...the Pashtun equivalent of men...security forces in Afghanistan’s Northern Province discovered an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
weapons cache and a mine-making centre on Sunday.
According to the provincial police chief of Jawzjan province, the Afghan cops found massive weapons depot and mine-making facility of Deash or ISIS in Sakhi Abad of Shiberghan, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Jawzjan province.
The discovered ammunitions and arms, including a boom jacket, hand grenades and objects used in making mines and bombs, Shah Mohammad Ahmadi said, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Similar operations were conducted by the Afghan cops in the eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
, where they found and confiscated 17 AK-47 assault rifles and other weapons and ammunition.
Nonetheless, the police head claimed that the ISIS turbans planned to launch disruptive activities, but their plot had been prevented.
Recently, the Islamic State intensified its attacks on Taliban officials and people in various provinces of Afghanistan, including Kabul and Balkh provinces.
However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the Taliban security forces have eliminated several Deash hideouts in the country, including Kabul, Kunar, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
and Balkh provinces, killed several turbans and seized heavy ammunition and weaponry, according to government officials.