...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....
group on the Afghan side of the border near
Kurram Agency...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
has caused security concerns, prompting authorities to mobilise tribes against the impending threat.
According to locals, the security forces had been firing heavy artillery from their base in Parachinar on the other side of the border, adding that the administration had asked people living in the area to be vigilant at night.
"Barrage of artillery starts after 9pm. It sets off a wave of terror across the region," said a resident of Parachinar.
Sources said that the IS and TTP (Sajna group) had set up sanctuaries in Keymati area of Afghanistan’s Paktia province, from where they launched attacks on border posts in Pakistain.
Recently two Pak pickets were attacked in Borki and Kherlachi areas adjacent to Paktia.
The IS already has a presence in Afghanistan’s 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, which lies to the north of Kurram Agency, and it has established control in some districts.
A security official in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
confirmed the attack on pickets of the Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations....
in Kurram.
"Officials say that IS and TTP’s fighters were involved in attacks on the security posts," said an elder from Borki.
He said people in Borki and Kherlachi had been keeping vigil at night for the past one month after receiving an advice from the administration.
"People are not only keeping vigil during night, but elders of Borki and Kherlachi have also provided four heavy machineguns and ammunition to the paramilitary forces as a gesture of support," he said.
Sources said that the assistant political agent and the commandant of Kurram Militia met elders of Turi, Bangash and Mangal tribes near Parachinar on Saturday to mobilise tribal people against the threat.
A jirga of elders from Kurram and Afghanistan is likely to be held on Monday to discuss the situation and work out a joint strategy to prevent infiltration from across the border. The jirga is also likely to discuss kidnapping of four residents of Kurram in Afghanistan.