National Post: Maryam Monsef, the Trudeau government’s minister for democratic institutions, visited Iran in 2014. We know this because the minister herself talked about that visit in a profile written by Le Devoir Ottawa bureau chief Helene Buzzetti and published in that newspaper back in May. Click here to read more (external link).
Associated Press: ISLAMABAD — The father of New York bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami said on Saturday that the FBI had made “mistake after mistake” in handling the case and is now “punishing” the family for his son’s wrongdoing by barring them from travelling to the United States. Mohammed Rahami told The Associated Press by phone that the
1TV: An old Nokia handset has saved a man’s life in Afghanistan by stopping a bullet that was intended to hit him. The claim was made on Twitter by a former Nokia employee who also posted the images of the bullet-embedded Nokia 301 phone. Click here to read more (external link).
Tolo News: Members of Jamiat-e-Islami party on Friday commemorated the 5th anniversary of former head of the High Peace Council (HPC) Burhanuddin Rabbani’s assassination, where they called on Hizb-e-Islami to be honest it its commitments made in the peace deal with Afghan government. Former jihadi leader Abdul Rab Rassuol Sayaf said at the ceremony that he is
Khaama Press: Hailed as Canada’s first Afghan-born member of parliament, the Canadian Minister Maryam Monsef could be stripped of her citizenship or deported for misrepresentation of birth place which was earlier believed to be Afghanistan. According to the local media reports, the step could be taken without hearing under the citizenship laws brought in by the previous
Antiwar.com: What, precisely, is the US military for, and what, precisely, can it do? In practical terms, how powerful is it? On paper, it is formidable, huge, with carrier battle groups, advanced technology, remarkable submarines, satellites, and so on. What does this translate to? Click here to read more (external link).
cbc.ca: Maryam Monsef, Canada’s minister of democratic institutions, was compelled to explain on Thursday morning that she was not born in Afghanistan, as previously believed. As first reported by the Globe and Mail, Monsef recently learned that she was born in Iran. “In recent days, my mother told me for the first time that my sisters and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 21, 2016 Federal prosecutors have charged a 28-year-old Afghan-American man with using a weapon of mass destruction and other charges in connection with last weekend’s bombing in Manhattan. Criminal complaints released September 20 in New York and New Jersey accused Ahmad Khan Rahami with planting a series of bombs in
Khaama Press: Two powerful American lawmakers have introduced an act in the US House of Representatives to designate Pakistan a State Sponsor of terrorism, it has been reported. Congressman Ted Poe, who is Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism, has reportedly said “It is time we stopped paying Pakistan for its betrayal and designate it for
Masood Farivar VOA News September 20, 2016 After the Orlando, Florida, nightclub shooting in June, many Afghan-Americans distanced themselves from attacker Omar Mateen, the New York-born man whose parents immigrated from Afghanistan in the 1980s. After the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey in which Afghan-born Ahmad Khan Rahami has been implicated, some