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NDS sets Special Forces to fight Daesh

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(Last Updated On: October 25, 2022)

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The Daesh groups is such a serious threat for Afghanistan that the National Directorate Security (NDS) has set Special Forces to fight against them.

Spokesman of NDS, Abdul Hasib Sidiqi emphasized that Daesh’s power is severely weakened in the country.

Beside the Taliban group, now Daesh has made the war more complex in Afghanistan.

NDS has claimed that Daesh’s activities in several parts of the country is dangerous for Afghanistan.

he Islamic State (IS) group, also known by an Arabic acronym, Daesh, has gained a toehold in Afghanistan, although with the loss in a drone strike of its most prominent and recently appointed commander, Rauf Khadem, that toehold is looking precarious.

There has been much reporting about IS in Afghanistan, but not all reporting is equal. Some events cited as evidence of Daesh have nothing to do with the group, while others, cited by media and government officials as indications of IS presence, are part of a different development: the passage of foreign militants from Pakistan’s tribal areas into Afghanistan in the wake of the military operation by the Pakistani army in North Waziristan that started last summer.

However, we have also seen the first known and notable insurgent commanders ‘coming out’ as Daesh. The Islamic State (IS) also officially announced on 26 January its expansion into ‘Khorasan’, an old name for the region that is largely in what is now Afghanistan (the name allows IS to refer to Afghanistan and Pakistan without having to name them – un-Islamically, in its eyes – as nation states.

This is the first time the group has officially spread outside the Arab world. Afghan and regional leaders, as well as common Afghans, had already been concerned about the group’s potential threat. Indeed fear of Daesh has evoked a rare consensus between the Afghan government and the Taleban, both of whom have accused foreign intelligence agencies of being behind the threat.

According to the ministry of interior findings, Daesh fighters are activating in three provinces of Afghanistan and so far 35 members of the group have been killed in Nangahar.

“The presence of Daesh has been confirmed in Helmand, Farah and Nangahar so far and Afghan troops have taken serious measures regarding the issue,” Sidiq Sidiqi, spokesman of interior ministry said.

However, the ministry of defense claims that fighting against the extremist groups such as Daesh is not only the responsibility of Afghanistan but also the responsibility of the region and the world.

The presence of Daesh and new threats coming from countries which “are using terror as a policy tool” were mentioned in the same breath by the head of the Afghan intelligence service, Rahmatullah Nabil. In a speech to the Wolesi Jirga on 22 January 2015, he said: “New threats are emerging in the region, where some countries are using terror as a policy tool to reach their targets.” He said that if Afghanistan’s neighbours continued to destabilise Afghanistan, they would also burn in the fires they were stoking.

It is not only Afghan officials who have spread the fear of IS in Afghanistan based on sightings of foreign fighters. Senior Russian officials have also been warning of IS militants ‘flocking’ to northern Afghanistan with an eye to mounting attacks against the Central Asian republics.

President Vladimir Putin’s special representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said that thousands of fighters, mostly of Central Asian origin, have taken up positions and set up training camps near the borders of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. According to Kabulov, these militants belong to the Islamic State; moreover, he claims IS has also deployed around a hundred fighters from its main base in Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan to supplement local fighters.

Kabulov’s comments came just after a warningby his boss Putin that: “The current situation arouses concern. Militants from the Islamic State terrorist group make a stab at including some provinces of Afghanistan into the so-called Islamic Caliphate. … Terrorist and extremist groups are trying to extend their activities in Central Asia.”

There has however been no on-the-ground reporting of foreign fighters being re-deployed from Iraq and Syria to northern Afghanistan. Instead, Kabulov’s concern probably stems from the same reports as Afghan officials have received about the movement of foreign fighters towards northern Afghanistan.

The Islamic State’s creeping presence in Afghanistan will not bode well for the Taliban dominance in the jihadi activities in Afghanistan as well.

Perhaps this is a main reason behind Taliban’s recent inclinations towards resuming peace negotiations with the government they fought in last fourteen years.

The Taliban and the Islamic State have openly opposed each other. As the IS is in finding foothold in Afghanistan, the Taliban leadership sees themselves direly vulnerable.

The Taliban would quickly lose ground in some areas to the IS if the IS manages to recruit Taliban members and fighters to its ranks.

All these have come as an alarm for the Taliban leadership which has openly expressed opposition to the Islamic State. Therefore, the group seems to be consolidating its rank and leadership against the threat of the Islamic State in Afghanistan.

 

Reported by Fawad Naseri

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Bayat Foundation helps needy families in Balkh

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As part of Bayat Foundation’s Ramadan aid campaign, needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif, in Balkh province, received much needed food packages this week.

The aid package includes rice, flour and oil.

“In continuation of Bayat Foundation’s assistance, this time also a quantity of food such as flour, oil and rice was distributed to needy families in Mazar-e-Sharif; Inshallah, these contributions will continue,” said a representative of the foundation.

Needy families that received aid packages expressed their gratitude but called on other aid organizations to help the needy during these difficult times.

“Many thanks to Bayat Foundation, I thank Bayat Foundation for helping the needy and poor people of this region,” said a recipient said.

“I would like to thank Bayat Foundation for their cooperation in helping the needy in this holy month of Ramadan; it is hoped that traders and charities will do such sustainable work,” said another recipient.

Bayat Foundation is one of the charitable organizations that has played an important role in helping the needy in Afghanistan over the last two decades.

In addition to distributing aid packages to needy and vulnerable families, it has carried out numerous other projects, including the construction of health centers and schools.

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MoI registers over 8,700 criminal cases in the past six months

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Abdul Matin Qani, the Ministry of Interior’s spokesman said on Thursday that in the last six months, 8,747 criminal cases have been recorded across the country.

Addressing a press conference in Kabul, Qani said of these cases, 7,233 have been solved while the remaining 1,525 are still being investigated.

He said 12,540 people have been arrested in connection with these crimes.

In addition, 21 kidnappers have been killed, 18 hostages have been freed and 172 people have been arrested in connection with kidnappings in the same period of time.

Qani also said in the last six months 837,000 passports have been distributed. He said three new passport offices will be established in Kabul in the near future.

“10,000 passports are distributed to citizens daily by the Passport Department,” said Qani.

On the issue of narcotics, he said drug cultivation, production and trafficking has been eradicated. He said drug manufacturing equipment and 377 drug factories have been destroyed across the country.

According to him, the ministry has also made advances in collecting illegal weapons, fighting corruption and improving police skills.

Qani stated that during this period, no security incidents took place in most provinces across the country.

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TAPI gas company CEO satisfied with project’s progress

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The minister of mines and petroleum, Shahabuddin Delawar met with the executive director of the TAPI project and the ambassador of Turkmenistan in Kabul on Thursday to discuss progress around the key project.

Murad Amanov, head of the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) Gas Pipeline project, expressed his satisfaction with the recent progress of the project and talked about the practical roll out of the project.

Delawar said that the preliminary work of TAPI is progressing quickly and that the pipeline will be put into operation in the near future.

TAPI is a natural gas pipeline being developed by the Galkynysh – TAPI Pipeline Company Limited with participation of the Asian Development Bank.

The pipeline will transport natural gas from the Galkynysh Gas Field in Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India.

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