ISPR vows to respond to terrorist surge.

[The Vicious Kind]

I will stand up for myself if attacked

I dont blame the afghans , we shouldnt expect an overstretched ANA to take actions against TTP ,when they are bogged down in helmand and Kunduz and other provinces. This is a map from a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the Western-backed Afghan government has lost control of nearly 5 percent of its territory to the Taliban since the beginning of this year.

 

[newb3e]

@Northern
@newb3e
@Hammad Arshad Qureshi
What did i tell you pakistan responded by closing afgan border
LOL dont know should i laugh or cry

Thats the best these cowards can do! We should attack Afghanistan!

 

[PakSword]

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@Farah Sohail @PaklovesTurkiye @Doordie

 

[ZenBird]

whatever works for you man

Why not at least keep an open mind and debate or do you just come on Pakistani forums to troll the other side? Nobody's handing out medals for being the biggest troll.

 

[monitor]

They are pa ki and a pa ki problem. Don't blame others.

But they are hiding inside Afghanistan as claimed by Pakistan. If the allegations are true then to secured own citizens Pakistan could strike terrorist hideout inside Afghanistan with tacit support from your govt,as Afghanistan is unable to do themselve.

 

[Samurai_assassin]

Pakistan has lawless areas as well but your govt is stupid enough to acknowledge that they harbor taliban hahaha why blame Afghanistan for your own mistakes

Mr Ghani is a stupid twat just like his predecessor Karzai. Pak made serval attempts to secure the border but AFG refused. Operation Zarb E Azb former Gen Raheel warned Ghani to secure the border while Pak hunts Faz'luls men Ghani refused. The very milliyants openly crossed into AFG. Entire AFG is lawless no law and authority.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Screw you and the BS you are spewing.

Let there be no ambiguity about this. The recent wave of terrorism is the work of India with its farsawani buddies in Afghanistan, the NDS.

Pressure is now breawing upon the leadership of Pakistan to respond in kind to both India and their pets in Afghanistan. That bullsh|t about good or bad taliban has outlived its shelf life.

Ok buddy.whatever sails your boat of supporting terrorism.

In one hand,Pakistanis cheer when someone waves IS flag in Kashmir,and then cries Indian hand when IS kills in Afghanistan (Killed Afghan Taliban) and in Pakistan. Truly awestruck.

Screw you and the BS you are spewing.

Let there be no ambiguity about this. The recent wave of terrorism is the work of India with its farsawani buddies in Afghanistan, the NDS.

Pressure is now breawing upon the leadership of Pakistan to respond in kind to both India and their pets in Afghanistan. That bullsh|t about good or bad taliban has outlived its shelf life.

 

[Spring Onion]

I heard Islamic State is responsible for the attacks in Pakistan as they claimed responsibility now. News is flashing. Yes? @Spring Onion

yes they are responsible with foot soldiers from Pakistan and Afghanistan. The TTP and other splinter groups have already joined IS.

 

[shahbaz baig]

Indian proxies on top every where in Pak.

 

[Lucky Breeze]

Please change the title of this thread. Its spreading the wrong interpretation of ISPR statement.
It challenges the authenticity of this forum, which you guys claim as an authoritative platform.
@Horus @WebMaster @Irfan Baloch

 

[Taimoor Khan]

This is how Iran treats them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT1nHT6PXW4




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6lCl3MQDjw





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua6kIWC7Tm0

Its always the humble one who gets shit thrown at. Thats how world is these day, you give danda, you will be respected, you try to help and be nice, you will be spit at. About time we change our mentality.

I swear I have given charity to these lot, even at young age from my own pocket money. These mongrols need to be put in their place.

Theses arseholes are forgetting one thing, we are not Soviets or Americans who will eventually go home one day. We are just next door, 200 million of us.

 

[Samurai_assassin]

You let off a big daal generated fart. If using nukes was so simple your father would've used it on the Hindus...

Are you a poor hungry Afghan? Want some daal?

 

[Rajput Warrior]

I heard Islamic State is responsible for the attacks in Pakistan as they claimed responsibility now. News is flashing. Yes? @Spring Onion

TTP in Afghanistan

AMONG the many complexities of militancy in the Pak-Afghan border region, there is a relatively straightforward reality. The inability — or partial unwillingness, as some in Pakistani security circles suspect — of both the Afghan government and US forces to move decisively against militants belonging to the banned TTP, who have found sanctuary in eastern Afghanistan, has allowed the threat to metastasise in a way that poses a serious, new danger to both countries. In a testimony before the US Senate Armed Forces Committee last week, Gen John Nicholson, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, claimed that TTP militants from Orakzai Agency have formed the core of the militant Islamic State group in Afghanistan, expanding from a small footprint in Nangarhar province to a presence in several parts of the country. The evolution is unsurprising: TTP factions have been notoriously violent, in some case predating the terror tactics of IS in the Middle East; the TTP has always had a pan-Islamist outlook, rejecting a focus on merely Pakistan, and many of the constituent units originally gathered under its umbrella have a virulent sectarian strain. Moreover, the ingress into Afghanistan was predictable: IS had early on shown a historical interest in Afghanistan, while large-scale military operations in Fata with poor border management and coordination between Afghanistan and Pakistan made it almost inevitable that the TTP would try and relocate to Afghanistan.

If the militant linkages are by now well known, what Gen Nicholson’s comments have perhaps unwittingly helped shed light on is the role of Afghanistan and the US in allowing a once manageable problem to grow quickly. By their inaction, despite Pakistan’s urgent appeals in recent years, Afghan and US forces inadvertently allowed the TTP to morph into IS. True, US drones have killed two of three supreme TTP leaders, and Afghan forces have launched the occasional raid on TTP sanctuaries in eastern Afghanistan. But far more evident has been the reluctance to prioritise the fight against TTP/IS. Indeed, Pakistani officials have publicly and privately voiced their concern that elements within the TTP based in Afghanistan are regarded by Kabul as a potentially useful way to bleed Pakistan to either punish or incentivise it to take on Afghan militants based in Pakistan. That mindless game hurts everyone, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the US, leaving the TTP to morph and expand. The TTP-IS militant nexus in Afghanistan needs to be urgently dismantled.

Published in Dawn February 14th, 2017


TTP, JA active along Afghan border

http://nation.com.pk/national/05-Aug-2016/ttp-ja-active-along-afghan-border


Border incursions: Suspicions grow about Afghan support for TTP
By Naveed Hussain / Zia Khan

Analysts say some Afghan Taliban may be aiding their Pakistani namesakes. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Pakistan’s military believes the fugitive leaders of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are receiving outright support from militants as well as officials in Afghanistan, where they have found a safe haven.
The suspicion comes in the wake of an upsurge in cross-border incursions in Pakistan’s border regions led mainly by TTP militants and backed by their Afghan collaborators.

“The TTP senior cadres Maulana Fazlullah, Maulvi Faqir Muhammad and Abdul Wali, aka Omar Khalid, have been receiving support from local Afghan authorities and miscreants,” the military’s chief spokesperson Major-General Athar Abbas told The Express Tribune.

Maulana Fazlullah, also known as Mullah Radio, was the chief of TTP in Swat, while Maulvi Faqir and Omar Khalid headed the group in Bajaur and Mohmand, respectively.

Military officials have gone so far to accuse the authorities in northeastern Afghanistan of being complacent in these raids – a claim vehemently denied by Afghan officials.

The military itself does not directly blame them, but analysts believe some Afghan Taliban may be aiding their Pakistani namesakes, with or without approval from the group’s top hierarchy.

Hundreds of TTP insurgents had fled the military operations in the tribal regions of Bajaur, Mohmand and Malakand Division of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to find a safe haven in the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan.

The exact number of TTP militants in Afghanistan is not known but Maj-Gen Abbas said that 200 to 300 militants have been mounting cross-border attacks in Dir and Chitral districts, suggesting they have a massive presence there.

“Militants from Bajaur and Mohmand are mostly based in Nuristan where they are hosted by an Afghan militant group, led by Qari Ziaur Rehman – a leader of the Salfi Taliban who are thought to be the closest ally of al Qaeda,” a senior military official told The Express Tribune requesting anonymity.

Salfi Islam is the bedrock of al Qaeda’s ideology, which is also followed by the Taliban controlling Kunar and Nuristan. This ideological convergence brought the two closer to each other.

Qari Zia is believed to be once a close confidante of Osama bin Laden and hosted him once after his epic escape from the Tora Bora mountains in 2001.

Peshawar-based security analyst Brigadier (retd) Muhamaad Saad believes the Taliban are not a monolithic entity. “They can be divided into three broad categories: Kandahari Taliban, led by Mullah Omar; Pakti Taliban, led by Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Sirajuddin Haqqani; and Salfi Taliban,” he said. “It’s the Salfi Taliban who pose a real threat to Pakistan. They may not be obeying the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar.” But the Afghan Taliban deny any schisms in the movement. “All mujahideen are united under the leadership of Mullah Omar,” Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid told The Express Tribune by phone from an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.

A respected cleric who runs an Islamic seminary in Shekandai, a village on the border between Chitral and Nuristan, endorses Mujahid’s claim. “There is no evidence of Qari Zia’s group defying the authority of Mullah Omar,” said Maulana Jamal Abdul Nasir.

Two years ago, the Nuristan Taliban had kidnapped a Greek professor from Chitral. And they had offered to free him in return for the release of three Afghan commanders – Ustad Yasir, the second-in-command of the 1980s jihadi leader Abdul Rasool Sayyaf, Maulana Rehmatuddin Nuristani, a local commander from Nuristan and Maulvi Abdullah Akhund from Kandahar.

“This shows there are no differences between the Salfi Taliban and those led by Mullah Omar,” said Maulana Nasir. The Afghan Taliban do not interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries. “No member of Taliban can go against the movement’s policy,” Mujahid said – blaming the TTP for all cross-border incursions. He also denied Qari Zia’s group was sheltering the TTP militants.

The governor of Nuristan province also appears to be exonerating the Afghan Taliban. “The Afghan Taliban have never carried out cross-border attacks in Pakistan,” Tameem Nuristani told The Express Tribune by phone from his home.

He also put the blame squarely on the TTP. “Look, they (Pakistani Taliban) have killed hundreds of people in bomb and suicide attacks across Pakistan, they’re Pakistan’s enemy,” he added. Nuristani, however, conceded that the TTP militants have found ‘safe havens’ in Kunar and Nuristan. Asked why the Afghan authorities do not move against them, Nuristani said, “Like Waziristan, we, too, have areas where the government’s writ does not exist.”

Scores of Pakistani military and paramilitary troops and policemen have been killed in cross-border raids by militants in Dir and Chitral districts. Last month, dozens of people were killed in militant attacks on security check posts in Chitral. And earlier this month, dozens of young men from Bajaur Agency were seized by TTP while they strayed across the border in Nuristan during an outing.

What is Pakistan doing to stop such raids?

“In Dir (Upper and Lower) extra troops have been deployed to man the border region. And in Chitral, new check posts are being set up at a bridge connecting the region with Afghanistan. We are sending huge reinforcements there,” said Maj-Gen Abbas.

The unnamed senior military official said the military was also encouraging formation of village defence committees in Chitral on the pattern of Amn committees (qaumi lashkars) in the tribal regions. But he conceded that local residents were unwilling to join, fearing reprisals from the militants.

Published in The Express Tribune



TTP bases in Afghanistan: Evidence mounts on Afghan origin of Badhaber attack


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Shortly after over a dozen heavily armed militants, disguised as security officials, had stormed the air force base near Peshawar in a pre-dawn raid, the head of a local chapter of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan called reporters in Pakistan and Afghanistan from an ‘Afghan phone number’ to claim responsibility for the attack.

Military spokesperson Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa had in his press briefing on Friday said that they had recordings of the call which was controlling the Badhaber attack, adding that the call originated from Afghanistan.

Apart from TTP chapter chief Umar Mansoor – who had made the call to the media, members of several militant groups in the region routinely call reporters on both sides of the Durand Line from Afghan numbers to claim responsibility for attacks. This shows terrorists have been planning and launching attacks in Pakistan from Afghan soil.

Why Taliban terrorists are free to attack Pakistan?

After the military launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb in June 2014, a large number of local and foreign militants slipped into Afghanistan and set up bases in Kunar, Nuristan and Nangarhar provinces.

They have since launched major attacks in Pakistan, including the Army Public School attack which left 140 children dead. Islamabad has repeatedly asked Kabul to take action against these militant sanctuaries, especially against TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah, but little has been done thus far.

Afghan journalists in the border provinces say Pakistani militants have been given free reign.

“Afghan intelligence and other security officials do not touch Pakistani militants even if they pass security check posts,” an Afghan journalist told The Express Tribune by phone on the condition of anonymity.

The role of Afghanistan’s intelligence agency has been called into question with the National Directorate of Security (NDS) recently confirming that it was a US drone strike that killed several Pakistani militants affiliated with Da’esh in Nangarhar. And on Friday, a former NDS chief Asadullah Khalid tweeted a link to Mansoor’s video on the Badhaber attack, describing the slain attackers as ‘martyrs’. Interestingly, he later disowned and deleted the tweet from his handle saying his account had been hacked.

The link between the TTP and NDS is not new, with the relationship being exposed when spokesperson for former Afghan president Hamid Karzai described senior TTP leader Latif Mehsud as a ‘major asset’ of the Afghan government. The statement had been issued after American forces in October 2013 recovered Mehsud from a car full of Afghan intelligence agents. An angry Karzai had condemned the arrest as “a challenge to Afghan sovereignty”.


US confirms killing of APS massacre mastermind in Afghanistan drone strike

RAWALPINDI: Umar Khalid Khurasani, the mastermind of the gruesome terrorist attack on the Army Public School Peshawar, has been killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan, the top commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan confirmed on Wednesday.

According Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lt-Gen Asim Bajwa, Commander Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan (RSMA) General John Nicholson spoke to Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif over telephone today and confirmed the killing of terrorist Umar Mansour Narai in the drone strike in Afghanistan.


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Umar Mansour Narai – also known as Khalifa Umar Khalid Khurasani, a militant commander of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) – was the mastermind of the 2014 massacre of 132 children and nine staff at a military-run school in Peshawar – the deadliest militant attack in Pakistan's history.

 

[Samurai_assassin]

Its always the humble one who gets shit thrown at. Thats how world is these day, you give danda, you will be respected, you try to help and be nice, you will be spit at. About time we change our mentality.

I swear I have given charity to these lot, even at young age from my own pocket money. These mongrels need to be put in their place.

Theses arseholes are forgetting one thing, we are not Soviets or Americans who will eventually go home one day. We are just next door, 200 million of us.

Afghans are humiliated in Iran. The Iranian guards make Afghans dance whilst the Iranians mock them. Pakistan has never done such thing to the Afghans.

 

[GR!FF!N]

Nope it's hard reality which is difficult for even you to absorb. Just search for statement of latifullah Mehsud TTP (ISIS) former second in command and his views on Indian RAW

I'd rather search Taliban and would read to know who they really are..

Everyone knows TTP is Taliban faction,RAW didn't create or operate them.It's a proxy got backfired.