Recently, I received UNCONFIRMED info about two new developments on PAK-controlled side of the Durand Line: 1. Since couple of months, ISI handed over a number of the old training camps, located on Durand Line and used by AFG Taliban in last 2 decades, to some #ISKP loyalists ...
... The WAK Mosque&Kaaj Course attacks, were reportedly examples of this new project. 2. In KPK, the nephew of late Jamil al-Rahman, named Hayatullah, alongside Sheikh Aminullah are busy with the re-establishment of a #Salafist org. similar to Jumat-ul-Dawah ila Quran wal-Sunnah.
If confirmed (true), the above details showing that the #ISKP, either in the current shape or mutated, will gain more strength&momentum against the Taliban in the near future.
I want to still emphasize, that the ISKP group, in short/mid term, will not be a replacement for the TB.
In recent few weeks, several low& high profile attacks in Kabul City, incl. a couple of small IED detonations, 2 mosque explosions& a complex attack against an educational center, remained unclaimed.
This comes as a number of similar attacks in the past were claimed by the #ISKP.
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Pro-#Taliban sources are celebrating the #assassination of Commander Abdul #Samad, a former Police officer from Kandahar, in #Quetta City of Balochistan.
Few days back, Commander Samad appeared in a video clip, with AFG tri-color flag in the background, condemning the attack... twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
... against #Kaaj Educational Center in Kabul& said he had served AFG in the past& without regret, he continues serving his country.
His remarks were apparently interpreted by the pro-TB media activists, as anti-IEA, claiming that he had announced "rebellion" against the Taliban.
Meanwhile, today morning, unknown gunmen shot&killed a Salafi scholar, Sheikh Mawlana Abdul Aziz, in Bara town of KPK Province of Pakistan.
AFG TB, ISKP& TTP, among others, are the 3 main groups having the capacity&history of target killings in KPK&Quetta. mashriqtv.pk/latest/252016/…
Hizb ut-Tahrir dedicated its weekly comment to the recent "#Mysterious_bombings & their motives" in #AFG.
"The recent horrific explosions show that after the deployment of the intelligence networks of regional countries& super powers in AFG in various forms, there are signs of...
...complex games being played by major colonial powers, such as the U.S. & its allied states that neighboring AFG. The motive of these explosions is more of a kind of psychological war against the IEA...to increase the distance between the government& the people of Afghanistan...
...The IEA needs a coherent, decisive& unwavering stance in its foreign policy with these states, to block the doors& paths of these states& powers to AFG.
The closeness of the IEA for recognition, to the great powers& their dependent states, makes the game more complicated...
Gulbuddin #Hekmatyar's "peaceful& constructive #plan to rescue Afghanistan& end the crisis" include 7 articles as follow: 1. An unrestricted&unconditional meeting between all influential AFG parties, who will make decisions by consensus, not the majority, to be acceptable to all.
2. The meeting will be intra-Afghan and Trilateral delegations will participate in it:
A- The Government (Taliban)
B- The Armed Opposion Groups
C- Afghans who are against the war and pro-peace 3. It would be good if foreign stakeholders& representatives of the UN be invited as...
... observers and supporters; but they should promise to avoid any kind of interference in AFG affairs and will support any unanimous decision of the meeting. 4. This meeting should be held in a neutral country that is neither a supporter of any party in AFG nor has it helped ...
The #NRF spokesman claimed liberating Shokai District of #Badakhshan, from the #Taliban, today.
No independent source confirmed the collapse of the district.
Taliban didn't comment on the issue yet.
Talking to a local source, he confirmed that an attack by NRF, today morning, resulted in some casualties to the TB but:
- District didn't collapse.
- District governor was (slightly) wounded (not abducted).
- TB's famous commander, Juma Khan Fatih, is now in the district center.
While the Taliban officially didn't comment on the developments in Badakhshan's Shakay District yet, NRF released a photo that is allegedly showing the TB's district governor in the NRF captivity.
Meanwbile, @RahimLaghmani has another version of the story.
Dozens of students were killed& wounded in an #explosion in #Kaaj educational center in #Shia settled Dasht-e Barchi area, in PD13 of #Kabul City, today. #Taliban's interior ministry confirmed the attack but didn't provide details about the casualties. #ISKP is the main suspect.
"The suicide attacker killed the security guards in the alley& the gate of the Kaaj educational center and injured 2 officials inside the center, with Small Arms Fire, before detonating his suicide vest in a classrooms where the trial University Entrance Exam was taking place...
...Unfortunately, dozens of students have been injured& martyred. Most of the wounded are girls.
Um ul-Banin Asghari, my sister and the sisters of Ustad Mukhtar Modaber& Tahir Rezaei, the security guard of Kaaj Center, are also among the martyrs," a victim's brother posted on FB.
A #fake twitter account attributed to the #Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue & Prevention of Vice wrote:
"After that Sheikh Khalid Hanafi, informed the @UNAMAnews representative about the Ministry's activities, he said: There is need for a similar org. in #Europe."
The same #fake_account with over 14k followers, yesterday under the banner of the #Taliban's ministry of foreign affairs tweeted about removal of #Abas_Stanikzai, from his position as deputy foreign minister. Mentioned fake news was covered by many media outlets.
Photos: from SM.
Similarly, the news about a market for chidren's sell, is a #Fake_News. #Taliban's spokesman tweeted that the #children in the video are brought for receiving vaccine, not for sale.
Recently, many fake news appear in the Social Media, mainly for propaganda against the TB or NRF.