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Deadly Attacks Spark Fear of Daesh Resurgence
[ToloNews] The complex attacks in Pashtun-infested Logar and NangarharThe 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 claimed by ISIS have raised concerns about the resurgence of ISIS's activities, with analysts saying that some terrorist outfits have coordinated their attacks with the Taliban  ...mindless ferocity in a turban...as peace talks are nearing. Analysts see foreign influence behind such attempts that apparently are aimed at disrupting the grinding of the peace processor. The attacks in Pashtun-infested Logar and Nangarhar left dozens of civilians dead and maimed. "We are not blaming Pakistain or other countries. We are blaming ourselves. We should become alert," said Abdul Rauf Shpoon, an MP from Nangarhar. Critics said that some countries involved in Afghanistan’s war--and peace--are seeking to support other groups instead of the Taliban. "ISIS is getting stronger based on two reasons: First, part of the bad boy Taliban is not joining peace and is joining al Qaeda. Second, these groups also continue the war because they are not part of the grinding of the peace processor," said Saleh Mohammad Registani, a military analyst. "If the Taliban joins the government, then ISIS, 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... 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... will replace them," said Ahmad Ali Hazrat, a former head of Nangarhar's provincial council. "The Afghan government is fighting many terrorist groups. Our security and defense forces are ready to suppress any terrorist group that attempts any activity," Sediqqi said. "The umbrella has been created by the Taliban. ISIS and other terrorist groups are using this opportunity," said Tariq Arian, a front man for the Ministry of Interior Affairs. This comes as on August 1 the Afghan intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security ...the Afghan national intel agency... (NDS), said that it had killed Assadullah Orakzai, the head of intelligence for the Khorasan branch of ISIS. The NDS said the ISIS commander was killed during an operation near Jalalabad city, the center of Nangarhar province. Related: Logar: 2020-07-31 Bomb Attack Kills At Least Eight Afghans Ahead Of Cease-Fire Logar: 2020-07-29 ‘Freed Taliban Prisoners Arrested Again’ Logar: 2020-07-24 Avg. 50 Security Incidents/Day Since US-Taliban Deal Related: Nangarhar: 2020-08-02 Calm across Afghanistan as Ceasefire Holds on Day Two Nangarhar: 2020-07-28 Rise of Foreign Fighters in Afghanistan's East: ANA General Nangarhar: 2020-07-24 Pakistanis among 46 Taliban militants killed, wounded in clashes in East of Afghanistan Posted by: trailing wife 2020-08-04 |
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