National Geographic's Afghan Girl Arrested in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - The Afghan girl, who became famous for her striking green eyes on a National Geographic cover in 1985, was arrested Wednesday for possessing a fake identity card of Pakistan, where she lives in a refugee camp.

Sharbat Gula allegedly obtained Pakistani identity documents for herself and her two children after bribing three officials, a representative of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency told EFE, on grounds of anonymity.

The 46-year-old Afghan refugee, who does not have Pakistan citizenship, will be moved to a prison for women, where she will be held until a court reviews her case, for which she could be sentenced to up to seven years in jail.

She could also be expelled from the country, according to the FIA official.

The police are also trying to track down Gula's two children to take them into custody.

The federal agency began investigating the case in February 2015 when several cases of Afghan refugees trying to obtain Pakistani documents to avoid deportation came to light.

Pakistan hosts 1.4 million registered and 900,000 illegal Afghan refugees.

Afghans began arriving in Pakistan following the 1979 Soviet invasion and are one of the largest and oldest displaced communities in the world.

Around 456,000 Afghan refugees have returned back home from Pakistan so far this year, mostly in the last three months, following a Pakistani government ultimatum.

Gula was immortalized by American photographer Steve McCurry in a refugee camp in Peshawar in 1985.

Her face, wrapped in a red shawl and her striking green eyes transformed her into an icon of contemporary photography.

McCurry photographed Gula again 17 years later in Afghanistan and said the woman, then aged 30 years, was ignorant of her fame.

Gunmen Kill 5 Vigilantes in Southern Mexico

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico – Five members of the UPOEG community self-defense group were ambushed and killed in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero by “heavily armed persons,” state police said.

The ambush occurred in the city of Juan R. Escudero as the vigilantes were returning from an operation, said the state police’s precinct chief in the town of Xalpatlahuac, Edith Baltazar.

The vigilantes left on Sunday for “the municipalities of Ayutla and Tecoanapa to conduct operations in the villages of Ocotito and Tierra Colorada, municipality of Juan R. Escudero,” Baltazar said in a statement.

The vigilantes’ convoy was traveling through the community of Villa Guerrero, located outside the city of Juan R. Escudero, when “they were ambushed by heavily armed persons, with the result that five community self-defense group members belonging to UPOEG, who were from different communities outside the cities of Tecoanapa and Ayutla, were killed,” Baltazar said.

“Meanwhile, communication was established with the community police command in Tecoanapa, who provided the same version to the precinct chief,” the Guerrero state police said.

Community police commanders in Tecoanapa said that “five dead bodies belonging to (members of) our organization (UPOEG) were brought in” on Monday afternoon.

“A group of six community police officers is missing,” Baltazar said.

UPOEG, whose members are armed, was created in January 2013 in the cities of Ayutla de los Libres, Teconoapa and San Marcos to protect residents.

The self-defense group controls access to the communities and polices them to fight drug traffickers and other criminals.

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Trump Says U.S. Will Finance Border Wall, Be Reimbursed by Mexico

WASHINGTON – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated on Saturday that he will build a wall on the Mexican border, to be financed by the U.S. and “reimbursed” by Mexico, and that he will suspend immigration from regions known for terrorism.

During a speech in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in which he described what the first 100 days of his presidency would be like, Trump confirmed that his law to put an end to illegal immigration would include financing for the wall, with the complete understanding that Mexico would “reimburse” the United States.

Up to now the Republican candidate had given the idea that it would be the neighbor to the south that would pay up front for building the wall to stop illegal immigration.

At Gettysburg – a historic place in American history where Abraham Lincoln in 1863 gave one of his most famous speeches during the Civil War – Trump again referred to his controversial idea of banning immigration from regions known for terrorism, though he gave no details about how this ruling would be applied.

On another subject, the New York magnate noted that he will cancel the “billions” of dollars being paid to the United Nations for climate-change programs.

Most of his proposals echoed previous announcements, such as his intention to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

He also criticized the excessive number of regulations, particularly in matters of climate change, imposed by the Barack Obama government.

Finally, he attacked his Democratic rival for the White House, Hillary Clinton, charging her with defending the same old Washington policies.

“Hillary Clinton is not running against me,” Trump said. “She’s running against change and she’s running against all of the American people and all of the American voters.”

As the U.S. electoral campaign enters its final stage just 17 days from the elections on Nov. 8, the Republican candidate seeks to gain back some of the ground he lost in the polls following the scandals dogging him in recent weeks.

WikiLeaks Says U.S.’s John Kerry Asked Ecuador Stop Assange from Leaking Docs

LONDON – WikiLeaks said on Tuesday that the United States secretary of state asked Ecuador to stop its founder Julian Assange from publishing classified documents relating to Hillary Clinton.

Assange has lived inside Ecuador’s Embassy in London since seeking asylum there in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations.

According to a tweet on WikiLeaks’ official Twitter account, John Kerry spoke to Ecuador officials in a bid to halt the disclosure of documents belonging to the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the U.S. in 2016 during negotiations with Colombia’s rebel FARC organization.

“Multiple U.S. sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations,” the tweet said.

The tweet came a day after WikiLeaks denounced that the embassy had “cut off Assange’s internet Saturday, 5 pm GMT, shortly after publication of Clinton’s Goldman Sachs speeches.”

Assange is unable to leave the Ecuadorian mission because Sweden seeks his extradition to question him over alleged sexual assault offenses against two women, which he denies.

The Australian ex-hacker has said he fears he could be arrested if he sets foot outside the embassy and extradited to Sweden.

London’s Metropolitan Police has said it would arrest Assange if he ventures out onto the streets.

Assange has said that if he is extradited to Sweden he could be handed over to the U.S. for questioning over the unauthorized publication of hundreds of thousands of its classified documents by WikiLeaks.

In another tweet, WikiLeaks said Kerry had a private meeting with Ecuadorean officials on the sidelines of the peace talks that took place in Colombia.

Given that Assange has been isolated in the embassy building for four years, internet was one of the few ways the activist could maintain contact with the outside world.

The U.S. State Department has denied that Kerry requested Ecuador to cut Assange’s internet access.

State Department spokesman John Kirby told EFE there was no truth in WikiLeaks’ claim that Kerry had spoken to Ecuador officials about this matter.

At Least 62 Killed in Attack on Police Academy in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD – At least 62 people were killed, including the attackers, and around 100 others were wounded in an attack on a police training academy in the city of Quetta in western Pakistan, a government spokesperson told EFE.

“Fifty-nine people died in the police center, in addition to the three attackers, and around 100 were injured,” said Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, government spokesperson for Baluchistan province whose capital is Quetta.

The attack occurred Monday night when three attackers entered the police training center and clashed with security forces, said Quetta police spokesperson Gulab Khan.

Khan said the three attackers were wearing suicide vests and two blew themselves up.

A cadet from the center told television channels that he saw three men dressed in camouflage entering the dormitory with Kalashnikovs.

“They began to shoot, but I could escape by climbing over a wall,” he said.

Major General of the Frontiers Corps Sher Afgan told reporters the attackers belonged to the Sunni insurgent group of the sectarian Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and that they were in contact with Afghanistan during the attack.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.

Balochistan witnesses frequent attacks by secessionist groups, Islamist militias and mafia networks that operate across the country.