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 or they will risk facing serious retaliation, tribal elders declared Monday.
The elders decided in the Monday meeting that if there was any kind of insurgency in the district, those involved will face a serious reaction from the local residents.
An elder told TOLOnews that the decision came after they drove out around 200 Pak Taliban under the command of Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency
...from the district on Sunday, and the people involved in inviting the bully boyz into the district had their houses set alight by the other residents.
This is the latest in a number of uprisings of local residents against bully boyz in provinces across Afghanistan.
Ordinary civilians fighting back against the bad turban Islamists was first reported in eastern Ghazni province in June. Since then it has been seen in several parts of Afghanistan, including Faryab, Laghman, Nangarhar, Kapisa, Ghor and Badghis provinces.