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| Taliban’s Quetta Shura still based in Quetta city of Pakistan: Hayat |
| 2016-11-28 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader ship council of the Taliban group, Quetta Shura ...Mullah Omar's command center, located in Quetta, that the Pak govt hasn't been able to find since its establishment in November, 2001. Honest... , is still based in Quetta city of Pakistain, the provincial governor of southern Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province said. Hayatulllah Hayat rejected reports as baseless regarding the transfer of Quetta Shura to Helmand province. Speaking to RFE/RL, Hayat said the movement of the leaders of the group between Helmand and Quetta cannot be rejected but their leadership council is still based in Quetta city. Hayat further added that the top leaders of the group are still based in Quetta and 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. cities although movement of the group’s shadow governors and other leader cannot be rejected to provinces from the Pak cities. This comes as the group’s front man Zabiullah Mujahid earlier told News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the members of the Quetta Shura had shifted to Helmand provinces some months ago. A senior Taliban capo, Asad Afghan, also told to News Agency that Dare Not be Named the move would consolidate the turbans’ military gains and help lay the ground for a dominant position if and when peace talks resume. "We are in the last stages of war and are moving forward," said Afghan, who is closely involved in formulating the turbans’ war strategy. "We are the real government in Afghanistan," he said. The move across the border would give the movement "more focus" at a time it needs to be "quick, clear and more secure about our decisions." This comes as the Afghan officials earlier said the group is looking to shift its leadership council in Helmand province by intensifying attacks on key districts of the province. However, a woman is only as old as she admits... Hayat said the group’s attempts to shift the Quetta Shura to Helmand have failed despite they launched numerous attacks to seize key areas of the province. |
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