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| Senators Warn Against Expansion of Daesh Fighters in Nangarhar |
| 2015-06-22 |
| [Tolo News] A number of Afghan senators on Sunday voiced concerns over the deteriorating security situation involving Daesh bully boyz in some districts of eastern 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.. province. According to the senators, Daesh fighters are operating in 15 districts in Nangarhar but they say the entire eastern section of the country is vulnerable. Senators warned that the security scenario of the province is deteriorating and government must act fast to overcome the fragile situation. They say that Daesh has beheaded two people in Nangarhar recently. They also called on government to take steps to prevent Daesh from recruiting new soldiers in the province. "Daesh associated fighters practically operate in 15 districts of Nangarhar province," senator Lotufllah Baba said. "Expansion of Daesh fighters must be curbed, otherwise the consequences will be catastrophic," another senator Farhad Sakhi warned. On the issue of the government's anti-terror strategy, the senators asked leaders of the National Unity Government (NUG) to also tackle the security issues posed by Daesh on the Kabul ...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.... -Jalalabad highway. "We need to come with a comprehensive plan and talk directly with the US and Pakistain about the issue. Because we face threats from two sides including Daesh and the Taliban, I don't understand what is really happening," senator Zalmai Zabuli said on Sunday. In addition, senate speaker Fazel Hadi Moslemyar called on the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) to take decisive steps against Lions of Islam associated with Daesh and eliminate them. "Government and the security institutions are obliged to eliminate the enemy wherever they find it," Moslemyar said. Only last week, local officials of Nangarhar said that hundreds of families have been displaced in the province following festivities between Taliban and Daesh hard boys. Ahmad Zia Abduzai, Provindal Governor front man confirmed that the families have been displaced in Bati Kot district. He did not have numbers but said there was urgent need for aid for these people. Officials also said that both sides have sustained massive casualty tolls in the past month. Recently, former president Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... again expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s over the rise of Daesh Lions of Islam in Afghanistan, blaming their expansion into Afghanistan on foreign support. He warned in an interview with Russian state-funded television network (RT) that the rise of newly-emerged Daesh Death Eaters in Afghanistan would threaten neighboring Russia and China. The ex-president believes the expansion of Daesh -- which has seized several cities in Iraq and Syria -- was impossible "without a foreign backing." "So, if you hear ever in the coming days, or months, or years that Daesh is on the rise in Afghanistan, and is strong and expanding militarily, it will mean that it is a foreign-backed force intending to destabilize the region, particularly Central Asia, China and Russia," Karzai said. |
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