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India-Pakistan
Blast during a Taliban meeting in Pakistan kills 30 including ISI members
2020-01-11
[KhaamaPress] A powerful explosion destroyed a religious school during a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 meeting on Friday evening in Quetta, Pakistain claiming at least 30 dead including key Taliban and ISI members, a security source confirmed.

A reliable Afghan security source from the who did not want to be named in the report told Khaama Press that according to intelligence reports, the earth-shattering kaboom took place when several key Taliban members including Sheikh Abdul Karim (Taliban’s supreme judge), Sheikh Abdul Karim’s brother, 3 Pakistain’s ISI members and some drug smugglers were sitting together on Friday evening in a religious school,
...an interestingly varied group, to be sure...
besides a prayer mosque in Ishaqabad area, in Quetta of Pakistain.

"The explosion has occurred during an important meeting between the Talibs, ISI members, and drug smugglers", the source said.
Planning something, perhaps? How sad for them that no one will ever know.
Going over expense/revenue reports to get their taxes done early....
According to this Afghan security source, at least 30 people have been killed in this explosion including 3 ISI members, Sheikh Abdul Karim’s brother, Haji Mohammad Halim, Mawlavi Haji Ahmad Khan, Gul Agha Akhund, Mawlavi Amanullah and Haji Ahmad Khan, who were key Taliban members.
Ok, guys— you can check those names off your To Do list — they’re too done.(Oh hush, dear Reader — I know exactly what I did, and I’m not sorry.)
The security source believes that the motive behind this explosion is due to the recent internal conflicts between the Taliban members.

But, according to Pakistain news agencies, the incident has taken place in a mosque during an evening prayer time, killing a police brass hat, 13 civilians and injuring 20 other worshippers.

Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
 and 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 chief minister, Jam Kamal Khan, condemned the attack. In a statement, Pakistain’s military said soldiers were at the scene of the attack to assist civil authorities.

No individual or group have immediately grabbed credit for the bombing.


A blast inside a mosque in Quetta's Satellite Town area during Friday evening prayers claimed 15 lives and left 19 people injured, Balochistan Home Minister Zia Langove confirmed.

The mosque is located in a densely populated Pashtun-majority neighbourhood.

Fida Mohammad, who was attending the Maghrib prayers, said about 60 people were present at the time of the attack on the mosque, located in Ghousabad neighbourhood. The explosion ripped through the front row of worshippers seconds after the prayer began, he told AFP.

The incident comes three days after a motorcycle parked close to a Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle blew up in Quetta, leaving two people dead and another 14 injured. That blast, claimed by Hizbul Ahrar — an offshoot of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), had come after a respite of some weeks in what has traditionally been a violence-prone area.

Mullah Abdul Hakim bites dust in big blast in Quetta mosque
An interesting Twitter thread worth scrolling through to watch the story develop, with photos.

Related:
Quetta: 2020-01-08 2 killed, at least 10 injured in Quetta blast
Quetta: 2019-12-29 AQIS cell busted in Punjab
Quetta: 2019-12-26 Taliban's Top Leaders Meet in Quetta: Sources
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Afghanistan
Tajikistan nationals among 31 killed in Afghan Special Forces night raid
2017-12-11
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least thirty one holy warriors including foreign nationals hailing from Tajikistan were killed during the operations of the Afghan Special Forces in northern Kunduz province.

The 209th Shaheen Corps officials in the North said the operations were conducted on Friday night in the vicinity of Imam Sahib district.

The officials further added that two foreigners hailing from Tajikistan and four commanders of the bandidos holy warriors were among those killed and at least seventeen others were maimed.

According to Shaheen Corps officials, the bandidos holy warriors leaders killed during the operation have been identified as Mawlavi Musa, Qari Amir Mazhari, Mawlavi Mansoor, and Mullah Abdul Hakim.

The operations were conducted in Qerghiz, Joi Begum, Pul-e-Imamuddin, and Yakhan Chan villages, the Shaheen Corps officials said, adding several weapons and ammunition were also confiscated during the operations.
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Afghanistan
Zabul's director of Hajj and Religious Affairs accused of corruption
2015-08-06
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Mullah Nawab, the director or Hajj and Religious Affairs of southern Zabul province has been accused of corruption.

Haji Mangal, head of a department in the directorate of Hajj and Religious Affairs of Zabul, and Mullah Abdul Hakim, head of the province’s Ulema Council, claim that the director is abusing his power.

Mullah Abdul Hakim said that he has evidences on hand showing that the director has registered the names of some shop keepers and drivers as the Ulemas (religious clerics) and pocketing their salaries.

Mullah Hakim said that the issue has been reported to the provincial administration and central government but has not received a response back.

Haji Mangal and Mullah Abdul Hakim were representing a group of workers and Ulemas (religious clerics) during a gathering to voice their concerns over the issue.

They threatened to quit their jobs and take to the streets if the issue is not resolved.

However, Mullah Nawab turned all allegations as baseless and conspiracy against him. Mullah Nawab said that all of his activities are legitimate.

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Afghanistan
17 insurgents Killed in Southern Afghanistan
2010-08-18
[Tolo News] At least, 17 Taliban hard boys including two sons of Taliban shadow governor in Badghis were killed, 17 others were maimed in an offensive launched by Afghan security forces in southern Afghanistan

The operation is part of the efforts to wash out the Taliban from villages and districts of the province and to secure the upcoming parliamentary poll.

"The ground operation was launched two days ago in Bezbie, a village in southern Badghis province. Still we are trying to find the Taliban remaining corpses," said a spokesperson for a southern Afghan military compound, Najibullah Najibi.

Afghan security forces have not received any damages in the operation so far.

A local Taliban commander, Mullah Abdul Hakim and two sons of Mullah Abdul Rahman Haqani, the Taliban shadow governor for Badghis, were also among the dead, military officials said.

According to our intelligence reports, ten other Taliban hard boys have hidden in the village and they will be followed by our forces, Najibi said.

Early in July, the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs in a round-up indicated that in total 672 hard boys were killed, 76 were maimed and 127 others were detained in Afghan conflict.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
Taliban deny heavy losses
2005-06-27
A senior Taliban commander on Sunday dismissed as false Afghan government reports that 178 guerrillas were killed in a US-backed offensive in southwestern Afghanistan last week.
"Nope. Nope. Never happened. Nope..."
Mullah Dadullah, one of two top Taliban commanders the government said had been surrounded in the fighting, telephoned reporters to say that only seven or eight guerrillas had been killed, including one commander, Mullah Mohammad Easa.
AKA Mulla Jar-Jar: "Meesah Easa!"
Speaking by satellite phone from an undisclosed location well inside Pakistan, Dadullah said the guerrillas had killed about 20 Afghan police and army troops and 14-18 from the US-backed foreign force hunting militants in Afghanistan. “The government was claiming that it killed 178 Taliban,” he said. “That is not true.”
"All those corpses, they imported them. They're Samoans. We can tell."
“The government was claiming that it had surrounded Mullah Dadullah, Mullah Brother, Mullah Adbul Hanan, Mullah Abdul Basir and Mullah Abdul Hakim and that they would soon arrest or kill them,” he said. “This was completely wrong.” The Defence Ministry said on Thursday that Dadullah and Brother, members of the Taliban leadership council led by elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, and the three other commanders were surrounded in an area where the provinces of Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul meet. It later said they appeared to have escaped.
Leaving their troops in the lurch, but we don't dwell on that for some reason...
The government has said that most of the guerrillas were killed by US air strikes, in what by its figures would have been one of the bloodiest setbacks for the Taliban since their 2001 overthrow by US-led forces. It said three of its troops were killed in the operation and three hurt, while the US military said six of its soldiers were slightly wounded. Dadullah also said the guerrillas had shot down two US helicopters in the fighting. The US military said two of its Chinook helicopters were damaged by small-arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire during fighting on Tuesday and one had to make an emergency landing, but both returned to base without casualties. The US military on Wednesday gave an estimate of 40-50 guerrillas dead in the fighting but then referred reporters to the Afghan authorities for updates on casualties.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
Taliban leadership may be surrounded
2005-06-23
Afghan and U.S. forces surrounded an area in Afghanistan on Thursday where senior commanders of elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar were thought to be hiding, Afghan security officials said.
I don't think I'd get my hopes up. Mullah Omar's pretty good at hopping his motorcycle and leaving his loyal minions in the lurch — if it's him they have surrounded in the first place.
The operation, backed by U.S. helicopter gunships, followed a big U.S.-backed offensive that killed more than 100 militants in the same region of the border between Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul provinces in the past three days, the officials said. Those holed up in the Dai Chopan area included Mullah Dadullah, a member of the Taliban's 10-man leadership council headed by Omar, and Mullah Brother, another commander thought close to the Taliban leader, the Defence Ministry said.
Oh. So it's not Mullah Omar. I don't know anything about the motorcycling skills of the other guys...
Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ishaq Paiman identified the others as Mullah Abdul Hakim, Mullah Abdul Hanan and Mullah Abdul Basir. Mullah is a title for a Muslim cleric used by many top Taliban members. General Mohammad Muslim Hamid, army commander for the southern region, said the area had been surrounded and the Taliban commanders were believed to be hiding there.
Yeah, but I still don't expect great results from surrounding them...
General Fateh Khan, another commander taking part in the operation, said it involved Afghan security forces, as well as U.S. helicopter gunships and U.S. ground troops. A U.S. military spokeswoman said she had no information about the operation. Fateh Khan said the Taliban commanders were with more than 150 of their fighters.
Is that before or after subtracting the 100 deaders?
Fateh Khan said troops were closing in from three sides to try to capture them, which would be a major coup for the government of President Hamid Karzai. Reza Khan, a man sentenced to death last year for killing four journalists in 2001, including two from Reuters, said at his trial Mullah Brother, one of the Taliban commanders believed hiding in the Dai Chopan area, had ordered the killings. The journalists were Australian television cameraman Harry Burton and Afghan photographer Azizullah Haidari of Reuters, Spaniard Julio Fuentes of El Mundo and Italian Maria Grazia Cutuli of Corriere della Sera. Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal said 103 guerrillas had been killed in three days of fighting and the offensive had been a major blow to the Taliban's bid to disrupt Sept. 18 parliamentary elections, the next big step in Afghanistan's difficult path to stability.
Being dead does tend to disrupt your plans, doesn't it?
He said most were killed by U.S. helicopter gunships as they fled Mian Nishin, a district the rebels seized last week, and included three commanders -- Mullah Jamil, Mullah Ghani and Mullah Easa. Sixteen fighters had been captured, he said. Mashal's figure would bring the guerrilla death toll reported by the government and U.S. forces in clashes in the southwest in the past week to more than 153. Hundreds more guerrillas have been reported killed in a surge of clashes this year.
Boy, they're gonna depopulate all of Pakistan in a mere 17,576 years at this rate...
Three Afghan troops were killed and six U.S. soldiers wounded, while two U.S. helicopters were damaged by ground fire. A U.S. air force pilot was killed when his U-2 spyplane crashed on Wednesday after a mission over Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said on Wednesday seven guerrillas had been killed including Easa. He said no Taliban fighters had been captured.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
'Over 100' Taleban rebels killed
2005-06-23
US and Afghan officials say that more than 100 Taleban fighters have been killed in southern Afghanistan in one of the biggest offensives in two years. Hundreds of Afghan troops backed by US-led coalition forces have taken part in the clashes in Zabul province that started on Tuesday. The Taleban deny having lost any of their men. The government says a number of senior Taleban fighters have been surrounded, Reuters news agency reports.
On Tuesday, the pilot of a US spy plane was killed when his aircraft crashed while returning to its base in the United Arab Emirates from Afghanistan. It is not clear whether the crash was connected to the ongoing offensive.
Most of the fighting has taken place in the Daychopan district of Zabul province, near the border with Kandahar. "We have 103 bodies," Afghan interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal is quoted as saying by Reuters. "All of them were armed. Most were killed by coalition helicopter gunships," he said. A British military spokeswoman, Lt Gemma Fullman, said British planes provided close air support but did not drop any munitions, the AFP news agency reports. Afghan police commander Gen Salim Khan said eight Afghan security force members had died. The US military said five US soldiers had been wounded.
Taleban spokesman, Latifullah Hakimi, denied any of the group's fighters had been killed or captured.
"No, no, we're ok. Must be somebody else."
An Afghan defence ministry spokesman said on Thursday that Afghan forces had some 150 Taleban fighters surrounded, Reuters says. They include a senior Taleban member, Mullah Dadullah.
I've lost count of the number of Mullah Dad's we've killed or captured.
The fighting began after Afghan and coalition forces were attacked by rebels with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades on Tuesday, according to a US military statement. The forces were patrolling an area south-west of Daychopan near the border with Kandahar province when the attack took place.
Tuesday's incident follows a wave of violence earlier this week in which at least 38 rebels were killed in clashes with US-led coalition and Afghan forces in southern Afghanistan. The BBC's Andrew North in Kabul says doubt has been cast on some of the US military's previous claims about insurgent casualty numbers. But our correspondent says barely a day goes by now without serious violence across south and east Afghanistan, raising fears for security in September's planned parliamentary elections.
The US has about 18,000 troops in Afghanistan tackling remnants of the Taleban that was ousted in late 2001.
Not mentioning the wave of Arab fighters and Paks imported since.
Nearly 400 people have been killed in Taleban-linked violence this year, following a lull over winter - most of them suspected militants but also about 30 US troops.

Additional: Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal said captured guerrillas had revealed that Mullah Dadullah and Mullah Brother, both members of the Taliban leadership council led by Omar, had been in the area of the fighting at least until Tuesday. "We have concrete reports that they were there until at least the day before yesterday," he said. "They may still be there, they could have escaped, or they could have been killed." Mashal said the men were thought to be key links between the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network as well as with Pakistani militant groups and may even have had direct contacts with bin Laden and his number two Ayman al-Zawahri.

Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ishaq Paiman said earlier the two were hiding in the Dai Chopan area with three other commanders he named as Mullah Abdul Hakim, Mullah Abdul Hanan and Mullah Abdul Basir. Mullah is a title for a Muslim cleric used by many top Taliban members.
General Fateh Khan, a commander taking part in the operation, said they holed up with more than 150 guerrillas. He said Afghan and U.S. troops backed by U.S. helicopter gunships were closing in from three sides to try to capture them, which would be a major coup for the United States and the government of President Hamid Karzai, who came to power after U.S.-led forces overthrew the Taliban in late 2001.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
Taliban Crows That It Murdered Médecins sans FrontiÚres Members
2004-06-03
From Jihad Unspun, credited to The Guardian
Five people, including three members of Médecins sans FrontiÚres, were killed in north-west Afghanistan yesterday in an attack claimed to have been carried out by the Taliban. .... The team of aid workers were ambushed in their car near Khair Khana, a village in the Badghis province more than 300 miles to the west of the capital, Kabul.
Northwest Afghanistan? That's a new front for the Taliban if it's true; they got booted from there rather thoroughly in the war.
A spokesperson for MSF, the international medical aid organisation which works in war zones around the world, often at great personal risk to its international members and local staff, told the Associated Press that the workers had been the victims of a "terrorist-type of attack". It is understood that one of the workers was Dutch, one Swiss and one Norwegian. Mullah Abdul Hakim Latifi, reportedly a spokesman for the Taliban, claimed responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to AP. He warned that more attacks would follow. "The Taliban was responsible for this attack," Latifi said. "Those international aid workers were working for the policy of America. There will be more of these attacks in the future." The governor of Badghis, Azizullah Afzali, identified the two Afghans killed in the latest attack as Fazel Ahmad, a translator, and Bismillah, who was a driver for MSF. "It’s the first time anything like this has happened here," he said. .... In February, five aid workers were shot and killed not far from Kabul after their car broke down. Last month three UN election workers, including two British security consultants, were killed in the eastern province of Nuristan.
Jihad Unspun is a zealous advocate of the Taliban.
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Afghanistan/South Asia
Five of Mullah Omar’s Bodyguards Seized Along With Many Assault Rifles
2004-05-20
The Afghan Interior Ministry said that two of the five men recently arrested in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province are bodyguards of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the former leader of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan Television reported on 18 May. Interior Ministry sources said that Afghan police arrested the men in Kandahar’s Panjwai District as they allegedly attempted to transport a large number of assault rifles inside an oil tanker. The two suspected bodyguards, who are reportedly brothers, have been identified as Mullah Mohammad Hasan and Mullah Abdul Hakim. It is not clear when the arrests took place. Mullah Omar disappeared from the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar sometime in early December 2001
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Afghanistan
U.S., Afghan Forces Battle Insurgents
2003-08-26
EFL
U.S. and Afghan forces clashed with suspected Taliban in the mountains of southeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a day after fighter jets bombarded a camp and killed at least 14 rebels, Afghan officials said. American jets again pounded insurgents Tuesday in Zabul province, said Khalil Hotak, chief of the provincial intelligence service. It was not possible to confirm whether any Taliban were killed, he said. Juma Khan, the police chief of Dai Chupan district where the fighting took place in a mountain pass, said the rebels were putting up resistance, firing back with mortars and heavy machine guns.
That’s right, boys, hold that pass, just don’t look up.
On Monday, U.S. jets destroyed a Taliban mountain hideout in the same district in the deadliest air assault since rebels launched a series of strikes against Afghan government targets in recent weeks.
Hotak said the Taliban were operating with al-Qaida and loyalists of renegade rebel commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. He didn’t offer evidence for his claim, but he said there were intelligence reports of Pakistanis and Middle Eastern fighters among the Taliban who escaped the bombardment of the camp on Monday. He did not say how he knew this.
"I can say no more"
Col. Rodney Davis, spokesman for the U.S. military at coalition headquarters at Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, said late Monday that 14 "enemy" fighters were killed in two clashes, one of which involved air strikes. "The number (killed) may be higher, and we are still waiting for additional battle damage assessment," he told a news briefing Tuesday.
Putting the "pieces" together takes time.
There were no reported casualties among U.S.-led coalition troops, Davis said. He said coalition forces were continuing to operate in the southeastern provinces of Kandahar, Zabul and Uruzgan.
Another Afghan government spokesman, Khalid Pashtun of Kandahar, said two Taliban were captured in Monday’s operation. The captured men said the Taliban offensive in the Dai Chupan district where the suspected hideout was located was being led by Mullah Kahar and Mullah Abdul Hakim. Hotak said the suspected camp, which was destroyed, comprised an eight-room building, four tents and other cave shelters.
Now available for rent.
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Afghanistan
Afghan forces capture 20 Taliban
2003-08-04
SPIN BOLDAK: Afghan forces captured 20 Taliban suspects, several of them local commanders, in operations in the south in the past week that killed five guerrillas and two government troops. Khalid Pashtun, spokesman for Kandahar province, told reporters on Sunday at least 19 Taliban suspects had been detained there. Authorities in neighbouring Uruzgan said they had captured a guerrilla chief trying to plant a bomb near the governor’s house. State media have reported other arrests of Taliban suspects in Helmand province, without giving figures. Pashtun said the arrests in Kandahar province took place in operations to the north and south of Kandahar city involving 500 pro-government troops backed by U.S.-led coalition forces. He said one Taliban fighter was killed trying to attack a government post on Friday, while the US military has reported that its helicopter gunships killed another four on Thursday. Kandahar corps commander General Khan Mohammad said two Afghan soldiers were killed during the operations. Pashtun said that Taliban prisoners included three important local commanders, Mullah Abdul Hameed, Mullah Abdul Hakim and Mullah Zahir. The governor of Uruzgan province, Jan Mohammad Khan, told reporters that another commander, Mullah Noman, had been arrested early on Sunday trying to place a remote-controlled bomb on a road leading to his residence. He said Noman had admitted receiving training in Quetta, and had given details of Taliban activities in Pakistan.
Ohoh! Singing, is he?
In Kandahar city, journalists saw police escorting several Taliban prisoners with their feet in chains. One, who gave his name as Mullah Rahmatullah, said he had been paid to fight. “We have been told to fight against the government,” he said. “They were giving us money to fight and were saying that the Americans are here now so you have to go for holy war. That is why we joined them.”
Golly. I wonder who might be paying them?
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