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Afghanistan
Increasing Security Threats; Taliban Places Restrictions on Ashura Ceremony in Northern Afghanistan
2022-08-08
[KhaamaPress] Locals in Mazar-e-Sharif, in Balkh province of northern Afghanistan, say that the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 has prevented Ashura ceremony preparations at the shrine of Hazrat Ali, aka Rawza-e-Sharif, and denied permission to hold the Ashura event there for security reasons.

Officials from the Taliban in Mazar-e-Sharif have instructed those attending Ashura events to do so exclusively in mosques, citing security concerns as their justification.

Every year in Rawza-e-Sharif before the Taliban’s control, the Ashura ceremony was observed.

The Taliban have also acknowledged that they have removed the Ashura holiday from the calendar, as earlier reports in some domestic media and Iranian media contended that the Taliban removed Ashura as a national holiday.

Two explosions occurred among the mourners of this month in Kabul on the 7th and 8th days of Muharram. The number of casualties has been reported with conflicting numbers.

While witnesses to the incident and local sources claim that more than 100 people were killed and nearly 150 others were maimed in both blasts, Khalid Zadran stated that there were 8 fatalities and 20 injuries in the first explosion and 2 fatalities and 7 injuries in the second explosion.

Ashura is observed by all Moslems on the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar.

As it commemorates the anniversary of the Battle of Karbala, which took place in present-day Iraq in the seventh century and resulted in Hussein’s death, it is a time of mourning that is particularly significant for Shia Moslems.
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Afghanistan
Public Uprising Expands as Taliban Attacks Continue
2021-06-24
[ToloNews] Public uprisings against the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 are expanding in various regions of Afghanistan as the Taliban continues to mount attacks against government forces.

In northern Jawzjan province, there are reports that women have taken up arms to fight the Taliban.

In Kohdman village in northern Kabul province, many armed residents filled the main road, pledging to fight the Taliban.

In 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..
 and Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
 provinces in the east, the people have taken up arms to fight the Taliban, and also in the western province of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
"At this point, the politics of bullying cannot rule, these gunnies say that they will not allow the Taliban to rule them and burn their gardens and fields as in the past," said Mir Naeem Haidari, deputy head of Kohdman council.

Paying tribute to the ANDSF, MP Hazrat Ali said: "I know that you face hard days, but I congratulate you because you are the winners."

"We pledge to the Ministry of Defense that we will defend against the enemy," said Ali Khan, a fighter with the public uprising forces.

This comes as the Taliban has taken over 70 districts in the country in the past two months.
I thonk some of those must have been conquered and lost several times...
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Afghanistan
Paktika: NDS Reports Killing 'Key' Al Qaeda Member, Taliban Commander
2021-03-31
[ToloNews] The Afghan intelligence agency—the National Directorate Security (NDS)-- in a statement on Tuesday said that the NDS’s special operation units eliminated a "key member" of an Al Qaeda network and a "high-profile Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 commander" during an operation in Giyan district of Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
 province.

"Special forces of the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
 during a targeted operation eliminated a key member of Al Qaeda network including a Taliban commander during a targeted operation in Gilan district of Paktika province," the statement said.

"Dawlat Bek Tajiki, known as Abu Mohammad al-Tajiki, a key member of Al Qaeda network for the Indian subcontinent, and Hazrat Ali, also known as Hamza, a native of Wazoo and a commander of the Taliban terrorist group, were considered among the plotters of highly complicated attacks," the statement said.

"These individuals were links between the Al Qaeda network and the Taliban terrorist group and were responsible for equipping and financing the Taliban terrorist group," the statement said.

The NDS said that the two commanders were providing advice to the Taliban for their spring offensive.

According to the NDS, the two were also responsible for financing and providing weapons and military training to the Taliban in Ghazni and Zabul provinces.
Related:
Giyan district: 2017-10-10 Taliban attack in Paktika stopped
Related:
Paktika: 2021-03-11 Ministry of Defense: 66 Taliban killed in Kandahar, Zabul
Paktika: 2020-12-07 Gov’t Prosecutor Murdered in Kabul
Paktika: 2020-12-04 3 NDS Personnel Killed in Paktia Blast
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Afghanistan
NDS arrests another mastermind behind ‘KU attack’
2021-03-26
[KhaamaPress] National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
 has reportedly arrested several members of the ISIS group in a night operation in Achin district of 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 on Wednesday night.

NDS’ 02 unit in a released statement on Thursday said that Hazrat Ali also famous as Abu Saeed, Azam known as Shahin Nangarhari, Hamza Khurasani, and two others suspected of collaborating with ISIS have been detained.

According to the security sources, Hazrat Ali was involved in plotting to attack Kabul University and was also in contact with ISIS leaders in Syria, Iraq, and Belgium.
Oh? Interesting that we are hearing this for the first time.
02 unit of the National Directorate of Security reported that the captured key member of ISIS Khurasan spread fear and panic among the public, He was responsible for the propaganda procedures of the group.

In addition to the arrest of the ISIS members NDS also seized two pistols, according to the statement.

In January 2021, Mohammad Adil was found guilty of criminal masterminding the attack on Kabul University is sentenced to death by the Afghan supreme court.

According to the Interior Ministry, five other collaborators of the attack were sentenced to various jail terms after being found guilty of charges of treason, transfer of kabooms, and cooperating with ISIS (ISIS).

The Interior Ministry reported, five others involved in the violent mostly peaceful act were sentenced to various jail terms, after being found guilty of transfer of kabooms, treason, and cooperation with ISIS.

Amrullah Saleh welcomed the court’s decision on Saturday and added that justice had been served.

Others were also sentenced to death, Saleh said but did not provide further explanation except that the list will be shared with media soon.

Adel is said to have been charged for kidnapping and other terrorist activities, Obaidullah is another ISIS member who is found guilty of collaborating with the group, planting IEDs, and delivery of kabooms.

Previously armed assailants had attacked Kabul University in November of 2020 in which more than 19 people were killed and 22 others were maimed.

The attack ended after six hours of harsh battle between the bandidos forces of Evil and the security forces.
After six hours of fighting on November 2, 2020, 3 button men in military-style uniforms were dead, along with 22 innocents, most of them students. While ISIS loudly claimed the attack, Afghan First Vice President Amrullah Saleh blamed the Taliban, saying that the Taliban flag was found in a box brought by the jihadis and adding that the last words they wrote on the walls of the classrooms were "long live Taliban." The Taliban denied responsibility at the time, but the first arrested mastermind, Mohammad Adel, belonged to the Haqqani Network, a Pakistan-based Taliban affiliate, and others among the plotters had multiple allegiances to Al Qaeda recruiter Hizbut Tahrir, ISIS, and the Taliban.
Related:
Kabul University: 2021-03-24 Rejecting US peace plan, Afghan president to offer election in six months
Kabul University: 2021-03-23 Taliban 3-Month RIV Plan Shared With US: Naeem
Kabul University: 2021-03-17 2 Killed in Attack on University Lecturers Bus in Baghlan
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India-Pakistan
Officials see TTP offshoots behind Data Darbar blast
2019-05-10
[DAWN] With the corpse count in Wednesday’s Data Darbar shrine blast rising to 11 on Thursday, law enforcement agencies shifted focus to three major terrorist networks of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 Pakistain (TTP) in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
to lay their hands on handlers/controllers.

Among the four critically maimed, Elite Force man Saddam Hussain departed this vale of tears at the Mayo Hospital, though he underwent complicated surgeries.

Saddam, a resident of Kasur, had sustained multiple head and chest injuries in the suicide kaboom carried out on Wednesday morning at the gate of Hazrat Ali Hajveri shrine.

Other three critically injured at the Intensive Care Unit of the teaching hospital were not yet out of danger.

Talking about investigation into the suicide blast, a police brass hat told Dawn that two high-profile teams of the law enforcement agencies had been assigned the task to go after three offshoots of the TTP and their controllers.

Particularly, he said, the major focus was on Hizbul Ahrar which grabbed credit of sending the teenage jacket wallah to hit the target at Data Darbar on Wednesday.

He said the law enforcement agencies were using available resources to track down handlers who dropped the boy (suicide bomber) at the shrine.

The official said the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), Punjab, had examined the record of the three terror groups, including the Ghaiz Force and Jamatul Ahrar.

He said the Hizbul Ahrar, which grabbed credit for the attack, was the splinter group of Jamaatul Ahrar
...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough...
 headed by hard boy Muqarram Shah from Afghanistan.

Hizbul Ahrar had separated from Jamaatul Ahrar due to some internal rifts. It started operating separately to target primarily the law enforcement agencies in various parts of Pakistain.

In addition to that, the CTD, which was leading the entire investigation process, was also following other leads like the possibility of involvement of ISIS as well, he said.

The official further said the probe was being conducted on the pattern of the 2017 Mall Road blast investigation in which the LEAs had incarcerated
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
 the controller who had dropped the suicide bomber near the target site a few minutes before the blast.

As many as 14 people, including two DIGs and other personnel of the police, had embraced martyrdom when the suicide bomber went kaboom! on The Mall in February 2017 when the officials were holding a dialogue with protesting traders.

The official said some 93 privately installed CCTV cameras in addition to those of the Safe City Authority had led the Sherlocks to the handler, Anwarul Haq, who had dropped the suicide bomber on The Mall. He was arrested from a rented house in R.A. Bazaar of Lahore within 72 hours of the Mall Road blast.

The LEAs later arrested 13 more controllers of Jamatul Ahrar and dismantled the group’s network after it grabbed credit for The Mall attack. He further said the notorious group Hizbul Ahrar, which grabbed credit for the Data Darbar blast, had last carried out a gun-and- kaboom on a bus carrying personnel of a security agency in Attock in May 2018.

As many as six of them, including the controllers, were arrested later in a marathon intelligence-based operation by the LEAs, he said.

The CTD officials would also grill the Death Eaters of Hizbul Ahrar arrested in the Attock case in connection with the Data Darbar blast.

Sources said the Punjab government was also discussing a proposal to form a joint investigation team.

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Afghanistan
Top Taliban leaders among 57 killed, wounded in Kunar operations
2018-08-05
[KhaamaPress] At least 57 Talibs including some of their top leaders were killed or maimed during the ongoing operations in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
 of Afghanistan.

The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the gunnies were killed or maimed during the ongoing operations in Asmar and Ghaziabad districts

A statement by Silab Corps said the sixth phase of Qahr Silab-2 operations kicked off on Friday night and are being conducted with the help of the artillery and close air support.

The statement further added that 51 Talibs including three of their key leaders were killed and at least six others sustained critical injuries.

According to Silab, the senior Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 leaders killed during the operations have been identified as Sultan Mohammad the shadow district military chief of the group for Asmar, the group’s shadow district chief for Asmar Mawlavi Hazrat Ali, and the group’s shadow district chief for Ghaziabad Mawlavi Imran Ghazi.

A Dshk heavy machine gun, a 75mm rocket launcher, and some of the hideouts of the gunnies were also destroyed during the operations, the statement added.
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India-Pakistan
Gen Bajwa sanctions death sentences for 10 terrorists including Amjad Sabri's killers, says ISPR
2018-04-03
[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday sanctioned death sentences for 10 turbans convicted by the military courts, read a blurb issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

The military commander also ratified a variety of punishments ‐ including life imprisonment ‐ to five other terrorists.

The ISPR said the convicts were involved in several terrorism incidents, including an attack on a five-star hotel in 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 Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
 and the liquidation of renowned qawwal Amjad Sabri in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
In all, the turbans took the lives of 62 civilians and law enforcement officers, the army's media wing added.

The ISPR shared the identities of the 10 turbans who will be sent to the gallows. Their details are as follows:

Muhammad Ishaq s/o Muhammad Ibrahim and Muhammad Asim s/o Abdul Rehman
The convicts were involved in the killing of Sabri as well as attacks on security forces, resulting in deaths of 17 officials. The duo was also found in possession of firearms and explosives.

Muhammad Arish Khan s/o Muhammad Aslam
The convict was involved in the attack on Pearl Continental Hotel, Peshawar, resulting in the death of four civilians.

Muhammad Rafique s/o Hameed Khan
The convict was involved in attacking law enforcement agencies, resulting in deaths of Lt Col Muhammad Yousaf, Assistant District Officer (Frontier Constabulary) Karim Khan, Naib Subedar Fazal Wahid, Naib Subedar Muhammad Fayaz along with 16 other soldiers; three others were also injured. He was also involved in the abduction for ransom of a civilian Muhammad Ali.

Habib Ur Rehman s/o Khoba Gul
The convict was involved in attacking law enforcement agencies, resulting in the death of Lt Col Anwar Abbas along with three other soldiers; 15 were also injured. He was also involved in collecting funds for terrorists' activities.

Muhammad Fayyaz s/o Gul Faraz
The convict was involved in attacks on armed forces and law enforcement agencies, resulting in deaths of Naib Subedar Fateh Muhammad, Havildar Pervez Iqbal, Havildar Basharat Ali, Police Constable Saleem Khan and four other soldiers.

Ismail Shah s/o Nek Badshah
The convict was involved in the killing of Naib Subedar Nasim Khan and an attack on armed forces.

Fazal Muhammad s/o Abdul Mateen
The convict was involved in attacks on armed forces, resulting in deaths of Naib Subedar Fateh Muhammad, Havildar Pervez Iqbal, Havildar Basharat Ali and five other soldiers.

Hazrat Ali s/o Muhammad Ali
The convict was involved in attacks on law enforcement agencies, leading to the death of Havildar Wahab Ali and three other soldiers.

Habib Ullah s/o Anwar Baig
The convict was involved in attacks on law enforcement agencies, resulting in the death of a police constable and injuries to another official. He was also involved in the destruction of three CD Shops in Akora Khattak.

Military courts
Pakistain had legalised military court trials of terror suspects for a period of two years in January 2015, soon after turbans killed 144 people, mostly children, at an Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar.

Military courts had been disbanded owing to a sunset clause on January 7 but resumed operations after Pakistain Army Act 2017 and the 28th Constitutional Amendment Bill came into force late March.

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India-Pakistan
CJP issues 3-day deadline for Sindh police to arrest Rao Anwar
2018-01-28
[DAWN] Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday gave a three-day deadline to the Sindh police to arrest former Malir senior superintendent of police (SSP) Rao Anwar.

The deadline was given during a hearing of a suo motu
...a legal term, from the Latin. Roughly translated it means I saw what you did, you bastard...
 case regarding the extra-judicial killing of Naqeebullah Mehsood.

Naqeebullah, a 27-year-old hailing from South Wazoo, was among four men killed in an 'encounter' with a police team headed by Anwar in the Usman Khaskheli Goth on the outskirts of the metropolis.

Anwar had insisted at the time that Naqeebullah was a Death Eater affiliated with the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
 Pakistain (TTP).

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh A.D. Khowaja and Additional Inspector General (AIG) Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Sanaullah Abbasi were present in court during today's hearing, which was conducted by a three-member bench headed by the CJP at the Supreme Court's (SC) Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
 registry.

Khowaja told the court that after the first information report was lodged against Anwar, the police had traced his location to Islamabad. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
 the IG was unable to tell the chief justice the current whereabouts of the former SSP.

Khowaja claimed that the police had "tried their best" to arrest Anwar but had so far been unable to do so.

On being asked when the police would be able to arrest and produce Anwar in court, Khowaja remained silent.

Naqeebullah's father, who had also appeared in court, expressed his lack of trust in Sindh police and asked the court to form a judicial commission to investigate his son's extra-judicial killing.

However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
 the CJP assured him that the court trusted the Sindh police and urged him to allow the joint investigation team and the police to continue with their investigation.

"A judicial commission cannot conduct a criminal investigation," Justice Nisar explained to Naqeebullah's father.

Justice Nisar asked Khowaja if he was under any political pressure, to which the IGP replied in the negative. The CJP told him to work "freely" and vowed that the court will not let "honest officers fail".

Report's findings
The three-member police committee, investigating the encounter under AIG Sanaullah Abbasi, submitted its report in the court today saying that the incident "appears to be a coordinated fake encounter".

The report said that Naqeebullah Mehsud was picked up from a tea hotel on Abul Hassan Isfahani Road along with two friends, Hazrat Ali and Qasim. The three friends were kept in illegal confinement and subjected to torture, and while Ali and Qasim were later released, Naqeebullah was killed in a staged encounter.

The report said that no evidence of Naqeebullah being a terrorist or a criminal was found and the report presented by Rao Anwar on the dear departed's activities was actually of a different person who goes by the same name.

It note that though the former SSP Malir claimed to have conducted the tainted Naqeebullah 'encounter' on intelligence reports, no evidence was available to corroborate this claim.

The report also said that while Rao claimed he was not present when the encounter happened, call records show he was at the site of the encounter when it happened.

It confirmed that the former SSP Malir tried to escape abroad and did not cooperate with the committee, which amounts to misconduct and obstructing the process of justice.

The report revealed that 444 people were killed in encounters conducted under Rao Anwar, who was appointed in Malir four years ago.

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India-Pakistan
Three more terrorists executed
2017-05-06
[DAWN] Another three hardcore snuffies belonging to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 Pakistain (TTP), who had earlier been tried by military courts, were executed on Thursday.

The three were involved in committing heinous offences, including killing of innocent civilians and attacking security personnel, the Inter-Services Public Relations said.

Several coppers and soldiers also bit the dust and a number of security personnel suffered injuries in separate attacks carried out by these men.

Those executed -- Hassan Dar, Umar Zada and Hazrat Ali -- had admitted to their involvement in these crimes before the magistrates.

It was not clear in which prisons were these convicts hanged. The punishment comes on the heels of four executions that took place on Wednesday.

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Afghanistan
3 Pakistani terrorists arrested before joining ISIS in Afghanistan
2016-11-14
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A group of three Pak Death Eaters were placed in durance vile
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
 before they join the loyalists 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.

The Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
 (NDS), said the three individuals were arrested from eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
NDS further added that the detained individuals were identified as Sher Wali famous as Hanifa son of Fatah, Hamza son of Adul Rahim, and Noor Hamid Jan son of Hazrat Ali.

According to NDS, the three suspects are originally residents of Jandul village in Bajaur and were arrested from Asadabad city, the lovely provincial capital of Kunar.

This comes as the local officials in 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 earlier said the majority of the ISIS fighters in Afghanistan are coming from outside the country.

The officials further added that the residents of 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...
 in Pakistain are forming the majority of the imported muscle comprising the ISIS loyalists in Afghanistan.

Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani in July said the documents obtained from the dead bodies and those arrested during the operations in Achin, Kot, Haska Mina and other parts of Nangarhar, reveal that they are originally residents of Orakzai Agency.

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Afghanistan
Operations led by Ata Mohammad Noor launched in Balkh ahead of Nowruz celebrations
2016-03-08
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) launched clearance operations in northern Balkh province of Afghanistan to suppress the activities of the anti-government armed Death Eaters ahead of Nowruz celebrations.

The provincial government media office said the counter-terrorism operations are led by the acting provincial governor Ata Mohammad Noor.

The operations were launched late on Sunday afternoon in a number of districts of Balkh province, the provincial government media office said, adding that numerous Death Eaters were killed or injured during the operations.

The Afghan cops also tossed in the calaboose
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
 a number of Death Eaters during the operations which are still being conducted.

The anti-government armed murderous Moslem groups have not commented regarding the launch of the operation so far.

Balkh has remained among the relatively peaceful provinces during the recent years. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
 the anti-government armed Death Eaters have increased insurgency activities in a number of northern province recently, including certain parts of Balkh province.

Nowruz marks the first day of the Persian New Year, an event tht has been celebrated for more than 3000 years.

Thousands of people visit the northern Balkh province to participate in a traditional flag hoisting ceremony in Mazar-e-Sharif city which is performed in Hazrat Ali shrine.

Balkh is not host to thousands of Afghans visiting from various provinces of the country but scores of people from the regional countries are also visiting the province to mark and celebrate the start of the new persian year.

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India-Pakistan
Army chief signs death warrants of four 'hardcore terrorists'
2015-12-09
[DAWN] Chief Of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif
..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all....
 on Tuesday signed the death warrants of four "hardcore terrorists" nearly one week after four men were hanged through a military court order for involvement in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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 Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
 Army Public School attack.

An ISPR statement issued Tuesday evening said the men were convicted for "slaughtering, suicide kaboom, abduction for ransom and funding Lions of Islam organizations".

The ISPR statement said four men, namely Noor Saeed alias Hafiz Sahib, Murad Khan, Inayatullah, Khakay Khan and Israruddin alias Abu Lais will be hanged, but did not provide further details on the cases against them.

Last week, the warrants of Maulvi Abdus Salam, Hazrat Ali, Mujeebur Rehman and Sabeel alias Yahya were signed by the army chief, and they were hanged days later in a Kohat jail. The men were convicted by a military court and hanged just days ahead of the first anniversary of the APS attack on December 16.
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