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2020-01-11 India-Pakistan
Blast during a Taliban meeting in Pakistan kills 30 including ISI members
[KhaamaPress] A powerful explosion destroyed a religious school during a Taliban
...Arabic for students...
meeting on Friday evening in Quetta, Pakistain claiming at least 30 dead including key Taliban and ISI members, a security source confirmed.

A reliable Afghan security source from the who did not want to be named in the report told Khaama Press that according to intelligence reports, the earth-shattering kaboom took place when several key Taliban members including Sheikh Abdul Karim (Taliban’s supreme judge), Sheikh Abdul Karim’s brother, 3 Pakistain’s ISI members and some drug smugglers were sitting together on Friday evening in a religious school,
...an interestingly varied group, to be sure...
besides a prayer mosque in Ishaqabad area, in Quetta of Pakistain.

"The explosion has occurred during an important meeting between the Talibs, ISI members, and drug smugglers", the source said.
Planning something, perhaps? How sad for them that no one will ever know.
Going over expense/revenue reports to get their taxes done early....
According to this Afghan security source, at least 30 people have been killed in this explosion including 3 ISI members, Sheikh Abdul Karim’s brother, Haji Mohammad Halim, Mawlavi Haji Ahmad Khan, Gul Agha Akhund, Mawlavi Amanullah and Haji Ahmad Khan, who were key Taliban members.
Ok, guys— you can check those names off your To Do list — they’re too done.(Oh hush, dear Reader — I know exactly what I did, and I’m not sorry.)
The security source believes that the motive behind this explosion is due to the recent internal conflicts between the Taliban members.

But, according to Pakistain news agencies, the incident has taken place in a mosque during an evening prayer time, killing a police brass hat, 13 civilians and injuring 20 other worshippers.

Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
and Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
’s chief minister, Jam Kamal Khan, condemned the attack. In a statement, Pakistain’s military said soldiers were at the scene of the attack to assist civil authorities.

No individual or group have immediately grabbed credit for the bombing.


A blast inside a mosque in Quetta's Satellite Town area during Friday evening prayers claimed 15 lives and left 19 people injured, Balochistan Home Minister Zia Langove confirmed.

The mosque is located in a densely populated Pashtun-majority neighbourhood.

Fida Mohammad, who was attending the Maghrib prayers, said about 60 people were present at the time of the attack on the mosque, located in Ghousabad neighbourhood. The explosion ripped through the front row of worshippers seconds after the prayer began, he told AFP.

The incident comes three days after a motorcycle parked close to a Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle blew up in Quetta, leaving two people dead and another 14 injured. That blast, claimed by Hizbul Ahrar — an offshoot of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), had come after a respite of some weeks in what has traditionally been a violence-prone area.

Mullah Abdul Hakim bites dust in big blast in Quetta mosque
An interesting Twitter thread worth scrolling through to watch the story develop, with photos.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-01-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ]  Top

#1 Unless it was ISIS - turf war, somebody IS on their game.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-01-11 03:36||   2020-01-11 03:36|| Front Page Top

#2 'Dis is not about money, dis is about power. Dere's a new king in da streets, king Willie is 'is name. Dis is da message he has for your peepol - you are history ! Fokkin' history. Goddamn puto.' - Predator II (1990)

There were actually more ISI members, some of them go under suspension on paper, to recruit for taliban or serve in rival splinter factions without oversight. A lot of family and clan loyalties, ideology is also at play - calvinball again. Anyway, at least seventeen taliban decision-makers and key handlers attended the meet but unfortunately only eleven were caught right in the blast. Some may still make it. And Hajji Hakim may just make it, fucker. They were meeting to unite factions after a split, which would make them more coordinated and less hostile to each other.

Very interesting things are happening in Balochistan right now. A unified, simplistic ISIS is trying to make converts in broken taliban fiefdoms. Anyone siding with 'the weak taliban oldies' is a target and the daesh is announcing it's also here to play. There are recruiters already in Islamabad, Khaliqabad and places in Multan trying to find support among disaffected, anti-establishment types. There are influences coming from the west of Balochistan. Iran, Afghanistan, Syria. Qatari theocrats feel the 'Stain could achieve much more if they shed the trappings of uniformed civility and shared their nuke resources with those who will not hesitate to use them.

From within, entire Balochistan wants to be free of Pakistain and rebels are fighting taliban and ISI as well as they can. Local unaffiliated militias are objecting to the CPEC projects and chinese interference. Kidnappers and gangs want more freedom to prey on the chinese and have usual run-ins with the law, keeping police busy. In fact there are Tarantinesque fire fights between five parties sometimes !

A faction within the Pakistain military wants more aid to flow into Pakistan, and are willing to kill terrorists and even their own ISI hajjis to clean up. All they want is a manageable 'war on terror' and American dollars to fight it.

In the east, China is re-thinking their deal with such unstable monkeys, a negotiation with India could open up if we go overt within the next 2-3 years, moving up into POK. Since India has never attacked anyone and is not going to start now, we shall have to wait for the slightest move from the 'Stain first.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-01-11 05:16||   2020-01-11 05:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Show and "oh, hell..."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-01-11 06:01||   2020-01-11 06:01|| Front Page Top

#4 It would appear that religion is not all they study in the madrassas.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-01-11 12:11||   2020-01-11 12:11|| Front Page Top

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