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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban chief rallies supporters, calls for unity |
| 2016-03-20 |
| [DAWN] The leader of the Afghan Taliban called on followers on Friday to end divisions and rally behind him in the battle against the 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 Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... government. In a message distributed to media, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor claimed the Taliban were winning the war and were "in a better state than at any other time". The Taliban were toppled in the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan. The insurgency has escalated since the end in 2014 of the US-NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... combat mission left inexperienced Afghan forces to battle the gunnies largely on their own. As the Taliban launched their annual warm-weather offensive last year, the government responded with large-scale military operations. Ferocious battles have raged in the krazed killers’ southern heartland of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province and elsewhere. Separately, Afghan 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. .. had been hoping to revive a stalled grinding of the peace processor with face-to-face talks earlier this month with Taliban representatives. The Taliban issued a statement last week saying they would not participate. Referring to Afghanistan as the Islamic Emirate, Mansoor said that all efforts must be made to reunite the Taliban, split since last summer when they admitted that their founder and leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, had been dead for more than two years. Mansoor, previously 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... ’s deputy, took over amid much controversy and rifts soon emerged, leading to infighting that damaged the united Taliban front they had cultivated for so long. Referring to the "brothers who grew upset over the past year or remained at a distance from the Islamic Emirate," Mansoor said everything should be done to "placate, assuage and integrate them back into the united fold". |
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