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Afghanistan
General Raziq: Taliban plan to shift Quetta Shura to Helmand
2015-10-05
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Brigadier General Abdul Raziq, the police chief of southern Kandahar province has said that Taliban plan to shift Quetta Shura
...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest...
from Pakistain to Afghanistan.

According to Brig. General Raziq, Taliban with support from Pakistain have ramped up their activities in northern parts of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province in order to pave way for applying their plan.

Brig. General Raziq has provided the following details about the plan:

To occupy northern districts of Helmand province in three months and shift Quetta Shura there, Pakistain will get a chance to remove the bad name associated with it for housing Taliban and other terrorist groups, after spending about a week in Helmand province, the Shura would be moved back to Quetta and Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
cities from where they would again continue their activities in Afghanistan under the instructions of Pakistain's military and ISI as normal.

Taliban had also planned to bring their Supreme Leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour to Afghanistan but Afghan National Security Forces foiled their plan in northern Kundoz province.

A large scale coordinated attack was launched by Taliban on this province last week in order to occupy its capital and bring Mullah Mansour for a media gathering but Afghan forces rebuffed the attack.

Afghan leaders say that Islamabad is in an undeclared war with 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 World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
and support bully boy groups in Afghanistan.

In several occasions, Afghan government has asked Pakistain to act against the enemies of Afghanistan enjoying safe heavens there but so far only empty promises have been made with Afghan officials.

Pakistain's Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
in a visit to Kabul said that Afghanistan's enemy is Pakistain's enemy but still no action against Quetta and 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.
Shuras, considered to be the back bone of Taliban.

Quetta is the capital of Pakistain's 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 and Peshawar is the capital city of its Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province where reportedly Taliban capos get to gather and issue rulings to faceless myrmidons on the ground in Afghanistan.
Posted by:Fred

#6  What happened to 'ye olde strategic depth?

What Shipman said. As I understand it, Pakistan has long viewed Afghanistan as their place of retreat should India surge across the border. This only works if Afghanistan is unable to resist...
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-10-05 21:39  

#5  What happened to 'ye olde strategic depth?
Posted by: Shipman   2015-10-05 16:15  

#4  Probably; Punjabis make up about 40 percent of the Pak military.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-10-05 15:20  

#3  I thought the military top brass was Punjabi?
Posted by: paul   2015-10-05 14:27  

#2  Southern Afghanistan is Pashto. The ruling Pakistan military are Pashto. Northeastern Pakistan is Pashto. The Durand Line is a Western creation that divided the Pashto nation.
Posted by: Beldar Sloque3832   2015-10-05 12:28  

#1  What does pakistan want with afghanistan ?
Posted by: Harcourt Borgia1827   2015-10-05 11:39  

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