumors and propaganda and declare that Mujahideen are fully prepared to counter any operation being led by Dostum.

The Dostum Gelum Jum militias also touted carrying out operation in some districts of Jowzjan last year but had nothing to show for it. Dostum immediately fled upon his arrival followed by never showing his face till today.

Similarly Dostum also managed to get many of his Gelum Jum militiamen killed at the hands of Mujahideen in Faryab province, who went on to clear many more areas.

Our forces and strong presence still remain in the areas of Jowzjan which are under our control. They are well motivated to combat any operation by the Americans and stooge regime including elements of Dostum’s Gelam Jum militia. Allah willing, Dostum shall regret his decision upon launching this operation.

Mujahideen have not retreated an inch from their frontlines. The enemy forces have been forced to kneel in front of Mujahideen in many other areas including Helmand, Dand-e-Ghori, Kunduz, Faryab and merely seek to raise the morale and spirits of their soldiers with such propaganda.

Unfortunately some media outlets have also sided with Dostum’s Gelum Jum militias, are spreading propaganda and campaigning for him without ascertaining the ground realities or hearing the view of Mujahideen.

We are hopeful that Allah willing Dostum along with his Gelum Jum militia will be liquidated in these operations and will face a humiliating defeat.

Spokesman of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

16/05/1437 Hijri Lunar

0612/1394 Hijri Solar               25/02/2016 Gregorian

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”

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Number of executions in Iran comes under question (Image via Euro News)

The entire male population of an Iranian village was recently executed on drugs charges, an Iranian official has claimed, amid concerns over a United Nations programme that funds the country’s Anti-Narcotics Police.

Iran’s Vice President for Women & Family Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi, is reported to have made the claims to state news agency Mehr earlier this week, saying: “We have a village in Sistan & Baluchestan where every single man has been executed”, adding: “The children [of these men] are potential drug traffickers.”

The comments – unearthed by the group Iran Human Rights – come amid growing concerns over the link between a recent surge in drug-related executions in Iran, and European funding, channeled through the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Iran is the world’s second most prolific executioner, and approximately 600 out of 947 hangings in Iran in 2015 were related to alleged drug offences – as were at least 31 carried out so far this year. Concerns over unfair trials, forced ‘confessions’, and juvenile arrests, are common.

Research in 2014 by the human rights organization Reprieve demonstrated a link between previous rounds of European UNODC funding, and over 3,000 death sentences in Iran and Pakistan. In 2013, Danish Development Minister Christian Bach concluded that Denmark’s contributions to UNODC’s Iran programmes “are leading to executions.”

The new $20million UNODC programme for Iran was signed at the start of 2016, and is set to provide funding and equipment to Iran’s Anti-Narcotics Police, who are responsible for drug-related arrests. The European Union helped to negotiate the UN funding deal, and several European countries, including France, are understood to be providing funds for the programme. Britain and the US, while not direct funders of the programme, are among the UNODC’s major donors.

A number of UN human rights experts, as well as Reprieve and Iran Human Rights, have urged the UNODC to reconsider the new Iran funding in light of the hangings.

Commenting, Maya Foa, head of the death penalty team at Reprieve, said: “The apparent hanging of every man in one Iranian village demonstrates the astonishing scale of Iran’s execution spree. These executions – often based on juvenile arrests, torture, and unfair or nonexistent trials – show total contempt for the rule of law, and it is shameful that the UN and its funders are supporting the police forces responsible. UNODC must urgently make its new Iran funding conditional on an end to the death penalty for drug offences.”

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Links

Reprieve website

http://www.reprieve.org.uk/?gclid=COOW3azGlcsCFUieGwodpVMAZg

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”

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FARAH, Feb. 24 – Reports from western Farah province say that the attacks launched by Mujahideen since early Tuesday morning on Pusht Rod district center and all enemy bases and check posts in Chapak, Chahrmas, Doken and Koshi areas continued all day today.

The enemy has suffered heavy casualties in the attacks however the exact figure is yet to be determined, officials say adding that all ways leading in and out of the district have also been closed by Mujahideen and the enemy forces are under a tight siege.

More details about the fighting will be updated as information arrives.

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”

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JOWZJAN, Feb. 22 – Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate carried out attacks on enemy troops all days Sunday in Alati Khwaja, Shorjar, Awramas areas of Jowzjan provincial capital as well as Faizabad district’s Qapchaq area.

Officials say that 3 enemy vehicles were destroyed in the attacks and a pickup truck seized as well as 11 hirelings including high ranking officers killed and wounded.

3 Mujahideen were also reported injured by enemy fire.

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”

Brave women of Kashmir prove they are stronger than the rapists

(Image via Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day)

Today (Tuesday) is Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day, which is also the anniversary of Kunan Poshpora an incident of mass rape and torture in Indian occupied Kashmir. As Catch News highlighted, “on the evening of 23 February, 1991, a group of soldiers belonging to the 4th Rajputana Rifles conducted a cordon-and-search operation in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district”. This operation of state violence created memories which would haunt the people of Kashmir for years to come and provoke a decades long campaign for truth and justice. See following link for background,

25 years on, remembering the shame of Kunan-Poshpora

http://www.catchnews.com/national-news/kunan-poshpora-mass-rape-incident-kashmir-1991-kashmir-news-jammu-and-kashmir-1456153215.html

Book cover “Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora”

(Image via Kashmiri women’s resistance day 23 Feb 2016)

Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society held an event to mark the release of the recently published book, “DO YOU REMEMBER KUNAN POSHPORA?” which is published by Zubaan Publishers.

Authors discuss their book release (Image posted by Muzamil Wagay)

The programme featured a presentation by Kunan Poshpora mass rape survivors, followed by a discussion with the authors – Ifrah Butt, Eessar Batool, Natasha Rather, Munaza Rashid and well known feminist writer/publisher Urvashi Butalia and author Navsharan Singh. The discussion was moderated by Riyaz Masroor.

Listen to the authors discuss their book,

Rape and devastation (Image via Kashmir Life)

Waqas Khan, poet and Srinagar-based journalism graduate wrote the following poem remembering Kunan Poshpora…

Let Candles Cry Full Tonight

Let women and candles cry full tonight
For Kunan is left in its darkest sight
A burn such is sensed by their woeful hearts
Which no snow breeze can bring respite
For humans who cart the onus of bond
Agony is vivid of that February night
When the dusk had left reverie in eyes
And dawn did break with soul blight
Eyes trickle pain and lips shiver in fear
When they knit their stories for earnest ear
I see through pearls of their sunken eyes
A haunting tale: of dark; of miseries; of hues and
cries;
When snakes crawled in a still hamlet
With their vicious aims and fangs bite
They dumbed all men, benumbed their women
For gashing their clothes and bashing their pride
Three pigeons of a nest standing in a row
Were hurt by a black harsh hunter’s bow
They cooed, they whined, they groaned in pain
When he ripped their feathers and blackened
their glow
Who once were queens of a bright sky
Are a hapless covey now weary to fly
Pour mercy on them, Oh Heavenly Might!
For these caged birds ask freedom and flight.

Waqas Khan

Links

“That horrific night in Kunan Poshpora”

http://www.risingkashmir.com/news/that-horrific-night-in-kunan-poshpora/

“Judiciary failed to provide justice to Kunan Poshpora victims: Shah”

http://www.risingkashmir.com/news/judiciary-failed-to-provide-justice-to-kunan-poshpora-victims-shah/

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”

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Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s Commission for Training, Learning and Higher Education organized a sports competition event last Friday which was attended by Commission officials, Scholars, Teachers, Students and ordinary countrymen.

The event opened with the recital of a few blessed verses of the Holy Quran followed  by an official of Higher Education, Ustaz Habibi, giving a speech about sports and physical education and declaring that such events are beneficial from every angle. He also said that the Islamic Emirate has plans to continue organizing such events to improve the capabilities of athletes.

After Ustaz Habib, Mawlawi Sahib Sayyed Ahmad gave a speech under the title ‘Sports in the light of Shariah’. He said that the Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) always encourage physical education among his companions and added that swimming, archery and running are Prophetic Sunnah and commanded by the Prophet (SAW) himself.

At the end of the competition, the Commission for Training, Learning and Higher Education gave out trophies to the winners and participants of the competition and ended the event with prayers of thanks.

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”