Mullah Ghani | Mullah Ghani | Taliban | Afghanistan/South Asia | Afghan | Deceased | 20050623 | |||
killed by U.S. helicopter gunships as they fled Mian Nishin, a district |
Afghanistan |
Engaging With Mullah Yaqoob is Easier, NRF’s Resistance not a Challenge: Brookings |
2023-02-11 |
[KhaamaPress] Research findings of the Brookings Institution of the United States indicate that Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada is an irreconcilable leader, whereas Mullah Yaqoob is a pragmatic person, and it is easier to engage with him for the West. It is also highlighted that the National Resistance® Front’s (NRF) military resistance does not pose any immediate threats to the country’s ruling regime. Vanda Felbab-Brown author and political analyst in the foreign policy programs at Brookings say that serious disagreements exist among the Taliban ...Arabic for students... leaders over the group’s policies. After contacting reliable sources in Afghanistan and the West, Brown claims that pragmatic figures such as Mullah Yaqoob, and Sirajuddin Haqqani ![]() do not oppose the Taliban supreme leader’s decrees fearing death penalties and the group’s division. Despite the Taliban’s negotiation team in Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... repeatedly emphasizing that the group’s policies towards political factions and women have changed, they have restricted women from participating in education and work as they seized power in August 2021. Brown says by forming a ’monopolistic Pashtun government’ the Taliban have kicked other political groups out of the government circle. Brown belongs to those Western politicians and analysts who recently discuss ’moderate and extreme’ Taliban members. They believe that the moderate group of Taliban would take control of power in Afghanistan and revise the group’s policies and engagement with the western world. The political analyst reiterates that the Taliban council based in Kandahar led by Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada exclusively issues the implementation of murderous Moslem decrees in Afghanistan. This comes as the moderate branch of the Taliban believes that the introduction of such policies will weaken the current regime and lead to losing control of power in the long term. Pragmatic Taliban want the group to sustain power in Afghanistan. As per their analysis, if the economic challenges and the international isolation of the ruling regime are not resolved, and the foreign cash aid ended, the group will not sustain itself in power for longer. According to Brown, Mullah Yaqoob, Defense Minister, Mullah Ghani Baradar, Deputy Prime Minister, and Sirajuddin Haqqani, Interior Minister are among the pragmatic Taliban Leaders. She further adds that the three senior Taliban leaders including Mullah Yaqoob, Sirajuddin Haqqani, and Mullah Baradar are not united and do not trust each other. Therefore, it is difficult for them to bring most of the Taliban commanders with them. Meanwhile, ...back at the mall, Clarissa suddenly spied Mr. Bartlett at the checkout counter. He was buying Grecian Formula!... the chances are high that these senior Taliban leaders might even lose their lives due to deep intergroup disagreements, which may lead to the division of the group. |
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Afghanistan |
India Opens Channels With Taliban Leaders: Report |
2021-06-10 |
[ToloNews] India for the first time opened channels of communication with Afghan Taliban![]() leaders, including the group's deputy leader Mullah Ghani Baradar, the Hindustan Times reported on Wednesday. The report said the move marks "a significant shift" from New Delhi’s position of not engaging with the Taliban in any way. |
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Afghanistan |
Militants suffer heavy casualties in Paktia airstrikes |
2018-10-03 |
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Several snuffies were killed in a series of ![]() The 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast in a statement said the airstrikes were carried out in Bakawa, Koti Khel, and Hastogan areas of Zurmat district. The statement further added that 26 snuffies have been killed, 3 others have sustained injuries, and two vehicles of the snuffies were destroyed during the operations. Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s military commission chief Mulalh Daud and shadow judge of the group Mullah Ghani were among those killed, the 203rd Thunder Corps added. In the meantime, the 203rd Thunder Corps said at least 3 snuffies were killed during the separate operations conducted in Andar, Moqor, and Geru districts of Ghazni and at least 3 others were maimed while an improvised bomb was discovered and defeused. In a clash in Mohammad Agha district of Pashtun-infested Logar province, one Death Eater was killed and two other sustained injuries, the 203rd Thunder Corps added. |
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Afghanistan |
Taliban Überstübannführeren titzup in Helmand operations |
2017-10-23 |
![]() ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... leaders have been killed during the operations of the Afghan cops in southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province of Afghanistan. According to the local officials, the Taliban leaders were killed during the recent military operations in various parts of the province. Provincial governor Hayatullah Hayat said the Taliban leaders killed during the operations have been identified as Qari Muhibullah, Mullah Basir, Mullah Zahir, Mullah Ahmad, Mahboob, Farid Janan, Mullah Mansoor, Mullah Esmat, and Mullah Ghani. The anti-government armed Death Eater groups have not commented regarding the report so far. Helmand remains one of the most volatile provinces in southern Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 where terrorist related incidents are frequently reported from its various districts. The local officials said last week that Taliban forces of Evil suffered heavy casualties during the latest counter-terrorism operations in southern Helmand province of Afghanistan. The provincial government in a statement said the latest counter-terrorism operations were conducted in Lashkargah city, Nad-e-Ali, and Kajaki districts. The statement further added at least 25 Taliban forces of Evil were killed during the operations and 11 others were maimed. The operations are jointly being conducted by the Afghan army, Afghan police, and security personnel of the other institutions, the statement added. |
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Afghanistan |
Afghan Officials Met Key Taliban Prisoner |
2012-08-13 |
An Afghan government delegation met with one of the Taliban's top military commanders, Mullah Ghani Bradar, in a Pak prison, Afghanistan's National Security Advisor, Ragin Spanta, told TOLOnews on Sunday. Mr Spanta said he himself did not meet with Mullah Bradar. The meeting aimed to seek Mullah Bradar's opinion about peace talks and to decide whether, if he were released, he could play a role in convincing the Taliban to enter into talks. "Several Afghan officials met Mullah Ghani Bradar in a Pak prison but I never met him myself," Spanta said in a telephone interview. Pakistain's interior minister, Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. , confirmed the meeting to Rooters, saying his government will do anything possible to bring peace and stability to Afghanistan. "They had access at the required and appropriate level," Mr Malik told Rooters. "We are fully co-operating with Afghanistan and whatever they are asking for the grinding of the peace processor, for developing peace in Afghanistan, we are giving every kind of help." One of the Taliban's most important conditions of starting peace talks is the release of prisoners from the prison in Guantanamo Bay. Mullah Bradar, who was captured in 2009 in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... in Pakistain, may be released in an effort to bring the Taliban to the peace table. |
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Is a rethink under way? |
2012-03-07 |
[Dawn] ![]() It is a recognition of the reality of the regional situation. It appears to signal that Pakistain is now prepared to perceive Afghanistan, with which Pakistain shares many bonds and on whose behalf it has assumed many burdens, as a sovereign, independent neighbour. But is this statement and the claim that the "trend" towards the change of policy "is clear" and we have actually "walked the talk" reflected in actual actions? In this exchange with journalists, Ms Khar noted approvingly that President Karzai had talked of Pakistain having a "proactive supportive role and not a proactive leading role". But then she added her views on the path that Afghanistan should follow: hold a loya jirga to decide the broad framework for peace talks including an intra-Afghan dialogue to see on what conditions they want to run the process of peace and reconciliation, who do they want it to be run by and the time frame in which they want this completed. This is good advice. I myself have long advocated an intra-Afghan dialogue that brings together various ethnic groups -- the Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazaras and anti-Taliban or at least moderate Pakhtuns -- to decide on power-sharing arrangements and changes in the constitutional structure that can be offered to the Taliban. I, however, am a private citizen and can offer such advice publicly. A Pak foreign minister has to be much more circumspect in public statements even while being prepared to offer such recommendations in private discussions. One must assume that since Ms Khar was obviously speaking from a well-prepared brief this suggestion was designed to address suspicions in Afghanistan that Pakistain did not believe that ethnic minorities had a role to play in the reconciliation process. But does this, important as it may be, constitute "walking the talk"? From the Afghan perspective our contribution should be to persuade the Taliban to come to the negotiating table. After President Karzai's visit Ms Khar dismissed as ridiculous what she termed as the Karzai demand that Pakistain deliver Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... to the negotiating table. She may be right in saying that Pakistain does not know where Mullah Omar is and certainly cannot force him to negotiate with Karzai. What Pakistain can, however, do is be more helpful in identifying and bringing forward such Taliban and Haqqani representatives that have credible positions in the movement and are valued as initial negotiating partners by Afghanistan. Mullah Ghani Baradar, who we have been holding as an honoured guest, is one person Karzai believes is of consequence in the Taliban movement, since at the time of his detention he was perceived to be Mullah Omar's principal lieutenant. He probably also believes that Ibrahim Haqqani, brother of Jalaluddin Haqqani with whom the Americans held talks arranged by the ISI, could be another interlocutor. If we are really rethinking our position on Afghanistan these are requests we should accede to -- and urgently. This is not altruism. We must recognise that reconciliation on whatever terms the Afghans can agree among themselves with such prodding as we and other Afghan well-wishers can provide is as urgent a necessity for Pakistain as it is for our Afghan brethren. We must recognise that suspicions about our intentions trigger reactions by other neighbours of Afghanistan that would retard reconciliation. We must therefore be seen through our concrete actions as being sincere in our protestations of support for Afghan-led reconciliation. Recent incidents such as urinating by American soldiers on Afghan corpses, and more importantly, the burning of religious texts makes problematic the prospect of agreement on the Strategic Partnership Document that the Afghans have been negotiating with the Americans to govern a limited US presence after foreign troops withdraw. These incidents have probably also ensured that the Americans will complete their withdrawal by 2013 rather than the originally envisaged 2014 date. Therefore, this possible source of economic activity and employment generation for Afghans will also disappear faster than anticipated. Political turbulence in Afghanistan and the expected economic downturn have already increased the flow of economic refugees to Pakistain. This refugee trickle will turn into a flood as there is greater unemployment following the reduction in the size of the Afghan National Security Forces from 358,000 to 230,000, by retrenchment in firms that currently provide security at ongoing projects and by the halt of construction and other economic activities generated by the foreign troops' presence. It is my estimate that unless we take precautionary measures we will have in the next two to three years some two million economic refugees from Afghanistan. If there is no reconciliation, the mix of economic and political refugees will climb to five million to add to the numbers already here. Even as we work with Karzai to promote reconciliation and increase our diplomatic efforts to win support from others for such reconciliation, we must do more to secure our borders against the influx of refugees. For starters the biometric system must be enforced for all travellers between Afghanistan and Pakistain across Torkham and Chaman. We must also ensure that we exercise greater control over the refugee camps even if we cannot close them down. |
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India-Pakistan |
Mullah Baradar released? |
2010-10-16 |
[Pak Daily Times] Daily Times has learnt from credible sources that Mullah Ghani Baradar, who was jugged earlier this year from Karachi, had been "freed" due to mediation with the Taliban leadership. Mulla Baradar was caught by a special team of the ISI and the CIA hit squad in Karachi in an action, which resembled any Hollywood flick. Earlier, it was Daily Times which broke the news about certain Arab envoys, who were active in the back-channel diplomacy with the consent of Pak and American leadership to solve the Afghan crisis. Talking to Daily Times, a Taliban leader did not confirm or denied the reports about Mullah Baradar, but commented "Baradar was never jugged in the first place". It is to be noted that Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai was extremely angry at the arrest of Mullah Baradar, who saw it as a dent to the on-going peace talks between Kabul and Taliban. Initially, the arrest was taken as a sign of anger by the ISI which wanted to micro-manage the talks, and would want Islamabad's active role in the move. The Federal Interior Ministry had failed to comment on the story, while the Americans also did not confirm the story but as per sources "the folks in Washington DC had given a nod for the release of Baradar", and that the Americans and the British were aware of the situation. A western diplomat commented, "This could be the biggest risk we are taking to seal a deal in Afghanistan but I am not too optimistic about it." "That's about as far as I can go on that at this point," he said. US and NATO leaders said on Thursday they were ready to help the Afghan president to pursue reconciliation efforts with the Taliban. |
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Mohmand Agnecy: Security forces kill 11 terrorists in clash |
2009-08-22 |
[Geo News] Eleven terrorists were killed in a clash with security forces here in Tehsil Yaka Ghand in Mohmand Agency, said FC sources on Friday. A number of hideouts of the militants were also destroyed when security forces targeted them with heavy shelling in Suprai, Bahaikor and Mullah Ghani. According to sources, explosives planted at Chanda in Tehsil Halimzai went off with a blast, however, no report of any casualties was received. |
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India-Pakistan |
Expel Taliban or face action, govt tells Mohmand tribes |
2008-11-14 |
![]() It also asked Taliban to lay down weapons and surrender, officials told Daily Times. "We warn the Mohmand tribes to sever ties with Tehreek-e-Taliban's Abdul Wali group as the government is planning action against the group," the Mohmand Agency administration warned the population in pamphlets. "Get all elements of Abdul Wali group out of your homes, otherwise they will be targeted by helicopters and jet bombers." The warning comes as 50 percent of the population in Machni area left their homes following a troop build-up in the area close to Mohmand Agency. "We inform the people of Mohmand Agency that the (outlawed) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has attacked Islam and Pakistan by killing innocent Muslims. The TTP has [hurt the cause of] Islam more than ever before," the Urdu language pamphlet read. Taliban hideouts: Security forces continued pounding suspected Taliban hideouts in the Shnow Ghundo, Spray, Juma Khan Koroona, Kas Koroona and Mullah Ghani Baba areas in Machni, officials said. Details of Taliban casualties were not available. Responsibility: Also on Thursday, Taliban in Machni claimed responsibility for Wednesday's suicide attack on a security forces camp in Charsadda district. "We have carried out the attack to avenge killing of innocent people by the military," Abid Khair Khwahee, purported spokesman for the Taliban in Machni area, told reporters by telephone. The Shabqadar Bazaar in Charsadda district was closed on Thursday and the Peshawar-Ghalanai highway remained closed for traffic. Arrested: Security forces arrested six suspected Taliban in Kashmir Koor in a raid on a house in Haleemzai tehsil and nine suspects from Machni. |
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