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India-Pakistan

NIA Crackdown In Kashmir Continues: Properties Of JeM, Hizbul Terrorists Attached

2023-05-12

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in a major operation has intensified its crackdown in Kashmir
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....
by attaching the properties of three accused persons who are linked with terror-organizations sponsored by Pakistain.

Stepping up its vigil on terror outfits and their affiliates, the NIA conducted raids on the properties of overground workers across various locations.

On Wednesday, the NIA attached the immovable properties of three accused in two different cases. The cases pertained to the Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
and 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...
In the first case, the NIA attached the immovable properties of Doulat Ali Mugal and Ishaq Pala, in Herman Shopian.

While Ishaq Pala, currently lodged in Central Jail Agra, was a terrorist of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) / al-Badr terrorist organization, Doulat Ali Mugal was an overground worker of the proscribed Hizbul Mujahideen. He is currently out on bail.

Pala while in Central Jail Srinagar, had conspired with his co-accused, including Riyaz Naikoo and Doulat Ali Mugal, and assisted Danish Ghulam Lone and Suhail Ahmad Bhat to cross the border from Kupwara Sector to join terror ranks and wage a war against the state. Accused Doulat Ali Mugal had provided logistic support to accused Danish Ghulam Lone and Suhail Ahmad Bhat at Kupwara when both were about to cross the Line of Control or LoC, the NIA said.

The properties attached on orders of NIA Special Court, include land measuring 5.5 Marla and 3.5 Marla under survey Nos.1597 Min and 1598 Min, including one double storey house of accused Doulat Ali Mugal located at Village Manigah Kupwara, and Immoveable property in the form of two rooms under the ownership of accused Ishaq Pala at village Allora, Tehsil Herman, Shopian, the NIA said.

The probe was launched in 2018, following which a module of the Hizbul Mujahideen was busted. The others who were charged included Danish Ghulam Lone, Suhail Ahmad Bhat and Feeroz Ahmad Lone. Another co-conspirator, Reyaz Ahmad Naikoo was killed by the security forces in an encounter.

In the second case, the NIA attached the property of Fayaz Ahmad Magray, who is an associate of the Jaish-e-Mohammad. He is currently lodged in jail. The property seized, included six shops constructed on land measuring 5.5 Marlas under survey No. 2664 Min at Lethpora, Pulwama, belonging to the accused.

Fayaz was charged in 2018 for conspiring with other accused which led to the suicide kaboom on the CRPF group centre in Pulwama. He had carried out a recce of the CRPF centre and also provided logistic support to Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists, the NIA noted.

During the attack two faceless myrmidons Fardeen Ahmad Khandey and Manzoor Ahmad Baba, along with one Pak Abdul Shakoor were killed inside the CRPF camp, the NIA also said.

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Afghanistan

8 Security Force Members Killed in Balkh Clashes: Police

2021-03-08

[ToloNews] Eight security force members were killed and six more were maimed in an attack by the Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
in Nahr-e-Shahi district in Balkh province on Saturday night, the provincial police said.

The police said that five Taliban were also killed and seven more were maimed in the fighting.

"The Taliban launched a big attack. Last night, the cloudy weather affected our air support. This caused the casualties," Balkh police front man Adil Shah Adil said.

Some relatives of the soldiers claimed that the casualty rate is higher than that stated by local officials.

"The base was under siege. They did not have weapons. They fought with one Kalashnikov rifle until all were martyred. Even rockets. The police chief knows this," said the brother of Adam Khan, an army officer who was killed in the attack.

"My brother has been martyred. Three people have been maimed. Other bodies are not available. Two of the 16 people were maimed, the others were killed. The reinforcements arrived at 7 am after the base fell (to the murderous Moslems)," said Nematullah, a police officer in Balkh.

Those who were killed were between 22 and 48 years old, according to relatives.

Bashir Khanjar, 22, who was killed in the attack, was married a year ago.

"He went to the base two days ago," said Abdul Shakoor, Bashir’s cousin.

"It is less than a week since my uncle was killed on the same base. It was his funeral the other day. Today, my second uncle was martyred along with 14 other people. Half of them have been burned and their bodies are not recognizable," said Abdul Musawir, a Balkh resident.

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Afghanistan

Fight To Arrest Qaisari in Mazar-e-Sharif Ongoing

2019-12-16

[ToloNews] Afghan helicopters firing on Qaisari compound.

A clash that started late Saturday night in Mazar-e-Sharif, capital of Balkh province, is still ongoing. Security forces have surrounded the house of Nizamuddin Qaisari, the former police chief of Faryab’s Qaisar district, police officials confirmed.

Afghan helicopters targeted the house of Nizamuddin Qaisari, and "special forces have arrived at the scene," said police officials.

The festivities between security forces and Qaisari fighters started at 11:30 pm local time in PD5 of Mazar-s-Sharif after the security forces launched an operation to arrest Qaisari, said Gen. Mohammad Ajmal Fayez, provincial police chief.

The illegally-gunnies affiliated with Qaisari recently "destabilized the security situation in the city" and an "arrest warrant has been issued," officials said, adding that "Qaisari is fighting against police forces with his 150 gunnies."

"The arrested warrant has been issued after the residents complained against Qaisari," officials said.

Nearby houses have been damaged in the shootings, said Najibullah, a resident: "Our house was damaged in the shooting and is very close to the house where Qaisari is living."

Qaisari was formerly held by the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS), but was recently freed.

Qaisari was arrested by the Afghan commandos in July after being accused of "insulting" the government, employing illegal gunnies and violating human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
Qaisari’s job had been suspended and travel ban had been put on him, according to source.

Before his release, Qaisari appeared at a ceremony at first Vice President General Abdul Rashid Dostum
Dostum

...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
’s residence in Kabul where he met a number of his supporters.

Qaisari is a close aide to Dostum.

Khaama Press adds:

The Afghan security forces have been unable to detain Nizamuddin Qaisari and his 150 armed men after 18-hour battle in Mazar-e-Sharif of Balkh province.

Nizamiuddin Qaisari was a warrior commander of General Dostum, but lately their relationships have been strained.

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Afghanistan

Burqa-clad Taliban assailants shot dead in Faryab

2019-09-25

22 September
[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed two Burqa-clad Talibs before they could attack the government institutions in northern Faryab province.

The Ministry of Interior said in a statement a group of 3 Talibs had disguised as women and were attempting to travel to Qaisar district to attack the government institutions.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
the interior ministry said the security forces identified the three Burqa-clad bully boys, rubbed out two of them and arrested the third bully boy alive.

The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group has not commented regarding the incident so far.

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India-Pakistan

Man chops off sister’s foot in DG Khan

2019-08-25

[DAWN] DERA GHAZI KHAN: A man allegedly chopped off one foot of his sister over suspicion about her activities at Kot Chhuta tehsil on Friday.

Station House Officer (SHO) Abdul Shakoor Qaisrani told Dawn that Shahnawaz Ahmedani chopped off his sister’s foot and the woman was shifted to the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) hospital by the Rescue 1122.

He said a case had been registered against Shahnawaz under Section 334 of the Pakistain Penal Code.

He said the police had arrested the man.

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Afghanistan

Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Shakoor, his fighters killed; 14 others wounded in Faryab clash

2019-07-29

[KhaamaPress] The security forces killed a Taliban
Taliban

...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
commander and his six fighters during a clash in northern Faryab province.

The 209th Shaheen Corps in a statement said the security forces clashed with Talibs in Nawdara Village of Qaisar district.

The statement further added that the security forces killed Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Shakoor and his six fighters during the clash.

Furthermore, the 209th Shaheen Corps said the security forces also maimed 14 Talibs during the same clash.

Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Yellow Wolf clutched at his chest and fell from his horse...
the 209th Shaheen Corps said a member of the security forces also lost his life during the clash and 7 others sustained injuries.

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Afghanistan

Three U.S. service members, one contractor killed in Afghanistan

2019-04-09

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. service members and an American contractor were killed in Afghanistan by an improvised explosive device on Monday, the NATO-led Resolute Support mission said in a statement.

Three U.S. service members were also wounded in the incident near Bagram air base close to Kabul, the statement said.

Violence has been relentless in Afghanistan even though Taliban militants have held several rounds of talks with U.S. officials about a peace settlement. The talks began late last year, raising hopes for an end to the conflict.

Colonel David Butler, a spokesman for U.S. Forces- Afghanistan, said a car bomb had detonated near the security convoy, which lead to deaths and injuries.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

The latest deaths bring the number of U.S. service member deaths in Afghanistan to seven in 2019, and a total of 68 U.S. military deaths since January 2015, according to U.S. government and NATO reports.

Foreign Forces Convoy Attacked Near Bagram

[ToloNews] A foreign forces convoy was targeted by a boom-mobile kaboom near the Bagram Airbase in Parwan province at around 5:30pm on Monday, Bagram district governor Abdul Shakoor Qudoosi confirmed.

He said the attack happened near the third gate of the Bagram Airfield.

Qudoosi said the attack was carried out by an explosive-laden vehicle.

The foreign forces have cordoned off the area and there is no report on possible casualties, he said.

Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
in a statement claimed the responsibility of the attack on and claimed that the suicide kaboomer destroyed two tanks and killed over 10 US military servicemen.

This is a developing story.

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India-Pakistan

6 Levies personnel martyred in Ziarat

2019-03-21

[DAWN] Six Levies personnel were martyred in an attack in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
's Ziarat district on Wednesday.

Deputy Commissioner Ziarat Qadir Bakhsh Pirkani said that armed gunnies attacked a Levies checkpost in Ziarat's Sanjavi area in the morning.

All Levies personnel deployed at the checkpost were martyred, he added, while the gunnies managed to escape. The bodies of the martyred personnel, identified as Daffadar Mehtabuddin, Sepoy Abdul Hakeem, Sepoy Faqir Muhammad, Sepoy Muhammad Usman, Sepoy Abdul Shakoor, Sepoy Daad Muhammad, were taken to Sanjavi Hospital.

After the incident, Levies personnel and other law enforcement agencies reached the spot to launch an investigation into the attack.

An Nahar adds:

"It was a sudden attack. The attackers came on cycle of violences and killed all six personnel on duty," Qadir Bakhsh, a senior government official in Ziarat, told AFP.

Bakhsh said the attackers were armed with automatic weapons and fled after the assault early Wednesday, adding that a search operation has been launched in the area.

The Pak Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
later grabbed credit for the attack in an email sent to media.

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Afghanistan

NDS Special Forces bust gang of foreign terrorists in Nimroz province

2019-01-30

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Special Forces of the Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
(NDS) have busted a gang of foreign turbans in western Nimroz province of Afghanistan.

The National Directorate of Security (NDS) in a statement said one terrorist was killed during the operation and three others were nabbed
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
. The statement further added that the operation against the gang was conducted in Zaranj city based on intelligence tip off.

The gang was led by terrorist leader Khadem and were originally hailing from Pakistain who were recently deployed to Zaranj city to plan and coordinate armed attacks in the city, NDS added in its statement.

The leader of the turbans Khadem was killed during the operation and three others identified as Esmatullah alias Hafiz son of Mohammad Ali, Abdul Shakoor alias Daman son of Saifullah, and Hamrazuddin alias Jahan Zeb son of Farzandullah were arrested, acording to NDS statement.

The anti-government armed Lion of Islam groups including Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
have not commented regarding the killing of the foreign Lions of Islam so far.

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India-Pakistan

Two handed over to police for torching girls’ schools in Diamer

2018-12-28

[DAWN] Two persons allegedly involved in torching of girls schools in Diamer district surrendered to police on Wednesday.

The accused were given to law enforcement agencies at a jirga held in Deral.

The authorities said Shabbir and Asmatullah were allegedly involved in girls schools’ torching incidents in August this year. Police and other law enforcement agencies personnel had since been searching for them.

So far, the jirga has handed over about 50 accused involved in the incident to law enforcement agencies.

Two accused involved in the incident were killed during an encounter with police in August.

A source said the criminal mastermind of the incident was still on the lam.

Talking to mediapersons, Deral jirga members, Rahmat Khaliq, Abdul Shakoor and Malik Maskeen, said the jirga supported law enforcement agencies to maintain peace in the area. They said the government should take further steps for girls’ education in the area.

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India-Pakistan

Mastung bomber studied in Karachi seminary

2018-07-23

[DAWN] The man who blew himself up at a Mastung election rally on July 13 and killed nearly 150 people, including Balochistan Awami Party candidate Siraj Raisani, was a student at a seminary in Karachi before being shifted to Afghanistan along with his family, where he got militancy training, it emerged on Friday.

The alleged suicide bomber has been identified by authorities as Hafeez Abbasi, a young man in his early 20s.

Sources in the Sindh police’s Counter-Terrorism Department told Dawn that their counterparts in Balochistan had shared with them a preliminary report of the suicide explosion and they carried out further work here.

The CTD-Quetta had provided fingerprints of an unclaimed body to the CTD-Sindh to match it with the record of the National Database and Registration Authority. It transpired that the alleged suicide bomber was a resident of Gharibabad Mohalla in Dhabeji, Thatta.

A special CTD team was immediately sent there on July 17 and to their utter surprise, his father, Mohammed Nawaz, without any hesitation told them that his son Hafeez had been shifted to Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak area.

Three sisters, two brothers living in Afghanistan
Mr Nawaz, who is living with another son, Haq Nawaz, in Thatta also told the CTD team that not only Hafeez but his wife, his two other sons and three daughters had also been shifted to Afghanistan.

The family originally hailed from Molia village in Abbottabad.

They said that Abbasi had studied at a seminary in Shah Faisal Colony for three years where he adopted the path toward militancy. His certain colleagues at the seminary were instrumental in motivating him towards militancy and they allegedly sent him to Afghanistan.

The sources disclosed that as per information provided by his father, his three daughters, who had been shifted to Afghanistan, were ‘Alima’ (religious scholars) and two of them had married IS militants there.

His two more sons, Abdul Aziz and Abdul Shakoor, were also living in Afghanistan, they said, adding that Shakoor recently told his father that now “it’s his turn” to become a suicide bomber, said the sources.

Abbasi’s eldest sister was married and lived with her family in their hometown in Abbottabad.

The suspected bomber’s father along with his son used to sell milk and vegetables in the Dhabeji area.

The CTD sources said that the father did not show any remorse or express any feeling of sadness when they informed him that his son had carried out a suicide attack in the Mastung rally.

Links with former Karachi TTP chief
The father told the CTD that Abbasi was working with Haji Daud there.

A CTD official told Dawn, on the condition of anonymity, that Haji Daud, also known as Daud Policewala, was a policeman in Karachi till mid-2000. He was also appointed as the city chief of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) by now slain Mullah Fazlullah.

The official said they got reports that Haji Daud had developed differences with Mullah Fazlullah as he joined the militant Islamic State group. He was also reportedly injured in a clash with TTP militants there.

The sources said that the CTD officials got the mobile phone number of Hafeez from his father and by using latest technology they came to know that he had arrived in Chaman from Afghanistan on June 29.

He was also in touch with at least nine persons, including three belonging to Sindh, they added.

The alleged bomber was later moved to Qila Abdullah and subsequently to Mastung, where he had carried out the suicide attack on Siraj Raisani’s election rally.

The CTD-Sindh informed their counterparts in Balochistan about Abbasi’s alleged handler in Qila Abdullah and his local facilitator in Mastung.

Important arrests made
In Karachi and Thatta, the sources added that law enforcement agencies conducted raids and made “some important arrests”.

A CTD official feared that Abbasi’s younger brother Shakoor, who is a teenager, might carry out a terrorist attack.

The official, who wished not to be named, told Dawn that they had arrested some members of the IS network in Karachi.

He added that concerted efforts were under way to ‘dismantle’ the group before it could strike again in the country.

The CTD official believed that IS was “actively flourishing and being patronised by foreign intelligence agencies” in Spin Boldak “to sabotage the election process, trigger destabilisation in the country and to mainly target CPEC [China-Pakistan Economic Corridor- related activities”.

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India-Pakistan

JUI-F threatens to block highway between Afghanistan and Pakistan

2018-05-22

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...a Pak religious party. It is usually part of the govt, never part of the solution...
-Fazzl (JUI-F) led by Maulana Fazal Ur Rehman has threatened to block the highway between Afghanistan and Pakistain.

The party reportedly issued the warning after the decision by the government of Pakistain to merge Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, according to The Express Tribune.

JUI-F’s Fata chapter Mufti Abdul Shakoor said Sunday Fata’s merger with the K-P "is an international agenda which will not be supported at any cost."

Speaking during a presser with JUI-F’s general secretary Mufti Ijaz Shinwari and information secretary Jihad Shah, Mufti Shakoor said the party will stage a protest demonstration at the Pak-Afghan highway in Landi Kotal and a separate one at the Indus Highway in Darra Adam Khel simultaneously against ignoring the will of tribal people and imposing decisions on them against their wishes.

The party’s chief Fazl, older and even wider than he used to be...

Fazl, older and even wider than he used to be...

Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
had earlier announced that the party had decided to part ways with the ruling Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the implementation of reforms in Fata.

Terming the merger a global conspiracy, Maulana Rehman had said that the government had backed off from the promise it made with their party for not going ahead with the merger.

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