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Afghanistan

Six TTP terrorists including prominent commander killed in Afghanistan IED blast

2023-03-05

[SamaaEnglish] At least six bandidos Death Eaters of Tehrik-e-Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... (TTP) including an important commander were killed and 15 others were maimed in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... of Afghanistan. The attack comes a week after a senior Pak delegation had visited Afghanistan’s capital for talks with Taliban officials. Pak Defence Minister Khwaja Asif was joined on Wednesday by other brass hats — including Lieutenant General Nadeem Anjum, the director general of Pakistain’s Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... agency, or ISI — in their meeting with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Afghanistan acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs, in Kabul. The identities of the slain commanders were revealed to be Abdul Manan, Alam Khan Mudakhel, Kajir, and three others unidentified. Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... among the injured were named as Commander Fazl Amin, Commander Muhammad alias Tofan, Commander Noor Payo Khan, Faqirullah, Turzai, Sat Kare, Ali Sir Khan, Zubair, Hijratullah, Kamal, Sher Afzal, Bakhtullah, Zubihullah, and two unknown terrorists. The incidents have also been seen as a clear sign of increasing intelligence ingress within the TTP, according to sources. Sources said that lower-level TTP bandidos Death Eaters have expressed suspicion about the big shotship of the group. In a separate incident, Makram Harasani, the in-charge of TTP’s Umar Media Group, was maimed, according to sources.

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Afghanistan

Commanders among six TTP terrorists killed in IED attack

2023-03-03

[GEO.TV] At least six bully boyz including commanders were killed and 15 others maimed Thursday in an improvised bomb (IED) attack targetting the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) in Afghanistan’s Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... Betcha they were key commanders too! According to sources, the killed forces of Evil were identified as Abdul Manan, Alam Khan Mudakhel, Kajeer while three dead forces of Evil remain unnamed. Among the injured bully boyz are commander Fazl Amin, commander Muhammad alias Toofan, commander Noor Payo Khan, Faqirullah, Tarozai, Sat Kai, Ali Sur Khan, Zubair, Hijratullah, Kamal, Sher Afzal, Bakhtullah, Zubihullah, and two others. No group or country has grabbed credit for the attack. It must be noted that the TTP pledges allegiance to the Afghan Taliban but is not directly a part of the group that rules in Kabul. On Monday, Taliban forces killed a top ISIS commander who allegedly planned attacks against diplomatic missions in Afghanistan’s capital, a government official said. The Afghan affiliate of ISIS, known as ISIS Khorasan, after an old name of the region, are enemies of the Taliban. Fighters loyal to ISIS first appeared in eastern Afghanistan in 2014, and later made inroads in other areas. Violence in Afghanistan dramatically dipped after the Taliban seized power in August 2021. But in the past year, security has worsened, with a spate of mass casualty attacks claimed by ISIS’s regional chapter. Taliban forces killed Qari Fateh, the regional ISIS "intelligence and operations chief," during an operation on Sunday night, the Taliban government front man Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement. Fateh "directly criminal masterminded recent operations in Kabul, including against diplomatic missions, mosques, and other targets," Mujahid said. One other ISIS member was killed in the operation against the cell, which was based in Kabul’s Khair Khana area, according to the statement. After Western forces left Afghanistan in August 2021, Pakistain sought a truce with the TTP, resulting in a months-long ceasefire and negotiations brokered by the Afghan Taliban. As part of the effort, many forces of Evil from Afghanistan were resettled in Pakistain. The TTP ended the ceasefire in November 2022, and regrouped forces of Evil restarted attacks in Pakistain soon after. Pakistain’s military effectively dismantled the TTP and killed most of its top leadership in a string of operations from 2014 onwards, driving most of the fighters into Afghanistan, where they regrouped. On January 31, a jacket wallah went kaboom! inside a crowded mosque in a highly fortified security compound in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... Police Lines area, killing over 80 people, in the latest in a string of attacks targeting police. The responsibility was taken by outlawed TTP.

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India-Pakistan

More details on North Wazoo Waziristan fighting

2006-03-02

Forty people were killed and 30 others, including women and children, were wounded when helicopter gunships struck a suspected militants’ compound in a village in North Waziristan on Wednesday morning, officials and residents said. The attack triggered a strong reaction in Miramshah where hundreds of pious seminary students with automatic weapons besieged several checkposts of paramilitary forces. Pitched battles between locals and security forces continued for hours. North Waziristan Agency’s political agent Zaheerul Islam claimed that most of the people killed in the attack on the Dandy Saidgay village, about 15km from Miramshah, belonged to Central Asia. A security official said that a Chechen commander was also hit from a helicopter, when he tried to escape in a red double-cabin pick-up. His (Chechen’s) name could not be ascertained, he added. "Ford F-150 Club Cab don't fail me now!" “Two guards of the Chechen commander were killed on the spot, while he died a couple of hours later,” said a military source in Peshawar. Officials said one soldier was killed and 15 others were wounded in the assault carried out in the area along the Afghan border. About 12 helicopters, including six gunships, and commandos from the army’s Special Services Group took part in the operation that started at around 7am. Witnesses said that while residential compounds were hit by combat helicopters, ground troops moved in for conducting a search operation, prompting a gunbattle with tribesmen. A wounded person, Shabir Khan, under treatment at a hospital in Miramshah, said he saw helicopters shelling houses in the area. Shabir, student of a local college, said he was travelling with a female relative across the rugged area when their vehicle was attacked by a helicopter. The woman died on the spot, while he and his driver suffered injuries, Shabir said. Sources said that two children of Noor Payo Khan, the alleged protector of foreign militants, were among the dead. Thirteen civilians, including women, were wounded in the airstrike. Official sources said that army troops backed by helicopters attacked the suspected compound owned by Noor Payo Khan, in the middle of a cluster of houses in Dandy Saidgay. “Certainly, the compound was used as a hideout by foreign militants, but it was completely empty at the time of the attack. Nobody was there,” said a resident. "We knocked on the door, and the voice inside said no one was home." Protesting against the attack, hundreds of madressah students, known as the local Taliban, thronged the town and besieged several paramilitary checkposts. Witnesses said the protesters, many of them armed, captured 12 soldiers and took away their arms. However, the soldiers were later freed. Since they were all related. The seminary students smashed government offices and attacked soldiers, prompting a heavy gunfight between the security forces and locals. Helicopter gunships were called in. People fired at helicopters when they started shelling houses. The house of a tribesman, Janan Khan, and a clinic came under attack in the Dandy Derpakhel area. A witness said that the body of an unidentified man was found on the Sergardan Chowk. Locals said that about 1,000 students of local seminaries later paraded the streets, chanting slogans against the US and calling for jihad. Local cleric Maulvi Abdul Haq led the march. Maulvi Haq called for jihad prompting people to take up positions on various buildings. A helicopter engaged the armed men on rooftops and fired several rounds. It attracted some fire from the protesters. The locals said that the gunfire lasted three hours. Sources said that a large number of Taliban had gathered in a mosque to devise a future line of action. Of course the Paks couldn't hit a mosque, nope, nope, couldn't be done. Army spokesman Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan said the raid followed intelligence that there was a big gathering of foreign militants in the compound, housing eight residential quarters. Mr Zaheerul Islam said the militants were targeted following information that they were carrying out attacks across the Afghan border. “We have reports up to 40 militants, mainly foreigners, were killed in the raid on the compound where there was a big gathering of foreign militants,” a security official told AFP. A local official identified the suspected Chechen commander as Imam. “It was an Al Qaeda camp and a training centre,” an official said seeking anonymity.

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