Amid the ongoing protest by the banned Islamist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has warned the group to go back o
of his father used to rule were good for his supplies. they are not with them, they are with the taliban, so he is encircled. so i think it now depends what conditions he lays down and whether they are acceptable to the taliban or not. this might, then, bring us closer to the announcement of a taliban government, and what challenges do you think are key there? i think the biggest challenges within the taliban. i mean, we see taliban as one big organisation, militant organisation, but it is not. it is comprised of several factions within it haqqani network being one of the biggest ones and then there are the other ones as well. so i think the delay, i mean, the 31st of august withdrawal date gave the taliban a convenient date or some time to negotiate an internal, sort of, a consensus on a new government, but now that we re five days down the road and still no government announcement,
to humans or other animals. the group behind hong kong s annual vigil remembering those massacred in tiananmen square says it won t cooperate with a police investigation into the organisation s activities. police have accused the hong kong alliance in support of patriotic democratic movements of china of being a foreign agent, an allegation it denies. the un has condemned a military coup in guinea after the military appeared on national television to say they had ousted president alpha conde. it follows hours of heavy gunfire near the presidential palace in the capital, kon uh kry.(biv our west palace in the capital, conakry. our west africa correspondent, mayenijones, reports. unexpected violence. a quiet sunday morning in the capital conakry disrupted by gunfire. soon,
SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT III - Separatism, federalism, centralism
Breaking apart existing states is not the road to socialism, but the road to defeat, writes Jack Conrad
Those who rigidly adhere to a moralistic, third-worldist anti-imperialism cannot possibly bring themselves to countenance self-determination for ‘unworthy’ peoples - the most obvious example being Israeli Jews and the British-Irish in the six counties of Northern Ireland.
1 Given its junior role in building, administering and maintaining what was a vast British empire, that must include Scotland too. After all, historically, even “left-of centre”
2 Scottish nationalists sought not an end to that empire, but, as a “mother nation”, equal rights with England to plunder and profit.