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India-Pakistan
LHC orders recovery of 20-year-old allegedly kindapped for 'vani'
2019-05-11
[DAWN] The Lahore High Court on Friday ordered the SHO of Kunjah, Gujarat to recover and present a 20-year-old woman who was allegedly kidnapped for vani (the exchange of women as consideration for compounding disputes/offences) while hearing a petition registered for her recovery.

Justice Farooq Haider heard the petition, which was registered by a close relative of the woman through Advocate Imran Ghuman on May 8.

According to the lawyer, the abducted woman's father had fled to Britain due to a personal dispute in Darra Adam Khel while the girl was living with her mother in Lahore.

He said that the 20-year-old victim was kidnapped two days prior to the petition being filed by five people from Darra Adam Khel.

The abduction seems to be connected to an incident in 2016, when, on gunpoint, a jirga had made the petitioner assure the vani of two girls.

While asking the court to recover the abducted woman and not permit her vani to take place, the petition stated that if she was not recovered, the people in Darra Adam Khel would take her to Khyber Pakthunkhwa and she would be forcibly married off.
Wikipedia:
Vani (Urdu: ونی‎), or Swara (سوارہ), is a cultural custom found in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan whereby a young girl is married as punishment for some crime committed by her male relatives.[1] Vani is a form of arranged child marriage,[2] and the result of punishment decided by a council of tribal elders named jirga.[3][4] It is tied to blood feuds among the different tribes and clans and is most common among Pashtuns. Vani is sometimes spelled as Wani or Wanni. It is a Pashto word derived from vanay which means blood. It is also known as Sak and Sangchatti (سنگ چتی) in different regional languages of India.[5][6][7] Some claim Vani can be avoided if the clan of the girl agrees to pay money, called Deet (دیت).

The custom became illegal in Pakistan between 2005 and 2011,[8] however, it still continues.[9] Recently[when?] the courts in Pakistan have begun taking serious note and action against the continuation of the practice.[10]
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Afghanistan
Gen. Miller vows relentless pressure after the killing of ISIS Emir in Afghanistan
2018-09-04
[KhaamaPress] The coalition forces in Afghanistan have confirmed the killing of ISIS Khurasan Emir in a U.S. Arclight airstrike in Afghanistan.

"United States forces in Afghanistan conducted a strike against the leader of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 ‐ Khorasan group, known as Abu Saad Orakzai, in the eastern area of the 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 of Afghanistan, August 25. The strike resulted in his death," a statement by the Resolute Support stated.

"America and her allies are in Afghanistan to maintain pressure on the networked, trans-regional turbans attempting to plot, resource and direct attacks from here," said U.S. Army General Scott Miller, commander of U.S. and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
 forces in Afghanistan. "This is only part of the coalition’s work towards and Afghan security solution, but it is a vital part."

The statement further added that the death of Abu Saad Orakzai marks the third time U.S. forces have successfully targeted a self-proclaimed emir of Islamic State ‐ Khorasan group since July 2016.

Sources in the Afghan intelligence last week confirmed that the ISIS Khurasan Emir has been killed along with his nine butt buddies lovers comrades in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province.

The provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani said Abu Saad Orakzai was originally a resident of Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
 of Pakistain and was appointed ISIS Emir after the killing of Haseeb Logari. Neither of them are currently residents of anywhere.
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Afghanistan
2 ISIS militants hailing from Pakistan surrender to Afghan forces in Nangarhar
2018-09-03
[KhaamaPress] Two snuffies affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) surrendered to the Afghan forces in 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 of Afghanistan.

The provincial government media office in a statement said the snuffies were operating in the leadership ranks of the ISIS terrorist group in Nangarhar.

One of the Death Eaters, Naqibullah, said they joined the ISIS ranks four years ago together with a group of Pak Talibs led by 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...
, admitting that they have been involved in anti-government armed activities and killing of the civilians.

Naqib further added that he contacted the Afghan intelligence after realizing that all their activities have resulted in the loss of the ordinary civilians.

He said the ISIS group was paying their salaries and other required materials and the weapons and munitions were also coming from the other side of the Durand Line.

According to Naqib, snuffies hailing from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Pakistain, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, Turkmenistan, and some other countries are also fighting in ISIS ranks in Afghanistan

Another member of the group, Sajad, who surrendered to the Afghan intelligence, said their family members, including the wife and two children Naqibullah and his wife along with his son, are also accompanying them.

Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani said the surrendered snuffies hail from Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
 of Pakistain and previously had links with the leadership of the terror group.

Khogyani further added that the two snuffies have resided in Nangarhar for four years before surrendering to the intelligence forces.

According to Khogyani, the surrendered snuffies have also brought their family with them and handed over two weapons to the security forces.
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India-Pakistan
JUI-F threatens to block highway between Afghanistan and Pakistan
2018-05-22
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution...
-Fazzl (JUI-F) led by Maulana Fazal Ur Rehman has threatened to block the highway between Afghanistan and Pakistain.

The party reportedly issued the warning after the decision by the government of Pakistain to merge Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, according to The Express Tribune.

JUI-F’s Fata chapter Mufti Abdul Shakoor said Sunday Fata’s merger with the K-P "is an international agenda which will not be supported at any cost."

Speaking during a presser with JUI-F’s general secretary Mufti Ijaz Shinwari and information secretary Jihad Shah, Mufti Shakoor said the party will stage a protest demonstration at the Pak-Afghan highway in Landi Kotal and a separate one at the Indus Highway in Darra Adam Khel simultaneously against ignoring the will of tribal people and imposing decisions on them against their wishes.

The party’s chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
 had earlier announced that the party had decided to part ways with the ruling Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the implementation of reforms in Fata.

Terming the merger a global conspiracy, Maulana Rehman had said that the government had backed off from the promise it made with their party for not going ahead with the merger.

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India-Pakistan
Pakistan reacts at US airstrike on Haqqani network commander
2018-01-26
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Islamabad has strongly reacted at the the US dronezap targeting a commander of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network in the tribal regions of the country.

"Pakistain condemns a dronezap in Kurram Agency
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
 carried out by the Resolute Support Mission (RSM) this morning, which targeted an Afghan refugee camp," the ministry of foreign affairs of Pakistain said in a statement.

The statement further added that Pakistain has continued to emphasize to the US the importance of sharing actionable intelligence so that appropriate action is taken against bandidos murderous Moslems by our forces within our territory.

This comes as the local administrative officials said Wednesday that the US forces have killed a top commander of the Haqqani terrorist network in North Wazoo area of Pakistain days after the group carried out a deadly attack on Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul city.

According to the local officials, the US unmanned aerial vehicles carried out Arclight airstrikes on a compound of the Haqqani terrorist network in North Waziristan, leaving at least three dead.

The airstrike was reportedly carried out in the vicinity of Speen Thal Dapa Mamozai in Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
.

Station House Officer Thal, Ameer Zaman has confirmed to the local Dawn News that the death of a man named Nasir Mehmood alias Khawari.

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Afghanistan
US forces kill key Haqqani leader in Pakistan days after deadly Kabul attack
2018-01-25
ULULULULULU *gasp* ULULULULU!
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US forces have killed a top commander of the Haqqani terrorist network in North Wazoo area of Pakistain days after the group carried out a deadly attack on Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul city.

According to the local officials, the US umanned aerial vehicles carried out Arclight airstrikes on a compound of the Haqqani terrorist network in North Waziristan, leaving at least three dead.

The airstrike was reportedly carried out in the vicinity of Speen Thal Dapa Mamozai in Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
Station House Officer Thal, Ameer Zaman has confirmed to the local Dawn News that the death of a man named Nasir Mehmood alias Khawari.

This comes as the Afghan officials blamed the group for a deadly attack on Intercontinental Hotel on Saturday that left several people dead or maimed.

This comes as the Afghan and US officials have long been insisting that the terror network has safe havens in Pakistain from where they plan and coordinate deadly attacks in Afghanistan.

However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
 the Pak officials have consistently rejected the claims, insisting that no terror group has any safe haven in the Pak territory.
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Afghanistan
US drone strike leaves 15 ISIS militants dead in Nangarhar
2017-12-27
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 15 ISIS bully boyz were killed in the latest dronezap of the US forces in 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 of Afghanistan.

The provincial government media office in a statement said the latest Arclight airstrike was carried out Bandar area of Achin district.

The statement further added that fifteen ISIS bully boyz were killed and their weapons, ammunition, and explosives cache was destroyed in the air raid.

In the meantime, at least two ISIS bully boyz hailing from Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
 were killed in a separate operation in Haska Mina district, the statement added

According to the provincial government, the local residents and security personnel have not suffered any casualties during the operations.

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India-Pakistan
TTP names successor to APS mastermind Umar Mansoor
2017-10-19
[DAWN] The Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 Pakistain (TTP) on Wednesday named a successor for krazed killer commander Umar Mansoor, the criminal mastermind of the Army Public School attack, along with a formal confirmation that he was dead.

Usman Mansoor Hafizullah will replace Umar Mansoor as the faction's commander in Darra Adam Khel and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 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.
, TTP Spokesperson Muhammad Khorasani said in an email sent to journalists on Wednesday.

Umar Mansoor, who had also grabbed credit for the deadly attack on Bacha Khan University in 2016, was said to be the criminal mastermind of 2014's massacre at the Army Public School in Peshawar which left at least 144 people, mostly children, dead.

He was killed in July last year.

Two security bigshots had told Dawn that Umar Mansoor, alias Khalifa Mansour, alias Umar Naray, had been killed, along with another krazed killer leader, Qari Saifullah, in a dronezap in the Bandar area of Afghanistan’s 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 in July 2016.

One of the officials had said they had credible reports of Mansoor having been killed with Saifullah, who was in charge of jacket wallahs. "What we have is pretty credible," he had said.

Later, then Commander of the Resolute Support Mission, Gen John Nicholson, had called retired Gen Raheel Sharif
..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all....
 and confirmed the death of "terrorist Umar Naray alias Khalifa Umar alias Khalid Khurasani
...intel chief of the Jamaatul Ahrar TTP splinter group, or whatever it's calling itself these days...
" in Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan
Foreigners among several ISIS militants killed, wounded in Nangarhar operations
2017-10-15
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Several Lions of Islam affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group, including some foreigners were killed in the latest counter-terrorism in 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 of Afghanistan.

The provincial police commandment of Nangarhar in a statement said the operations were conducted in Haska Mina district, jointly by the Afghan national defense and security forces.

The statement further added that the Lions of Islam were targeted in Gagar and Payeen areas of the district, leaving six of them dead and two others maimed.

The operations were conducted with the support of the Air Power, the police commandment said, adding that two foreigners were among those killed.

No further details were given regarding the identities of the foreign murderous Moslems and it is yet not clear to which county they belong to.

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
 the majority of the imported muscle of the terror group are comprised of the Pak nationals who have travelled mainly from Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
In the meantime, the police commandment of Nangarhar said the local residents and security personnel have not suffered any casualties in the operations.

According to the police commandment, the operations against the terrorist groups were launched several days ago and are being taken forward by the Afghan army, commandos, national police, border police, and local police forces along with the intelligence operatives.

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Afghanistan
ISIS loyalists hailing from Orakzai Agency killed in US drone strike
2017-09-15
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A number of ISIS loyalists hailing from Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
 in the tribal regions of Pakistain were killed in a US dronezap in 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 of Afghanistan.

The provincial government media office in a statement said at least three ISIS turbans were killed in the raid.

The statement further added that the Arclight airstrike was carried out by the foreign forces in the vicinity of Nazian district.

The turbans were targeted in Lalma area of Nazian district, the statement said, adding that the local residents did not suffer any casualties in the Arclight airstrike.

In the meantime, the provincial police commandment in a statement said a leader of the terror group was also among those killed, putting the number of those killed in the raid at two.

The statement further added that the Arclight airstrike was carried out at around 8 am local time on Wednesday.

The police commandment said the information they have received from the area indicate that the slain turbans were originally hailing from Orakzai Agency.

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India-Pakistan
Large cache of weapons recovered from Kohat, says ISPR
2017-07-12
[DAWN] A cache of arms and ammunition was recovered by the security forces in Kohat on Tuesday, the military's media wing claimed.

According to an Inter-Services Public Relations' press release, armed forces conducted an intelligence-based operation and recovered the weapons while they were being transported from Darra Adam Khel to Wana.

"Weapons were discretely hidden inside the truck's lower body," the press release read.

ISPR said that two men were also apprehended in the operation. The recovered cache of weapons includes 614 pistols, 115 automatic weapons, 7,000 rounds of various calibre and 579 pistol magazines.

The details of the weapons recovered, according to the ISPR press release, are as following:

More than 300 30 bore pistols, six 30 bore Mousers, 197 black Zigana pistols, 16 Zigana camouflage pistols, 30 black Beretta pistols, four golden Pietro Beretta pistols, 20 Smith & Wesson pistols, 10 Walther pistols, 26 Mikarov pistols, one A5.56mm rifle, 106 SMGs, two kalakov shotguns, and six light machine guns.
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Afghanistan
Pakistan’s ISI behind appointment of new ISIS chief in Afghanistan: Uzbekistani
2017-06-08
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A top leader of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan has declared his opposition regarding the appointment of a Pak national, Sheikh Aslam Farooqi, as the new leader of the terror group in Afghanistan.

He has called the appointment of Farooqi as an attempt by the Pak military intelligence, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

"Even if this information is true, then it’s the ISI of Pakistain behind this function and we don’t accept it, because we all fight for Allah and his religion," the ISIS leader Moawiya Uzbekistani has said in a letter which has been obtained by the News Agency that Dare Not be Named.

He has also warned regarding against "infidels, intelligence services and the deceitful" acting from "behind the scenes."

The rift among the ISIS leaders in Afghanistan has reportedly widened after a meeting was organized in Orakzai Agency
... crawling with holy men, home to Darra Adam Khel, the world's largest illegal arms bazaar. 14 distinct tribes of beturbanned primitives inhabit Orakzai agency's 1500 or so square kilometers...
 of Pakistain which was attended by 40 senior ISIS leaders, informed sources have told the paper.

The Afghan government confirmed last month that head of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group’s offshoot in Afghanistan was killed during an operation in 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 of Afghanistan.

The Office of the President, ARG Palace, in a statement said the leader of ISIS Khurasan Abdul Hasib was killed during an operation of the Afghan Special Forces in Nangarhar province.

Hasib was the main criminal mastermind and had ordered the deadly attack on Kabul’s main military hospital, Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital, the statement added.

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