...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....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS) wing in South Asia is intensifying its presence in Pakistain, particularly in areas along the country’s border with war-ravaged Afghanistan, the Pakistain Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) think tank cautions in a new report.
According to the U.S. military, the majority of ISIS jihadists in South Asia are Pak ‐ former members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain (TTP) terrorist group.
ISIS-K is "actively recruiting from the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain," reiterated American Gen. John Nicholson, the top commander of U.S. and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
troops in Afghanistan, in November. "So as you’ll recall, when the Pakistain army ... in 2014 pushed a lot of the TTP into Afghanistan ‐ hundreds of thousands of TTP fighters and their families pushed into Afghanistan and it’s from these ranks that [ISIS] has been recruiting heavily."
"Most of these [ISIS] fighters came from Pakistain," stressed Nicholson, noting that about 1,000 ISIS jihadists are in Afghan provinces that border Pakistain, including "600 to 800" in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, considered the group’s primary bastion in the region.
The Afghan Taliban and its Pak counterpart consider themselves two separate organizations.
TTP jihadists, their affiliates, and other faceless myrmidons with similar objectives, including ISIS members, carried out nearly 60 percent (213) of the total 370 reported attacks in Afghanistan last year, notes PIPS.
The Islamic State (IS) alone was allegedly responsible for the six deadliest attacks in Pakistain, which killed 153 people in 2017.
"IS has grabbed credit for just six terrorist attacks in the country, but they were the most deadliest ones," Muhammad Ismail Khan, the senior project manager at the PIPS think tank, told Dawn.
"There is a need to take the matter more seriously because there is a possibility that imported muscle would come to Pakistain in near future as things are continuously changing in the Middle East," he added.
As the so-called ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria continues to collapse at the hands of the U.S.-led coalition and its allies, the ISIS branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistain region is growing, according to the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
Known as the Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), the Islamic State wing in South Asia officially established its presence in Afghanistan in early 2015, less than a month after former U.S. President Barack Obama
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declared the American combat mission in Afghanistan over at the end of 2014.
"Despite a 16% decline in terrorist attacks in 2017, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and its associated groups remained the most potent threat [in Pakistain]; they were followed by nationalist-insurgent groups," reveals the report.
"Nationalist bad boy groups," including snuffies seeking independence in the 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...
region, were responsible for 138 attacks in Pakistain, which killed 140 people and injured another 265 people, notes the PIPS think tank.
Most of the 2017 casualties in Pakistain are civilians, but they also include security and law enforcement personnel as well as bad boys.
"The report noted that as compared to 2016, the attacks in the country from across Afghan, Indian and Iranian borders in 2017 witnessed a significant surge (131pc). A total of 171 cross-border attacks claimed 188 lives and left 348 people injured," reports Dawn.
While Afghanistan and the United States accuse Islamabad of harboring the Afghan Taliban, Pakistain claims Kabul provides sanctuary to TTP.