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Stanikzai met Mullah Omar’s brother as secret Afghan talks revive in Qatar
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS) Chief, Masoom Stanikzai has met with the brother of Mullah Mohammad amid reports secret peace talks have revived in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... According to the sources in Taliban group, quoted in a report by The Guardian, among those present at the meetings held in September and October was Mullah Abdul Manan Akhund, brother of Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... , the former Taliban chief who led the movement from its earliest days until his death in 2013. The sources further added that the Afghan officials and the Taliban group representatives have met for at least two times since the efforts stalled in the format of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) earlier this year. Mullah Omar’s son, Mohammad Yaqoob, is expected to soon join the Doha group, a Taliban source told The Guardian, in a move that would further bolster the authority of the office. No Pak official took part in either the October or September meetings, according to a member of the Taliban’s leadership council, the Quetta Shura ...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... . Posted by: Fred 2016-10-19 |
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