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India-Pakistan
Islamic State footprints surface in parts of Bannu
2014-11-14
[DAWN] Footprints of the myrmidon group known as Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
have now also started appearing in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
's town of Bannu, days after similar reports of the bully boy group's presence were received from other parts of the country.

Wall-chalking welcoming IS ‐ which is also known by the names of Daish and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ‐ have now appeared in various parts of Bannu city including its cantonment area.

Bannu borders North Wazoo tribal agency, known to be the Pak Taliban nerve-centre where the Pak military is carrying out Operation Zarb-e-Azb
..the Pak offensive against Qaeda in Pakistain and the Pak Taliban in North Wazoo. The name refers to the sword of the Prophet (PTUI!)...
to flush them out.


"We welcome the head of Syrian Daish Group Abu Bakkar Al Bagdadi and pay him tributes," says the graffiti in Urdu language in various parts of Bannu district.

The message from little-known group 'Awami Baghi Group Bannu Waziristan' appears to endorse a reported threat alert issued earlier by the 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...
Home Department that the group has recruited more than 10,000 fighters from Kurram tribal agency and Hangu district
... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa.

Wall chalking was reported to be seen on City Road, Cantt Road, Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
road and Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
road in Bannu.

Earlier, pamphlets believed to be from IS were also distributed in various parts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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 Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
and the Afghan refugee camp but were later seized.
Posted by:Fred

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