Afghanistan News & Discussion - April 2016

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Lol Pakis have started to fleece fellow Islami biraders.
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Just 200 trucks ?

Ummah leader Saudi knows the bakis well enough.. to know that barely 50 trucks worth of supplies will reach the Afghans - 100 trucks will be consumed within the Jihadistan border, another 50 by the Expat pakis in Afghanistan...
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Taliban-run government dissolves Afghan election commissions
The Taliban dissolved Afghanistan’s two election commissions as well as the state ministries for peace and parliamentarian affairs, an official said Sunday.

Bilal Karimi, deputy spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban-run government, said the country’s Independent Election Commission and Electoral Complaint Commission have been dissolved.

He called them “unnecessary institutions for the current situation in Afghanistan.” He said if there is a need for the commissions in the future, the Taliban government can revive them.
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Taliban halts iron ore extraction amid talks with Russians on gas refineries
The Taliban government has reportedly declared a ban on the extraction of iron ore in the country.

The development comes after videos on social media reportedly showed vehicles being smuggled from Afghanistan to Pakistan.
Taliban's Zabhihullah Mujahid in a tweet had said that the Afghanistan government officials had met Russian investors to explore "extraction and establishment of oil and gas refineries" in the country.

Mujahid asserted the talks were also conducted for cement and alloy plants including the establishment of a cement production company. The Taliban government has been seeking investment from abroad in order to address the deep economic crisis ever since it took over the country in August last year.
Reports claimed last year that Chinese mining officials had visited Afghanistan to explore lithium and copper deposits.

China's state-run Global Times had reported that officials had made on-site visits to the country targeting lithium mining deposits.

Reports claimed at least five Chinese companies had obtained special visas in November to explore the new mining opportunities. Afghanistan reportedly has over $1 trillion worth of natural deposits.
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Reports of Taliban raising sooside squad special forces and deploying them on Chinese border. LoL !
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Qatar and Turkey ‘to run technical parts of Afghanistan’s airports’
Qatari and Turkish companies are set to manage technical operations at Afghanistan’s airports, with a deal expected to be finalised within two weeks, an official from the Afghan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation [MoTCA] said on Monday.

“We will not give the management of the airports to anyone. We will make contracts over the technical affairs of the international airports with standard and international companies,” Imamuddin Ahmadi, a MoTCA spokesman told Afghan news outlet TOLOnews.

Qatari and Turkish delegations had traveled to Kabul in December last year to hold discussions with Afghan officials over running various airports in the country.

Ahead of their departure, Doha and Ankara had signed a memorandum of understanding [MoU], under which they both agreed to run five different airports together if granted the contracts by Kabul.
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India sends medicines to Afghanistan, wheat to follow
NEW DELHI -- India delivered two tons of medicines to Afghanistan on Friday, although it has not officially recognized its Taliban government.

The medicine was given to Kabul’s Indira Gandhi Hospital, which was set up with Indian assistance in 2004, Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said.
Last month, India supplied Afghanistan with 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines and 1.6 tons of medical supplies through the World Health Organization, Bagchi said in a statement.

India also announced that it will provide 50,000 tons of wheat to Afghanistan to ease food shortages there and is working out details of the shipment with Pakistan's government. Pakistan does not allow Indian transport vehicles to use its land route to Afghanistan because of tense relations with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.
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https://indianexpress.com/article/india ... i-7713830/
In an indication of the complex positioning on Afghanistan by various players in the region and the international community, sharp differences emerged during discussions on several drafts of the resolution with India, a non-permanent member of the Council, and France, one of the Permanent 5, on the same side and China and Russia on the other.

According to the MacArthur Foundation-supported Security Council Report, which provides analyses of happenings at the horseshoe table, Resolution 2615, proposed by the US on December 3, was hard fought over three weeks.

India and France, with a couple of other non-permanent members advised caution, while China and Russia pushed for, and succeeded in getting a more open-ended arrangement, which was also backed by several non-permanent members.
India, Estonia, France, and the United Kingdom, which is also a P-5 country, suggested a six-month period for the exemption and a review at the end of it. China and Russia wanted no time limit, making the case that such a restriction would hamper aid operations. The final resolution places no time limit on the exemption, saying only that it will be reviewed after 12 months, and includes no provisions for the consequences of misuse or misappropriation of the funds.
Not that a "UN review" means anything useful since this entire post-withdrawal dance has been choreographed to hand over political/military control of Af-Pak to Russia and China. China now has official UN sanction to increase its footprint in Afghanisthan. So this allows China and Russia to create their own warlords like the US did with Ghani and his extended clan that got rich off US's billions and drug trade. Pakistan was able to create chaos in the previous US/NATO order, so they now have to create chaos when the warlords that China and Russia Feed in the coming years. Toiletland and its arny will have to Russia/Chinese money (if they get any at all) while keeping the Taliban leadership under their control as the pointy stick against China/Russia, or with them if they will harm India.
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Read after-action analysis of Afghanistan

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Curiously one of the attendees of the Iran summit was Ahmed Massoud - son of the "Lion of Panshir" Ahmad Shah Massoud. Rumors has it that he was there to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with taliban, with Iran refusing to recognize taliban v2.0, not sure how many progress young Massoud made. It really feels like we've gone back 50 yrs in terms of geopolitics, there are so many moving pieces that it is hard to keep track of the pawns. Both Khazakistan and Tajakistan are being weakened internally by the west. They are doing it to needle Russia and China but in turn this also helps the taliban. However the Chinese have taliban on a speed dial, so in a strange way the US is helping China's cause in central asia ! All the while Turkey and Pakistan both seem to crawl towards a economic abyss !
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Too many assumptions. Starting from that war in CAS helps Taliban. And that Taliban is working for China.

Taliban v2, as someone has pointed out here, is discovering itself. It will have a very independent course in due time. My feeling is that they will soon evolve into another Pakistan like entity with behaviors like rent seeking, holding gun to its head and double games.
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Playing the last card?
Mulla Akhund calls on Muslim states to recognise Afghan govt
KABUL: The Taliban’s prime minister called Wednesday on Muslim nations to be the first to officially recognise their government, as aid-dependent Afghanistan faces economic collapse. "I call on Muslim countries to take the lead and recognise us officially. Then I hope we will be able to develop quickly," Mohammad Hassan Akhund told a conference in Kabul called to address the country´s massive economic woes.

“We don’t want it for the officials. We want it for our public,” he said, adding that the Taliban had fulfilled all necessary conditions by restoring peace and security.
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Green on green is going on.
Reprisals, corpses in river: Fear grips Afghan city caught in Taliban-Islamic State crossfire
The Taliban promised to bring peace, but fear reigns above all in the eastern city of Jalalabad, hit by Islamic State group attacks and reprisals, and with corpses appearing mysteriously in rivers.

In the evening, the inhabitants of the trade hub in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province hurry home before night falls and the shooting starts, fearing both IS and the indiscriminate retaliation of the Taliban.

Once a fringe force in Afghanistan, analysts say the local chapter of IS has been increasingly active since the United States agreed to a deal in 2020 with the Taliban to withdraw foreign troops from the country.

The fundamentalist fighters, who are opposed to any compromise with the West, are believed to have about 2,000 to 4,000 fighters in Afghanistan, against 80,000 Taliban.

The biggest ideological difference between the two Islamist groups is that the Taliban sought only an Afghanistan free of foreign forces, whereas IS wants an Islamic caliphate stretching from Turkey to Pakistan and beyond.
At his headquarters guarded by dozens of heavily armed Taliban, the much-feared head of the Nangarhar intelligence services dismisses the threat.

Islamic State "no longer exists" in the city or rest of the province, says the official, who goes by the name "Dr. Bashir".

But in the streets of Jalalabad, his fighters paint a different picture.

"These days, there is at least one attack a week," said Sajjad, a Taliban unit leader, adding his men are on high alert "at all times".

The attackers, he told AFP, "come in twos or threes... in a [motorised] rickshaw... and shoot at us with Kalashnikovs or pistols".

According to Abdul Sayed, an academic specialising in jihadist networks, the group is responsible for nearly 100 attacks since mid-September -- some 85 per cent aimed at the Taliban -- and Jalalabad is the front line.
The Taliban are accused of clandestinely eliminating their enemies, and the United Nations attributes at least 72 murders to them, including 50 suspected IS members in Nangarhar.

Macabre discoveries feed the suspicion -- such as the bodies found last month along a canal in the suburbs of Jalalabad.

A little way from the village of Bakhtan, a rickshaw washer told AFP he had seen "four or five" corpses recovered. A local entrepreneur says three were found. Several sources across the province say up to 150 bodies have been found in rivers and streams.

Nangarhar has a strong Salafist bent -- an austere branch of Sunni Islam introduced to the area by Saudi jihadists such as Osama bin Laden during the war against the Soviet Union.

While Salafist elders do not deny the community has been a source of recruits for IS, they say they are now being collectively punished.
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A Taliban delegation has been invited by European powers next week to meet with EU diplomats, human rights activists and civil right representatives ! The Taliban delegation may also travel to the US to negotiate the release of 19 billion dollars stuck in the banks because of sanctions and allow Taliban to formally open its consulates and embassies abroad . Well, there you have it, the west once again making bed with barbarians, atleast the gulf shiekhdoms had oil, what do the bunnies have other than chinese made AKs ?
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ambar ji: what do the bunnies have other than chinese made AKs ?
Bunnies are mercenaries with will to be nuiscance to India and China and Pakis for money from the white neo-colonials in EU and USA. They may be taking over the be-a-nuisance-for-cash business from Paki Army and ISI, if the white neo-colonials decide to give them legitimacy and money in the next few weeks.
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Ambar wrote:A Taliban delegation has been invited by European powers next week to meet with EU diplomats, human rights activists and civil right representatives ! The Taliban delegation may also travel to the US to negotiate the release of 19 billion dollars stuck in the banks because of sanctions and allow Taliban to formally open its consulates and embassies abroad . Well, there you have it, the west once again making bed with barbarians, atleast the gulf shiekhdoms had oil, what do the bunnies have other than chinese made AKs ?
Currying influence in a region to needle Russia and China ..and if needed india
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How did $9.5B became $19B? The central bank assets frozen by US were $9.5B
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Taliban's original assets which were frozen by the US were $9.5 B. Magically, when "unfrozen" by the US, they become $19B. Where does the other $9.5B go to?

It is a back door way of getting another $9.5 B to the Pakis.
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https://twitter.com/kai_eide/status/1486106007201886211
Proud of Norwegian gov inviting Taliban-gov, civil society & key countries 2 Oslo. And pleased - as an elder - to meet Acting For Min Muttaqi. To me, freedom of expression & education for all are priority challenges. But US must release frozen funds to avoid causing disaster!
As expected, Norwegians at the head of the line to fund the taliban to keep the region in a boil, because all of the 19B$ will be spent towards FoE and education in Afghanisthan. Like Norway/EU kept funding and arming the LTTE in Sri Lanka until the very end of the conflict.
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There are US citizens still in Taliban's custody.
Joe Biden demands release of Mark Frerichs, US Afghanistan hostage
Joe Biden on Sunday called for the release of Mark Frerichs, a US Navy veteran taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.

Frerichs, a civil engineer and contractor from Lombard, Illinois, was kidnapped in January 2020 in the Afghan capital, Kabul. He is believed to be held by the Taliban-linked Haqqani network.

“Threatening the safety of Americans or any innocent civilians is always unacceptable, and hostage-taking is an act of particular cruelty and cowardice,” Biden said in a statement to mark the second anniversary of the kidnapping on Monday.
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srikandan wrote:https://twitter.com/kai_eide/status/1486106007201886211
Proud of Norwegian gov inviting Taliban-gov, civil society & key countries 2 Oslo. And pleased - as an elder - to meet Acting For Min Muttaqi. To me, freedom of expression & education for all are priority challenges. But US must release frozen funds to avoid causing disaster!
As expected, Norwegians at the head of the line to fund the taliban to keep the region in a boil, because all of the 19B$ will be spent towards FoE and education in Afghanisthan. Like Norway/EU kept funding and arming the LTTE in Sri Lanka until the very end of the conflict.
some years ago, a lady from one of the norwegian delegations abused and shouted at members of an Indian parliamentary delegation that they were meeting with in India at their (norwegian) express request, for not "inviting them" and "involving them" in the north east "peace process" as they called it.

The spirited response of the Indian delegation completely shut them up.

These venal scoundrels displayed their true colors during the so called "negotiations" between the SL army, Indian Govt, and the ltte by stabbing them all in the back at various times, lying and cheating everyone because they were intervening on the behest of various EU deep states, vettycans, amerikis, and also other intelligence types, often ferrying cash and arms to the ltte in their secure vehicles.

They are fascist, racist, and contemptuously look down on all non whites and often assert their self delusional "god given" right to interfere anywhere in the world.

their (and their whitey handlers) primary agenda at the moment is to wreck Indian goodwill in afghanistan and block off our access to the CARs.

The Indian establishment is well aware of the norwegian agenda and their established modus operandi
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The Afghanistan Debacle Looks Worse and Worse
By DAVID HARSANYI
February 8, 2022 2:45 PM

A truly damning indictment of Biden's Afghanistan debacle, based on new information from recently declassified reports.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/02/ ... e/#slide-1
[Following the Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 US servicemen and 170 Afghans at Kabul airport]

“Know this,” Biden said after the bombing. “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.” This turned out to be face-saving political theater. Three days later, an air strike killed ten Afghans, seven of them children. Not one of the dead, as far as we know, was an “ISIS facilitator,” as the administration had alleged.

In fact, the Pentagon now says that the bombing was the work of a lone terrorist rather than a “complex” network, as the Biden administration had initially maintained. At the time, General Mark Milley not only referred to the strike as “valid” and “righteous” — let’s concede for a moment that he was basing this on the best available information — but went further to describe a “secondary explosion” and a supposed plethora of evidence justifying the bombing. None of that, it seems, was true. It seems increasingly likely that Biden was going to blow someone up to project his toughness.

The more we learn about the administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal, the more it becomes clear that its decisions were driven by political considerations and panic. Here, for example, is a snippet from ProPublica’s recent investigation into the Kabul suicide bombing:

[ Must-read link https://www.propublica.org/article/suic ... ptkF8h6MTi ]

Days before the final withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, thousands of desperate Americans and Afghan allies seeking to flee the country were using unguarded routes across open fields and through narrow alleys to reach one of the few gates providing access to the Kabul airfield.

Despite intelligence warning of terrorist attacks, U.S. military commanders encouraged use of the routes. Some U.S. officials even provided maps to evacuees trying to bypass Taliban fighters stationed at a checkpoint outside the airport.

The fact that the murderer of 13 Americans “likely” gained access to troops via a path that U.S. officials were encouraging people to use seems quite noteworthy. As does the fact that we were helping evacuees circumvent the Taliban even as the Biden administration was assuring the public that the Islamic militants were facilitating the extraction of Americans.


These are the same Taliban with whom the Biden administration had reportedly shared a list of “American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies.” When defending his reliance on the militants, the president claimed that, “to the best of our knowledge, the Taliban checkpoints — they are letting through people showing American passports.” In September, the administration declared that the Taliban had “shown flexibility” and were comporting themselves in a “businesslike and professional” manner.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken would later say that there were “under 200” Americans remaining in Afghanistan who “want to leave.” A new Senate Foreign Relations Committee report from ranking member Jim Risch (R., Idaho), contends that State Department officials estimated that on August 17 there were 10,000–15,000 Americans trapped in Afghanistan. Over the subsequent two weeks, as the Afghan forces the United States had trained and funded for 20 years disintegrated, 6,000 Americans were able to escape. I’m not a math whiz, but that leaves a lot more than zero, or even 200, stranded.
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The Pentagon investigation into the bombing — relying on hundreds of witness interviews, drone footage, and reports by medical examiners — also concluded that the suicide bombing at Abbey Gate was “not preventable,” words that recurred in headlines atop reports by the Associated Press and other outlets.

In truth, the attack became unpreventable only after the Biden administration evacuated secure positions without having extracted those who wanted to leave. When George Stephanopoulos asked Biden whether he was warned that adhering to the Taliban’s timeline would put lives in danger, Biden answered: “No. No one said that to me that I can recall.”

This was surely a lie. As the New York Times reported, American intelligence had warned Biden that Afghan security forces would not resist the Taliban for long, and that the American-allied government would not hold Kabul

... Neither Secretary Lloyd Austin nor General Milley had much confidence in “over-the-horizon” counterterror strategy and that both had warned Biden to keep 2,500 troops to cover the withdrawal.

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A recently declassified report by the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, which was submitted to the Department of Defense in January 2021, also warned the administration that the Afghan air force would quickly collapse. Yet, when asked in July 2021 if a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable, the president scoffed at the notion, arguing that “Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped — as well-equipped as any army in the world — and an air force against something like 75,000 Taliban.” What with the U.S. military equipment now in the Taliban’s possession, I guess that makes the Taliban as well-equipped as any army in the world.

A yet fuller picture emerges from another Army investigation, released to the Washington Post this week through a Freedom of Information Act:

Military personnel would have been “much better prepared to conduct a more orderly” evacuation, Navy Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, the top U.S. commander on the ground during the operation, told Army investigators, “if policymakers had paid attention to the indicators of what was happening on the ground.” He did not identify any administration officials by name, but said inattention to the Taliban’s determination to complete a swift and total military takeover undermined commanders’ ability to ready their forces.

So, apparently, the only branch of the armed services that didn’t warn the administration was the Coast Guard. Yet none of this advice stopped the president from abandoning the Bagram air base. Nor did it prompt him to set up military safe zones to retrieve stranded Americans or Afghan allies before retreating. His failure to do so caused a bottleneck at the Kabul airport that put troops and civilians in needless danger. Biden maintained that chaos was inevitable even as he promised a “safe and orderly” withdrawal when making his announcement.

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chetak wrote:norwegian delegations abused and shouted at members of an Indian parliamentary delegation
Chetak, Could you please provide details of this exchange, or any link to read on / video. I am very curious to know.
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Neilz wrote:
chetak wrote:norwegian delegations abused and shouted at members of an Indian parliamentary delegation
Chetak, Could you please provide details of this exchange, or any link to read on / video. I am very curious to know.
the last time I checked, that twitter handle had gone protected, run for cover basically.

This guy has pissed off a whole lot of Modi supporters, even though he has been one of the more fortunate beneficiaries of the Modi Govt
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the taliban has poked its nose into India's internal affairs.

The govt should now gratefully increase the quantity of food aid being sent to them.

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Rudradev wrote:The Afghanistan Debacle Looks Worse and Worse
By DAVID HARSANYI
February 8, 2022 2:45 PM

A truly damning indictment of Biden's Afghanistan debacle, based on new information from recently declassified reports.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/02/ ... e/#slide-1
[Following the Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 US servicemen and 170 Afghans at Kabul airport]

“Know this,” Biden said after the bombing. “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay.” This turned out to be face-saving political theater. Three days later, an air strike killed ten Afghans, seven of them children. Not one of the dead, as far as we know, was an “ISIS facilitator,” as the administration had alleged.
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And not a murmur of war crimes. Human rights is all of third world onlee. Rules based order indeed !
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This is poetic justice onlee


Afghan women part of Taliban delegation are seeking asylum in Norway after exposing Talibani atrocities on women.



https://www.republicworld.com/world-new ... eshow.html
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/us/p ... funds.html

So 3.5B$ being given to the Taliban regime so they can bring more human rights to the Afghani wimmens and childrens.
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srikandan wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/us/p ... funds.html

So 3.5B$ being given to the Taliban regime so they can bring more human rights to the Afghani wimmens and childrens.
The US in particular and western foolishness never ceases to amaze with reference to their dealing with porkis and izlamists.
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ritesh wrote:
srikandan wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/us/p ... funds.html

So 3.5B$ being given to the Taliban regime so they can bring more human rights to the Afghani wimmens and childrens.
The US in particular and western foolishness never ceases to amaze with reference to their dealing with porkis and izlamists.
The US and west are not foolish, they are worried about flood coming to Europe via Turkey. It will happen as long as Afghan and Pakis are well populated, no matter how much is paid to local warlords
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India should now retire gracefully from close interaction and any high expectations from the afghans with respect to the CARs

the ummah fervor has kicked in and it is only going to get worse. the true face and color of the taliban is there for all to plainly see.

these medieval beardo buggers see plentiful aid from India as a matter of entitlement and the implied blackmail threat of increased volatility in cashmere is lurking just under the surface.

Indian Muslim girls struggle for Hijab shows that Hijab is not an Arab, Iranian, Egyptian or Pakistani culture, but an Islamic value for which Muslim girls around the world, especially in the secular world, sacrifice with different types and defend their religious value.#Muskan pic.twitter.com/VfkNR2qCmb

— Inamullah Samangani (@HabibiSamangani) February 9, 2022


Taliban Govt invokes Ahmed Shah Abdali, names new military unit ‘Panipat’

India-Afghan relations post Taliban

The name of the new unit has also sparked social media interest.

A Twitter user by the name Islam Paal, who identifies as a “proud” citizen under the Taliban regime, said the new Panipat military unit by saying it is a “clear sign” to Hindus.

“Hindus should take this as a clear sign. We haven’t forgotten our ancestors. Muskan sister, we hear your cries (sic),” he said.


Muskan Khan, a 19-year-old student from Karnataka’s Mandya Pre-University (PU), has become one of the major faces of the ongoing hijab row, after a video of her standing up to alleged hecklers in saffron shawls went viral.

Ever since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan last August, New Delhi and Kabul have shared ups and downs in relations.

In October last year, Taliban leader Anas Haqqani visited the tomb of Turkish ruler Mahmud Ghaznavi in Afghanistan and referred to him as a “Muslim warrior” who “smashed the idol of Somnath”.

Today, we visited the shrine of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi, a renowned Muslim warrior & Mujahid of the 10th century. Ghaznavi (May the mercy of Allah be upon him) established a strong Muslim rule in the region from Ghazni & smashed the idol of Somnath. pic.twitter.com/Ja92gYjX5j

— Anas Haqqani(انس حقاني) (@AnasHaqqani313) October 5, 2021
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Taliban's office has been located in Qatar for years, and the US just release 3.5B$ to Taliban, and this crowd of US/Qatar/EU is still the one pulling whatever strings are left to pull in Afghanisthan. So this just goes to show that all the drama about Afghanisthan Taliban being a foil against the Pakis in recent months was just a charade -- no reason why these two cannot work together if there is rent money to be made off the AUKUS/EU.
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Pakistan allows Indian humanitarian aid to afghanistan.

afghan trucks will be used to transport the wheat and that too "toll free".

If the pakis steal from these convoys, there is bound to be fireworks onlee.

The process will start around 22 feb

Let the paki bhooka nangas see the Indian largesse going to the afghans.

katori niazi's failures will be highlighted even further

“When we are asking the whole world to help the Afghan people, how can we stop India from doing so?”

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry also said that pukestan had initially blocked transportation of Indian wheat because it carried some disease and had asked New Delhi for its certification.
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chetak wrote:
“When we are asking the whole world to help the Afghan people, how can we stop India from doing so?”. Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry also said that pukestan had initially blocked transportation of Indian wheat because it carried some disease and had asked New Delhi for its certification.
Lord Faw Faw's foot-in-the-mouth disease is the only genetic ailment he should be worried about. Just can't seem to keep his mouth and other orifices shut.
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I've been thinking lately that China probably wants Afghanistan to be stabilized and is probably not enthusiastic about the Taliban running the place. Now that the US has withdrawn in disgrace, China probably wants a friendlier regime to lord over the country. China wants Afghanistan's lithium and precious metals, and they don't want a jihadist state sitting right on their Xinjiang border to act as a safe haven and launch pad for the Uigher separatists. No doubt the CIA will be looking to get a proper insurgency going in Xinjiang in the coming years, and the only way to do this is by operating from Afghanistan, as neither Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, nor Kazakhstan will allow their territory to be used as launch pads for jihadists. Pakistan is no doubt too scared to allow such insurgents to operate from POK, as this would anger China. So, this means that only Afghanistan can act as a launch pad for insurgency in China, and no doubt the CIA has already started putting out feelers to the Taliban and looking to revive their pre-2001 friendly relations for that purpose. Remember the CIA and ISI were happily working with the Taliban & Al-Queda to harm India before the 9/11 attacks disrupted that relationship.

So, it's in China's interest to co-opt the Taliban and get Afghanistan stabilized and friendly. They could do this by ordering Pakistan to pressure their Taliban buddies and get them to play ball, so to speak.

Does anyone think this is a possibility? That Afghanistan might finally be forced to adopt a more "secular" (relatively speaking) government and actually return to something like it used to be back in the 1960's - 1970's? This could actually be good for us, as it would probably also mean that Afghanistan can no longer act as a safe haven for anti-Indian jihadists, either.
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Weapons left behind in afghanistan by the amerikis after they ran away like cowards have started to find their way into cashmere.

so much for cynical promises made by the new talibani rulers and very idiotic of even more foolish people in India who believe such terrorists and seek to treat them with compassion because the afghan people are "suffering".

do these idiots imagine that the taliban are somehow "different" from the afghan "people" and they are perhaps aliens from outer space.

The taliban spring from the midst of afghan society just like the terrorists spring from the midst of paki society. It takes a particularly sick mind not to see the reality of the truth that has been staring us in the face all along.

the aman ki asha narrative is a BIF inspired dirge, it was never ever an expression of hope as many wokes, lootyens and urban naxals half wittedly insist on seeing it

More copious and free food aid is the only way forward. We must treat the taliban with honor and respect while they continue to trample all over us with their entitled demands.
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The day long awaited by pakis has arrived!

I'm aghast the wheat is not being sent in sealed containers but in open trucks where it can get damaged from rain/frost and of course easily pilfered on the way.

Am I really blessed with divya drishti to see this clearly when all our IAS babus and ministers can't ? :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Cyrano wrote: I'm aghast the wheat is not being sent in sealed containers but in open trucks where it can get damaged from rain/frost and of course easily pilfered on the way.
Am I really blessed with divya drishti to see this clearly when all our IAS babus and ministers can't ? :roll: :roll: :roll:
it depends on why we are sending this?
In the first round pilferage will happen.
It will give us an excuse to not send again or create a friction between Afghanis and TSP.

Sealed containers can contain many other things also. TSP will never agree.

lets wait and watch how this evolves.
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