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NEW DELHI TIMES R.N.I. No 53449/91 DL-SW-1/4124/20-22 (Monday/Tuesday same week) (Published Every Monday) New Delhi Page 24 Rs. 7.00 8 - 14 June 2020 Vol - 30 No. 19 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 Eco-terrorist group The American uprising expands sphere of influence America is on fire, at the cusp of a much- awaited and much-needed change, one that is Eco-extremism of eco-terrorism can broadly not just about race, but also about wealth and be defined as a neologism so broad that how we define theft. it can include a type of terrorism whose purpose in relation to the environment, can The question is, will this change take place be both the protection of “everything” and in our lifetime or will it dissipate as it did at the same time, of “nothing”. 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The report mentions network of mentors and advisers who are from increasing Al-Qaeda’s presence, the ◆ By NDT Special Bureau that Al-Qaida and the Taliban held meetings embedded with the Taliban, providing report also points out that Islamic State in @NewDelhiTimes over the course of 2019 and in early 2020 advice, guidance and financial support. As Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan (ISIL-K) suffered severe setbacks during the reporting [email protected] period, being nearly eradicated from its main Afghan base in the Nangarhar Province in n May 27, 2020, the United Nations November 2019 and then incurring further O Security Council (UNSC) issued the losses in its new refuge in the neighbouring eleventh report of the ‘Analytical Support Kunar in early 2020. and Sanctions Monitoring Team’, “submitted pursuant to resolution 2501 (2019) However, the ISIL-K is still capable of concerning the Taliban and other associated mounting attacks in various parts of the individuals and entities constituting a country, including Kabul. As per the report, threat to the peace, stability and security of the “main risk of ISIL-K resurgence in the Afghanistan”. One of the major findings of context of the Afghan peace process may the report pertains to strengthening of Al- lie in its ability to present itself as the only to discuss cooperation related to operational further proof of the increasing Al-Qaeda’s Qaeda in Afghanistan and its growing ties defiant terror group in the country and attract planning, training and the provision by the presence in Afghanistan, the report cites with the Taliban. recruits and funding accordingly”. Taliban of safe havens for Al-Qaida members an online summary of operations published inside Afghanistan. Al-Qaida is covertly active by Al-Qaeda’s media arms, Thabat from This report by highlighting the facts shows The report mentions, “the senior leadership in 12 Afghan provinces namely Badakhshan, March 26 to April 2, 2020. Its infographics that the Taliban has not committed fully to of Al-Qaida remains present in Afghanistan, Ghazni, Helmand, Khost, Kunar, Kunduz, show hundreds of alleged attacks carried the terms of the Afghan peace deal signed as well as hundreds of armed operatives, Logar, Nangarhar, Nimruz, out in Afghanistan and on February 29, 2020, in Doha. According to Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, and Nuristan, Paktiya and Zabul. ISIL-K is still subsequent casualties among the deal, Afghanistan must “prevent the use groups of foreign terrorist fighters aligned As per the report, there are capable of Afghan Forces during of the soil of Afghanistan by any group or with the Taliban. Relations between the “ individual against the security of the United 400 to 600 armed operatives fighting in March. This is a Taliban, especially the Haqqani Network mounting attacks of Al-Qaeda operating in “ significant information as States and its allies”. and Al-Qaida remain close, based on in various parts Afghanistan. The report well as “unusual as Al-Qaida friendship, a history of shared struggle, Highlighting the cordial bond between the mentions that the Taliban of the country, usually maintains silence on ideological sympathy and intermarriage. Taliban and Al-Qaida, the reports raises appears to have strengthened including Kabul its operations in Afghanistan, The Taliban regularly consulted with Al- concern over the Afghan Peace process. their relationship with Al- respecting the Taliban’s Qaida during negotiations with the United Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had also Qaida rather than the opposite. One Member preference for discretion”. States and offered guarantees that it would remarked that “the Taliban have now made State reported that the regularity of meetings honour their historical ties. Al-Qaida has The U.N. member states are not alone the break” with Al-Qaeda. between Al-Qaida seniors and the Taliban reacted positively to the agreement, with when it comes to doubts regarding relations “They’ve said they will not permit terror to “made any notion of a break between the statements from its acolytes celebrating between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. General be thrust upon anyone, including the United two a mere fiction”. it as a victory for the Taliban’s cause and Kenneth McKenzie, the Commander of States, from Afghanistan”. The UN report thus for global militancy”. Information The link was described not in simple terms the U.S. Central Command, told the U.S. serves as a testament to the fragility of the provided to the Monitoring Team since its of group-to-group, but rather as “one of deep lawmakers in March that he was “less U.S.-Taliban peace agreement. Any success previous report has indicated that Al-Qaida personal ties (including through marriage) optimistic” about the Taliban’s willingness of the Afghan peace relations will depend on is quietly gaining strength in Afghanistan and long-term sense of brotherhood”. to confront Al-Qaida as part of its pledge to how the Taliban shapes its relations with Al- while continuing to operate with the Taliban Al-Qaida capitalizes on this through its counter-terror groups on Afghan soil. Apart Qaeda. The American uprising population was forgotten. As professor Clare politician condemning ◆ By Tarek Fatah Author & Columnist, Canada Corbould of Melbourne’s Deakin University the murder, but writes: “The protests that have engulfed not one touching @TarekFatah American cities in the past week are rooted on the economic [email protected] in decades of frustrations. Racist policing, conditions that give merica is on fire, at the cusp of a much- legal and extra-legal discrimination, rise to racism. A awaited and much-needed change, one exclusion from the major avenues of wealth The increasing that is not just about race, but also about creation and vicious stereotyping have long concentration of wealth and how we define theft. histories and endure today.” wealth in the hands of the top 10% The question is, will this change take place There are some who are careful to feign of the population, in our lifetime or will it dissipate as it did outrage at the murder of George Floyd by almost all White, in the late 1960s when hope on the streets, four armed policemen, but then reveal their needs to be addressed. In March, the campuses and ghettos was smothered by real feelings when they throw their arms Washington Center for Equitable Growth the 1973 global oil crisis and in the air at the sight of young reported: “Wealth is distributed in a highly pictures of Kent State were If the current black men looting stores and unequal fashion, with the wealthiest 1 erased by the sight of long protests remain smashing windows. percent of families in the United States queues at gas stations? fixated on anti-Black holding about 40 percent of all wealth and racism alone, then I They express disgust at the sight the bottom 90 percent of families holding Photo Credit : Getty Images family. Sen. Warren’s wealth tax breaks down We wondered in the 1960s if a am afraid the battle of a store being looted, but none less than one-quarter of all wealth.” as follows: A 2% tax on individuals whose net society built on free land taken will be lost of these “law and order” friends from First Nations and free of mine have any problem if Even Forbes magazine, the voice of big worth is more than $50 million and up to 6% for labour extracted from African entire countries are looted, as in business, raised the alarm last week.