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ISKP commander who was its bridge with Pak’s ISI, Lashkar arrested
A top commander of the so-called Khorasan wing of the Islamic State in Afghanistan who acted as the ISKP’s bridge with Pakistani intelligence agency and terror groups such as the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba has been arrested, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security said on Wednesday.

Counter-terror operatives in Delhi and Kabul told Hindustan Times that Munib Mohammad had, in his interrogation that has continued for more than a fortnight, has extensively spoken of the close links between Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence and the Islamic State of Khorasan Province.

Munib Mohammad aka Abu Bilal is a Pakistani national. He had first joined Al Qaeda before moving to Daesh (the Arabic acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) in Afghanistan as a fighter. Then, he moved up the ladder.

By the time he was arrested by the National Directorate of Security along with his boss ISKP chief Aslam Farooqui on April 4, Munib Mohammad had become a member of the Central Council of Khurasan branch of Daesh.

When the ISKP set up its coordination centre, Munib Mohammed was put as the man in charge of “coordinating with terrorist groups and intelligence agencies of the region”, a NDS statement said.

The pointed reference to “intelligence agencies of the region” in the official statement is an euphemistic reference to Pakistan’s ISI.

Besides, the statement said Munib’s job description at the ISKP also involved coordinating with other terrorist groups such as Lashkar-e-Taib, Haqqani network, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Jamiat-ul-Ulema-e-Islam related to Maulvi Fazal-ul-Rehman and Taliban Peshawar Shura.

This is the first time that the NDS, after its spectacular operation on April 4 that netted the ISKP chief Aslam Farooqui aka Mawlawi Abudullah, has spoken about Munib Mohammad’s arrest.

The massive security operation, backed with pin-pointed intelligence, is believed to have decimated the top leadership of the Pakistan-sponsored module of the ISKP.

The arrests came days after Farooqi’s ISKP claimed responsibility for the March 25 attack on a Sikh place of worship in Kabul that killed 27 people, including an Indian national. Among those arrested was also a Kashmiri, Aijaz Ahmad Ahangar, who had disappeared 25 years ago and was the chief recruiter for the IS in Jammu and Kashmir.

Aslam Farooqui on the instructions of Haqqani Network and LeT used Kerala residentMuhsin Tikaripur along with three other Urdu-Punjabi speaking attackers to massacre 27 innocent Sikh men and women in Shor Bazaar, Kabul, a counter-terror operative in Delhi said.

Aslam Farooqui, a Pakistani national with long-standing ties to the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, had also detailed some aspects of his group’s collusion with the ISI.

It was a development that had been anticipated in Islamabad, which promptly called in Afghan ambassador Atif Mashal to seek custody of Aslam Farooqui. An official statement by Pakistan’s Foreign Office later insisted that Farooqui “was involved in anti-Pakistan activities in Afghanistan”.

The request was firmly rejected by Afghanistan in less than 24 hours.
 
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This is what needs to be adopted by India too(although in reality I know it will never happen but a man can dream)

"These juramentado attacks were materially reduced in number by a practice the army had already adopted, one that Muhhamadans held in abhorrence. The bodies were publicly buried in the same grave with a dead pig. It was not pleasant to have to take such measures, but the prospect of going to hell instead of heaven deterred the would-be assassins." A footnote in the 2013 edition cites a letter from Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell to Pershing: "Of course there is nothing to be done, but I understand it has long been a custom to bury (insurgents) with pigs when they kill Americans. I think this a good plan, for if anything will discourage the (insurgents) it is the prospect of going to hell instead of to heaven. You can rely on me to stand by you in maintaining this custom. It is the only possible thing we can do to discourage crazy fanatics."


@safriz What do you say about this?.
 
Two Lashkar terrorists killed in Anantanag during an attempt to Kidnap a police officer. Terrorists kidnapped a police officer and tried to flee in a car, and they were intercepted by forces. In the following encounter, both terrorists are killed and police officer rescued.

A day before another police officer kidnapped from shopian and subsequently rescued by forces

 

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11 kills with in the last 72 hours ! This new outfit "TRF" doesn't seem to be very highly trained.




Indian should stop identifying it as TRF for the heaven's sake. Its LeT rebranding due to international pressure on Pakistan. Now that we started directly targeting Pakistani territory due to terrorist attacks inside India, ISI decided to rebrand islamist outfits with a nationalist-secular name and deny any association. They are all LeT cadets. Thats what Al-Qaeda did it in Syria by rebranding as Al-Nusra or PKK as SDF (Syrian Democratic Force), or other Islamist outfits as FSA (Free Syrian Army)

Instead of making this rebranding difficult and void, Indians and Indian media outfit are making it easy online.


Perception matters!! "The Resistance Front" name sells better in information warfare and media headline than Islamist names such as Lashkar-e-Toiba or Jaish-e-Muhammad. Creating a preception that terroist attacks in Kashmir is nationalist in nature and not Islamist works in Pakistan's favor.
 
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Indian should stop identifying it as TRF for the heaven's sake. Its LeT rebranding due to international pressure on Pakistan. Now that we started directly targeting Pakistani territory due to terrorist attacks inside India, ISI decided to rebrand islamist outfits with a nationalist-secular name and deny any association. They are all LeT cadets. Thats what Al-Qaeda did it in Syria by rebranding as Al-Nusra or PKK as SDF (Syrian Democratic Force), or other Islamist outfits as FSA (Free Syrian Army)

Instead of making this rebranding difficult and void, Indians and Indian media outfit are making it easy online.


Perception matters!! "The Resistance Front" name sells better in information warfare and media headline than Islamist names such as Lashkar-e-Toiba or Jaish-e-Muhammad. Creating a preception that terroist attacks in Kashmir is nationalist in nature and not Islamist works in Pakistan's favor.

"The Resistance Front". Glad to know Islamic terrorists are shedding their Islamic identity.
 
"The Resistance Front". Glad to know Islamic terrorists are shedding their Islamic identity.


No they are not. It just for better headline in Newyork times and Washington post. Just like "Free Syrian Army" made better headline than any of the following names. Its information war, not an ideological change. FSA after 2013 is mainly a rebrading of mainly following islamist organizations + Islamist from Lebanon, Egypt, Caucasus , China & south east Asia. But just look how effective it was for information warfare when they have willing partners in Liberal leftist media. Even encounters with Al-Nusra is reported as Assad army vs FSA

Jaish al-Izzah
Jaysh al-Nasr
Jaish al-Tahrir
al-Mu'tasim Brigade
Sultan Murad Division
Al-Tawhid Brigade
Jabhat al-Akrad
al-Rahman Legion
 
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