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2023-09-15 India-Pakistan
Daesh commander killed during operation in Balochistan’s Mastung: CTD
[Dawn] A suspected commander of the banned outfit ISIS was bumped off during an operation in 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 Mastung area, the province’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) said on Wednesday.

In a blurb issued today, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, the CTD said it had received intelligence regarding a visit to Mastung of one of the leaders — Ghulam Din alias Shoaib — of ISIS’s Balochistan chapter to plan terrorist activity in the area and its surroundings.

CTD statements use the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State
...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....
(IS) turban group.

It added that CTD personnel initiated an operation and surrounded the suspect, demanding his surrender. "He started firing and tried to flee the scene. But since planning has been done in advance so he was challenged by force and was killed in cross-firing," the statement added.

It said he was allegedly involved in several high-profile terrorist activities in the province, including the attack on Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
-Fazl leader Maulana Ghafoor Haideri, the 2016 suicide kaboom on lawyers in Quetta, the suicide attack on Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
chief Sirajul Haq
...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
, multiple suicide attacks on the Sibi Mela and Quetta police, as well as the "slaughter" of Hazara
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
coal miners in Mach.

The statement added that he joined ISIS in 2015 after receiving training in Wazoo from the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP).

The CTD said further investigation was under way in the matter.

Last week, the police said five alleged TTP bad boyz were potted during an operation by the CTD in the Aghberg area of Quetta.

On Sep 2, the CTD said it had killed eight TTP and IS members in two intelligence-based operations conducted in Quetta and Washuk districts.

A UN report discussed at a Security Council meeting in New York last month had said the TTP and other gro­ups affiliated with the Taliban and Al Qaeda were providing NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
-calibre weapons to IS.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-09-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [34 views ]  Top
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