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Afghanistan
Dostum: Haibatullah is symbolic, Haqqanis, ISI key player in ongoing violence
2016-06-08
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The First Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
has said the newly-appointed chief of the Taliban group Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada
...Deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour...
is a symbolic leader together with 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 son.

Gen. Dostum has said the other deputy of Haibatullah, the son of Sirajuddin Haqqani
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
is the key player who involved in the ongoing violence with the support of neighboring intelligence, apparently pointing towards Pakistain’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

He vowed Dire Revenge for the anti-Islamic movements of the group which are aimed at killing the innocent civilians.

According to a statement by the Office of The First Vice President, the Taliban group suffered heavy casualties during the operations led by General Abdul Rashid Dostum as dozens of them were killed over 100 others have surrendered in Sar-e-Pul, Jawzjan and Faryab provinces.

Gen. Dostum warned the Taliban fighters would be killed if they did not surrender to the Afghan cops.

The remarks by Gen. Dostum comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pak, specifically the country’s military intelligence for supporting the anti-government armed turban groups who are using the Pak soil to plan and coordinate attacks in Afghanistan.

The former Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in an Arclight airstrike in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province of Pakistain last month which followed by the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar in Pakistain.

Posted by:Fred

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