Al-Qaeda appeared as an org & it strengthened its roots in Middle East, Central Asia & Africa. It was founded after the end of the Soviet war in 80s by Bin Laden. This was a sunni- salfi jihadist.
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TTA was founded by Mullah Omar, a group consisting of 50 Talibs (students) in #Kandahar in 1994. It was a Deobandi Islamic fundamentalist org. Mujahedeen from #Pakistan joined #Taliban movement in #Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal.
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History of TTP:
#TTP was officially established in Dec 2007 under the leadership of militant commander Baitullah Mehsud.
The group emerged as an alliance of fighters and radicals belonging to diverse backgrounds, tribes and nationalities.
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Although Pashtuns are known to be in majority but TTP has a robust presence of Arab, Uzbek, Afghan, Chechen as well as Punjabi among other militants.
Members of TTP are believed to be from all of FATA's seven tribal agencies and districts of KPK, including Swat, Bannu, Tank,
. . Lakki Marwat, Dera Ismail Khan, Kohistan, Buner, and Malakand.
Al-Qaeda has larger orbit and it works as an organization internationally. In the early period Al-Qaeda worked in #Afghanistan as well to fill the vacuum.
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TTA has its state presence though it has its effects in Central Asian states, #Iran & #Pakistan. But after the withdrawal of the US forces it appeared as a party in #Afghanistan.
With the toppling of the #Taliban govt, the Talibs moved to Pakhtoon dominated areas of AFG .
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. . & subsequently to #Pakistan. Number of their combatant friends of other nationalities slipped into Pakistan.
TTA globally acquired the status of terrorist organization that works against Pakistan mainly against Pakistan government and military forces.
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Militant groups from the Mahsuds, Wazirs, Sulaimankhels, and Bhittani tribes in FATA started resistance against the Security forces.
Initially, the tribes considered the military campaigns against foreign fighters taking refuge in FATA as efforts to subjugate them.
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Moreover, some tribes live on both sides of Durand Line and they felt humiliated when their Afghan relatives or guests who were promised refuge by the tribes were attacked by the Security forces.
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Mostly TTP works and feeds on external agendas to harm maximum loss to the #Pakistan sovereignty & security. #TTP killed many Pakistanis including leading political figures like Benazir Bhutto and was involved in heinous crimes like the APSAC #Peshawar incident etc.
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Allama Iqbal, widely regarded as a multifaceted thinker and philosopher, has inspired three major revolutions in the region. Far from being merely a poet, Iqbal was a mystic, Sufi, Islamic scholar, modern-day Muslim philosopher, and an Islamic reformist.
Many Pakistanis may not realize that Iqbal's philosophy and revolutionary poetry extend beyond the independence movement of Pakistan.
His influence reached the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Iran, driven significantly by his Persian poetry and his concept of a Muslim nation embracing its own culture and identity over Western influences.
Known in Iran as Iqbal-e-Lahori, Iqbal holds a special place among Iranians, who admire his work alongside legendary Persian poets like Hafiz, Saadi, Rumi, and Ferdowsi.
Pictures: The Statue of Allama Iqbal in Mashhad, and a street named after Iqbal-e-Lahori in Tehran.
THREAD: Re-emergence of TTP in context of fall of Kabul
After the historical return of Afghan Taliban in Afghanistan in 2021, TTP has strengthened its influence and foothold in Afghanistan. To survive #Pakistanโs continuous military operations, #TTP relocated itself toโฆ twitter.com/i/web/status/1โฆ
In addition to that #TTP seems to acquire modern #American/NATO weapons against Pakistan that foreign forces left in #Afghanistan. Since #Taliban takeover of #Kabul, TTP has claimed to have united 20 plus militant groups from tribal districts. Hundreds of TTP prisoners were alsoโฆ twitter.com/i/web/status/1โฆ
Although officially Afghan #Taliban discourages the fighters to join #TTPโs war against Pakistan and Afghan Taliban distances itself from TTPโs terror activities but lower rank Taliban fighters have contributed in TTPโs war against #Pakistan in one way or the other. Talibanโฆ twitter.com/i/web/status/1โฆ
THREAD: Did Soviet Union desire to reach the warm waters?
It is often argued that one of the key reasons of the expansion of Soviet Union was the desire to reach the warm water ports. A warm water port is a port where the water does not freeze in the winter.
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Because they are available year-round, warm water ports can be of great geopolitical or economic interest, which is also said to be the reason of the invasion of Afghanistan during the Cold War.
But was it really the raison d'etre of the Soviet Unionโs invasion?
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Isaiah Bowman, adviser to President Roosevelt during WW2, in his book The New World, says that โIn Mongolia and Tibet, in Persia & Afghanistan, in Caucasia and at Constantinople, the Russian has been pressing forward for three hundred years, & no system of govt can stand that . .
Brig Yasub Dogar was a Pakistani officer who served in the #SSG & #ISI. He was from the ISI's Covert Action Division (CAD) based on the #CIA's Special Activities Division (SAD). He is mostly known for his services during Afghan Soviet war.
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Brig Yasub was a pioneering member of the Special Services Group (#SSG) Commandos, commanded guides Infantry (FF), an armored infantry battalion and commanded the operational Brigade at #Siachin. He served in key command, staff and intelligence assignments in #Afghanistan.
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He had a long and deep association with the Afghan war and knew all key Afghan Mujahideen figures. Brig Yasub was a very close associate of the famous Col Sultan Amir Tarar also known as Col Imam.
1.Laskhar-i-Islam
2.Mazar Baloch's Group
3.Jundallah
4.Jamaatul Ahrar
5.Ghazi Abdul Rashid Shaheed Brigade
6.Tehreek-e-#Taliban Punjab
7.Musa Shaheed Karwan group
8.Amjad Farouqi group
9.Hakeem Ullah Mehsud Group
10.Bajaur Taliban
11.Mohmand #Taliban
12.Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
13.Hizb-ul-Ahrar
14.Jaish-e-Islam
15.Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
16.East #Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
17.#Uzbekistan Islamic Movement (UIM)
18.Mustafa Doga Madakhel's militant group
Laskhar-i-Islam:
Laskhar-i-Islam is a militant terrorist organization active in and around #KP. LeI was founded in 2004 by Mufti Munir Shakir. The most recent leader was Mangal Bagh. On 12 March 2015, Lashkar-e-Islam announced that it was joining #TTP.