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2021-08-22 Afghanistan
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With a complete Taliban takeover, where does it leave the Islamic State in Afghanistan
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[OneIndia] With the Taliban
...Arabic for students ...
taking over Afghanistan, questions loom as to how the outfit's relations with the Islamic State
| Currently, according to estimates there are around 2,000 ISIS turbans remaining in Afghanistan. |
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
would be in the country. The ISIS which established the ISKP in the Nangarhar
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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 of eastern Afghanistan in January 2015 has however struggled to find its foothold in the country.
When the ISKP was formed, Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour had written to the ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to stop the recruitment drive. The ISIS had started recruiting disgruntled Taliban fighters. Mansour had said in the letter that any activity by the ISIS in Afghanistan should be carried out under the leadership of the Taliban.
However the letter was not paid heed to and fighting broke out between the two factions within the Taliban in Zabul Province on whether or not to join the ISIS. In April 2017, the ISIS took into captivity several drug pushers who were selling opium to raise funds for the Taliban. This led to more festivities and 20 bad boyz were potted in the fighting.
In July there were more conflicts and the ISIS suffered further setbacks. It was in February 2020 the Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
Administration signed a peace accord with the Taliban in Doha and the outfit pledged that it would keep the ISIS and other krazed killer groups out of Afghanistan. Currently, according to estimates there are around 2,000 ISIS turbans remaining in Afghanistan. It may be recalled that around 23 persons from Kerala too had left for Afghanistan to join the ISIS. Many have died, while some have been captured.
Following the takeover of Afghanistan, the Taliban in a major move against its rival ISIS executed its former chief Zia ul Haq
...the creepy-looking former dictator of Pakistain. Zia was an Islamic nutball who imposed his nutballery on the rest of the country with the enthusiastic assistance of the nation's religious parties, which are populated by other nutballs. He was appointed Chief of Army Staff in 1976 by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, whom he hanged when he seized power. His time in office was a period of repression, with hundreds of thousands of political rivals, minorities, and journalists executed or tortured, including senior general officers convicted in coup-d'état plots, who would normally be above the law. As part of his alliance with the religious parties, his government helped run the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, providing safe havens, American equipiment, Saudi money, and Pak handlers to selected mujaheddin. Zia died along with several of his top generals and admirals and the then United States Ambassador to Pakistain Arnold Lewis Raphel when he was assassinated in a suspicious air crash near Bahawalpur in 1988...
alias Abu Umar Khurasani. He was killed iii the Pul-e-Charkhi prison at Kabul after the Taliban took control. A report in the Wall Street Journal said that Khorasani was taken from an Afghan government prison and executed. Khorasani had been arrested by the Afghan cops in May 2020. He headed the group's operations in Afghanistan. However at the time of his arrest, he had been replaced by Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi.
With the Taliban completely in control, the ISIS could struggle even further to expand its footprint in Afghanistan, according to experts that OneIndia spoke with. The Taliban has the support of Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad , a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
, Lashkar-e-Tayiba, Pak Taliban as well as the Tehrik-e-Taliban. The TTP in a statement pledged its support to the Afghan Taliban leadership and said that it would support the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan.
Leon Panetta
...former SecDef, previously Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta served as President Bill Clinton's White House Chief of Staff from 1994 to 1997 and was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1993....
, former US Secretary of Defence however told NPR's All Things Concerned that the Taliban are turbans and they will support terrorists. There is no question in my mind that they will provide a safe haven for the al-Qaeda, the ISIS and terrorism in general, he had said earlier this month.
The experts cited above however said that it needs to be seen how the relations between the Taliban and ISIS will shape out. Whether the ISIS would join hands with the Taliban or not largely depends on whether the former would wave the peace flag. 
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