Friday, March 3, 2017

Look familiar? Photo captures Hillary's face as she reads newspaper story about Mike Pence using a personal email while in office

Look familiar? Photo captures Hillary's face as she reads newspaper story about Mike Pence using a personal email while in office

  • Hillary Clinton was spotted on plane reading news of Mike Pence's controversy
  • Indianapolis Star broke story of his use of personal email while he was Indiana governor
  • Pence is VP under Donald Trump, who routinely criticized Clinton for her use of private email server while serving as Secretary of State
  • Pence said that his private email bears 'no comparison whatsoever' with Clinton
By Forrest Hanson For Dailymail.com
PUBLISHED: 20:33 EST, 3 March 2017 | UPDATED: 21:53 EST, 3 March 2017
It appears irony is not lost on Hillary Clinton, as a photograph of her emerged on Friday reading a newspaper headlined with Mike Pence's use of a personal email to conduct government business. 
Her face appeared frozen and incredulous to learn that the vice president was embroiled in a similar controversy to her own infamous email server scandal.
Criticized by Republicans for using her own emails, she was subject to Donald Trump routinely leading chants of 'Lock her up' on the campaign trail before his election to the White House.
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Hillary Clinton read about news of Mike Pence's use of a personal email while he served as Indiana's governor. She did so while on an airplane
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Hillary Clinton read about news of Mike Pence's use of a personal email while he served as Indiana's governor. She did so while on an airplane
She appeared unimpressed with the news that the running mate of her political rival, Donald Trump, was now embroiled in an email controversy. Trump throughout his campaign galvanized supporters into saying 'lock her up' over Clinton's use of a private email server
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She appeared unimpressed with the news that the running mate of her political rival, Donald Trump, was now embroiled in an email controversy. Trump throughout his campaign galvanized supporters into saying 'lock her up' over Clinton's use of a private email server
Clinton was perhaps traveling from the Boston area where she visited Wellesley College, her alma mater.
While speaking at an event with the liberal arts college's president, Paula Johnson, she discussed the political world and last year's election, in which she won the popular vote but lost the electoral college to Donald Trump.
She was asked by a sophomore 'What would you change about your campaign?' and quipped: 'I'd win.' 
Clinton was catching up on the plane on the news of Pence's personal AOL email account with he used to conduct officials business during his tenure as Indiana's governor.
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Oh, the irony: Social media users had a ball with Clinton's face as she stopped browsing whatever she was looking at on her phone to look at the news. The USA Today headline read: 'Pence used personal email in office.' USA Today affiliate The Indianapolis Star broke the story
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Oh, the irony: Social media users had a ball with Clinton's face as she stopped browsing whatever she was looking at on her phone to look at the news. The USA Today headline read: 'Pence used personal email in office.' USA Today affiliate The Indianapolis Star broke the story
Pence discussed matters of homeland security in the emails, the Indianapolis Star reported. 
The emails were obtained through a public record request.
Pence's representatives released a statement following the disclosure.
It said: 'Similar to previous governors, during his time as Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence maintained a state email account and a personal email account. 
'As Governor, Mr Pence fully complied with Indiana law regarding email use and retention. 
'Government emails involving his state and personal accounts are being archived by the state consistent with Indiana law, and are being managed according to Indiana's Access to Public Records Act.'
Pence, answering a question from USA Today reporters, said: 'There's no comparison whatsoever between Hillary Clinton's practice of having a private server, mishandling classified information, destroying emails when they were requested by the Congress and by officials.
'We have fully complied with all of Indiana's laws.'
The irony of the situation was not lost on social media users.
Pere Noel wrote on Twitter: 'The irony is palpable.' Describing Hillary's facial expression, Matt Fuller wrote: 'When the straight bulls*** hits.'
Pence said that 'there's no comparison whatsoever' between his use of a private email and Hillary Clinton's private server. Pence discussed matters of homeland security in the emails, the Indianapolis Star reported
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Pence said that 'there's no comparison whatsoever' between his use of a private email and Hillary Clinton's private server. Pence discussed matters of homeland security in the emails, the Indianapolis Star reported


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Analysis: Legacy of 1857 continues unabated Dawn Mrh 3 17 JAWED NAQVI

Analysis: Legacy of 1857 continues unabated

JAWED NAQVI — UPDATED about 3 hours ago
NEW DELHI: The brave and fractious anti-British uprising of 1857 was put down with a heavy hand. It took another 90 eventful years for Hindus and Muslims who claimed to have jointly led the anti-colonial showdown to part ways. Anger, acrimony, violence visited both communities and tore up large swathes of their habitats across the subcontinent .
As the year 2017 marks the 160th anniversary of the uprising, let’s examine the role played by the two groups at a defining moment in history.
If there were Hindu, Muslim or Sikh participants in the rebellion, there were Hindu, Muslim and Sikhs allies of the British as well. The Shia Nawab of Oudh rebelled and the Shia Nawab of Rampur sided with the British.
If Sunni purists joined the mutiny, then Bhopal, under the influence of the ultra conservative Ahl-i-Hadees, remained loyal to the East India Company. Many Sikhs, Pathans, and a whole host of Hindu chieftains joined the British against the rebellion.
Many of us celebrate Hindu-Muslim unity of 1857, but we ignore the disunity both between and within the communities. Both premises — of 1857 and 1947 — were therefore suspect. There was no monolithic Muslim identity in either case. There was no monolithic Hindu identity either. This was proved in 1857, but overlooked in 1947, possibly to address new exigencies of electoral politics.
Everyone wanted to show their popular prowess at the ballots so they gathered everyone that was not traditionally in either camp as one of theirs.
Had both sides heeded B.R. Ambedkar, they would have analysed the defeat in 1857 more rationally and approached the division of 1947 with far more circumspection than they provisioned for. The role of the backward castes, including the erstwhile Untouchables (today’s Dalits), continues to be underplayed in the popular imagination.
In the popular imagination, 1857 is touted for Hindu-Muslim unity and 1947 is remembered for their disunity. Ambedkar had a different view of both. Consider his typically cutting passage from The Annihilation of Caste: “The first and foremost thing that must be recognised is that Hindu society is a myth,” says the book Dalits regard as their bible.
“The name Hindu is itself a foreign name. It was given by the Mahomedans to the natives for the purpose of distinguishing themselves. It does not occur in any Sanskrit work prior to the Mahomedan invasion. They did not feel the necessity of a common name, because they had no conception of their having constituted a community.
“Hindu society as such does not exist. It is only a collection of castes. Each caste is conscious of its existence. Its survival is the be-all and end-all of its existence. Castes do not even form a federation. A caste has no feeling that is affiliated to other castes, except when there is a Hindu-Moslem riot. On all other occasions each caste endeavours to segregate itself and to distinguish itself from other castes.”

Caste matters

How did the caste tangle feature in 1857?
Consider the airbrushing of certain embarrassing traits from historical discourse. Whose exploits are we more familiar with between Ramabai Pandita and Begum Hazrat Mahal? Ramabai was born to a progressive Brahmin family of Maharashtra. She suffered for her association with the Untouchables in her neighbourhood, one of whom she married during a visit to Bengal.
Begum Hazrat Mahal: advocate of upper classes?
Begum Hazrat Mahal: advocate of upper classes?
After converting to Christianity following a study tour in England, she intensified her mission to improve the condition of low caste Indians, primarily their children, including child widows. This early public intellectual was born in 1858, the same year that Begum Hazrat Mahal, Ramabai’s antithesis, issued an ‘ishtehaarnama’, or a proclamation, from her exile.
We are reminded over and over again with Vedic monotony that Begum Hazrat Mahal played a most heroic role in India’s battle against British rule, which she evidently did. But there’s a less discussed dimension of her personality and that of her other notable contemporaries who waged battle against British rule in 1857. You can be sanguine that the queen of Awadh and her fellow rebel rulers, if they shared her social views, would not pass muster in any comity of worthy rulers.
The Indian Council of Historical Research released a collection of proclamations issued by the rebel leaders a few years ago. Documented by Dr Iqbal Hussain of Aligarh Muslim University, they throw a different light on the social history of 1857.
Hazrat Mahal, speaking on behalf of her son Birjis Qadar (Wali of Awadh), urges her subjects in a proclamation dated June 25, 1858, to not heed the siren call of Queen Victoria. Why? Because Awadh had respected the right of religion, honour, life and property, in that order, something the British ostensibly didn’t. The regina of Awadh explains her son’s claim on their subjects’ loyalty.
“Everyone follows his own religion (in my domain). And enjoys respect according to their worth and status. Men of high extraction, be they Syed, Sheikh, Mughal or Pathan among the Mohammedans, or Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaish or Kayasth among the Hindus, all these retain the respectability according to their respective ranks. And all persons of a lower order such as a Sweeper, Chamar, Dhanook, or Pasi cannot claim equality with them.”
The proclamation twists the knife further in its lament:
“The honour and respectability of every person of high extraction are considered by (the British) equal to the honour and respectability of the lower orders.
“Nay, compared with the latter, they treat the former with contempt and disrespect. Wherever they go they hang the respectable persons to death, and at the instance of the Chamar, force the attendance of a Nawab or a Rajah, and subject him to indignity.”
Clearly, the pervasive legacy of Vedic Brahminism, which would rile Ambedkar six decades later, was at work in 19th century northern India through a Muslim ruler. The syndrome has not quite abated even today.
Published in Dawn, March 4th, 2017
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Khanani group launders billions of dollars: US report Dawn Mar 4 17 ANWAR IQBAL

Khanani group launders billions of dollars: US report Dawn Mar 4 17

ANWAR IQBAL — UPDATED about 5 hours ago
WASHINGTON: A US State Department report released on Friday labelled the Altaf Khanani group as a money laundering organisation and accused it of laundering billions of dollars for organised crime and terrorist outfits.
US Assistant Secretary of State for Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs William R. Brownfield told a briefing in Washington that the State Department had delivered its 32nd International Narcotics Control Strategy Report to Congress on Wednesday. “It is, however, the first time that we are discussing and rolling this report out before the media in nine years,” he added.
In its section on Pakistan, the report notes: “The Altaf Khanani money laundering organisation (Khanani MLO) is based in Pakistan. The group, which was designated a transnational organised crime group by the United States in November 2015, facilitates illicit money movement between, among others, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), United States, UK, Canada, and Australia.”
The group “is responsible for laundering billions of dollars in organised crime proceeds annually. The Khanani MLO offers money laundering services to a diverse clientele, including Chinese, Colombian, and Mexican organised crime groups and individuals associated with designated terrorist organisations”, the report adds.
It describes Pakistan as strategically located country at the nexus of south, central and western Asia, with a coastline along the Arabian Sea. The report notes that Pakistan’s porous borders with Afghanistan, Iran and China facilitate the smuggling of narcotics and contraband to overseas markets.
“The country suffers from financial crimes associated with tax evasion, fraud, corruption, trade in counterfeit goods, contraband smuggling, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling/trafficking, terrorism and terrorist financing,” the report points out.
“There is a substantial demand for money laundering and illicit financial services due to the country’s black market economy and challenging security environment.”
The report notes that money laundering in Pakistan affects both the formal and informal financial systems. Pakistan does not have firm control of its borders, which facilitates the flow of illicit goods and monies into and out of Pakistan.
The report, however, acknowledges that most Pakistanis living abroad use legal channels for sending money home. From January to December 2016, the Pakistani diaspora remitted $19.7 billion back to Pakistan via the formal banking sector, up by 2.3 per cent from 2015.
The report notes that while it is illegal to operate a hawala without a licence in Pakistan, the practice remains prevalent because of poor ongoing supervision efforts and a lack of penalties levied against illegally operating businesses. “Unlicensed hawala/hundi operators are also common throughout the broader region and are widely used to transfer and launder illicit money through neighbouring countries,” the report adds.
Common methods for transferring illicit funds include fraudulent trade invoicing, unlicensed hundis and hawalas and bulk cash smuggling.
The report says that criminals exploit import/export firms, front businesses and the charitable sector to carry out their activities. Pakistan’s real estate sector is another common money laundering vehicle, since real estate transactions tend to be poorly documented and cash-based, it adds.
The report notes that in January 2015, Pakistan launched the National Action Plan (NAP), addressing primarily counter-terrorist financing. The government’s implementation of the NAP “has yielded mixed results, which is in part due to the lack of institutional capacity as well as political will,” the report adds.
“Unlicensed hawaladars continue to operate illegally throughout
Pakistan, particularly in Peshawar and Karachi, though under the NAP Pakistan has reportedly been pursuing illegal hawala/hundi dealers and exchange houses.”
The report says that Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency, which is responsible for investigating money laundering cases, lacks the capacity to pursue complicated financial investigations.
Last year, Altaf Khanani pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge before a US court and signed a plea agreement on Oct 27. Khanani was arrested in September last year following a sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, and has been in jail ever since. He was indicted in the US District Court of the Southern District of Florida on 14 counts of money laundering in June 2015.
Khanani was among the four men the United States blacklisted in October for purported ties to an organisation accused of laundering money for drug traffickers and Chinese, Colombian and Mexican crime groups. Among them was his son Obaid Khanani.
In a statement issued then, the US Department of Treasury said that Obaid Khanani, 29, continued to help lead his father’s money laundering organisation after the arrest. Another man on the list, Hozaifa Khanani, also 29, was Altaf Khanani’s nephew and was involved in real estate investments on behalf of his uncle’s organisation, the Treasury Department added.
It said Mohammad Javed Khanani, Altaf Khanani’s brother, was “heavily involved in laundering criminal proceeds via money service businesses”.
Javed Khanani, a director of Khanani and Kalia International (KKI) money changers, died in December 2016 after reportedly falling from an under-construction building in Karachi.
A fourth man, Atif Polani, helped move funds on behalf of Khanani’s organisation.
Published in Dawn, March 4th, 2017
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