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Taliban and Haqqani network planned attacks from Pakistan safe havens: US
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The United States Department of States released its latest reports regarding on terrorism for 2016 providing an overall report regarding the terrorism related upheavals during the year.The new report by the State Department further strengthens the claims made by the Afghan officials regarding the presence of the safe havens of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... and Haqqani terrorist network inside the Pak territory. "Afghanistan, in particular, continued to experience aggressive and coordinated attacks by the Afghan Taliban, including the affiliated Haqqani Network (HQN) and other holy warrior and terrorist groups," the report stated. The Department of State also added that a number of these attacks were planned and launched from safe havens in Pakistain. "Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) retained full responsibility for security in Afghanistan, and prevented the Taliban from capturing a bustling provincial capital in 2016, although it suffered an unprecedented number of casualties in an intense fighting season," the report said, adding that the ANDSF and Coalition Forces, in partnership, took aggressive action against terrorist elements across Afghanistan. A peace agreement between Hizb-e Islami Gulbuddin and the Afghan government in September was the first signed by an holy warrior group since the 2001 fall of the Taliban. According to the State Department, the Pak military and security forces undertook operations against groups that conducted attacks within Pakistain such as Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistain. Pakistain did not take substantial action against the Afghan Taliban or Haqqani terrorist network, or substantially limit their ability to threaten U.S. interests in Afghanistan, although Pakistain supported efforts to bring both groups into an Afghan-led grinding of the peace processor. The State Department also added that Pakistain did not take sufficient action against other externally focused groups, such as Lashkar e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf bannedthe group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... (JeM) in 2016, which continued to operate, train, organize, and fundraise in Pakistain. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-21 |
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