Iran is recruiting Afghan Shia fighters in their tens of thousands to step up the Islamic Republic’s efforts in the Syrian war, offering them salaries to join the fight to save the government of President Bashar al-Assad. As the conflict enters its fifth year, Iranian media has said that there are some 20,000 fighters in the Fatemiyon division, which is made up of both naturalised Afghans who lived in Iran and those who have travelled…
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QUETTA: Iranian security forces handed over 72 Pakistani nationals to Levies force on Pak-Iran borders in Taftan area of Chaghi district. Levies sources informed on Saturday that these Pakistani workers were apprehended from different parts of Iran by its security forces as they were living there without legal documents. The Levies sources said these deportees would be handed over to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for further interrogation. www.thenews.com.pk/print/93318-Iran-hands-over-72-Pakistanis-to-Levies-force#sthash.NsmNAYqw.dpuf
KABUL: Former Chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said on Saturday that Islamabad has not given up pursuing the strategy of dominating the Afghan foreign policy which led to civil war and unprecedented destruction in Afghanistan, referring the factional fightings following the Mujahideen’s takeover of power in 1990s. Addressing the fourth round of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Bilateral Dialogue held in Kabul, Amrullah Saleh said that for Afghans the jihad ended in 1992, but for…