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2021-02-28 India-Pakistan
Afghan Taliban’s shadow governor shot dead near Peshawar
[DailyTimes.pk] Unidentified button men on Saturday rubbed out a shadow governor of the Afghan Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
, a second Taliban leader killed in Pakistain in five weeks, two Taliban officials said.

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Abdul Hadi Pashaiwal, the Taliban governor for Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
province, came under attack near his house at Bakhshu Pul area in the outskirts of Peshawar, they said. The slain Taliban leader was returning home from Mardan where he had gone to offer condolences on the demise of a relative, according to a Taliban leader.

The button men fled after the incident. No group grabbed credit. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
a Taliban leader said ISIS could be behind the attack. Abdul Hadi is the second Taliban leader killed near Peshawar in five weeks. Taliban commander Abdul Samad Mullah Toor was rubbed out in early January when he was offering morning prayers at a mosque near Peshawar.

Several Taliban leaders have been assassinated in parts of Pakistain in recent years. In April 2017 unidentified button men Friday rubbed out a senior Afghan Taliban leader near Peshawar. Maulvi Mir Ahmad Gul Hashmi, a Taliban shadow governor for eastern Nangarhar
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, was killed in Peshawar in June 2015. A former senior Taliban figure, Abdullah alias Maulvi Abdul Raqeeb — who was known to be in favour of peace talks with the Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
...A product, and probably the sole product, of the Southern Alliance...
administration — was bumped off in Peshawar in February 2014. Unidentified button men rubbed out Dr Nasiruddin Haqqani, the brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
, the Taliban deputy chief near Islamabad in November 2013.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-02-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [30 views ]  Top
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#1 In Pakistain, ya say? Now how could that be?
Posted by Frank G 2021-02-28 07:09||   2021-02-28 07:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Taliban leader said ISIS could be behind the attack
May we have some more please? Plus retaliation.
Posted by Glenmore 2021-02-28 09:50||   2021-02-28 09:50|| Front Page Top

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