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Major militant clash feared near Pak-Afghan border
[BETA.DAWN] Several Death Eater groups are likely to face off in a clash as armed fighters have started taking positions inside Afghan territory near Pakistain's Mohmand agency bordering Afghanistan, reliable sources told Dawn.com on Saturday.Groups of fighters comprising Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , Ansarul Islam, Afghan Talibs and local militia have started taking positions inside Afghan territory, safe havens for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) from where they are known to have previously launched attacks inside Pakistain, the sources said. The sources said an assault was imminent against the outlawed TTP Death Eaters, who have waged a war against the Pak state and launched several attacks against its Army. Ehsanullah Ehsan, a front man for the banned Death Eater group, confirmed an attack was planned against Pak Taliban positions inside Afghanistan's Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... bordering Pakistain, but warned it may result in major bloodshed. "We have old enmity with Ansarul Islam and some other Death Eater groups who want to avenge their own fights and losses now. They are planning a major attack on us in the bordering areas along  Mohmand Agency... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... ," he said, speaking via telephone from A Taliban insider said that the clash might be a continuation of the killing of Death Eater commander Shah Sahib, who led another Islamist group engaged in fighting US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... troops in Afghanistan and was based in Mohmand Agency since 2006. TTP bully boyz led by Umar Khalid Khurrasani attacked the training centre of the Shah group on July 19, 2008, killing many, including Shah Sahib. Most of the Shah Sahib loyalist were either kidnapped or killed and the group was eliminated from the Mohmand agency. Most members of the group are presently part of tribal lashkars (local militias), and the attack being planned was part of their strategy to fight the TTP, said the Taliban insider. Several Pak security personnel have been killed in attacks by hundreds of Talibs from alleged safe havens across the border in Afghanistan's Kunar, Nuristan and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. provinces bordering Pak territory from Dir to Chitral. Former Pak Ambassador to Afghanistan, Rustam Shah Mohmand said there were fears of a huge security vacuum following the planned withdrawal of US and NATO troops from Afghanistan. The Afghan government has effectively no authority over the vast territory along the Pak-Afghan border, turning it into safe havens for Death Eaters, he said. Shah called the recent tension "a fight for the territory and resources in the bordering area rather than a big clash." "There is no writ of the Afghan government along the bordering belt with Pakistain. Both Afghan and Pak bully boyz have their own interests in the region and infighting is only natural," he said. Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... a front man for the Lashkar-e-Taiba denied any involvement in the events on the Pakistain-Afghanistan border. We are not part of any operation against any Taliban group either in Pakistain or Afghanistan, he said, claiming that their operations were only targeted against Indian forces and limited to Indian-administered Kashmire. Posted by: Fred 2013-06-09 |
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