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India-Pakistan

NSC agrees ramping up operation against terrorists

2023-04-09

[The Nation (Pak)] The National Security Committee (NSC) — the country's top security body comprising civil and military leadership — decided on Friday to "speed up" the operation against terrorists.

The two-hour long NSC meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. According to sources, the meeting was attended by Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir, chairman joint chiefs of staff committee (CJCSC), heads of armed forces, federal ministers for defence, finance and information and senior military leadership.

According to sources, Director General of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum gave a detailed briefing on the ongoing operations against terrorism and the security situation of the country.

Officials, privy to the meeting and who spoke to Geo News on the condition of anonymity, stated that NSC reiterated that the zero-tolerance policy against Lions of Islam would continue.

Sources shared, that in two-hour long meeting, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar also briefed the NSC on the economic situation of the country.

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Afghanistan

Afghan forces intercept Taliban fighters, find Jaish terrorists training for Kashmir

2020-04-17

[hindustantimes] A chance discovery of global terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed cadres in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province on Monday night has confirmed the assessment of Indian intelligence agencies that Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence had resumed training a select groups of terrorists for Kashmir in war-torn Afghanistan,

...hinterlands should be used for hinterlandish activities...

people familiar with the development told Hindustan Times.
Tip from Indian Intel?
The Afghan forces had carried out a raid in Nangarhar’s Muhmand Dara

...alternately Mohmand Dara...

at what was presumed to be a Taliban camp that led to a bloody gunfight. At the end of the clash that cost the Afghan security forces four lives on April 13-14 night, the security personnel discovered that only 5 of the 15 men they had killed were from the Afghan Taliban. The other 10 were Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists being trained to fight in Jammu and Kashmir.

One Jaish terrorist survived the gunfight and was captured.

“Bring out the torture instruments, a barrel of mustache wax, a pot of tea and a plate of cookies, Mahmudullah. Somebody’s mustache is going to be thoroughly waxed tonight!”

Counter-terror operatives in Delhi and Kabul told HT that the Masood Azhar-founded Jaish-e-Mohammed, which shares the same Deobandi umbilical cord with Taliban, appeared to be running three camps (called Mustaquil) along with four Taliban camps in Nangarhar province. The camps have been identified as Khogyani I, Khogyani II and Dargah camp in Nangarhar province and were lent by the Taliban in lieu of Haqqani network’s cadre being trained in JeM’s camps in Pakistan.

Hindustan Times has accessed photographs and video footage of the clash. One of these photographs shows some of the weapons seized by the Afghan security forces from the camp: 2 mortar launchers, one rocket-propelled grenade and 2 AK series rifles.

Maulana Masood Azhar, who has been on India’s most wanted list for years, is incapacitated due to health issues and lives in the terror group’s headquarters, Markaz-e-Usman-o-Ali in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur.

His younger brother Mufti Rauf Asghar is the man running the Jaish ‘s terror show.

Intelligence reports indicate that the Jaish’s de facto chief Mufti Rauf Asghar’s son Wali Azhar is also being trained in these camps that are headed by former Afghan war and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen veteran Mufti Asghar Kashmiri. His second-in-command at these camps is the Jaish’s Kashmir infiltration specialist Abdullah aka Asadullah.

“We have photographic evidence that places Kashmiri and Abdullah at the terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir,” one official told HT.

According to information shared with India’s security planners, Pakistan-occupied Kashmir residents Yasin, Umar, Said and Mansoor along with Bahawalpur-based chief trainer Chacha Wagah, Junaid and Qari Sahab were present in the camp along with Kashmiri and Abdullah as late as March 29.

The total strength of Khogyani I camp is 23 cadres and seven instructors, while the number of cadres in Khogyani II and Dargah camps number 66 excluding trainers and logistics staff.

The radicalised cadre are being given a 15-day normal training after which they have to clear the six-month “Jundullah (commando)” training course before being launched into J&K. These cadres are also being given jungle survival training in Kunar reserve near Nuristan border.

Miniature replicas of the areas around their launch pads at Neelum, Sharda, Kel, Athmuqam, Leepa, Kotli and Forward Kahuta across the Line of Control (LOC) have been created for briefing them about infiltration into J&K.

Already, intelligence agencies have reported that the Pakistan terror groups had prepped to send about 230 terrorists across the Line of Control.

Indian national security planners are also watching with some anxiety the emerging big picture in Afghanistan with the US on the verge of withdrawal and Taliban all set to fight it out with the Ashraf Ghani regime for the seat in Kabul.

It is quite evident that once the Taliban gain control of Kabul, Pakistan would acquire strategic depth through Afghanistan and use the soil to launch terror strikes against India, a counter-terror operative in Delhi said.

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Afghanistan

Afghan officials get 20 years for handing secrets to Pakistan

2018-10-11

[Al Ahram] Two Afghan military officials were locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for 20 years after a two-year trial for sharing state secrets with Pakistain, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.

The sentence highlights a long-standing belief between Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistain that the other country does not adequately prevent cross-border myrmidon attacks.

Shah Mohammad and Nazirullah were placed in durance vile
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
in 2016 after travelling to Pakistain to hand over information to Pakistain's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. They pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
but eventually "confessed to their crime" before the military court in the eastern city of Jalalabad, officials said.

"Each of them has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by the primary court," said Najiburrahman Nadim, a military prosecutor.

Nadim said the accused had shared secret information about attacks and kabooms.

Afghanistan’s Western-backed government has long accused Pakistain of harbouring Afghan Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
krazed killers, a charge that Islamabad denies.

Islamabad, in turn, accuses Afghanistan of not doing enough to eradicate Pak Talibs, many of whom are based in Afghanistan and mostly carry out attacks inside Pakistain.

A defence lawyer representing the two army officials rejected the court's verdict, which was delivered on Tuesday.

"My clients were beaten during the investigations and they were forced to confess. We don't accept the decision and we will appeal," said Toryalai Muqanen.

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Afghanistan

Jalaluddin Haqqani’s death not to affect the activities of the network: Nabil

2018-09-05

[KhaamaPress] The former Afghan Intelligence Chief Rahmatullah Nabil says the death of the Haqqani network founder Jalaluddin Haqqani

...founder and ~~still~~ late titular head of the Haqqani Network. Jalaluddin is old and tough and very crafty, one of the few Pashtun warlords who was worth spit...
will not affect the activities of the network.

In an online statement posted in his Twitter account, Nabil said some of the other leaders of the terror network, including Sirajuddin Haqqani

...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
, Khalil Haqqani, Hamza Haqqani, Yahya Haqqani, Aziz, and some others have been fully trained as the brutal successor of Jalaluddin Haqqani.

Nabil also claimed that Jalaluddin Haqqani has died long ago and disclosure of his death likely has direct links with the scheduled visit of the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group issued a statement earlier today confirming that the founder of the network has died due to the illness he was suffering from during the recent years.
Jalaluddin was approximately 182 years old, give or take a couple dozen.
Haqqani network was formed in the late 1970s by Jalaluddin Haqqani. The group is allied with al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and cooperates with other terrorist organizations in the region.

The network is accused of staging numerous cross-border attacks from their base in North Wazoo, including the 19-hour siege at the US Embassy in Kabul in September 2011.

It is considered the most lethal krazed killer group targeting the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
-led coalition security forces and Afghan personnel in Afghanistan.

The US Department of State designated the HQN as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on September 7, 2012.

An Nahar adds:

Jalaluddin, thought to be in his 70s or 80s, had been bedridden for years and had already passed the leadership to his son Sirajuddin, who is also the Taliban's deputy leader.

Unverified reports have placed him in Pakistan in recent years.

There had been rumours of his death before, in 2008 and 2015, though this was the first time the Taliban have issued a statement on it.

The Haqqanis, suspected of links to Pakistan's shadowy military establishment, were described by US Admiral Mike Mullen in 2011 as a "veritable arm" of Pakistani intelligence.

Jalaluddin's son Sirajuddin was running the network "with major ISI involvement", a foreign diplomat in Kabul told AFP, referring to Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence.

Designated a terrorist group by the US, the Haqqanis are known for their heavy use of suicide bombers, indiscriminately killing Afghan civilians and security forces.

They were blamed for the devastating truck bomb in the heart of Kabul in May 2017 that killed around 150 people -- though Sirajuddin later denied involvement in a rare audio message.

The network has also been accused of assassinating top Afghan officials and holding kidnapped Westerners for ransom.

In Kabul, the group is widely believed to have been behind many of the recent attacks on the capital that were claimed by the local wing of the Islamic State group.

Some analysts believe it works with IS -- which at the same time is involved in a bloody turf war with the Taliban -- to avoid blame and political blowback.

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India-Pakistan

Pakistan bars Hafiz Saeed group from forming political party

2018-06-14

[PRESSTV] A Pak group linked to the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks has been denied permission to register as a political party ahead of general elections scheduled to be held on July 25.

"The Election Commission of Pakistain today rejected the registration request by the Milli Moslem League as a political party," Altaf Ahmad, front man for the Election Commission of Pakistain (ECP), said on Wednesday.

Ahmad said a detailed order would be issued later stating the reasons for the commission's decision.

The MML was launched last August to contest the July elections. It was founded by Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD) charity, a wing of the hard boy group 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...
(LeT).

The LeT is believed to have orchestrated the attacks in the Indian city in 2008, where over 160 people were killed.

Earlier this year, the United States added the MML along with Tehrik-e-Azadi-e-Kashmire (TAJK) to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTO), reasoning that both were fronts for the banned outfit.

The United States offers the huge bounty in return for information that could lead to the conviction of 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...
, who heads the JuD. Washington says the JuD is a front for the LeT.

Much to the dismay of the United States and India, Pak officials have rejected calls for leveling charges against Saeed over the past years.

Consumed by years of unsuccessful anti-militant drive, Pakistain, sources say, has a general plan to de-radicalize hard boy-linked organizations and integrate them by bringing them into politics.

The ECP announcement on the MML would be a serious blow to such efforts that are believed to be led by the Pak military’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency.

Saeed was sent to his room in January 2017 after years of living freely in Pakistain, but a court ordered his release in November 2017.

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Afghanistan

Ismatullah Muavia sending terrorists to Afghanistan and Kashmir: Nabil

2018-06-05

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former General Director of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS), Rahmatullah Nabil, claims that the Ismatullah Mauvia, is sending terrorist to Afghanistan and Kashmir to wage war under the guise of Jihad besides hatching plots to assassinate the leaders of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement.

Nabil issued a statement on his official Twitter account, claiming that Muavia has returned to North Waziristan to resume his terrorist related operations.

“Ismatullah Muavia is leading a terrorist group, was based in NorthWaziristan & during the ZarbeAzab oper’s has moved by MI/ISI to Vehari District Punjab. He is moved back to Waziristain& sending terrorist to AFG & Kashmir & planning assassination of PTM leaders & call it Jihad!,” Nabil said.

This comes as Nabil released classified documents to confirm the allegation regarding the support of Pakistan to the Afghan militant groups, specifically the notorious Haqqani terrorist network.

The six documents released by Nabil in mid-July included formal letters by Pakistani military and the military intelligence of the country, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

Nabil had said the Haqqani network not only remained intact from Zarb-e-Azb operations but the Pakistani military shifted the network’s fighters, families, weapons and other equipment to safe places.

He also added that the Afghan and American intelligence agencies were undoubtedly aware of the move and National Directorate of Security has hundreds of classified documents of the Pakistani military regarding its support to Afghan militants.

In the meantime, the Pakistani military officials admitted that some residuals of the notorious Haqqani terrorist network still remain in Pakistan as the Afghan and US officials emphasize that the terror group’s leadership councils are based in the key cities of Pakistan, including Quetta city.

Addressing accusations of harbouring the Haqqani network on the Pakistan side, the Pakistani Military spokesman Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor conceded today that some residual strength may still remain in Pakistan, according to Dawn News.

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India-Pakistan

'Missing' PIA plane: Senate body recommends extradition of airlines' former CEO from Germany

2018-02-15

[DAWN] A Senate special committee on Wednesday asked the Foreign Office (FO) to approach the German Embassy in Islamabad to extradite Pakistain International Airlines' (PIA) former CEO Bernd Hildenbrand for his alleged involvement in the unauthorised renting and subsequent sale of an Airbus-310 belonging to the national carrier last year.

Hildenbrand and retired Air Commodore Imran Akhtar (brother of former director general of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Rizwan Akhtar) are under investigation in Pakistain ‐ the former for reportedly having flown the said Airbus to Germany and the latter for selling the same for the price of scrap in Germany.

A German national, Hildenbrand had his name on the Exit Control List but was still allowed to leave the country for a month in June 2017 on the intercession of the German Embassy.

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India-Pakistan

US want military presence from Pakistan in Afghanistan, claims ex-ISI chief

2017-10-29

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former chief of the military intelligence of Pakistain, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Asad Durrani has claimed that the United States wants military in Afghanistan from Pakistain.

In an interview with the Russia Today, US wants Pakistain to establish and maintain a military presence in Afghanistan but will not pay for the cost of such an expedition.

Durrani went on to claim that there has been no change in the new US policy, apparently guestuirng that Washington was supposed to prioritize peace and stability in the country and region rather than opting military presence.

"Essentially the policy remains the same and that is you have to dig in Afghanistan, stay there, keep the bases, keep the military presence. That is more important than either peace there or settlement there," he added.

He aso ruled out that Pakistain is dependent to America as he was gesturing towards the recent US decisions to reduce military help to Pakistain.

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India-Pakistan

Pakistani military admits links between ISI and militant groups

2017-10-07

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Pak military has admitted that the military intelligence of the country, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), has links with the murderous Moslem groups.

A front man for the Pak military, Gen. Asif Ghafoor, told news hounds on Thursday that the intelligence agencies have contacts with the murderous Moslem groups, being part of the duties of such agencies.

"Please understand, ’having links’, and ’supporting’ [gangs] are two different things," he said.

Gen. Asif further added "Name an intelligence agency of any country that does not have links [to gangs]. Everyone does. If you have the links to finish the threat, then that is a positive contribution."

This is the first time the Pak military has publicly admitted the links between its military agency and the murderous Moslem groups.

The Afghan and US officials are saying that the conflict in the country has links with the sanctuaries of the terrorist groups, particularly the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and Haqqani network

which have remained intact in the key cities of Pakistain.

Speaking to the US politicians in the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Gen. Dunford said "It is clear to that ISI has connections with the terrorist groups," Gen. Dunford said.

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India-Pakistan

Pakistan rejects Gen. Dunford’s remarks about ISI connections with terror groups

2017-10-07

[Khaama (Afghanistan)]

Islamabad on Thursday rejected the remarks by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US military regarding the connections between Pakistain’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the terrorist groups.

A front man for the ministry of foreign affairs of Pakistain Nafis Zakaria told news hounds "We have time and again rejected these allegations. Pakistain has done enough to erase the footprint of terrorism from its soil through indiscriminate counter terrorism operations against all terrorist outfits."

Zakaria further added that "Our counter-terrorism operations were without any discrimination and we have successfully erased the footprint of faceless myrmidons from our soil. There are no safe-havens in Pakistain."

He also claimed that the sanctuaries people are talking about are "located in the ungoverned spaces of Afghanistan."

Speaking to the US politicians in the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Gen. Dunford said "It is clear to that ISI has connections with the terrorist groups," Gen. Dunford said.

This comes as the Afghan and US officials are saying that the conflict in the country has links with the sanctuaries of the terrorist groups, particularly the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and Haqqani network

which have remained intact in the key cities of Pakistain.

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India-Pakistan

Trump ready for whatever steps necessary regarding Pakistan: Mattis

2017-10-05

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has warned that President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
is prepared to take whatever actions are necessary if Washington’s efforts fail to work with Pakistain in Afghanistan.

Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Mattis said Washington considers to try one more time to work with Pakistain.

He said "We need to try one more time to make this strategy work with them, by, with and through the Paks, and if our best efforts fail, the president is prepared to take whatever steps are necessary."

Relations and ties between Islamabad and Washington have deteriorated since President Trump announced the new US strategy for South Asia and strongly criticized Pakistain for sheltering the terrorist groups.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States General Joseph Dunford has confirmed that the military intelligence of Pakistain’s military, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), has connections with the terror group.

"It is clear to that ISI has connections with the terrorist groups," Gen. Dunford said.

The Afghan and US officials are saying that the conflict in the country has links with the sanctuaries of the terrorist groups, particularly the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and Haqqani network

which have remained intact in the key cities of Pakistain.

However,
the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything...
Islamabad has repeatedly rejected the allegations although in some stances the country’s bigwigs have admitted the presence of some of the notorious terrorist networks and leaders, including Haqqani network.

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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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