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ARG Skeptical Over Pakistan's Crackdown Against Key Taliban Leaders
[Tolo News] The Presidential Palace (ARG) on Thursday raised doubts over reports published in Pak media that Islamabad has initiated crackdown against a number of high profile Afghan Taliban leaders residing in Pakistain.

Dawa Khan Minapal, President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
's deputy front man expressed unawareness about the reports that could prove the credibility of the news, but advocated Islamabad for a swift handover of the Taliban inmates to Afghanistan.

"Pak government has not informed the Afghan government over its claims of arresting several Taliban members; therefore, Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
 cannot verify the credibility of the report," he said.

The statement comes a day after Pak officials announced that at least three senior Taliban leaders , including Ahmadullah Muti alias Mullah Nanai who served as Taliban's designated intelligence chief, Sulaiman Agha, Taliban's designated governor for Daikundi province and Mullah Sani, also known as Samad Sani, head of a religious school and a well-known Afghan businessman who have links with the Taliban, have also been taken into custody in Pakistain's southwestern Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
 province.

Pak media reported that Mullah Nanai was tossed in the calaboose
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 from a madrassa compound in Quetta city, the lovely provincial capital of Balochistan.

Mullah Nanai, who is originally a native of southern Kandahar province, has served in some key positions within the group. He worked as deputy head of the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
 commission, minister of public works, Balkh governor and Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
 governor in the Taliban regime (1996 to 2001).

Nanai also enjoys close ties with Haqqani network and was leading the Taliban war in the eastern regions of Afghanistan.

Commenting on the report, military analyst Jawed Kohistan
...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns....
i said: "Internal disputes within the Taliban has led to the arrest of these members; however, from the figures, some of them have strong reputation among the Taliban in terms of financial issues and in culture perspective."

Previously, Pakistain launched similar crackdowns against a number of influential Taliban leaders in that country, including the dramatic detention of the group's top commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. However,
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 Pakistain never showed willingness to handover them to the Afghan government ‐ a move that raised serious questions on Pakistain's counter-terror policy.

"There are similar cases about the members of Tehrik-e-Taliban in Pakistain who were later murdered or detained, for instance Mullah [Abdul Ghani] Baradar, Mullah Obaidullah and similar individuals," said university lecturer Nasrullah Stanikzai.

According to reports, Pakistain is facing with increasing pressure from the international community over its controversial role in the war against terrorism.

Bilateral ties between Kabul and Islamabad have also strained over Pakistain's reluctance to target Taliban's hideouts in Pakistain, reports indicate.


Posted by: Fred 2016-10-14
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