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A6 WORLD NEWS
Monday 14 February 2022
Sudan’s top general lauds recent ties with former foe Israel

By SAMY MAGDY popular uprising forced the
Associated Press military to remove al-Bashir
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s top and his Islamist government
general has lauded re- in April 2019.
cent ties with Israel, saying The coup triggered near-
that intelligence sharing daily street protests, plung-
between the two former ing the country further into
adversaries helped arrest turmoil. Security forces
suspected militants in his launched a deadly crack-
country. down on protesters, kill-
The two countries normal- ing around 80 people and
ized relations late in 2020 wounding over 2,200 oth-
as part of a series of U.S.- ers injured since the coup,
brokered deals between according to a Sudanese
Israel and four Arab coun- medical group.
tries. Israel and Sudan have The U.N., the U.S. and other
since crafted security and Western government have
intelligence relationships pressured the military to
that have seen officials ex- end the crackdown on
change meetings repeat- protesters and restore a
edly in unannounced trips. civilian-led government
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, to complete the country’s
head of the ruling Sov- Sudan’s head of the military, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, speaks during a press conference at the transition. Congress mem-
ereign Council, said ex- General Command of the Armed Forces in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. bers have also called for
change of intelligence has Associated Press sanctions on military lead-
enabled Sudan to disman- ficial has yet made a visit to ficials, including Mossad in- al-Bashir. ers in Sudan.
tle and arrest suspected Israel. He did not elaborate. telligence officers, to Khar- Sudan was once one of U.S. Assistant Secretary of
militant groups in Sudan There was no immediate toum in January. Israel’s fiercest rivals in the State Molly Phee and the
that “could have under- comment from Israel. Is- In October, the then Suda- Arab world. It hosted the newly appointed U.S. spe-
mined the security of Su- rael has been silent on the nese justice minister, Nasre- landmark Arab conference cial envoy for the Horn of
dan and the region.” October military coup in deen Abdulbari, and Israeli after the 1967 Mideast war Africa visited Sudan last
Speaking in an an interview Sudan, led by Burhan, and Cabinet ministers Idan Roll at which eight Arab coun- month and said they made
with Sudan’s state-run TV the ensuring unrest there, and Edawi Frej held a rare tries vowed never to make clear to the generals that
aired late Saturday, Burhan indicating it intends to public meeting in the Unit- peace with Israel. “the U.S. “will consider
said it is legitimate for Su- maintain normalized ties ed Arab Emirates’ capital The Oct. 25 military take- measures to hold account-
danese security and intel- with Sudan. of Abu Dhabi. over has upended Sudan’s able those responsible for
ligence agencies to have Sudanese and Israeli of- The normalization of ties transition to democratic failure to move forward.”
ties and exchange visits ficials exchanged unan- with Israel paved the way rule after three decades In the interview, Buran
with Israel. nounced visits in recent for Sudan to reintegrate of repression and inter- pushed back against
He insisted his country’s re- weeks. Most recently, a Su- into the international com- national isolation under threats of punitive mea-
lations with Israel are not of danese security delegation munity after two decades al-Bashir. The African na- sure, saying that sanctions
a political nature, saying visited Tel Aviv last week, of isolation under former tion has been on a fragile and threats of sanctions will
that no senior Sudanese of- following a visit by Israeli of- autocratic President Omar path to democracy since a not helpful.q

Man accused of blasphemy stoned to

death by mob in Pakistan

and told others before in- the mob had stoned to tempting to burn another.
forming police, accord- death the man and hung He said people were start-
ing to police spokesman his body from a tree. ing to arrive for evening
Chaudhry Imran. The vio- Gujjar said the victim was prayers as he was shouting
lence took place in a village identified as Mushtaq for the man to stop.
in the district of Khanewal Ahmed, 41, of a nearby vil- Witnesses said a police
in Punjab province. Imran lage. “The ill-fated man has team that reached the vil-
said police rushed to the been mentally unstable for lage before the stoning be-
scene, where a man was the last 15 years and ac- gan took custody of a man
found surrounded by an cording to his family often but the mob snatched him
angry crowd. Officer Mo- went missing from home for away from them and beat
Relatives carry the body of Mushtaq Ahmed, 41, who was
killed when an enraged mob stoned him to death for allegedly hammad Iqbal and two days begging and eating the police as they tried to
desecrating the Quran, in Tulamba, a remote village in the subordinates tried to take whatever he could find,” rescue him.
district of Khanewal in eastern Pakistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. custody of the man but he said. He said the body Gujjar, the area police
Associated Press the group began throwing was handed over to the chief, said investigators
stones at them, seriously in- family. Mian Mohammad were scanning available
By ASIM TANVEER lage in eastern Pakistan, juring Iqbal and slightly in- Ramzan, the mosque cus- videos to try to identify
Associated Press police said Sunday. juring the other two officers. todian, said he saw smoke the assailants. He said po-
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — The custodian of a local Munawar Gujjar, chief of inside the mosque, which lice had so far detained
An enraged mob stoned to mosque said he saw the Tulamba police station, is adjacent to his home, about 80 men living in the
death a middle-aged man man burning the Mus- said he rushed reinforce- and rushed over to investi- mosque’s surroundings but
for allegedly desecrating lim holy book inside the ments to the mosque but gate. He found one Quran that about 300 suspects
the Quran in a remote vil- mosque Saturday evening they did not arrive before burned and saw a man at- took part. q