...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title
Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
, officials and Lion of Islam sources told VOA in background interviews.
"The squeeze is continuing on them [the Taliban] and some have already left, or [are] leaving the country," says a senior Pak official directly involved in matters related to the Afghan policy.
He did not want to be named because publicly the government has not yet acknowledged the crackdown, which is part of the policy to seek an early repatriation from Pakistain of nearly three million registered and undocumented Afghan refugees.
International pressure
Pakistain has been under pressure from international partners, particularly the U.S. to deny space to the Taliban and other groups waging the violent insurgency in Afghanistan. The country denies charges its spy agency’s covertly supports the Taliban and its ally, the Haqqani Network, enabling them to prolong the Afghan war and expand influence of the faceless myrmidons after withdrawal of U.S.-led international combat forces.
The spike in violence has undermined efforts to improve bilateral relations between Afghanistan and Pakistain.
Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..has repeatedly accused Islamabad of not taking action against runaway Taliban leaders. In turn, Pakistain alleges Afghan intelligence operatives are sheltering and supporting runaways linked to the anti-state Pak Taliban.
Pak authorities earlier this month tossed in the calaboose
You have the right to remain silent...
several key Taliban leaders from areas in and around Quetta, the capital of the southwestern 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, which borders Afghanistan. The detainees also include Ahmadullah Muti, commonly known as Mullah Nanai, SLearned Elders of Islamn Agha and Mullah Samad Sani.
All three held key positions in the insurgency and were arrested after they ignored requests to hold peace and reconciliation talks with the Afghan government, according to Pak and Lion of Islam officials. Authorities have also raided and shut down some Islamic seminaries, or madrassas, for refugee children that are suspected of sheltering Taliban Lion of Islams.