...Arabic for students...
is behind the "assassinations."
"The Taliban had major plans to overrun more areas in the provinces including Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, but they were prevented, causing the group to focus on assassinations in Kabul," Andarabi said.
He believes that attacks in the country have increased in Afghanistan since the US and Taliban signed the peace agreement in February this year in Doha.
"The Taliban is seeking leverage in the peace efforts by putting pressure on the government with IED bombings in Kabul and by launching attacks in districts," he further said.
"The people who were arrested over the assassinations have confessed that a group was created by the Taliban under the name of 'Obaida' in Pashtun-infested Logar province to target
The National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) Chief Gen. Zia Saraj addressed the Senate also, saying that "over 18,200" krazed killer attacks have occurred in the last 10 months, "99% of them by the Taliban."
"The ISIS group was only responsible for one percent of the attacks," he said.
6,100 people have been arrested in the country and "3,600 of them were involved in the insurgency activities."
"70 of these arrested people was involved in murders while seven others were wanted to carry out suicide kabooms," he added.
PEACE TALKS
On Monday, the leadership committee of the High Council for National Reconciliation in a two-day session decided to form a technical group for consultations with the negotiating team of the Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Afghanistan during the negotiations that are expected to resume on Jan. 5.
The Afghan government has pledged that the second round of the talks will be held on January 5, 2021, in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
The two-day session was also held to determine the stance of the negotiating team in the talks and its authority in the negotiations.
The Afghan government says that ceasefire is a priority for the Afghan Republic’s negotiating team, but the Taliban has said that ceasefire will be ensured after the agreement on the details of an Islamic system.
The Afghan negotiators had a closed-door meeting with senators for several hours on Monday, according to senators.