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Azam Tariq	Azam Tariq	Sipah-i-Sahaba	India-Pakistan				20030208
	Azam Tariq	Millat-e-Islamia	India-Pakistan				20030725
	Azam Tariq	Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan	India-Pakistan				20011009
	Azam Tariq	Sipah-e-Sahaba	India-Pakistan				20031031
	Azam Tariq	Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan	India-Pakistan				20021031
	Azam Tariq	Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan	India-Pakistan				20030824
	Azam Tariq	Sipah Sehaba Pakistan	India-Pakistan				20030421
	Azam Tariq	Millat e-Islamia	India-Pakistan				20030520
Maulana Azam Tariq	Maulana Azam Tariq	Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan	Afghanistan/South Asia				20050718
	Maulana Azam Tariq	Millat-e-Islamia	India-Pakistan				20030912
	Maulana Azam Tariq	Sipah-e-Sahaba	India-Pakistan				20030130
Muhammad Azam Tariq	Muhammad Azam Tariq	Sipah-e-Sahaba	India-Pakistan				20030228

India-Pakistan

TTP confirms commander Sajna killed in drone strike last week

2018-02-13

[DAWN] A Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pak (TTP) spokesperson has confirmed the death of TTP commander Khan Said Sajna in a recent US dronezap. Azam Tariq Mehsud said Commander Sajna was killed in last Thursday's strike in a village along the Pak-Afghan border. He said another commander, Mufti Noor Wali, has now been appointed in Sajna's place. Tariq says Wali enjoys the backing of Mullah Fazlullah ...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan... , the leader of the TTP who is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. Sajna, 36, was believed to be involved in an attack on a Naval base in 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... and is also credited with criminal masterminding a 2012 jailbreak in which the Taliban freed 400 inmates in the northwestern city of Bannu. "Sajna had no basic education, conventional or religious, but he was battle-hardened and had experience of fighting in Afghanistan," an official had said earlier.

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Suspect in Azam Tariq murder case arrested

2017-05-13

[DAWN] The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! a suspected murderer of former chief of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain ...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was banned in 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts... (SSP) Maulana Azam Tariq at the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... International Airport (BBIA). FIA Islamabad Director Mazhar Kakakhel told Dawn that the suspect had been declared as a proclaimed offender in the high-profile murder case. He was taken into custody by the FIA staff after he approached the immigration counter to board a Manchester-bound 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... Airways flight . "Though the murder suspect, Syed Mohammad Sibtain Kazmi, had not been placed on the Exit Control List (ECL), he was arrested since he had been wanted by the police. The arrest was made on reliable information received by the FIA," he said. Another bigwig said Sibtain Kazmi had settled in the UK and traveled to Pakistain twice. He got his Pak passport in 2012 despite being on the police wanted list. After his arrest at the BBIA, the suspect was handed over to the Golra police who had already announced Rs1 million for anyone who could help the police to arrest him. The Golra police obtained a five-day physical remand of the suspect from the Anti-Terrorism Court Islamabad and launched an investigation. Maulana Azam Tariq was coming to Islamabad from Jhang along with his four bodyguards when he was bumped off by faceless myrmidons at Kashmire Highway on October 6, 2003. His driver and three bodyguards were also killed in the attack.

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Afghanistan

Killing of Pakistani Taliban leader proof Afghanistan not harboring terrorists

2016-09-27

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The killing of one of the most big shots of the Pak Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), is a proof Afghanistan is not harboring terrorists, the Afghan Ambassador to Pakistain Dr. Omar Zakhilwal said. "Killing of top TTP commander, Azam Tariq, in an operation by Afg security forces in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... is yet another proof that Afg is not in business of harboring holy warriors as ’assets’, regardless of who they intend to target; and does not distinguish between ’good’ and ’bad’ of them," Zakhilwal said in a statement posted online. The Afghan Ambassador further added "In fact, to date every TTP leader of any importance has been killed by our security or/and coalition forces from Afghanistan. Azam Tariq was currently ranked as the 4th most important TTP leader and Pakistain had put about $200 thousand US dollars on his head." Tariq was the former front man of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain and his death is considered as a big loss for the group. Senior TTP members have confirmed Tariq’s death terming it a big loss for the splinter Mahsud myrmidon group, headed by Commander Khan Said alias Sajna. Azam Tariq’s real name was Raees Khan. He belonged to the Mahsud tribe inhabiting South Wazoo where the security forces have been engaged in operations against the bully boyz since 2009.

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Afghanistan

Pak Taliban commander Azam Tariq killed in Afghanistan

2016-09-27

[GEO.TV] An important Pak Taliban capo Azam Tariq, his son and some other turbans were killed by the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -backed Afghan special forces in Afghanistan’s Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province on Saturday night.

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India-Pakistan

TTP ex spokeshole dies in Aghanistan

2016-09-26

PESHAWAR: The former spokesperson for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Azam Tariq, has been reportedly killed in Afghanistan’s Paktika province in air strikes carried out by Afghan and Nato forces. Three other TTP leaders have also been reportedly killed by the joint Afghan and Nato airstrikes in the Laman area of Paktika provice, said Pakistani security sources. Raess Khan, who used the nom de guerre Azam Tariq, was killed in air strikes late on Saturday. An advisor of TTP's Khan Saeed Sajna group, Zeeshan Haider Mehsud, confirmed the death of Tariq and his son while fighting Afghan security forces. The TTP advisor added that 10 other militants were killed in the fighting which erupted in Paktika province. Khan Saeed Sajna, who had broken away from the TTP along with Tariq was reported killed earlier this year in an American drone strike which targeted the group in Afghanistan. In 2014, Irfan Mehsud, a son of Azam Tariq, was killed in an exchange of fire with Pakistan Army troops in Bober. Split from TTP In May 2014, the outlawed TTP split into two factions after a major group based in South Waziristan quit the TTP and accused its leadership of having fallen into invisible hands and turning the TTP into an organisation providing safety to criminals. “We announce separation from the TTP leadership which has deviated from its path”, Azam Tariq, spokesman for commander Khan Saeed Sajna had stated at the time of the split. The new group was led by Sajna who changed his operational name to Khalid Mahsud. It had accused the TTP leadership led by Mulla Fazlullah, the fugitive commander from Swat believed to be hiding in Afghanistan, of indulging in a baseless propaganda campaign against Afghan Taliban. It had also accused the TTP leadership of killing religious scholars, extorting huge amounts of money from madressahs, carrying out bombings at public places on payment of money “from outside” and accepting responsibility for the bombings under assumed names and creating discord among different militant groups.

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India-Pakistan

Girls' wing of new government school blown up in South Waziristan

2016-02-21

[DAWN] Militants blew up part of a newly constructed government school in the South Wazoo region late Friday night, a front man for a wing of the Pak Taliban said on Saturday, the latest in a string of attacks on educational institutions. A splinter group of the Pak Taliban (TTP), known as the Sajna group grabbed credit for the attack "We have blown up the school because it was a government installation," said Azam Tariq, front man for Sajna, warning the group would continue to attack government targets. No one was hurt in the blast, but 18 labourers working on the site were kidnapped and released shortly after. Officials in South Waziristan said the girls' wing of the primary school in the tehsil Tiarza area was damaged in Friday's blast, as well as some heavy machinery being used for ongoing construction at the site. In a separate incident in Mohmand tribal area to the north, Pak security officials killed five bully boyz during a clash near Mohmand Agency ... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar... 's administrative headquarters on Saturday. The bully boyz were planning an attack in the area, a security official said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... .

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India-Pakistan

3 security elements die in Waziristan

2015-11-23

DERA ISMAIL KHAN / KHAR: Three security personnel were killed in a roadside bomb blast in Warghara area of Tiarza tehsil in South Waziristan tribal region on Sunday. Intelligence sources said the personnel were patrolling the area when an improvised explosive device placed by the road exploded. One soldier died on the spot and three others suffered critical injuries. The injured were rushed to a field hospital in FR Jandullah where two of them died. Mehsud Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The group’s spokesman, Azam Tariq Mehsud, said its members carried out the attack in which eight security personnel lost their lives. Also on Sunday, two security men were injured in a roadside blast in Kaman Gara area of Bajaur Agency. Published in Dawn, November 23rd, 2015

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India-Pakistan

Three soldiers die in South Waziristan

2015-08-27

[DAWN] Three soldiers were killed in an early morning attack on a security post in South Wazoo, while a training camp of Death Eaters was destroyed in North Waziristan. A front man for Mehsud Taliban, a splinter group of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), claimed the responsibility for the attack. The group is headed by Khan Said, a close associate of TTP's slain Commander Baitullah Mehsud. An official of the political administration confirmed the death of three soldiers and identified them as Jafar Hussain, Muhammad Ali and Arsalan. Azam Tariq of the Mehsud Taliban also claimed the responsibility for Mon­day's clash in Shawal which claimed the lives of Lt Col Faisal Malik and a soldier. The army had reported the death of six Death Eaters. According to Dawn's 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. Bureau, the Army Aviation helicopter gunships pounded the training facility of Death Eaters in Gurbuz area of Shawal in North Waziristan on Tuesday. There were reports that some bad boyz were potted in the attack but their number could not be ascertained.

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India-Pakistan

Colonel, six militants killed in Shawal clash

2015-08-26

[DAWN] An officer and a soldier bit the dust in a shootout between security forces and snuffies in Shawal area of North Wazoo Agency on Monday, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations. Six murderous Moslems were also killed in the shootout in the mountainous area adjacent to Afghanistan, where troops launched a ground offensive on Aug 20, said the military's media wing. Lt Col Faisal Malik, who was killed in the fighting, belonged to Abbottabad ... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden.... district. The army had announced on Thursday that a ground offensive had been launched in Shawal to wipe out bully boy sanctuaries. Before the offensive, military planes carried out air strikes in the area, killing around 100 snuffies including two would-be jacket wallahs. The offensive, preceded by Army Chief 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.... 's visit to North Waziristan, has been billed as the final and decisive phase of Operation Zarb-e-Azb ..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)... that was launched in June last year. A tribal elder, who belongs to North Waziristan but is currently living in Bannu because of fighting in his native place, told Dawn by phone that the ongoing action had triggered displacement of civilians from Shawal. A large number of families fled to Afghanistan because other routes were blocked, he added. Our Correspondent adds from Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... : Sources said the exchange of fire took place after snuffies belonging to the Mehsud Taliban group ambushed a convoy of security forces in Lwar Pungai. Azam Tariq, the front man for the Mehsud Taliban, called Dawn from an unspecified location and said his group had carried out the attack. He claimed that 50 soldiers were killed and 10 vehicles destroyed, adding that one bully boy suffered minor injuries in the attack.

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India-Pakistan

Five militants killed in S. Waziristan

2015-08-04

[DAWN] Five suspected Lions of Islam have been killed and three soldiers injured in festivities in South Wazoo. According to an ISPR statement, the Lions of Islam were killed in a clash in Sarang Ziarat area of Sarokai tehsil. The soldiers were maimed in a separate clash, it said. Intelligence sources said security personnel had taken two of the bodies into custody while the remaining had been taken away by fleeing Lion of Islams. The injured soldiers were airlifted to the Combined Military Hospital in Wana. Security forces launched a search operation in the area after the clash to clear it of Lion of Islams. A front man for the Mehsud Taliban group, Azam Tariq, contacted local news hounds and claimed that nine security personnel had been killed in an attack on Zaray Zhawar post in a remote mountainous area of Ladha tehsil and five had been rubbed out by Lion of Islam snipers in Mantoi area of Sarang Baba Ziarat.

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India-Pakistan

Seven Pakistan troops, 12 militants die in clash

2015-07-06

[ARABNEWS] At least seven soldiers and 12 holy warriors were killed in a clash on Sunday in Pakistain's troubled tribal belt where the army is fighting a major offensive against Taliban bully boys. The military made a new push into the Lion of Islams' last major stronghold near the border with Afghanistan, intelligence officers said Sunday. Pakistain began a major offensive in North Wazoo last summer to drive out Pak Taliban and other hard boy holy warriors who launch attacks on government and civilian targets. The army is meeting fierce resistance as it moves further into the lower-lying areas of the Shawal Valley, the Taliban's last stronghold, military officials said. Pakistain's Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif visited troops on Friday and said the initial phase around the surrounding peaks of the Shawal Valley was successful and it was now time to begin a final push into the lower areas. "We will not stop unless we achieve our end objective of a terror-free Pakistain," he said. Militants ambushed a military convoy on Saturday in the valley's Pir Ghr area, killing two soldiers and wounding three others, intelligence officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak to the media. The Pak Taliban grabbed credit for the attack, with front man Azam Tariq saying five soldiers were killed. The intelligence officials added that troops moving from both the North and South Waziristan sides into the Shawal Valley were encountering tough resistance from Lion of Islams. The heavily forested ravines in the area are dotted with Taliban hideouts and the area is a key smuggling route into neighboring Afghanistan. Two other attacks in the northwest killed five more soldiers outside the Shawal Valley. The first, a remote-controlled kaboom on army vehicles in North Waziristan, killed three and injured six. A second kaboom on a military vehicle in South Waziristan killed two others, the military officials said. The Pak Taliban had controlled almost all of the northwestern region of North Waziristan before troops launched their offensive last year. Many holy warriors have fled to other parts of Pakistain, and some into Afghanistan, complicating the US-backed 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.... government's fight against its own Taliban insurgency. Pakistain's military said the incident took place in the Ghaziza area of Datta Khel town, some 20 km east of Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , the main town in the North Waziristan tribal district which borders Afghanistan. "Fleeing Death Eaters also left behind three of their dead bodies. Four soldiers also embraced Shahadat (martyrdom) in the exchange of fire," it said in a statement. A security official in the area confirmed the incident and casualties. The conflict zone is remote and off-limits to journalists making it difficult to verify the army's claims, including the number and identity of those killed. Pakistain has been battling a homegrown Islamist insurgency for over a decade following the late 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan. The Pakistain Army began a major campaign against Taliban and other Lion of Islam strongholds in the North Waziristan tribal area in June last year and authorities have now vowed to intensify operations both in the border regions and across the country. The military says more than 2,700 holy warriors have been killed since the launch of the major offensive.

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India-Pakistan

Seven soldiers die in suicide bombing

2015-06-10

[DAWN] At least 19 suspected holy warriors were killed and seven others injured when security personnel hit back after an attack on a checkpost in South Wazoo's Laddah tehsil, adjoining North Waziristan. According to an Inter-Services Public Relations statement issued on Monday, seven security personnel were killed and seven others injured when a jacket wallah went kaboom! during the attack on Preghal post. In the retaliatory attack, at least 19 turbans, including five of their 'commanders', were killed. Seven holy warriors were maimed and one was captured. Azam Tariq , a front man for the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain's Mahsud chapter, grabbed credit for the attack on the checkpost.

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