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Afghanistan

Daily Evacuation Brief April 13, 2023

2023-04-13

[AfghanDigest] LAST 24 HOURS CORRECTION: We incorrectly reported the affiliation of the Resistance Force members who were killed in clashes that occurred in the North recently as members of the National Resistance Front. They were in fact members of the Freedom Front. The mistake was made in the 12 April issue of the Daily Evacuation Brief and a correction will be made. The TAD Staff apologizes for this discrepancy. FAMILY MEMBERS OF POPULAR FREEDOM FRONT COMMANDER ROUNDED UP AND DETAINED – GDI agents conducted search operations in Kabul to find family members and associates of Akmal Amir (recently reported to have been killed in either Parwan or Panjshir). His house was reportedly burned to the ground and approximately 70 of his relatives have been arrested. Unconfirmed reports say that some early morning clashes took place between the Taliban and AFF forces in the city but these have yet to be confirmed. There are also rumors circulating that Amir was not killed. The situation remains highly confusing. CHINA ISSUES ITS POSITION PAPER ON AFGHANISTAN – China used the paper to clarify its bilateral relations with Afghanistan. Three of the key engagement points were focused on terrorism and China spelled out specific concerns over the existence of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement in Afghanistan. The document lashed out at the US and urged US leaders to unfreeze Afghanistan’s international holdings while also warning the US against redeploying military assets to the region. A synopsis of the paper can be accessed HERE. MONEYCHANGER MURDERED IN KHOST – Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a moneychanger in his stall at the exchange market in Khost’s capital on Wednesday. The murder prompted a protest by other money changers who accused the Taliban of not doing enough to protect their businesses. Some even accused the Taliban of participating in schemes to force money changers to issue loans to them that are never paid. The Taliban responded by saying they had assisted in a rescue of a kidnapped money changer earlier in the week and that they had arrested 6 men who (they say) were claiming to be Taliban security forces. There were no casualties reported during the protest. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT BUILDING BURNED IN PANJSHIR – The Directorate of Education building caught fire and burned well into the morning in Panjshir. Local eyewitnesses reported gunfire shortly before the fire occurred. There have been attacks against many schools across the country since the Taliban rose to power and notes have been discovered that appear to criticize secular education while praising Madrassas. It is not clear if the incident in Panjshir involved arson at this time. CONFLICT TRACKER Kabul: A blast was reported at approximately 2030hrs local in the Kart-e Naw neighborhood (Police District 8). Shortly after the blast, reports of gunfire were received. There have been unverified reports that an ISIS-K hideout may have been raided by the Taliban. NEXT 24 HOURS PAKISTAN ON ALERT IN KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA – Security forces in the Province have been placed on high alert after receiving intelligence that a suicide bomber (Abdullah Badshah Gul) had entered Kurram and may be planning to conduct a suicide attack against the Shiah community in Parachinar. Security forces are actively searching for the man. At-risk Afghans in the area are advised to avoid Shiah community/religious centers while the threat continues. FOREIGN MINISTER’S MEETING TO CONVENE IN UZBEKISTAN TODAY – Officials from Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Iran, China, Pakistan, and Russia will open the Fourth Foreign Minister’s Dialogue on Afghanistan in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The Taliban have lobbied extensively to be included in the meetings but the regional powers have not allowed them to participate. Security in Samarkand and Tashkent is said to be extremely tight and there were several security alerts issued over possible ETIM or ISIS-K plans to attempt to disrupt the gathering.

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India-Pakistan

Pakistan witnesses 51pc increase in terrorist attacks in a year

2022-10-22

[TheNationPK] 433 people killed, 719 maimed in country since Taliban ...Arabic for students... seized power in Afghanistan last year. The perils of Taliban-led regime in Kabul have become unmistakably clear for Pakistain as the country has witnessed an unbelievable 51 per cent increase in the number of terrorist attacks in a single year since the krazed killer group seized power in Afghanistan in August last year. According to details, as many as 433 people were killed and 719 maimed in 250 terrorist attacks in Pakistain between 15 August 2021 and 14 August 2022. In the corresponding year between 15 August 2020 and 14 August 2021, the country witnessed 165 attacks that killed 294 people and injured 598 others. "The mindless jubilation over Taliban victory is now turning into a rude shock because the evolving security situation under the erratic Taliban rule indicates Pakistain is about to face yet another ordeal viz-aviz terrorism," according to one of the findings. The issue quoting a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... report says that there is no sign that Taliban regime is taking steps to limit the activities of foreign terrorist groups on Afghan soil. The UN report also notes that foreign terrorist groups based in Afghanistan take the Taliban victory as a motivation to disseminate their propaganda in Central and South Asia, and globally. Key terror outfits with active presence in Afghanistan include al-Qaeda, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), and 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in Khorasan (IS-K). So far, the Taliban have acted only against the IS-K because it actively challenges the group. The issue underlines that there is a wave of fear and panic among residents of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) over the reported return of TTP murderous Moslems from Afghanistan in recent months. The publication quoting the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says that more than 300,000 Afghans have fled to Pakistain since the Taliban takeover. The figure confronts Pak authorities’ claim that about 60,000 to 70,000 Afghans have entered Pakistain since then.

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Afghanistan

Michael Rubin: The Taliban Are Planning Their Move On Central Asia

2022-10-03

[19Fortyfive] Throughout the two-decade U.S. war in Afghanistan, the Kremlin played a double game. President Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... Among those whom the Taliban brought to Kabul [on August 20] were Haji Forqan, the leader of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement; Mawlawi Ibrahim, the head of the Ansarullah Jamaat of Tajikistan; Shaikh Zakir, the head of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan; and Abdul Haq Uighuri, the head of the Al Qaeda branch in northern Afghanistan. did not want the United States to win for that would humiliate Russia that, as the Soviet Union, lost a brutal war in Afghanistan. He also did not want the United States to lose, for that could mean the empowerment of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... and the export of its extremism into the former Soviet states of Central Asia. This led to contradictions in which Russia leveraged its influence to expel the United States from Central Asian bases and cultivated the Taliban while simultaneously facilitating logistical routes across Russian territory to keep the American war going. As far as the Russians were concerned, the ideal scenario was for both the United States and Taliban to bleed each other dry into perpetuity.

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China-Japan-Koreas

'Eradicate the tumours': Chinese civilians drive Xinjiang crackdown

2018-04-29

In which the Uighurs get it. A follow up to this report from February. Probably the events described herein are connected to the actions of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) (also known as the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)), a Uighur jihadi group fighting alongside al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan whose heart’s desire is a caliphate back home in Xinjiang, though the article does not mention them. [SinoDaily] The civilian group descended on the village under government instructions to "win the people's hearts", but it also had a darker mission: identifying and punishing threats to the Chinese state. Four months after the Communist Party sent the "work team" to Akeqie Kanle, a fifth of its adult population -- over 100 people -- had disappeared into detention and re-education centres. The team -- comprising staff from a regional university -- was among more than 10,000 such groups that poured into rural Xinjiang last year as part of the government's battle against separatism and "religious extremism" in the region, home to several Muslim ethnic minority groups.

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Afghanistan

Turkistan Islamic Party highlights joint raids with the Afghan Taliban

2018-03-13

[FDD's LongWarJournal] The Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), a largely Uighur jihadist group that is affiliated with al Qaeda, released a new video over the weekend highlighting its joint operations alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. It is unclear where the video was filmed, but the locales featured appear to be in northern Afghanistan. The video, dated for December 2017, primarily highlights the group’s combat operations, with sections dedicated to showing the overrunning of several remote Afghan military outposts in mountainous terrain. TIP and Taliban fighters are shown killing or capturing at least two dozen Afghan troops. Additionally, the two groups seized copious amounts of weapons and ammunition and several US-made Humvee vehicles. In some scenes, the jihadists are seen using captured Humvees in the assaults. The TIP fighters are shown fighting under the Taliban’s flag and appear to be taking battlefield direction from Taliban field commanders. At least one child fighter is shown in the video. In separate scenes, some of the top TIP leaders are seen giving speeches. This includes Abdullah Mansour, who is the global deputy emir of TIP. Some of the video is also dedicated to anti-Chinese propaganda, as the TIP’s ultimate goal is an Islamic state within Xinjiang, China. Several fighters who were killed during battle were also given eulogizes at the end of the video. It is unclear when these fighters were killed. The Turkistan Islamic Party, commonly referred to as the East Turkistan Islamic Movement>East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), is an al Qaeda-linked Uighur jihadist group that operates in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, China, and Syria. In Syria, it played a pivotal role in the capture of Idlib Province in 2015. It has also set up numerous training camps in Idlib for its fighters, as well as for children. Outside of Syria, it has been blamed for several terrorist attacks within China. Additionally, in mid-2016, a suicide bombing occurred in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In its investigation, Kyrgyz authorities placed blame on the TIP’s Syrian branch. The investigation also shed light on a network of Syrian-trained Central Asian militants, which includes members of the TIP. The network appears to use Syria as a launching pad for external attacks. Relations between the TIP and al Qaeda and the Taliban TIP has served as an affiliate of al Qaeda and remains a close ally with the Taliban. TIP fighters have fought alongside the Taliban and other jihadist groups against Coalition and Afghan forces since the US first invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

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Afghanistan

US conduct airstrikes near Tajikistan and China border with Afghanistan

2018-02-08

[Khaama Press] The US Air Force has carried out a series of Arclight airstrikes on Taliban ...Arabic for students... hideouts near the border with Tajikistan and China as efforts are underway to suppress the Taliban-led insurgency across the country as part of the ongoing massive air campaign. Over the past 96 hours, U.S. forces conducted air operations to strike Taliban training facilities in Badakhshan province, preventing the planning and rehearsal of terrorist acts near the border with China and Tajikistan by such organizations as the East Turkistan Islamic Movement and others, according to a report by NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... -led Resolute Support Mission. The strikes also destroyed stolen Afghan National Army vehicles that were in the process of being converted to vehicle-borne improvised bombs. The report further adds that during these strikes, a U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress dropped 24 precision guided munitions on Taliban fighting positions, setting a record of the most guided munitions ever dropped from a B-52. The aircraft has played a leading role in Air Force operations for decades, and was recently reconfigured with a conventional rotary launcher to increase its reach and lethality. Continued U.S. strikes disrupt Taliban support networks in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province, as well as destroy their sources of revenue such as illegal narcotics, the report adds. According to the Resoute Support, ongoing strikes in Helmand continue to degrade Taliban revenue sources and safe havens. U.S. strikes and ASSF raids have resulted in the removal of more than $30 million of Taliban revenue since the campaign began in November, 2017. "The Taliban have nowhere to hide," said General John Nicholson, commander, USFOR-A. "There will be no safe haven for any terrorist group bent on bringing harm and destruction to this country."

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Afghanistan

US launches airstrikes on Taliban training camps

2018-02-07

[LWJ] The US military launched a series of airstrikes on Taliban training camps located in Afghanistan’s remote northeastern province of Badakhshan, which borders Tajikistan. The camps were used by the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) and other terrorist groups. “Over the past 96 hours, US forces conducted air operations to strike Taliban training facilities in Badakhshan province, preventing the planning and rehearsal of terrorist acts near the border with China and Tajikistan by such organizations as the East Turkistan Islamic Movement and others,” Resolute Support announced in a press release. According to Resolute Support, the airstrikes also “destroyed stolen Afghan National Army vehicles that were in the process of being converted to vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices.” The secondaries must have been glorious. The strike took place in the district of Warduj, a US military officer told The Washington Post. FDD’s Long War Journal has assessed Warduj to be under Taliban control. The district has changed hands several times over the past 4 years. The presence of camps in the district is further evidence that the Taliban controls the district. Badakhshan, once a peaceful province, has become a Taliban hotbed since the US withdrew the bulk of its forces after the troop surge ended in 2012. Of Badakhshan’s 28 districts, LWJ assesses three to be Taliban controlled and another nine to be contested. Another of President Obama’s achievements about to be erased by his successor, one hopes. The East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which is also known as the East Turkistan Islamic Party, is an al Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group based in Afghanistan and Pakistan and operates throughout Central Asia. ETIM’s emir has served on al Qaeda’s shura, and it has operated a training camp that was sponsored by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. After the Taliban lost control of Afghanistan in 2001, the ETIM established training camps in Pakistan. ETIM fighters have fought alongside the Taliban and other jihadist groups against Coalition and Afghan forces since the US first invaded Afghanistan in 2001. The US has previously targeted ETIM leaders inside Pakistan in its drone campaign. In Aug. 2010, the US thought it killed Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the emir of the ETIM, in a drone strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan. Turkistani later re-emerged in a video in 2015, and said he was severely wounded in the 2010 drone strike. Abdul Haq issued another in 2016 that took al Qaeda’s side in its dispute with the Islamic State. The US was also thought to have killed Emeti Yakuf (a.k.a. Abdul Shakoor Turkistani), in a drone strike in Pakistan in Aug. 2012. Yakuf took control of the ETIM as Turkistani was recovering from his injuries, and also took control of al Qaeda’s network in Pakistan’s tribal areas in 2010.

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India-Pakistan

Aziz says it’s simplistic to blame one country for violence

2016-12-05

[DAWN] The Heart of Asia conference concluded in Amritsar on Sunday on an unhappy note for Pakistain, which was criticised roundly as a base for myrmidon groups whom the conference statement described as a big threat to peace and security in the region. The statement named Lashkar-e-Taiba ...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI... , Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Haqqani group as posing threats to region together with other groups fomenting terrorism in the neighbourhood and beyond. Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj PrunefaceAziz ...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy... countered the claim, calling the criticism ’simplistic’. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... there was relief for Pakistain as the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain too came up for criticism together with Jundullah. Pakistain was also applauded for hosting Afghan refugees for three decades. Mr Aziz also found occasion to briefly exchange pleasantries with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a meeting with a clutch of other foreign ministers. "We remain concerned by the gravity of the security situation in Afghanistan in particular and the region and the high level of violence caused by the Taliban, terrorist groups, including ISIS/DAISH and its affiliates, the Haqqani network, Al Qaeda, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, East Turkistan Islamic Movement, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad ...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat... , TTP, Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... , Jundullah and other foreign terrorist fighters," the statement said. Acknowledging the support that terrorism derives in the region, the statement demanded an immediate end to all forms of terrorism, as well as all support to it, including financing of terrorism. "We recognise that terrorism is the biggest threat to peace, stability and cooperation in our region. We encourage the international community to continue to assist the government of Afghanistan." Mr Aziz said his attending the Amritsar meet despite ’escalation’ along the Line of Control was testimony to Pakistain’s ’unflinching’ commitment for lasting peace in Afghanistan.

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China-Japan-Koreas

China, Afghanistan agree to crackdown on Xinjiang militants

2014-10-30

China and Afghanistan have agreed to step up the crackdown on Uighur militant training camps in Xinjiang province, as China eyed major investments in the Afghanistan's rich mineral and oil sectors. Official media has reported that leaders of the two countries reached a "new important consensus" to combat the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), an Uighur separatist organization demanding independence for Xinjiang, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Afghanistan's President Ghani, who arrived here yesterday on his first official visit abroad, held talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and top security officials. Chinese Foreign Ministry official Kong Xuanyou said, "President Ghani said that the new Afghan government will firmly support China to fight the ETIM. The two sides reached a new important consensus on joint efforts in that regard." Ghani told Xi that "Afghanistan will not allow any activities that threaten China's (security) on Afghan territory." ETIM, an Al Qaeda linked group is reported to have training camps in Pakistan's tribal areas as well as in Afghanistan. Several ETIM members were reportedly killed in air raids conducted by Pakistan recently. China has stepped up their border vigil both in Kashgar, the town connecting PoK and the narrow corridor connecting Afghanistan.

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China-Japan-Koreas

23 Terror, Religious Extremism Groups Busted In Xinjiang

2014-05-27

In which China formally enters the War on Terror. [Xinhua] Police in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regions have busted 23 terror and religious extremism groups and caught over 200 suspects in May, according to the regional public security department on Sunday. The groups were busted by police in south Xinjiang's Hotan, Kashgar and Aksu prefectures, where the majority of the population are Moslem Uygurs, according to the department. More than 200 bombs were also seized in the police raids. Many of the suspects were in their 20s and 30s, who watched terror video and audio through the Internet and electric storages and learned how to make explosives. They exchanged their experiences of making explosives and propagating Jihad through chatting tools, text messages and illegal preaching sites, according to the department. Xinjiang started a one-year campaign against terrorist violence on Friday. The campaign will last until June 2015 with Xinjiang as the major battleground. In 2013, the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), listed by the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... Security Council as a terrorist group, produced 107 terror video and audio episodes, some of which were spread to China, according to Nuriman Rozi, a police brass hat with the regional public security department. Many of the terror suspects seized in recent years were instigated by those terror video and audio products to carry out terrorist activities, he said. Xinjiang started a one-year campaign against terrorist violence on Friday. The campaign will last until June 2015 with Xinjiang as the major battleground. The region saw its bloodiest day in five years on Thursday when 39 innocent people were killed in a terrorist attack. The campaign will focus on bully boyz and religious murderous Moslem groups, gun and explosive manufacturing dens and terrorist training camps. Legal, procuratorate and public security authorities in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region issued a joint statement on Saturday, calling for law-breakers who are involved in terrorist activities to surrender to get lenient punishments. The statement forbids people to organize, lead or join any terrorist groups. It bans people from implementing or instigating terrorist violence. It also prohibits people from directly or indirectly funding, supporting or harbouring terrorist activities, terrorist organizations and terrorists. The statement also bans people from manufacturing, trading, transporting, publicizing, copying and holding propaganda materials or electric storages with terrorist violence and religious extremism contents. Manufacturing, trading, transporting, storing and holding guns, ammunitions, flammable and combustible materials as well as knives under strict control are also prohibited.

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China-Japan-Koreas

China starts int'l hunt for train station attacker

2014-05-20

[Dhaka Tribune] China has said Monday it had started an international manhunt for the alleged criminal mastermind behind an attack at a train station last month blamed on Death Eaters from the Mohammedan Turkic Uighur ethnic group. The official China Daily newspaper and other state media said a request had been submitted to Interpol for the arrest of Ismail Yusup and an unspecified number of associates, reported AP. The report said that Yusup was a member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement and organised the April 30 attack in the capital of the northwestern Xinjiang region that killed three people and injured 79 others. Beijing says an organised militancy with elements based overseas is behind a rising number of terrorist attacks in the country. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... little evidence has been provided to back up the claim and many analysts doubt such an organization exists in a form that would enable it to organise attacks. China had previously said the attack, in which explosives and knives were used, was carried out by two religious Death Eaters who were killed in the blast. East Turkistan is the name used for Xinjiang by some members of the region's native Uighur (pronounced WEE'-gur) ethnic group, Death Eaters among which have been fighting for years a low-intensity insurgency against Chinese rule. The US initially placed the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, known as ETIM, on a terrorist watch list following the September 11, 2001, attacks, but later quietly removed it amid doubts that it existed in any organised manner. It is still listed as a terrorist group by the United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... , over which China has considerable sway as one of five permanent veto-holding members of the Security Council. China Daily and other state media outlets said Yusup ordered 10 "partners" in Xinjiang to prepare for the attack in the city of Urumqi about a week before it happened. The 10 set off explosives and slashed people with knives at the station exit on the evening of April 30, the reports said. Two of the members were killed in the kaboom and the remaining eight were captured by police, it said. The Xinjiang Daily newspaper said Yusup formed an hard boy group in 2005 and began conspiring with members of ETIM in 2012. It said he formally joined the group last year when he fled China after a warrant was issued for his arrest. The reports didn't say where Yusup was hiding or give other details about his identity. However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... a number of Uighur Death Eaters are believed to be living in Pakistain's northwest alongside Islamic Death Eaters linked to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

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China-Japan-Koreas

China places six Uighurs on ‘terror’ list

2012-04-07

BEIJING: China placed six men from the Uighur ethnic minority on a “terror” list, accusing them of involvement in terrorist training camps and of inciting attacks in the country’s restive western Xinjiang region. China’s Ministry of Public Security said the men, whose names identify them as Uighurs, were members of the outlawed East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), blaming one for orchestrating violent attacks in the city of Kashgar last July. Chinese authorities have accused the ETIM, which wants an independent homeland for Xinjiang’s Uighurs, of orchestrating attacks in the region on many occasions. They also gave rare details of what they says are links between the militant groups and neighbouring countries, as it unveiled a list of six wanted suspects. The Ministry of Public Security published the names of the suspects, all apparently ethnic Uighurs, on its website late on Thursday, along with their photographs and an outline of their alleged crimes. All six had spent time in what the ministry called Pakistain “a certain south Asian country” where they were trained to carry out terror attacks and incited militants in China to carry out suicide bombings and knife attacks. The public security ministry on Thursday said in a statement that it had frozen the funds and assets of the six men, whose whereabouts are not known. China has blamed incidents of violence in Xinjiang, home to the Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighur people, on religious separatists who want to establish an independent state of East Turkestan.

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