[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan ambassador to Pakistain Janan Mosazai said the faceless myrmidons of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) are shifting over to the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group.
Speaking during a seminar on Countering Violence Extremism, Mosazai insisted for regional cooperation to fight terrorist group, particularly the self-styled ISIS terror group.
Mosazai said the region should have a common collective response against this common enemy, insisting that "there is no single country strategy or solution to the menace of terrorism today..."
"An example of this is the attempt by some former TTP faceless myrmidons to infiltrate into 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..
province and switch over to the black flag or Daesh, which we have been containing," Mosazai quoted by local media reports said.
He also added that the terror group was spreading "its propaganda and obscurantist worldview" also in Pakistain, similar as other parts of the world.
Mosazai warened that "Networks of terror have shown that they are fast, they are quick, they are better at coordination, communication and cooperation. On the contrary, states, including in this region, are still a lot slower. We have not developed and agreed upon a set of rules and mechanisms required to make our collective response and actions effective."
He also emphasized that the countries would have to take actions on national level to "shut down rallies, meetings, gatherings and fatwa centres that provide an essential underpinning or raise motivation for the senseless violence that continues to blight our region."
The remarks by Mosazai comes as the activities by the loyalists of the terror group have been rampant during the recent weeks with reports suggesting ISIS affiliates are also operating private prisons in eastern Nangarhar province where they keep over 120 prisoners which mostly includes members of the Afghan cops.