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Afghanistan
Taliban’s most senior Quetta Council member dies of cancer, reportedly in Pakistan
2016-04-30
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] One of the most senior Taliban figures in the group’s Quetta Council has died of cancer, reportedly in a specialized cancer hospital in Pakistain.
Cancer is a painful disease...
The Taliban group confirmed that Abdullah Gul Rayan died of cancer but did not elaborate further regarding his death and the location where he died.

According to a local newspaper in Pakistain, Daily Pakistain Global, Rayan was admitted at the hospital for cancer treatment.

Citing an Urdu daily report, the newspaper further added that Rayan died at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.

The paper also added that Rayan was running a madrassa (seminary) in Quetta, from where several fighters had joined Mullah Umar in Taliban’s fight against United States and 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...
armies.

The top Taliban leaders are believed to be based in Pakistain as the group’s leadership councils are mainly operating in Quetta and 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.
cities.

Pak foreign affairs adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy...
confirmed earlier last month that Islamabad has influence on Taliban leadership and the country could use certain facilities the group’s leaders uses as a leverage to bring them to peace talks table.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
President Ghani asked Pakistain to take actions against the group’s leaderships in Peshawar and Pakistain, warning that 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 World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
would take the issue to the UN Security Council and other international organizations if the country failed to do so.
Posted by:Fred

#3  I miss my nuggets.
Posted by: Shipman   2016-04-30 21:17  

#2  Taliban leadership and the country could use certain facilities....

Yes, we can now confirm the validity of that statement.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-04-30 14:17  

#1  Pak foreign affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz confirmed earlier last month that Islamabad has influence on Taliban leadership and the country could use certain facilities the group’s leaders uses as a leverage to bring them to peace talks table.

And it's been quite "effective", hasn't it?
Posted by: Pappy   2016-04-30 14:02  

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