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| Pakistan arrests two for spreading Islamic State propaganda |
| 2016-10-20 |
[REUTERS] Police tossed in the slammerDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! two men suspected of distributing pamphlets for Islamic State ...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.... (IS) following a raid 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. , officials said on Wednesday, amid lingering fears that the Middle East bad boy group was making inroads in Pakistain. Last month, the military said that it had stemmed Islamic State's attempts to expand in the country, having arrested more than 300 people suspected of plotting attacks against government, diplomatic and civilian targets. Following Tuesday's raid, however, police in the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... province said Lions of Islam were operating in parts of Peshawar, including some from Islamic State. "Some of areas in the thriving provincial capital including Tehskal, Palosai, Charsadda Road and Regi are known for activities of bad boy groups such as IS," police official Ishtiaq Ahmed told Rooters. Another police official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... as he was not authorized to speak to the media, said two other suspects managed to escape during the raid. There are fears that some of Pakistain's home-grown Sunni Lions of Islam could be drawn to Islamic State, as already seen in neighboring Afghanistan. Pakistain has long suffered from sectarian violence, with Sunni Lions of Islam targeting the country's minority Shi'ites, as well as non-Moslem religious minorities. In August, the official Islamic State news service grabbed credit for a suicide kaboom at a hospital in the southwestern Pak city of Quetta that killed 74 people. The attack, however, was also claimed by a breakaway faction of the Pak Taliban, Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, which at one time had declared support for Islamic State's Middle East leadership, but later switched back to the Taliban. |
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