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| Islamic State, Pakistani Taliban faction say kill three soldiers in Pakistan |
| 2016-09-20 |
| [REUTERS] Three Pak soldiers were killed in an ambush in the northwestern city of 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. on Sunday, ...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.... and a Pak Taliban faction grabbed credit. Militants said they ambushed an unmarked vehicle ferrying soldiers on Sunday morning near the congested Daudzai area of Peshawar. Military sources confirmed the attack but said the killed men were army employees and not soldiers. The Pakistain army often uses unmarked vehicles for transportation of soldiers and other employees in volatile areas around Peshawar to avoid being identified and attacked. "They were traveling in a civil van when unknown gunnies shot up them," said a security official who declined to be named. "Three of them was struck down in his prime." Pakistain's military this month declared that it had foiled Islamic State's attempts to establish operations in the country. But the group's Amaq news agency said Islamic State was behind the ambush, also claimed by Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, an offshoot of the Islamist bad boy Pak Taliban group. Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, which carried out the Easter Sunday bombing in Lahore in which 70 people were killed, at one time swore fealty to Islamic State's Middle East leadership, but later switched back to the Taliban. The two groups also both grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom at a hospital in the Pak city of Quetta that killed 74 people last month. Pakistain's military said on Sept. 1 it had tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! more than 300 Islamic State But concern has been growing that Islamic State - which controls parts of Iraq and Syria and is known for especially brutal treatment of religious minorities - might replicate their model in Pakistain, especially after Islamic State loyalists seized small pieces of territory in neighboring Afghanistan. On Friday, Pak authorities said they arrested four Islamic State |
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