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Nasrullah Khan	Nasrullah Khan	Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal	India-Pakistan	20020610
Nasrullah Khan Shajee	Nasrullah Khan Shajee	Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal	Afghanistan/South Asia	20050703
Nasrullah Shaji	Nasrullah Shaji	Jamaat-e-Islami	India-Pakistan	20031206
Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan	Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan	Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy	India-Pakistan	20020821
	Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan	Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal	India-Pakistan	20020309

India-Pakistan

Dacoits slay 'defiant' primary schoolteacher in Kandhkot-Kashmore's kacha area

2024-03-20

[GEO.TV] A primary schoolteacher was rubbed out by some bandidos in Sindh’s kacha areas (riverine belt) of Kandhkot-Kashmore, where the dacoits continue to reign despite several efforts aimed at eliminating them.

The teacher, Allah Rakhiyo Nandwani, was attacked on his way back home from a cluster primary school in Nasrullah Khan Bijarani, which is known as a no-go area due to the presence of dacoits, on Monday (March 18).

The dacoits reportedly stopped him as he rode his cycle of violence and fled after shooting him dead.

The gruesome incident comes days after a video of Nandwani going to the school went viral on social media. The short video clip showed the schoolteacher carrying a rifle for his safety while navigating from his residence to the school and back.

"I go to the school [to teach] for the sake of students’ future. Police and education department have been telling me that I can’t go there (no-go area), but doing this would harm the future of children. I am protecting myself," he said as he showed the gun he carried in the video.

Defiant of the bandit-rule, Nandwani vowed to attend his duties as schoolteacher regularly to serve the students.

In the video, the slain teacher's own son was seen sitting behind him on the cycle of violence, who apparently studies in the same school.

According to the local police, gunnies shot up Nandwani near Mandani check-post.

Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar took notice of the incident and sought a report from Larkana Deputy Inspector General of Police Nasir Aftab in two days.

With the latest incident, it seems like police are unable to control the situation as entire district Kashmore is reportedly been under the rule of dacoits.

It may be noted that the dacoits of kacha areas in Kandhkot-Kashmore have kidnapped over 400 people in the past one year.

Despite big claims and over 250 operations by the Sindh Police, the kacha area dacoits apparently have been operating freely.

The police reportedly do not have modern weapons and equipment, except for the armoured vehicles but even these vehicles cannot go deep into the kacha areas due to wild bushes and sand. The could only reach the areas housing elements facilitating the dacoits but not the areas where their hideouts are.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

IDF said it has killed more than 60 Hezbollah members since the start of the fighting

2023-11-13

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have killed over 60 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement since the start of hostilities in the Gaza Strip.

Actions have consequences.

This was stated by the representative of the Israeli army, Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, during a briefing.

According to him, over 60 Hezbollah militants were killed during attempts to attack Israel, some of them were killed during attacks on the army, some were eliminated before the attacks.

As Regnum reported , on November 12 it became known that the IDF struck the positions of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement in response to the launch of rockets from Lebanese territory into northern Israel. It is noted that on November 11, from Lebanese territory, the Hezbollah movement fired several rockets into the area of Mount Dov in northern Israel.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant threatened Lebanon with the consequences of entering into the conflict. Beirut could repeat the fate of the Gaza Strip if Hezbollah is drawn into the conflict, he said during a visit to a military base on the border with Lebanon.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrullah stressed on November 3 that the United States, while helping Israel, turns a blind eye to the humanitarian catastrophe in the Middle East and the killing of civilians. He called on Muslim countries to sever relations with Israel and stop supplies of energy and food.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Israel announces attacks on Hezbollah's military infrastructure

2023-11-12

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Israeli aircraft are carrying out retaliatory strikes on targets of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, the army press service reported.

“The army is currently striking targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Lebanon,” the IDF said.

Earlier, the Israelis intercepted three suspicious air targets in the north of the country, two of them were shot down on the border with Lebanon.

As Regnum reported, on November 10, the Israeli military also attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon. The IDF launched strikes using artillery and Iron Sting guided mortar shells. The targets of the Israeli Air Force were complexes and infrastructure, observation posts and technological equipment of the group.

The head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrullah, in an address to supporters on November 3, warned Israel of the real threat of a major war. He pointed out that Hezbollah's actions forced the IDF to pull a third of its forces to the Lebanese border. He said Tel Aviv must take into account the threat of a large-scale war between the Lebanese Hezbollah party and Israel, Nasrullah said.

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Netanyahu warns Hezbollah against entering into conflict

[Regnum] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the Lebanese Hezbollah movement against full-scale participation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He announced this in his televised address.

Netanyahu assured that the IDF is ready for escalation on the northern front - if necessary, the army will open fire there from the ground and from the air.

“I warned Hezbollah - don’t make a mistake and don’t go to war. This will be the mistake of your life. Entering into war will harm Lebanese citizens,” the prime minister said.

As Regnum reported , Israeli aircraft are carrying out retaliatory strikes on targets of the Lebanese group Hezbollah. Earlier, the Israelis intercepted three suspicious air targets in the north of the country, two of them were shot down on the border with Lebanon.

On November 10, the Israeli military also attacked Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon. The IDF launched strikes using artillery and Iron Sting guided mortar shells. The targets of the Israeli Air Force were complexes and infrastructure, observation posts and technological equipment of the group.

The head of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrullah, in an address to supporters on November 3, warned Israel of the real threat of a major war. He pointed out that Hezbollah's actions forced the IDF to pull a third of its forces to the Lebanese border. He said Tel Aviv must take into account the threat of a large-scale war between the Lebanese Hezbollah party and Israel, Nasrullah said.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Reuters: A new powerful Hezbollah missile attack on Israel

2023-11-05

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

[Regnum] On November 4, militants from the Lebanese Hezbollah party attacked Israel with a powerful new missile that had never been used before, Reuters reported , citing a source.

“The group fired a powerful rocket, not yet used in combat, claiming that it hit an Israeli position across the border from the villages of Aita al-Shaab and Rmeish ,” the report said.

The publication also reported that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) aircraft carried out strikes on Libyan territory. Residents of southern Lebanon called the attacks some of the harshest since the conflict began to escalate on October 7.

Hezbollah continues to shell Israeli territory. Party Secretary General Hassan Nasrullah on November 3, during Friday prayers, announced a real threat of a large-scale war with Israel. He also emphasized that Lebanese militants, by their actions, are constraining the capabilities of the IDF in the Gaza Strip, as they are forcing Israel to keep a third of its army on the border in Lebanon.

On October 31, journalists from The New York Times suggested that Hezbollah would begin a full-fledged war with the IDF only when Hamas was defeated. The Libyan group will have to intervene in this case, since it will not be able to remain on the sidelines, otherwise it will lose its reputation as a vanguard force in the Middle East, the publication noted.

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Celebrations in southern suburbs as Nasrallah breaks silence on war

2023-11-04

Nasrallah should take a deep whiff of what he's shoveling.
[NAHARNET] ~~Gunsex splattered~~ Celebratory gunshots rang out over Beirut as thousands packed into a square in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs on Friday to watch a televised speech by Hezbollah leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
It was Nasrallah's first public remarks since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas
...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
war, sparked by the Paleostinian Death Eaters deadly Oct. 7 incursion into southern Israel.

The speech came a day after the most significant escalation in festivities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces on the border since the war started and on the same day as a visit to Israel by the top U.S. diplomat. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken

...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to urge protections for civilians in the fighting with Hamas, as Israeli troops tightened their encirclement of Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
City.

In his lengthy remarks, Nasrallah praised the Hamas attack four weeks ago in which the Death Eaters attacked farming villages and military posts in southern Israel. More than 1,400 people were killed in Israel in the attack.

"This great, large-scale operation was purely the result of Paleostinian planning and implementation," Nasrallah said, suggesting that Hezbollah had no part in the attack. "The great secrecy made this operation greatly successful."

Nasrallah's speech had been widely anticipated throughout the region as a sign of whether the Israel-Hamas conflict would spiral into a regional war.

Since the beginning of the war, Hezbollah, an ally of the Paleostinian Death Eater group Hamas, had taken calculated steps to keep Israel's military busy on its border with Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, but not to the extent of igniting an all-out war.

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Hezbollah leader calls speed of US support a sign of Israeli weakness

The speed with which the US supported Israel showed how weak the Israeli state was, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrullah said on November 3 .

“The American speed of support for Israel has shown the failure, weakness and infirmity of this entity,” Nasrullah said in a televised address, pointing to the number of trips Western politicians have made to Israel.

Nasrullah said the IDF could not seize the initiative from the Palestinian resistance.

The Hezbollah leader stressed that the United States, while helping Israel, turns a blind eye to the humanitarian catastrophe in the Middle East and the killing of civilians. He called on Muslim countries to sever relations with Israel and stop supplies of energy and food.

The Al-Jarida newspaper reported on November 2 that Hezbollah, amid the growing Palestinian-Israeli conflict, may announce a general mobilization. This will happen if the United States does not stop Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.

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Hezbollah threatens mobilization if US does not stop fighting in Gaza

The Lebanese group Hezbollah will announce a general mobilization if the United States does not stop the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Al-Jarida newspaper reported this

According to the source, if the United States does not stop the Israeli military operation in Gaza, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hasa Nasrullah will announce the mobilization of Lebanese forces for war with Israel.

“The deadline for Hezbollah’s demands to be met is November 3,” the publication said.

Earlier, The New York Times reported that if Israel destroys Hamas, it will have to conduct full-fledged military operations against Hezbollah. According to the authors of the material, Lebanese Hezbollah is one of the most powerful nodes in the network of pro-Iranian paramilitary structures in the Middle East.

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Afghanistan

Schoolteacher Slain by Nomads in Panjshir Province

2023-09-10

[8am] Local sources in Panjshir province have reported the murder of a schoolteacher by a nomadic primitive armed with a firearm.

According to reports obtained by Hasht-e Subh, this incident occurred unexpectedly on Friday, September 8th, in the Ab-Goman area of Parian district in Panjshir province.

The victim, identified as Dadullah, was not only a dedicated schoolteacher but also worked as a taxi driver alongside his teaching duties.

Sources have indicated that two nomadic individuals, apparently hiring Dadullah’s vehicle, lured him into their company and subsequently ambushed him on the road.

However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
local Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
officials in Panjshir claim that this murder stemmed from prior hostilities and enmities.

Mawlana Nasrullah Malikzada, the head of the Taliban’s information and culture department in Panjshir, revealed that about 15 years ago, Dadullah’s uncle had killed a close associate of these two nomads in the same district.

Malikzada further added that one of the suspects in the murder has been detained by the Taliban, while another managed to escape.

It is worth noting that since the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, nomadic communities have occasionally engaged in retaliatory actions against the country’s citizens with the support of the group’s fighters.

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Afghanistan

Internal Taliban Clash Erupts in Takhar Province; Two Fighters Killed

2023-09-08

Internal Taliban Clash Erupts in Takhar Province; Two Fighters Killed
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— Hasht E Subh English (@8AM_Media) September 1, 2023

Local sources in Takhar Province have reported a fatal clash resulting in the deaths of two Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
fighters, with another maimed. This incident sheds light on simmering internal tensions within the group.

The clash occurred on Thursday night, August 31st, within the confines of Qarildi village, situated in the Khaja Bahauddin district. It was rooted in disputes between two separate factions within the Taliban.

This ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful episode comes in the wake of a recent attack by Taliban fighters of Pashtun ethnicity on the residence of Nasrullah, a member of the Tajik ethnic group. Nasrullah served as the bodyguard of Qari Tayeb, the deputy leader of the Taliban’s army corps in Kabul. This attack took place within the same Qarildi village.

The skirmish resulted in the loss of two lives from opposing sides within the Taliban factions.

Sources suggest that the conflict was exacerbated by the recent return of Qari Tayeb’s bodyguard to his hometown after several months of absence, seemingly triggering the eruption of hostilities.

The sources have pointed to internal and personal disputes as the underlying catalyst for this event.

In a separate but related development, just a few days earlier, an internal clash between two Taliban factions in the Farkhar district of Takhar Province claimed the life of one Taliban member, leaving five others maimed, all hailing from Kandahar.

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Afghanistan

Women Banned From Visiting Band-e-Amir National Park

2023-08-27

[ToloNews] Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, the acting Minister of Virtue and Vice, asked all religious holy mans and security agencies to forbid women from visiting Amir Band National Park at a meeting in Bamiyan
...a place in Afghanistan that used to have some historically interesting statues of the Buddha carved into a mountainside. Then the holy men showed up and now all they have is some big holes...
Hanafi said that the decision was taken because of women's non-observance of hijab and added that women should be prevented from entering this park until a procedure is prepared.

The acting Minister of Virtue and Vice stated that going on a trip is not obligatory.

"Women and our sisters cannot go to Band-e-Amir until we agree on a principle. The security agencies, elders and the inspectors should take action in this regard. Going for sightseeing is not obligatory," Hanafi said.

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
religious holy mans in Bamiyan said that these women come to the park from outside Bamyian, and the government itself should do something about it.

"There are complaints about the lack of hijab or bad hijab, these are not Bamiyan residents. They come here from other places, from other provinces or outside of Afghanistan," said Sayed Nasrullah Waezi, head of the Bamiyan Shia Ulema Council.

"There are dozens like this in every province, which is why problems have arisen, the enemy of Islam has gained courage and is finally pointing to Mullah,(?)" said Mohammad Asif Burhan, a religious holy man in Bamiyan.

Band-e-Amir National Park is one of the tourist spots in Bamyian, which was introduced as the first national park in the country in 2009, and since then it attracts thousands of visitors each year.

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Afghanistan

Daily Evacuation Brief July 28, 2023

2023-07-28

LAST 24 HOURS

DOHA MEETINGS – Afghanistan observers are closely watching for information concerning the US/Taliban talks that began in Qatar yesterday. Several insiders opined that the Taliban delegation would press for three priorities: 1) Recognition 2) Unfreezing funds in Switzerland 3) Lifting of the travel ban on its leaders. The US has made its position known and said that human/gender rights would be a focus as well as security. Few details from the talks have emerged but most are not expecting any significant breakthroughs.

KARZAI CONDEMNS RECENT PAKISTANI ARTILLERY STRIKES IN PAKTIKA – The artillery exchange that we reported on in the 25 July Evacuation Brief was confirmed by the former President’s office. The former President condemned the attack and called it an ‘invasion of Afghan soil’ in a strongly worded statement. According to sources, Pakistan had targeted a suspected TTP hideout and had received information from a Taliban source that a high-ranking TTP leader was meeting with other cell leaders to disburse funds and possibly plan operations. Both Islamabad and Kabul have kept quiet about the attacks and neither side has reported casualties resulting from the incident.

TALOQAN CHIEF OF POLICE DETAINED OVER RAPE CHARGES – The Taliban have reportedly arrested Mawlawi Nasrullah Huzaifa, the Chief of Police in Takhar’s capital after hearing allegations of rape by 2 women. Sources say Huzaifa was taken to Kandahar and that an investigation was underway.

US HEARINGS ON THE WITHDRAWAL DESCRIBE CHAOTIC ENVIRONMENT IN KABUL, LACK OF LEADERSHIP – The hearings held yesterday in Washington showcased testimony from senior leaders who were present during the operation that described a lack of planning and a lack of leadership that contributed to the chaos on the ground in Kabul in August 2021. The hearings clearly have a political agenda but provide those interested in what happened with insight into what was going on at the time.

CONFLICT TRACKER
Kabul: Agents from the Ministry of the Interior reportedly carried out an operation against a suspected ISIS-K cell in Police District 1 yesterday afternoon. Initial deports suggest that a short shootout took place but the agents quickly overpowered the suspects and arrested 3 on the spot. Eyewitnesses said some of the men who were in the building managed to flee.l,

NEXT 24 HOURS
COUNTER ISIS-K OPERATIONS TO CONTINUE IN AFGHANISTAN – While there have been rumors of potential counter-ISIS clearing operations in the lead-up to Muharram, yesterday’s clash in Police District 1 indicates the Taliban finally felt confident to act. There are scattered reports from other Provinces that counter-ISIS operations are being carried out by local commanders. A source in Kabul says a possible counter-ISIS operation is planned in or near Jalalabad and may have already taken place. Additional security personnel continue to man local checkpoints and patrols have increased in the major cities since Muharram began. At-risk Afghans should remain cognizant that these operations are ongoing and should try to avoid any concentration of Taliban security vehicles/personnel which could be indicative of an impending operation.

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India-Pakistan

NIA conducts raids across 16 locations in J&K to crack down on newly-launched terror groups

2023-05-10

[GreaterKashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
] A week after similar state-wide searches, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday carried out extensive searches in Jammu & Kashmir, in the premises of "cadres and hybrid Death Eaters and Overground Workers linked with the newly-formed offshoots and affiliates of several major banned Pak-backed terror outfits."

The raids, in the terror conspiracy case, were continuing till late in the evening. They were spread across locations in Anantnag, Srinagar, Budgam, Shopian, Kulgam and Baramulla districts of Kashmir, as well as in Poonch, Rajouri and Kishtwar districts of Jammu, said an NIA front man, in a statement.

The NIA has been investigating the activities of newly floated terrorist groups, such as "The Resistance® Front (TRF)", "United Liberation Front Jammu & Kashmir (UL J&K)", "Mujahideen Gazwat-ul-Hind (MGH)", "Jammu & Kashmir Freedom Fighters (JKFF)", Kashmir Tigers, PAAF and others. These outfits are affiliated to Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), al-Badr, al-Qaeda, etc., he said.

Tuesday’s raids, conducted at a total of 16 locations (12 in the Kashmir Valley and four in Jammu division), were part of NIA’s investigations into the activities of OGWs and cadres in support of these new terror outfits. "These cadres and workers have been found involved in collection and distribution of sticky bombs/magnetic bombs, IEDs, cash, drugs and small weapons, as well as in spreading activities relating to terror, violence and subversion in J&K. Investigations have further revealed that Pak-based operatives were using drones to deliver weapons, bombs, drugs etc. to their operatives and cadres in the Kashmir valley."

NIA had earlier, on 2nd May, conducted raids at 12 locations in Jammu and Kashmir, leading to the seizure of incriminating material and digital devices, in the terror conspiracy case it had registered suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard...
on 21st June 2022, added the front man.

"The case (RC-05/2022/NIA/JMU) related to the hatching of a conspiracy, both physical and cyber space, and plans by the proscribed terrorist organizations to unleash ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful terrorist attacks in J&K with sticky bombs, IEDs and small arms. The plans are part of a larger conspiracy by these terrorist outfits to commit acts of terror and violence, in association with local youth/overground workers, to disturb peace and communal disharmony in J&K."

Conspiracy case: NIA raids underway at 15 locations in J&K

[GreaterKashmir] Ahead of G-20 summit in Srinagar, the National Investigation Agency on Tuesday conducted raids at 15 locations in Jammu and Kashmir including summer capital Srinagar in a militancy conspiracy case registered by the national probing agency.

Quoting official sources, Srinagar based news agency Kashmir Dot Com (KDC) reported that sleuths of NIA with the assistance of Jammu and Kashmir police and CRPF carried out raids at Srinagar, Shopian, Kulgam, Budgam, Baramulla, Anantnag, Poonch and Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. The searches are being carried out in the Pakistain backed terrorist conspiracy case registered by the national probing agency.

In Srinagar, NIA teams raided the joint residential house of Mohammad Ayoub Pakhtoon, Tariq Ahmad and Safin sons of Late Habibullah Pakhtoon at Kursoo Rajbagh near Jamia Masjid.

Similarly, another team raided the house of Mushtaq Ahmad Pinjoo son of Ghulam Rasool Pinjoo, a resident of Mustafa-Abad Zakoora.

In Budgam, another team of NIA searched the premises of Sajad Ahmad Khan son of Gaffar Khan at War Sangam and apprehended him for questioning. The house of Fayaz Ahmad Rather son of Abdul Aziz Rather, a resident of Mir Mohalla Nasrullahpora was thoroughly searched by the agency.

In south Kashmir’s Kulgam NIA teams raided the residential houses of Rouf Ahmad Sheikh son of Ghulam Nabi at Rampopra Qaimoh and Shahnawaaz Hajam at Sangus Kulgam.

In Shopian the sleuths of NIA searched the residential houses of Showkat Ganie son of Ghulam Mohammad Haji at Khurampora and Mudasir Rehman son of Abdul Rehman Khan at Killora Malikgund.

At Chatergul, Anantnag, a BSC student identified as Ulfat Jan daughter of Mohammad Ayoub Pathan has been apprehended and questioned by the sleuths of NIA.

Residential house of Umar Iqbal Haji son of Mohammad Iqbal Haji at Khiram Anantnag was also searched by the agency.

The raids are being conducted at two locations in Poonch and 1 in Rajouri districts of Jammu region.

An official confirmed the raids and said the searches were pertaining to the criminal conspiracy hatched by the terror groups operating under various pseudo names, at the behest of their Pak commanders/handlers.

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Daily Evacuation Brief January 24, 2023

2023-01-24

[AfghanDigest] LAST 24 HOURS

POWER OUTAGES CONTINUE IN AFGHANISTAN – After Uzbekistan confirmed it had cut power exports to Afghanistan a diplomatic spat occurred when the Taliban Minister of Foreign Affairs took to social media and publicly blasted the Uzbek government. Officials from Uzbekistan responded yesterday and said it had warned the Afghan power authority that domestic needs could result in diminished power exports. It is not clear whether the Afghan power company officials informed the Taliban of this possibility or, whether the Taliban failed to disclose the information to the public. Regardless, the problem affects millions.

PAKISTAN’S POWER GRID GOES OFFLINE AS WELL – Pakistan lost power across large areas of the country for the second time in three months after a power-saving scheme to save power backfired. Electricity was shut off overnight to conserve fuel in an effort to save money but when engineers attempted to turn the power back on in the morning, the system suffered a catastrophic failure and will need to be rebooted. Government officials and those who are responsible for managing the grid were working to restore power and some cities had reported a resumption of service as of this morning. The outage also affected nationwide cellular service as thousands of mobile towers were forced offline. Internet services continued to function but many millions of cellular phone customers have been in a communications blackout state.

UNITED NATIONS ANNOUNCES $4.6 BILLION PLEDGED FOR AFGHANISTAN IN 2023 – Martin Griffiths, Under Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs, supposedly informed the Foreign Minister about the funding during a recent meeting. However, it is not clear how much of the funding will be allowed to be used in Afghanistan with the standoff over bans on women in different sectors of society. A source who was present for the meeting claimed the UN officials clearly were dangling a carrot for the Taliban with the announcement but that flew over the head of Muttaqi who was apparently giddy after the meeting. Several advisors reputedly had to explain that the funding was only pledged and was not likely to be disbursed unless the Taliban reversed several of its policies.

CLERIC MURDERED IN KAPISA – A second Salafi religious leader was murdered in Kohistan (Kapisa Province) on Sunday evening. Mawlawi Laeeq was set upon by unidentified gunmen and shot dead in Kish Katan village. In 2022, Mawlawi Nasrullah, another Salafi religious leader was murdered in a similar fashion. Unconfirmed reports have continued to mount of several Salafi followers ‘disappearing’ under mysterious circumstances since the Taliban came back to power.

CONFLICT TRACKER
Helmand: An AFF raid on a Taliban checkpoint in Lashkargah resulted in the death of 1 Talib and 3 wounded. No AFF casualties were reported.

NEXT 24 HOURS
COUNTER ISIS-K SECURITY CLEARING OPERATIONS CONTINUE – Shortly after an ISIS-K militant committed suicide while in Taliban custody in Ghor, several social media channels affiliated with the terrorist group vowed revenge, and one had posted a photo of the outer security layer of the Supreme Leader’s residence in Kandahar, reputedly taken yesterday. Taliban security forces appear to have taken the threat seriously and have added additional vehicular security patrols in the city. There is a potential for violence.

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Taliban reveal burial place of founder Mullah Omar, nine years after death

2022-11-07

[La Belle France24] The Taliban on Sunday revealed the final resting place of the movement's founder, Mullah Omar, whose death and burial they kept secret for years.

Rumours surrounding Omar's health and whereabouts abounded after the Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
were kicked out of power in 2001 by a US-led invasion, and they only admitted in April 2015 that he had died two years earlier.

Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP Sunday that big shots of the movement attended a ceremony at his gravesite earlier in the day near Omarzo, in Suri district of Zabul province.

The Taliban returned to power in August last year, routing government forces as the US-led military that propped up the regime ended a 20-year occupation.

"Since a lot of enemies were around and the country was occupied, to avoid damage to the tomb it was kept secret," Mujahid said.

"Only the close family members were aware of the place," he added.

Pictures released by officials showed Taliban leaders gathered around a simple white brick tomb, covered with what appears to be gravel and enclosed in a green metal cage.

"Now the decision has been made... there are no issues for the people to visit the tomb," Mujahid said.

Omar, who was aged around 55 when he died, founded the Taliban in 1993 as an antidote to the internecine civil war that erupted following the decade-long Soviet occupation.

Under his leadership the Taliban introduced an extremely austere version of Islamic rule, barring women from public life and introducing harsh public punishments -- including executions and floggings.

MASSOUD TOMB REPORTED VANDALISED
Omar's ceremony comes a day after provincial Taliban officials denied reports that the Panjshir Valley tomb of resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massoud had been vandalised, an act Mujahid said would be "punished" if true.

Massoud has a mixed legacy in the country, where he is hailed by ordinary Afghans for leading the resistance against the Soviet occupation, but loathed by the Taliban he also fought until his 2001 liquidation by al-Qaeda.

His tomb is in an imposing granite and marble mausoleum overlooking the picturesque Panjshir Valley, and guarded by Taliban fighters since their takeover of the country in August last year.

Local residents said a newly arrived contingent of fighters smashed the tombstone, and video of the desecrated grave -- which could not be verified -- was published by local media and circulating widely on social channels.

"It happened when the new forces entered Panjshir. The new forces from Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
and Kandahar destroyed the tombstone of the national hero," one resident told AFP.

Nasrullah Malakzada, head of information and culture of Panjshir, province, denied the tomb had been damaged and issued a video purporting to show it intact.

The clip, however, pointedly did not display the entire structure -- particularly the part seen damaged in the original video.

Malakzada refused requests by journalists to visit or photograph the tomb for themselves.

Mujahid told news hounds that nobody had the right to insult the dead.

"Previously we had punished those who committed such acts," he said, adding "this will be investigated as well and necessary action will be taken"

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