WASHINGTON, 30 November, 2020, (TON): White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his team are heading to Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week to secure more diplomatic agreements in the Middle East.

According to U.S. officials talks are aimed at resolving the dispute between the neighbouring Gulf countries, as the region is simmering with tension after the killing of an Iranian nuclear scientist.

A senior US official told Reuters news agency that Kushner is to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Saudi city of Neom, and the emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in that country in the coming days.

According to officials Mr. Kushner and his team are hoping to use their political leverage to advance issues of U.S. interest, with a particular focus on resolving the three-year-old rift between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours, including Riyadh.

The trip could mark the last time that Mr. Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, meets as a White House official with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after a four-year relationship that brought substantive political changes in the Middle East.

Last month senior Saudi official signalled that there had been some progress in attempts to resolve three-year dispute, saying that Riyadh was “committed to finding a solution”.

Earlier this month, Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said there were no winners in the Gulf crisis and that Doha was hopeful it will end “at any moment.”

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic ties and imposed a land, sea and air blockade on Qatar in 2017, accusing Doha of “supporting terrorism”, a charge Doha denies and rejected the list of 13 demands.

DOHA, 30 November, 2020, (TON): A breakthrough was reported from Doha as the two negotiating teams have agreed to include the US-Taliban deal, UN endorsements for Afghan peace process, commitments of the negotiating teams and will of the Afghan people as the base for upcoming negotiations.

Negotiators from both sides of the Afghan peace negotiations have conflicting accounts about the reports of recent progress in their talks.

However, sources close to the Taliban have said that a continued disagreement could push the talks into a deadlock.

Earlier, a Taliban spokesperson Mohammad Naeem, tweeted that negotiators from both sides for the Afghan peace process have agreed on procedural rules with 21 items on the 15th of November 2020, for the talks to proceed.

However, the republic’s team have said that the procedural rules are still not finalized and the preface needs more explanation.

Dawa Khan Menapal , a deputy spokesman to President Ashraf Ghani said “The delegation of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is there with full authority in hand. The foundation of the talks are the Constitution of Afghanistan and the proposals made by the Consultative Loya Jirga on Peace.”

The Taliban insists that if a dispute emerges during the negotiations, the solution must be sought using the Hanafi jurisprudence and that the foundation for the talks should be the peace deal that the group signed with the US in late February.

But the Afghan republic's team has rejected the Taliban’s demands and has suggested some alternatives.

JERUSALEM, 30 November 2020, (TON): In October, the Israeli magistrate court of Jerusalem ruled to evict 12 of the 24 Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah and to give their homes to Israeli Jewish settlers. The court also ruled that each family must pay 70,000 shekels ($20,000) in fees to cover the settlers’ legal expenses.

For at least a dozen Palestinian families living in the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, the threat of eviction from their homes looms over their heads, paralysing any thoughts of the future.

The families were given 30 days to file an appeal, but most expressed little hope for a ruling in their favour, saying the Israeli judiciary is no more than an instrument of the Israeli occupation policy of forcibly displacing and erasing the Palestinian presence in Jerusalem.

“Since the eviction order, we’ve been living with the daily anxiety of not knowing when the Israeli army will come and evict us from our home,” said Ahmad Hammad, a resident of Sheikh Jarrah.

Sheikh Jarrah, located on the slopes of Mount Scopus just north of the Old City, is home to 3,000 Palestinians, all refugees who were ethnically cleansed from their homes in other parts of historical Palestine during the 1948 Nakba.

Israel’s settlements and eviction of Palestinians violate international humanitarian law, which prohibits the occupying power from transferring its civilian population into the territories it occupies. As Israel’s targeting of Jerusalem is continuing at a heightened pace.

TAGRAY, 30 November 2020, (TON): The forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region claimed they shot down a military Ethiopian military aircraft and also retook a town from federal forces on Sunday.

Debretsion Gebremichael, leader of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) confirmed that that have captured the pilot of the military aircraft.

Earlier, on Saturday Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared victory in the northern region and claimed that federal troops had taken control of the Tigrayan capital Mekelle.

Police then issued arrest warrants for 17 military officers on charges of treason and embezzlement of public properties, state-affiliated Fana TV reported. Arrest warrants already exist for 117 other senior officers with alleged ties to the TPLF.

NEW DELHI, 30 November 2020, (TON): The OIC report on its activities referred to Jammu and Kashmir situation has condemned Indian Illegal annexation of Jammu and Kashmir, to which India shamelessly denied and rejected.

The report of the OIC Secretary General on its activities submitted to the 47th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers referred to the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and said, “The decision of the Indian government on 5 August 2019 towards changing the demographic and geographic composition of the territory, and the continuous blockade and restrictions together with human rights abuses, had awakened renewed efforts of the international community towards a resolution of the conflict”.

However, India has denied their blatant actions, and rejected the criticism of its Kashmir policy by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation by saying, “We strongly and categorically reject the factually incorrect, gratuitous and unwarranted references to India in resolutions adopted by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).”

The resolution passed by OIC condemned the state-sponsored terrorism and crimes against humanity by Indian occupation forces against the Kashmiri people. However, Indian attempts to deny illegal occupation and unlawful moves in Jammu and Kashmir is a travesty of history. Modi has ignored many resolutions on the internationally recognised dispute with Pakistan over sovereign control of the Kashmir region. Modi claims of “new era” is only a new calamity for Kashmiris.

NEW DELHI, 30 November 2020, (TON):  India is hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) virtual meeting of the heads of governments. The virtual summit will be chaired by Vice Indian President M Venkaiah Naidu. It is being participated by 7 Prime Ministers from the member states of SCO including Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Apart from the SCO member states, the four observer states of the SCO; Afghanistan, Belarus, Iran, and Mongolia will also participate in the summit.

SCO has 8 member states and 4 observer states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan will not participate in the summit.

 Pakistan, which is a member of SCO will be represented by the Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Shanghai Cooperation has potential to play its vital, important and positive role in implementing, prompting, enhancing and cooperating in the area of peace, trade, security and other bilateral issues.

The summit will end with the adoption of a joint communique.

LADAKH, 30 November 2020, (TON): Indian and Iranian splinter groups in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh are trying to give the newly declared Union Territory (UT) a separate status to cut all its links with Jammu and Kashmir State. There has been increase case of settling of foreigners in Ladak and Jammu regions to change the demography. Indian agencies are settling a particular Muslim sect in the Ladakh and extending official funding to strengthen their religious, social and political institutions.

Speaking on the occasion, the official of Imam Khomeini Memorial Trust, Kargil-Ladakh said that they would not leave any stone unturned to get the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution in extended in Ladakh. Ladakh assumed the UT status on 31 October 2019 and now much has to be achieved to link it with people across the border.

Meanwhile, member of the Rajya Sabha in Parliament Mrs Ambika Soni pleaded strongly for extending provisions of the Sixth Schedule of Indian Constitution to the UT of Ladakh. The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has also recommended to the Government that Ladakh be declared a Tribal area under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution.

TEHRAN, 30 November 2020, (TON): Iran will give a “calculated and decisive” response to the killing of its top nuclear scientist, said a top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, while a hard-line newspaper suggested Tehran’s revenge should include striking the Israeli port, city of Haifa.

Head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Kamal Kharrazi, said in a statement “Undoubtedly, Iran will give a calculated and decisive answer to the criminals who took Martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh from the Iranian nation.”

Fakhrizadeh, long suspected by Western and Israeli government of masterminding a secret nuclear weapons program, was ambushed on a highway near Tehran on Friday and gunned down in his car.

Iran’s clerical and military rulers have blamed the Iran’s long-time enemy, Israel, for the killing. Iran has in the past accused Israel of killing several Iranian nuclear scientists since 2010.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office has declined to comment on the killing.

Iranian hardline media called for tough revenge. Editor-in-chief Saadollah Zarei in an opinion piece wrote “the attack should be carried out in such a way that in addition to destroying the facilities, it should also cause heavy human casualties.”

Earlier, Soleimani’s death led to Iran retaliating with a ballistic missile barrage that injured dozens of American troops in Iraq. Tehran also has forces at its disposal all around Israel but they may face political and military difficulties by striking Israel this time. As Iran is already in difficult situation added by this anger and frustration; and have nothing to lose much. So, they may intend to carry out the strike.

SRINAGAR, 29 November 2020, (TON): All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) has welcomed OIC Foreign Ministers’ Council resolution passed in favour of the Kashmiris’ inalienable right to self-determination at its session in Niamey, Niger.

Message on the behalf of top Kashmiri leader Syed Ali Geelani said, “We are thankful to all the Muslims countries as members of the OIC to support Kashmiris right of seld-determination and highlighting the atrocities of Indian occupying brute forces.”

APHC General Secretary Molvi Bashir Ahmad in a statement issued in Srinagar, today, thanked all members of OIC for its efforts to muster the support of Muslim countries for the Kashmir cause. He said, the situation has become more serious in occupied Kashmir where human rights violations are committed by Indian troops in a systematic manner. He also the appreciated the role of Foreign Minister of Pakistan in drawing the attention of the Muslim countries towards the sufferings of the Kashmiris in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir State.

He said that killings and vandalism were going on in IIOJK and it was a matter of concern for the civilized world, urging it to play role and settle the dispute according to the UN resolutions so that permanent peace could be established in the region.

Meanwhile, Islami Tanzeem-e-Azadi Chairman, Abdul Samad Inqilabi in a statement in Srinagar also sought intervention by the OIC to save Kashmiris from ethnic cleansing in IIOJK. He said that Kashmiri people are facing Islamophobia at the hands of occupational forces of Modi-led fascist Indian government.

Vice Chairman of Political Division of Ittehad-e-Islami, Ghulam Nabi Darzi in a statement in Srinagar appreciated the OIC Foreign Ministers’ conference for approving resolution on Kashmir and termed it a welcome step.

WASHINGTON, 30 November 2020, (TON): Donald Trump has said he will continue to contest the election results, despite system not ready to entertain his evidences of voter fraud claims. Republicans have filed multiple lawsuits contesting the results of the election in the courts and generally, the courts are rejecting some of the applications on technical grounds like filing defects.

In his first television appearance since the US election, President Trump said that he would continue to fight the results of the presidential poll,  "My mind will not change in six months… We have to move very fast."

Joe Biden who has been declared successful has been allowed to start his transition process to the White House, including naming members of his presidential Cabinet.

The whole America and the world know that there has been organized  institutional planned rigging to take revenge from an American President who dare to have taken actions including stop war crimes being committed by US forces in other countries by withdrawing troops and putting bar  on gay and transgender getting patronizing from US administration. President Trump tweeted out a ban on transgender people in the military “in any capacity,” His policy of implementing new restrictions on people seeking asylum in the US to get rid of illegal and criminals from other country was also a hurdle.

 In June this year, the US Supreme Court decided that gay and transgender people are protected under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex as well as race, color, national origin and religion. The Court ruled, “By discriminating against homosexuals …. the employer intentionally penalizes men for being attracted to men and women for being attracted to women. By discriminating against transgender persons, the employer unavoidably discriminates against persons with one sex identified at birth and another today.”

Representatives from Trump's presidential campaign and other members of his Republican Party have filed multiple lawsuits contesting the results of the election. Whatever the case may be President Trump and the members of his Republican Party will never accept fraud election and are hopeful that justice will be extended to them.