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Taliban leader was openly teaching and preaching in Pakistan
2016-10-11
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The new supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada
...Deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour...
was openly teaching and preaching in a mosque 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 before he was appointed to succeed Mullah Akhtar Mansoor who was killed in US drone strike in Pakistain.

The mosque, Al Haaj mosque, where Mawlavi Akhundzada was teaching and preaching is located in Kuchlak, near the city of Quetta, the associates and students of Akhundzada told Rooters.

According to Rooters, the latest disclosures regarding Akhundzada could put further pressure on Pakistain to do more to crack down on turbans openly living there.

Akhundzada was appointed the supreme leader of the Taliban group in May, days after Mullah Mansoor was targeted in a US drone strike in the vicinity of Balochistan province of Afghanistan.

He is believed to be hiding after taking charge of the group with his associates and students saying "Once he became Emir, he left with his whole family."

Hafiz Abdul Majeed, who runs the Al Haaj mosque, told Rooters that he himself studied for several years under Akhundzada.

"You can’t teach religion and run (the Taliban’s) government at the same time. And it would of course have been dangerous for us and the students and the mosque if he remained here," he added.

This comes as the Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for remaining reckless to act against the leadership councils of the Taliban and the notorious Haqqani terrorist network based 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.
and Quetta cities of Pakistain.

Posted by:Fred

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