Deutsche WelleUS experts have been poring over video footage to try to trace more than 200 schoolgirls that were abducted. Nigeria has rejected an offer by the Islamist group Boko Haram to return the girls in a prisoner exchange. US officials said on Monday that their experts were closely examining a video released by Boko Haram for any clues about the whereabouts of more than 200 girls who were abducted. "We are providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support," said State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. "Our intelligence experts are combing through every detail of the video for clues that might help ongoing efforts to secure the release of the girls," said Psaki. "We have no reason to question its authenticity." The video was purported to show some 130 of the girls wearing gray Islamic veils and chanting verses from the Koran, with treetops in the background. It is thought the footage may provide vital clues that could help with the search. Another senior White House official, who did not wish to be named, said the assistance being provided now involved surveillance using manned US aircraft. "We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians and are flying manned ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) assets over Nigeria, with the government's permission," the official told reporters. However, an official statement, including details of the aircraft and where they had come from, was not immediately available. Multi-national effort A 30-strong team from the US arrived last week in Nigeria, to help in the search for the girls who are aged between 16 and 18. Almost 200 girls were snatched from their boarding school in the northeast of the country on April 14. The act sparked public outrage, including a prominent Twitter campaign, with France subsequently offering to host a summit to discuss the Boko Haram threat. Britain and France have also deployed experts to Nigeria, with London saying its aim, as well as finding the girls, was to assist in the defeat of the Boko Haram network as a whole. China, Israel and Spain have all offered help of their own. The Nigerian government on Monday said it would not agree to a deal proposed by Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau in the video, offering the girls' safe return only in exchange for captured fighters. Boko Haram's violent campaign to impose a strict brand of Shariah law on Nigeria has killed more than 1,500 people this year alone. Thousands more have died since the group's campaign of violence erupted in 2009.
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#BringBackOurGirls : Experts scour video footage for clues on Nigerian schoolgirls
East Ukraine rebels seek to join Russia after vote
Eastern Ukraine's residents don't want to have anything to do with Kiev, it's now a fact
voiceofrussia.comIn eastern Ukraine, the majority of residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions have voted for self-determination. Sunday’s referendum was held amid the ongoing punitive operation by the Kiev regime. The final results of the vote will be announced later on Monday. For more on this issue the Voice of Russia spoke to Dr. Marcus Papadoupulos, British political analyst, publisher and editor of Politics First magazine.

FDA approves 'Star Wars' robotic arm for amputees
'Star Wars' robotic arm, developed in part by the Pentagon for its amputee veterans, earns FDA approval. Mana Rabiee reports.
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President al-Assad: Syria is steadily moving towards victory
http://sana.sy/President Bashar al-Assad stressed Sunday that Syria is steadily heading towards victory thanks to the great sacrifices of its army and the steadfastness of its people of all spectra.

CNN exclusive: Nigerian girl who escaped Boko Haram says she still feels afraid

The terrifying news began to spread before the gun-wielding Islamist militants made it into Chibok last month. Villagers began to receive cell phone calls that the feared extremist group Boko Haram was on the way. No one knew what the attack would entail, that it would mean hundreds of schoolgirls plucked from their beds by a group of extremists who would later threaten to sell them. "It's like they were coming for a shopping trip," a villager who witnessed the attack told CNN. Some lucky girls managed to escape that night when, after they were loaded into cargo trucks, they made a dash for freedom. "We would rather die than go," one of the girls told CNN. "We ran into the bush. We ran and we ran."With fear in her eyes and voice, the young woman, who asked not to be identified, described the experience to a CNN crew that made the long, dangerous trip to her village. She said she and two friends who had also escaped saw something on fire and headed in that direction, presuming it was building in the village that had been set ablaze. Normally, Chibok is pitch black at night. Officials have said that Boko Haram militants abducted 276 girls from the boarding school on April 14 and that some escaped into a forest. Villagers said they passed along warnings to local police that the terrorists were on their way that night. They said they received phone calls from family and friends from surrounding villages and were told that there was a convoy of cargo trucks, pickups and motorcycles heading their way. One villager said he was told, "They are coming for you. Run!" The villagers said police called for reinforcements, but none came. Everyone, including the police, fled into the bush during the attack. But the girls were asleep in their dorms. The stories appear to confirm an Amnesty International report that the government couldn't put together enough troops to head off the attack. The girl who described her escape to CNN was still shaken up by the events. When asked to describe what her kidnappers wore, she responded: "I feel afraid." Her school is closed, but if it were open, she says, she wouldn't go back. Difficult journey There are many checkpoints on the roads from the capital of Abuja to Chibok. Some of these are manned by the military. Others have local vigilantes, armed with machetes, posted there. The stops are too many to count and have turned what should be an eight- to 10-hour trip into a journey that took CNN's crew four days. At each checkpoint, someone will ask where you are headed, poke his head in the vehicle and look around. Sometimes, he will ask to check passports. The absence of a security stop is noticeable when cars turn off the main, paved road onto the clay-topped, pothole-filled path to Chibok. There are no checkpoints for the last hour. The village is home to hundreds of people, and despite the abduction, life appears to be almost normal. Children play in the streets; men and women go to work. The primary place of business in town, the open-air market, is busy even after nightfall, though not for long. At the stands, villagers try to charge their mobile phones through power strips attached to gasoline-powered generators. Rarely does electricity flow through the grid. Solar-powered streetlights never work. When the women, children and elderly go to sleep, the young men station themselves throughout the village. Every group has its own area of operation where the men -- who work during the day and must get very little sleep -- do security patrols throughout the night. Each of them carries a machete, a poisoned bow and arrow or, in some cases, a homemade gun. Many in the village said they hope this will help put pressure on the government to do more to find their girls. International effort Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Saturday that he was worried about the girls and thanked other countries, including the United States, that have pledged support in finding them. "We promise the world that we must get these girls out," Jonathan said. CIA Director John Brennan told the TV network Fusion that the United States is doing "everything we can" to determine the girls' location, a mission President Barack Obama has made a priority. U.S. and British officials are in Abuja to help Nigeria's government look for the girls, plan rescue missions and advise on ways to subdue Boko Haram. China and France are also helping in the search. A statement from Jonathan's office Sunday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to send a team of counterterrorism experts. Several senior officials at the U.S. State Department told CNN that Washington offered assistance in the immediate aftermath of the mass abduction, echoing comments last week by Secretary of State John Kerry that the U.S. has been engaged since Day 1. Nigeria turned down the offer until it became apparent that the situation needed a greater response. Nigeria denies receiving warning Scrutiny of the Nigerian government's response to the kidnappings escalated after a report Friday from Amnesty International that says authorities knew at least four hours before the attack that Boko Haram was on its way. The Amnesty International report alleges that Nigerian commanders were unable to raise enough troops to respond. A military contingent of between 15 and 17 soldiers and a handful of police officers in Chibok were unable to fend off as many as 200 Boko Haram fighters who stole the girls from their beds, the report says. The Nigerian government said it responded with troops, helicopters and airplanes in the immediate aftermath of the mass abduction. Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty wrote an opinion piece for Sunday's editions of the Independent newspaper of Britain that said the organization stands by its claims. Many have died in violence Nigerian officials have frequently been criticized for failing to prevent Boko Haram's deadly attacks, particularly in the terror group's stronghold of northeastern Nigeria. At least 2,000 people have died in violence in northern Nigeria this year, Amnesty said. The most recent Boko Haram attack killed at least 310 people in a town that had been used as a staging ground for troops searching for the missing girls. The International Criminal Court said the number and intensity of attacks has risen sharply this year. It called on Boko Haram to release the girls immediately. "The troubling phenomenon of targeting females during conflict, this time, in Borno state, cannot be tolerated and must be stopped," said prosecutor Fatou Bensouda. "No stone should be left unturned to bring those responsible for such atrocious acts to justice, either in Nigeria or at the ICC." Disagreement on where girls might be The girls who remain missing probably have been separated and taken out of the country, some officials have said. "I abducted your girls," Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in a video released last week. "There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell." U.S. Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, who serves as Pentagon press secretary, said officials believe that the girls "have been broken up into smaller groups" but declined to detail how they came to the conclusion. His sentiment has been echoed by others. "The search must be in Niger, Cameroon and Chad, to see if we can find information," said Gordon Brown, a former UK prime minister and the U.N.'s special envoy for global education. But Jonathan believes the girls are still in Nigeria, somewhere in the Sambisa forest. "If they move that number of girls into Cameroon, people will see. So I believe they are still in Nigeria," he said. #BringBackOurGirls Prime Minister David Cameron promised Sunday that Britain "will do what we can" to help find the girls. He made the comments as he held a sign bearing the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag on the BBC's "Andrew Marr Show." Cameron and Pope Francis are the latest high-profile supporters of the social media campaign. U.S. first lady Michelle Obama tweeted a photo of herself with a similar poster last week. The Pope tweeted Saturday: "Let us all join in prayer for the immediate release of the schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria. #BringBackOurGirls." Also Saturday, Michelle Obama condemned the "unconscionable" kidnapping of the girls, saying in the weekly White House address that it was the work of "a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education.
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Pakistan eyes Colombo as ISI looks South
timesofindiaAfter security was tightened along the borders in the north with Nepal and Bangladesh, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence has been trying to build a base in Sri Lanka to gain entry to India, say experts. The arrest of suspected ISI agent Sakir Hussain from Sri Lanka in Chennai on Tuesday is an indicator of the accuracy of this line of thinking. Central agencies, who made the arrest, believe that Hussain, 37, was in Chennai as he had been tasked by a senior official in the Pakistan high commission in Colombo with recruiting youth from south India, particularly in Tamil Nadu, for circulation of fake currency and terror activities. Hussain's confession has made Indian agencies take a closer look at Pakistan's plans in Colombo. Col R Hariharan, a retired military intelligence specialist on South Asia, said the ISI had been trying to gain a larger foothold in Sri Lanka to execute its designs on India. "A few years back, the Pakistan government appointed a retired army person in its high commission in Colombo. He had direct links with ISI, which is keen on finding an entry point in south India using Colombo as a foothold," Hariharan told TOI. He said gold and counterfeit currency smugglers had found it easy to run operations from Colombo. Investigating officers in the Sakir Hussain case said he was trying to recruit smalltime smugglers in Chennai and other parts of TN. Intelligence officials recalled the arrest of Thanjavur-based trader A Tamim Ansari, who police suspected was a Pakistani agent, in Trichy when he was on his way to board a flight to Sri Lanka with a bunch of secret Indian naval documents and compact discs loaded with maps. A senior intelligence official also recalled the arrest of a senior leader of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI). "The organization was banned after one of its leaders attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (POK) in early 2000. He used Colombo as transit for his trip," the official pointed out. A central intelligence agency recently alerted the state police that four Sri Lankan citizens with ISI connections were likely to enter Tamil Nadu. Hariharan said the integrated structure involving central intelligence and police organizations in states were not yet fully in place. "It has to progress at a faster pace with greater commitment both at the central and state levels," he said. Officials said that the launch of National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) was a crucial initiative and its successful implementation could improve the country's real time response to terror attacks.
ISI still desperate for sand samples of nuclear test area in Pokhran
The Times of IndiaSixteen years after India created history by becoming the sixth country to have tested nuclear bombs and joining the elite nuclear club on May 11, 1998, Pak intelligence agency, ISI, is making a lot of efforts to get a sample of the sand in Pokhran. The ISI even today, is reportedly trying to spy this area and get the sand samples of the area in Pokhran where the nuclear tests were conducted. At the tail end of Pokaran field firing range, the spot where nuclear test was done, is under strict vigil and ISI has not been able to succeed in its efforts. The 3.5km long road is closely guarded and one has to pass four strictly guarded gates to get there. Even till today, the then director of United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), George Tenent feels disappointed at not being able to get the hint of the nuclear test conducted by India in 1998. According to an intelligence source, "ISI had launched its spies and agents whose objective was to take sand from this place. ISI wants to test the sand and analyze how the testing was done scientifically and technically. But due to the alertness of BSF jawans, their objective so far has not seen the light of the day." Defence spokesperson SD Goswami said, "Guarding and protecting the defence land is the responsibility of the local military authority. As such, all defence land falls under restricted area zone where permission for civilian freedom of movement is strictly monitored and depends on case to case." May 11 has been officially declared as the National Technology Day in India to commemorate the first of the five tests that were carried out on the 16th anniversary of Pokhran II. After the nuclear test done on May 11 and 13, 1988, the place is under strict Army vigil even today and no person can enter it for several kilometres without Army's permission. Just 16 years ago, Buddha smiled at Pokaran area in Jaisalmer. In hind sight, 'Smiling Buddha' a (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the code name of India's first nuclear weapon explosion, which took place on May 18, 1974. As a sheer coincidence, after a long silence, on May 11, 1988 in the same Pokaran range, three nuclear explosions were done and that day, too, was Buddha Purnima. It may be recalled that missile man and former president APJ Abdul Kalam, for the success of the series of nuclear tests, in a confidential manner stayed here for over two months under a pseudo name along with two scientist friends at Khetolai field firing range. For the implementation of these tests secretly, a chess table was laid and even America's chief intelligence agencies could not get a hint of the same.
Definition of a Traitor in Pakistan

Pakistan's draconian Blasphemy Law : Another One Bites the dust
pakteahouse.netSalmaan Taseer lost his life in January,2011 because he was brave enough to challenge the draconian Blasphemy Law present in Pakistan. His assasin was garlanded by lawyers in Rawalpindi District Court. The Judge who sentenced Mr. Taseer’s assasin had to flee Pakistan to save his life. Salmaan Taseer’s party distanced itself from his position and any space present for a logical discourse on blasphemy law vanished after Mr. Taseer’s brutal murder. Blasphemy-related deaths and vigilante actions in Pakistan have multiplied in number since 2011. The most recent victim was Mr. Rashid Rehman, a lawyer and member of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan(HRCP). Mr. Rashid was representing Junaid Hafeez, a lecturer at Multan’s Bahauddin Zikriya University(BZU). Junaid Hafeez is a Fulbright Scholar and his rapid ascension in academia ruffled more than a few feathers. Mr. Junaid promoted liberalism, equality and feminism among his students. He was also active on a facebook group with similar agenda. 0n 13th march 2013, pamphlets were distributed by students of English department at BZU, belonging to right-wing fascist student group, Islami Jamiat Tulaba(IJT). The pamphlets asserted that Mr. Junaid was a blasphemer because he was administrator of a facebook group where an anonymous person posted blasphemous comments about Islam’s holiest personalities. The pamphlets(and the dimwits who wrote those) were alleging “guilt by association”. Following the pamphlet distribution, a mob gathered inside the university premises and later an FIR(First Information Report) was registered at a nearby police station. Mr. Junaid was arrested on these flimsy charges and he is currently present behind bars, for a crime he never even committed. Enter Rashid Rehman. Mr.Rashid had dealt with cases related to human rights violations and he took this case on humanitarian basis. Mr. Rashid had to face threats since the first hearing of this case from the so-called Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat(TTNR), or “Movement to Protect Honor of Holy Prophet”. Members of the clergy have formed sham associations like this since the inception of Pakistan, to claim political mileage and to carve out a space for their retrogressive brand of politics. Rashid Rehman took the threats seriously and informed the district authorities about those threats and applied for additional security measures. On 7th May, 2014, Dawn reported, “Human Rights Advocate Rashid Rehman Khan was gunned down by unidentified attackers in Multan, late on Wednesday night.Initial reports suggest that Khan was targeted by two gunmen inside his office at Kachehri Chowk.Sources told Dawn.com that two clean-shaven young men barged into Advocate Khan’s office and shot him dead. Advocate Rashid Rehman Khan was a coordinator for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). The senior lawyer was defending a university lecturer accused of blasphemy and had complained that he had been receiving threats on his life.” IJT goons have a history of inciting violence against minorities and those who stand up for rights of minorities. In 1974, the Anti-Ahmaddiya campaign across Pakistan was led by IJT and resulted in loss of lives and ultimately, declaration of Ahmadis as Non-Muslims by the National Assembly through a constitutional amendment. Barelvi groups such as TTNR have sprung up in the last few decades, and have adopted the language of violence as much as their Deobandi counterparts. Mr. Rashid’s assasination has been mourned by the few liberals left in the country and has sent a shockwave of fear across the blogosphere. Anyone who opposes Blasphemy Law, or the concept behind the law, or anyone who even defends people who have been accused of Blasphemy, are in danger of losing their lives. The message which is to be learnt from this incident: Shut Up and Carry On with your miserable lives. Will the killers of Rashid Rehman be brought to justice? Who will ensure the writ of state in this matter? For How long will the state abdicate its responsibility of protecting its citizens from murderous zealots? The future is bleak, there is very little hope left for sane, rational voices in this country.
Pakistan: Terrorists as strategic assets
www.pakistantoday.comLast month the establishment had presumably warned the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network to choose between the TTP and the state of Pakistan if they wanted to stay friends with Islamabad. The TTP leadership, including its present chief Mullah Fazlullah, owe allegiance to Mullah Umar whom they consider as Amirul Momineen, or the leader of the faithful. Haqqanis, on the other hand, have allowed the TTP leadership to move freely in areas of North Waziristan under their control. That the TTP declined to extend the ceasefire indicates that the warning did not have any effect. A number of other developments also corroborate this. Attacks on civilians and those in uniform continue. On Saturday, an explosion in Peshawar killed at least three noncombatants and a remote controlled IED blast injured four security personnel in North Waziristan. What is even more significant is Fazlullah’s move to sack Khan Said Sajna as Ameer of South Waziristan. Sajna is reportedly in favour of holding talks with Pakistan. As if to cock a snook at Pakistan, the TTP chief has nominated Khalid Omar Khorasani, who had ordered the decapitation of 23 troops taken hostage, to appoint a new commander for South Waziristan in place of Said. Both Fazlullah and Khorasani operate from inside Afghanistan where the government in Kabul has provided them shelter to launch attacks inside Pakistan. It appears that Mullah Omar and the Haqqanis were unwilling to oblige Pakistan. With the so called “Spring Offensive” having started last Monday, they are relying on the support of Fazlullah and his men in the fight against the multinational army and Afghan troops. Soon the Afghan government would discover that it was a folly on its part to provide Pakistani militant groups safe havens. It is time Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the US realised the need of eliminating all brands of terrorists from the region. As long as governments continue to treat bands of terrorists as strategic assets, there will be no peace in Pakistan, Afghanistan or India. The policy of setting one militant group against another in the long run results in creating more enemies than before and is therefore to be avoided. There have been reports in the media that Taliban groups from Punjab, that include LeJ and Jaish-e-Muhammad, are poised for joining hands with the Afghan Taliban. While shortsighted elements in the echelons of power might think this would provide them a breather, a more comprehensive view of national security would require elimination of all these group through mutual cooperation by Pakistan, Afghanistan and the US.
Polio and Pakistan
Today polio is rife in Pakistan due to its full engagement in the war by being a close US ally and spending everything there. The travel bans on Pakistanis will further weaken Pakistan’s efforts to fight the crippling polio disease Inevitably, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Pakistan a polio-exporting country and has imposed travel bans on its citizens. WHO’s Emergency Committee members and its expert advisors held a two-day meeting on the alarming spread of polio on April 28 and 29 in Geneva. The meeting declared 10 countries polio-infected, including three countries as polio-exporting countries — Pakistan, Syria and Cameroon. Travel restrictions have been imposed on polio-exporting countries by requiring polio vaccination certificates from their citizens before flying abroad. The WHO team has prescribed certain hard conditions for the polio-exporting countries before the travel ban can be lifted. First, these countries each have to declare a national public health emergency. Second, aspiring travellers should receive a dose of OPV or inactivated polio-virus vaccine (IPV) between four weeks to 12 months prior to any international travel. Third, the travel restrictions will be lifted if the polio-exporting country does not export the polio virus. And last, the country should maintain documentation of the complete application of top level and quality polio eradication activities in the affected areas. Pakistan tops Syria and Cameroon in exporting the polio virus. The given WHO conditions are very hard to implement in Pakistan in the prevalent conditions. The federal government has pleaded that it has no money to buy polio vaccines on an urgent basis and has appealed to WHO for the provision of polio vaccines. However, the federal government has money for the Prime Minister’s (PM’s) Youth Business Loan and the PM’s Laptop Scheme. Failing to meet the WHO conditions would mean the continuation of travel restrictions and addition to the sufferings of air travellers. It is very bizarre that first international cricket teams refused to play cricket in Pakistan owing to security threats, and now Pakistani citizens are not allowed without polio vaccination certificates to fly to foreign countries because of the threat of polio that they carry. It is alarming that out of 59 polio cases within the first four months of this year, 40 cases have been reported from North Waziristan, while the remaining are in other areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or Karachi. Not a single case has been reported from Punjab and Balochistan this year. This high number of polio cases has not emerged overnight. In 2013, there were 91 polio cases and in the preceding year there were 58. Pakistan was close to being a polio-free country but the disclosure of the spying incident that located al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden by Dr Shakil Afridi while administering polio drops brought a strong reaction and propaganda by religious groups against polio vaccinations. The fanatics first told the illiterate masses that the polio drops are un-Islamic as they claim they contain male and female infertility chemicals. They also frequently attack polio workers and threaten parents with dire consequences if they administer polio drops to their children. This has all added to the increase of polio in Pakistan. Then Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gillani launched an anti-polio drive in 2010 and appointed Asifa Bhutto Zardari, the daughter of former PM the late Benazir Bhutto, as a goodwill ambassador for polio eradication. She tried to create awareness among the masses about the crippling effects of polio and worked hard to contain it. The militants, being arch-rivals of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), tried hard not to allow polio drives in the tribal areas. This is the reason that today it is now a hub of the polio virus. Militants attack immunisation teams; they have killed some 56 polio workers since December 2012. The militants’ attacks are to discourage the meagre daily wage earning polio workers. The health sector of the country is a completely neglected sector. A very small budget is allocated to this very crucial sector. The government allocated a total of Rs 35.6 billion for the health sector in the annual budget for the fiscal year 2013-14. With this meagre budget, a crippling disease like polio cannot be combated and finally eradicated. Pakistan has to do much by banking on its own revenues. This disease affects our children and brings infamy to Pakistan. Thus the government of Pakistan has to allocate much to the health sector to fight a pitched battle against this paralysing disease. It was incumbent on the Pakistani representative present in the WHO meeting to save Pakistani citizens from travel restrictions by explaining to them that there has been a rise of polio cases due to intensified terror strikes in the country. The world community must not forget the sacrifices of Pakistan in the war on terror and must play its role to lift the travel restrictions on Pakistani citizens. Today, polio is rife in Pakistan due to its full engagement in the war by being a close US ally and spending everything there. The travel bans on Pakistanis will further weaken Pakistan’s efforts to fight the crippling polio disease. This country should not be pushed to a state of isolation by disconnecting its citizens from the world. The travel restrictions on Pakistanis mean leaving Pakistan alone at a most difficult time when Islamabad is already struggling with terrorism, an energy crisis and threats to democracy. Polio is not a Pakistan-specific disease, the way the WHO has tried to portray it by punishing all Pakistanis. The presence of this virus anywhere is a threat to everywhere. This was the time of the world community to stand by Pakistan to tackle the polio virus, rather than leaving Islamabad alone.Inayatullah Rustamani
Pakistan: The wages of violence

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