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 expressed their anger on Thursday about a surge in militancy they have witnessed in recent months.
Lying between the capital 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....
and the restive Pakistain border, the province has seen an uptick in violence in recent months with a growing presence of fighters claiming to represent the Syria-based Death Eater group Daesh.
The new group's presence has sparked violent festivities with the Taliban and invited a campaign of U.S. drone strikes aimed at wiping it out.
Local elders gathered in the picturesque provincial capital Jalalabad and met with a delegation from the upper house of parliament, the Masharano Jirga, to send a unanimous message about their concerns to the central government in Kabul.
Abdul Basir Sabawoon, a local community elder, said it was a "war-like" situation in some of the border districts and that the government should be consulting local representatives about how to act.
Sabawoon criticized the senate delegation for "being confined to the Royal Palace and traveling in VIP convoys that give very little understanding about the realities."
While the parliamentary delegation's head Dr. Zalmay Zabuli claimed the security situation was not as bleak as portrayed in the press another member, Senator Lutfullah Baba, held the opposite view, claiming the security forces had lost control of several districts to Death Eaters.
"One day hard boyz cross over from Pakistain with Daesh flags and dictate terms over locals, the next day Talibs come from the same place and spread terror," Baba claimed, suggesting that the hard boyz sheltered across the border in Pakistain.
U.S. drone strikes in Nangarhar have killed more than 100 Taliban and Daesh hard boyz in the past week.
According to Afghanistan's intelligence agency the National Directorate for Security, the chief of Daesh in Afghanistan Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
Khan, his second-in-command and another big shot, the former Pak Taliban front man Shahidullah Shahid were all killed in the drone strikes.
Last week press freedom advocates Reporters Without Borders claimed that regions like Nangarhar and neighboring Badakshan were becoming "black holes" for information because hard boyz were threatening journalists.