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2022-04-29 India-Pakistan
Have the Haqqanis entered J&K: What the killing of 2 Pashto speaking terrorists tells us
[OneIndia] The presence of Pashtun gunnies in Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
(K&K) is a worrying sign. Two Pashto speaking foreign bad boyz were potted in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir earlier this month and this has led the agencies to suspect the hand of the dreaded Haqqani Network.

The Haqqani Network mainly operates in eastern Afghanistan and North-Western Pakistain and is closely associated with the ISI. Following the encounter in Sunjuwan, ADGP Mukesh Singh said that an arrested aide of one of the terrorist, Shafiq Ahmed who had kept them at their house had informed the police that both spoke Pashto.

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With this development a probe is on to ascertain whether these two gunnies were part of the Haqqani Network.

Following the takeover by the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
there were fears allayed about the the group trying to interfere in Kashmir. Post the takeover, the Taliban had assured India that it would not interfere in Kashmir.
They worship the Father of Lies. And also, y’all are are kaffir Hinjoos, and therefore not entitled to permanent truths.
However there was no such assurance from the Haqqani Network.

Moreover India was skeptical about this claim as the Taliban shares close ties with the 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 and al-Qaeda all of whom have a keen interest in J&K. An official tells OneIndia that the ISI could have roped in the Haqqani Network to send its operatives into the Valley.

The main groups that operate in the Valley are down to a large extent. Moreover the ISI wants the heat of these groups and hence could have roped in the Haqqani Network. It could also to do with the fact that the ISI is looking to strengthen its operations in the Valley, the official cited above also said.
One assumes also that the ISI is paying for this service...
The Taliban during its rule between 1996 and 2001 has provided a safe haven for groups such as the Jaish-e-Mohammad, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and Harkat-ul-Jihadi-Islami. The JeM in fact ran a terror camp under the Taliban rule at Khost. If one looks at the manner in which the Taliban has sheltered these anti-India terror groups in the past, it would be hard to believe the assurances given by the outfit, an official tells OneIndia. Moreover it was the Taliban which allowed the Indian plane land in Afghansitan during the Kandahar hijack. This was a clear indicator that the Taliban followed the instructions of the ISI, which wanted Jaish-e-Mohammad chief, Masood Azhar
...One of the major players in Pak terrorism. In early 1994, India incarcerated him for his activities. In 1995, foreign tourists were kidnapped in Jammu and Kashmir. The kidnappers included his release among their demands. One of the hostages managed to escape but the rest were eventually killed. In 1999, he was freed by the Indian government in exchange for passengers on hijacked Indian Airlines Flight 814 that had been diverted to Kandahar. The hijackers were led by Masood Azhar's brother, Ibrahim Athar. Once he was handed over to the hijackers, they fled to Pak territory despite the fact that Islamabad had earlier stated that any of the hijackers would be jugged at the border. The Pak government had also previously indicated that Azhar would be allowed to return home since he did not face any charges there. Shortly after his release, he made a public address to an estimated 10,000 people in Karachi, firing up the rubes against America and India...
out of an Indian jail and back in Pakistain.

The Taliban may not send its fighters or strategise regarding Kashmir, but the worry, officials say is that it could well provide a safe haven for gunnies groups which have an anti-India agenda.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [24 views ]  Top
 File under: Taliban/IEA 

#1 There are several pashtuns in the LeT itself. But equipment from the Taliban has been noticed in gunny hands of late. NVGs, PK guns, explosive charges bought from their Taliban cousins. Pakis from AJK like to believe they're pashtuns sometimes, if they learn pashto and train in Quetta for a few months.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-04-29 08:34||   2022-04-29 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2  if they learn pashto and train in Quetta for a few months.

With that kind of resumé, surely they don’t speak it as well as you, and with a more noticeably foreign accent... My mother tells of the Nazis arriving a few years after she followed her parents into Holland, and of the shibboleth tongue twister she and the local children could say that Germans simply could not pronounce.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-04-29 10:27||   2022-04-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

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