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and ISIS faceless myrmidons have left over 2,000 families homeless in Kunar’s Chapa Dara district in the east of Afghanistan.
Shamsuddin, a Kunar resident who has fled the area under control of ISIS alongside his 14-member family, said battles have dramatically intensified between ISIS faceless myrmidons and the Taliban in recent weeks.
"There is war. We have left everying behind and our children are homeless," said Shamsuddin.
But, local officials in Kunar said the security forces are on alert to thwart any possible hostile move by ISIS outfits in the area.
"There are domestic and imported muscle," said Wali Gul, resident of Chapa Dara.
Chapa Dara district is located in the south of Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
and has over 27,000 population. The district has borders with Nursitan, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Laghman
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men.
and Badakhshan. The mountainous district is famous for its natural beauty and green mountains.
Security officials in the area said that reinforcements have been sent to thwart possible threat by bad boys.
"It is a project of Pakistain's ISI. There are Paks Punjabis and they support the bad boys," said Mirwais Sapai, commander of 2nd Brigade of 201 Silab Army Corps.