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Afghanistan
Sirajuddin Haqqani with direct support of ISI involved in Afghanistan violence: Dostum
2016-06-22
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum
...ethnic Uzbek warlord who distinguished himself fighting the Soviets and the Taliban. The story that he had a bad guy run over with a tank is an exaggeration. It was an armored personnel carrier...
has said Sirajuddin Haqqani
...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
is a key player in the ongoing violence in Afghanistan with the direct support of Pak military intelligence, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

During a meeting with the Afghan armed forces late on Saturday night, Dostum said ISI has been continuously attempting to destabilize Afghanistan and conduct terrorist attacks with the help of Haqqani terrorist network.

Dostum further added that the newly appointed leader of Taliban Mawlavi Haibatullah Akhundzada
...Deputy to Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour...
and his deputy Mullah Yaqoob are useless figures with no authorities but the second deputy chief of Sirajuddin Haqqani is a key player.

He also slammed ISI for the major attacks in the country including a deadly attack on vIP protection unity in capital Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
earlier in April.

The Afghan officials are saying the Haqqani terrorist network leaders as well as the Taliban group leadership are based in 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 Quetta cities of Pakistain.

The Afghan officials have long been criticizing Pakistain for failing to take actions against the groups using the Pak soil to carry out attacks in Afghanistan.

In the meantime, the US Department of Defense recently said Pakistain should deny safe havens to the terrorist and krazed killer groups in its soil in a bid to help improve the security environment of the region.

"Pakistain must play a role in reducing the threat from terrorist and myrmidon groups in the region," the Defense Department said in a report.

The report further added that sustained Pak efforts to pressure the Haqqani Network and the Taliban and to disrupt active threat streams are necessary to help decrease violence in the region, to reduce the threat posed by these groups, and to achieve lasting progress on counterterrorism issues.

Posted by:Fred

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