By Jon Boone in The Guardian, Nov 18, 2015 at 05.01 GMT Islamabad: Afghan refugees who have lived in Pakistan for decades are being driven out of the country in a wave of harassment by officials, with many facing arbitrary arrests and the destruction of what little property they own, Human Rights Watch has said. Pakistan’s large population of Afghans has long lived at the margins of society, but a report by the rights group…
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Khaama Press – Tue Nov 17 2015, 8:44 pm The Afghan Intelligence operatives have detained at least 27 university students who were affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group and the Taliban group. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the university students were arrested after they torched the national flag and instead raised the flags of ISIS and Taliban group. NDS said a number of the detained university students…
The writer is an assistant professor at Bahria University. “We view the Taliban as …an important partner in a peaceful Afghan-led reconciliation process. We are not actively targeting the Taliban”, Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis. This is a very significant statement given by the US Department of Defense. The Americans have been trying for peace talks with the Taliban for quite some time. Interestingly, the American President George Bush had said in September 2004…
By Richard Norton-Taylor in The Guardian, Nov 17,2015 at 22.10 GMT Up to 30,000 foreign fighters from as many as 100 countries have travelled to Syria and Iraq since 2011, according to an independent analysis. Half came from neighbouring countries and north Africa, and a quarter from Europe and Turkey, says the Global Terrorism Index, drawn up by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) thinktank. The flow of foreign fighters does not appear to…
By Imtiaz Gul in The Express Tribune, November 18th, 2015. The writer heads the independent Centre for Research and Security Studies, Islamabad The writer heads the independent Centre for Research and Security Studies, Islamabad and author of Pakistan: Pivot of Hizbu Tahrir’s Global Caliphate Whenever Afghans, Indians and Pakistanis meet, most of them usually trade stereotypes about one another. They regurgitate cliched narratives and often get bogged down in unpleasant exchanges rooted in history. During…
KHAAMA PRESS, Oct 23 2015, 9:45 am The Afghan national security forces have taken full control of Khamab district in northern Jawzjan province around three weeks after the Taliban militants captured the district. According to the local security officials, the district was fully cleared of the militants presence with the Afghan security forces inflicting casualties to the militants during the operations led by the Vice President Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum. Gen. Dostum arrived in Jawzjan…
report in The News, October 23, 2015 PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban have rejected reports that they have made an alliance with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and made it clear that they don’t establish links or make alliances with groups operating outside Afghanistan. Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid stressed that it wasn’t the policy of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan to interfere in the affairs of other countries or carry out joint activities with any…
AFP report in Dawn, August 29th, 2015 KHOGYANI: The self-styled Islamic State (IS) group had ambitious plans for Afghanistan, but Taliban resistance, US drone strikes, and a society less scarred by sectarianism mean the extremists have so far failed to repeat their Middle Eastern breakthrough. The terrorist group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, has been trying for months to establish itself in Afghanistan’s eastern areas, challenging the Taliban on their own turf.…
Khaama Press, Aug 28 2015, 10:53 pm Kabul: The Taliban militants group in Afghanistan has claimed that the ISIS affiliates operating in Afghanistan are mostly Pakistani nationals with few young Afghan men recruited by the group. Taliban also ruled out that the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) terrorist group is based in Afghanistan, insisting that the militant groups are fighting under the flag and policy of Taliban in Afghanistan. “People under the name of Daesh…
QUETTA: Six militants were killed in an operation in the Awaran district while eight militants surrendered to the Frontier Corps, Balochistan, in the Mawand area of Kohlu district on Tuesday. Sources said six terrorists were killed, several others were injured and a security personnel embraced martyrdom in an operation in the Mashkay area of Awaran district. The FC launched a search operation in the Mashkay area of Awaran district against the militants. “The militants opened…
SOUND BYTE: ‘The more Afghans trust Pakistan, the worse off we are’
By Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, November 19th, 2015 Last week, a group of journalists, academics and civil society members from Afghanistan were invited to what was informally known as a ‘Track 1.5/2’ exchange, hosted by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS). Dawn spoke to Barry Salaam, a media professional and human rights activist, who visited Islamabad for the dialogue, and asked him about the prospects for peace between the two neighbours in the…