DOCSLIB.ORG

Power Struggle Flares up in Afghan Taliban Movement

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Power Struggle Flares up in Afghan Taliban Movement Eye on the News [email protected] Truthful, Factual and Unbiased Vol:X Issue No:07 Price: Afs.15 www.afghanistantimes.af www.facebook.com/ afghanistantimeswww.twitter.com/ afghanistantimes TUESDAY . JULY 28 . 2015 -Asad 06, 1394 HS India to float Amid uncertainty over Mulla Omar s fate domestic Salma dam productive for Page 4 tender for air defense national economy: Minister guns Power struggle Abdul Zuhoor Qayomi dam would irrigate around 80,000 its three turbines were activated hectare of lands in western prov- within next 11 months. The dam inister of Water and Ener inces. The dam is 20 kilometer long would also boost tourism and im- flares up in US would gy (MoWE) Ali Ahmad and seven kilometer wide. It has prove fishery industry which MUsmani in a press confer- the storage capacity of 640 mil- would improve economy of the show flexibil- ence on Monday said that Salma lion cubic of water. locals. It will also help the govern- dam as a mega project would cre- It will irrigate 60 percent of the ment to improve security by pro- ity in nuclear ate hundreds of jobs and strength- Afghan Taliban crops, he said. The irrigation of viding jobs to local people, he Page 5 talks with en national economy. Usmani agricultural lands through Salma said. India started work on the dam termed the project vital for Afghan- dam would reduce reliance of the in 2005. The project will cost $300 North Korea: istan s economy and said that it country on neighbors, the minis- million. Water reserving was start- Envoy would play key role in strength- ter said, adding the dam would pro- ed on Sunday and will take 11 movement ening of agriculture sector as the duce 40 megawatt electricity after months to run the turbines. PESHAWAR: An internal power clude Taliban commanders and struggle has flared up in the Af- fighters mainly from the Noorzai UK economic Halim ghan Taliban movement and its de and the Alizai clans of the Dur- growth Security has improved facto head Akhtar Mohammad rani tribe and the Kakar tribe. Mansoor is facing a rebellion by Some of the leading Taliban fig- figures to sworn in as certain important military com- ures who have rebelled against Page 9 ignite in Faryab: Shaheem manders amid the uncertainty Mansoor s leadership include the Chief Justice about the fate of Taliban supreme former Guantanamo Bay prison- interest rate AT Monitoring Desk Security (NDS) are currently lead- ing war against militants in Fary- leader Mulla Mohammad Omar. er and military strategist Abdul debate ab province. He added that they Sources close to the Taliban Qayyum Zakir belonging to the KABUL: The Chief of Army have taken all necessary prepara- disclosed to The News that the Alizai clan, Mulla Baz Moham- Staff, Qadam Shah Shaheem, said tions to clear Faryab and other opposition to Mansoor, the dep- mad from the Noorzai sub-tribe that security situation has im- northern provinces from the pres- uty leader of the movement and and also among the most power- proved in northern Faryab prov- ence of militants. When asked former minister of civil aviation, ful Taliban commanders in the Can Egypt s ince. Shaheem in an interview about Vice-President Abdul Rash- is centred round Mulla Moham- movement s stronghold in south- new French with Radio Azadi rejected reports id Dostum s recent trip to Faryab mad Yaqoob, the eldest son of western Afghanistan, and Man- Page 8 that the Taliban militants have province, Shaheem said that Dos- Mulla Omar. The 26-year-old soor Dadullah, who is a Kakar jets boost its captured some important areas of tum s trip to the province is aimed Yaqoob graduated last year from tribesman and the younger broth- the province and said that Afghan a well-known Karachi seminary er of the slain Taliban command- Sinai fight? at expressing support of the po- and is said to be ready to take over er Mulla Dadullah Akhund. Inci- President Ashraf Ghani forces will soon weed the Taliban litical leadership of the country militants out of the province. He to security forces. According to the Taliban leadership in case the dentally, the Taliban breakaway announced appointment also rejected allegations of a num- death of his father is confirmed group Fidayee Mahaz, which of Sayid Yusuf Halim as the security agencies, the Taliban and the movement s Shuras and recently claimed Mulla Omar is country s Chief Justice. ber of lawmakers regarding lack along with a number of foreigners of coordination among security are hell bent on deteriorating se- rank and file so decide. The sourc- dead, was established by Mulla forces. He said that the Ministry curity of three districts of Faryab es maintained that those challeng- Najeebullah, an aide to the late AT Monitoring Desk of Defense, Ministry of Interior, and a number of other northern ing Mansoor s dominance of the Mulla Dadullah Akhund.The 22 killed, 13 and the National Directorate of provinces. movement are promoting Yaqoob one-legged Mulla Dadullah was KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani as a legitimate and worthy suc- allegedly shot dead by one of his injured in Baghlan on Monday officially announced cessor to his father, Mulla bodyguards in Helmand province Page 12 appointment of Sayid Yusuf Halim Omar.The differences between the on May 12, 2007 and later his as the country s Chief Justice af- two competing sides came to a body was captured by Nato and wedding gunfight ter lawmakers approved his ap- Thrown away for head when Mansoor on the per- Afghan forces and publicly dis- pointment by casting a vote of suasion of Pakistani authorities played in Kandahar. Mulla confidence few weeks ago. The dispatched a Taliban delegation to Dadullah s family and support- oath taking ceremony was held at Murree to hold peace talks with ers had blamed Mansoor and his the Presidential Palace on Mon- being a baby girl: the Afghan government on July 7 ruling group of conspiring to as- How Bajrangi day where a number of senior offi- and then managed to release an sassinate him and this caused the Bhaijaan cials from the National Unity Gov- Eidul Fitr message from Mulla initial differences in Taliban ernment (NUG) including Presi- Omar endorsing the peace talks. ranks.According to the sources, brought peace dent Ghani, Chief Executive Ab- The anti-talk factions among the Zakir and Mulla Abdul Rauf, an Page 10 dullah Abdullah, Second Vice Pres- Taliban felt outraged by both de- important pro-Taliban cleric, to the LoC and ident Mohammad Sarwar Danish, cisions and soon consultations were present in a recent conclave solved the former acting chief justice of the began in Afghanistan and Pakistan in which Yaqoob was introduced Supreme Court, Abdul Rashih to end the monopoly of power as the would-be leader of the Tal- Kashmir issue Rashid, and members of the High by Mansoor and his Ishakzai iban movement and Mansoor was Council of the Supreme Court par- Durrani clan in the movement. heavily criticised The presence ticipated in the event. At the event, Those opposed to Mansoor in- of Abdul Mannan, a ...P3 Ghani reaffirmed his commitment US legacy in to protecting the Afghan Consti- Afghanistan: tution. The key duty of the pres- Pakistan Mafia groups ident is to protect the Constitu- Page 6 Taliban seeks tion, Ghani said. But for this resumes behind spiraling return to purpose the president needs a ful- ly authorized and reliable Supreme cross-Durand insecurity in mainstream Court which of course emerges on Kunduz: Safi the basis of the law. He added Line attacks that said that the main aspect of KUNDUZ: The governor of the new Chief Justice s job should AT Monitoring Desk northern Kunduz province has said be the will of Allah, satisfaction of on Monday mafia circles are ma- the Afghan nation and their confi- KABUL: After a 10-month break, jor obstacles to construction and Peace talks amid dence in the judicial system. He security in the province. Moham- hinted at implementation of re- Pakistani military in new wave of cross-Durand Line incursions mad Omar Safi, while presenting forms in different institutions by report of his first 6-months activ- Editorial P6 increasing violence pledging full cooperation with the shelled 16 rockets into south-east- ern Paktika province on Sunday ities in office said lack of proper help Supreme Court s initiatives planning by the previous govern- on reforms. night but no casualties were report- ed, said security officials on Mon- ment, presence of Taliban and ille- day. gal armed men and drug smuggling MoPH cancels The Interior Ministry spokes- were major reasons of insecurity A lack of man, Sediq Seddiqi, said there were in the province. He has submitted licenses of 8 concerns over the shelling by the a set of suggestions to the govern- understanding Pakistani military into Afghan soil. ment. During his period in office, Page 11 of racism in medical stores Quoted by TOLOnews, Sed- he has been busy tackling e securi- diqi said rocket attacks had stopped ty issues. He said despite having Russian KABUL: The Ministry of Public long-term plans for development Health (MoPH) on Monday in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces but 16 rockets were fired into Pak- and reconstruction, certain groups football torched more than 30 tonnes of low did not let them do their work quality drugs and canceled the li- tika province on Sunday night, add- ing that the rockets landed in non- properly. Since beginning of the cense of eight medicine companies, year, security situation has deteri- an official said.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Women's Rights Unveiled: Taliban's Treatment of Women in Afghanistan
    WOMEN'S RIGHTS UNVEILED: TALIBAN'S TREATMENT OF WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN I. INTRODUCTION I have four children. Life is very difficult under the Taliban, especially because of what they have done to women. During the past year, I have been out of my house only three times, always accompanied by a male family member, or my husband. Once, I went to the baker's [sic]. There I saw another woman. She was picking up some bread, and her sleeves moved up her arms a bit, and a Talib came and beat her. I became very afraid, and I ran away. My house in Afghanistan is not very big. It has two rooms, one bathroom, and a kitchen. All the day, I am inside the house, doing housework-cooking, washing, cleaning, things like this. My husband is a shopkeeper. We have a courtyard, so sometimes I can go outside and feel the sun on my face. It is surrounded by a high wall, so no one can see in. I do not see my women friends. If the women have the time to go outside, the male members of the family don't have time to escort them, or don't want to. So we all stay in our houses.' It is hard for people in other countries to believe that we women in Afghanistan are beaten everyday by the Taliban. The sadness in our story is endless. I know that they [the Taliban] beat us, lash us, and lock us in our homes all because they want to destroy the dignity of women.
    [Show full text]
  • Operation Freedom's Sentinel, Report to the United States Congress, April
    OPERATION FREEDOM’S SENTINEL LEAD INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS APRIL 1, 2019‒JUNE 30, 2019 ABOUT THIS REPORT In January 2013, Congress enacted legislation creating the Lead Inspector General (Lead IG) framework for oversight of overseas contingency operations. This legislation, which amended the Inspector General Act, requires the Inspectors General of the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of State (DoS), and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to, among other things, provide quarterly reports to Congress on the contingency operations. The DoD Inspector General (IG) is designated as the Lead IG for Operation Freedom’s Sentinel (OFS) and the DoS IG is the Associate Inspector General. USAID’s humanitarian assistance and development efforts in Afghanistan fall outside the OFS mission. However, the USAID Office of Inspector General conducts audits and investigations of its programs in Afghanistan and summaries of USAID oversight work are included in this report. The Offices of Inspector General of the DoD, DoS, and USAID are referred to in this report as the Lead IG agencies. Other partner agencies also contribute to oversight of OFS. The Lead IG agencies collectively carry out their statutory missions to: • Develop a joint strategic plan to conduct comprehensive oversight of the contingency operation. • Ensure independent and effective oversight of programs and operations of the Federal Government in support of the contingency operation through either joint or individual audits, inspections, and investigations. • Report quarterly and biannually to Congress and the public on the contingency operation and activities of the Lead IG agencies. METHODOLOGY To produce this quarterly report, the Lead IG agencies submit requests for information to the DoD, DoS, and USAID about OFS and related programs.
    [Show full text]
  • Religion and Militancy in Pakistan and Afghanistan
    Religion and Militancy in Pakistan and Afghanistan in Pakistan and Militancy Religion a report of the csis program on crisis, conflict, and cooperation Religion and Militancy in Pakistan and Afghanistan a literature review 1800 K Street, NW | Washington, DC 20006 Project Director Tel: (202) 887-0200 | Fax: (202) 775-3199 Robert D. Lamb E-mail: [email protected] | Web: www.csis.org Author Mufti Mariam Mufti June 2012 ISBN 978-0-89206-700-8 CSIS Ë|xHSKITCy067008zv*:+:!:+:! CHARTING our future a report of the csis program on crisis, conflict, and cooperation Religion and Militancy in Pakistan and Afghanistan a literature review Project Director Robert L. Lamb Author Mariam Mufti June 2012 CHARTING our future About CSIS—50th Anniversary Year For 50 years, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has developed practical solutions to the world’s greatest challenges. As we celebrate this milestone, CSIS scholars continue to provide strategic insights and bipartisan policy solutions to help decisionmakers chart a course toward a better world. CSIS is a bipartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Center’s 220 full-time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and de- velop policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change. Since 1962, CSIS has been dedicated to finding ways to sustain American prominence and prosperity as a force for good in the world. After 50 years, CSIS has become one of the world’s pre- eminent international policy institutions focused on defense and security; regional stability; and transnational challenges ranging from energy and climate to global development and economic integration.
    [Show full text]
  • Weekly Analysis/131
    Weekly Analysis/131 www.csrskabul.com Center for Strategic & Regional Studies Kabul Weekly Analysis-Issue Number 131 (August 22-29, 2015) Weekly Analysis is one of CSRS’ publications, which significantly analyses weekly economic and political events in Afghanistan and the region. The prime motive behind this is to provide strategic insights and policy solutions to decision-making institutions and individuals in order to help them to design best policies. Weekly Analysis is published in local languages (Pashto and Dari) and international languages (English and Arabic). ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ In this issue: · Preface ……………..………………………………………………..……………………………….……………. 2 Afghanistan Economic Update: the current scenario and the future prospects · Economic Growth ………………………………………………………………………….…………. 4 · Financial Budget …..……………..……………………………………………………………....…… 5 · Trade ………..…………….………………………………………………………………….…………….. 6 · The Depreciation of Afghani (Currency) ………………..…………………………….…….. 7 · Unemployment ..……………………………..………………………………………………….…….. 9 The impacts of Almas Operations in the North · Experience of Militia-Making ….……………..…………………………..……………..……… 11 · The Aftermath of Almas Operations …….…………………………………….….…………. 11 · Ethnic Disputes ….………..………..….……….….......................................................12 · The Pretext of Pakistanis’ Presence …………………………….………..…….…............ 12 · The Consequences of
    [Show full text]
  • The Evolution of the Taliban
    Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive Theses and Dissertations Thesis Collection 2008-06 The evolution of the Taliban Samples, Christopher A. Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School http://hdl.handle.net/10945/4101 NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA THESIS THE EVOLUTION OF THE TALIBAN by Shahid A. Afsar Christopher A. Samples June 2008 Thesis Advisor: Thomas H. Johnson Second Reader: Heather S. Gregg Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instruction, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Washington headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302, and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (0704-0188) Washington DC 20503. 1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank) 2. REPORT DATE 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED June 2008 Master’s Thesis 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE The Evolution of the Taliban 5. FUNDING NUMBERS 6. AUTHORS Shahid A. Afsar and Christopher A. Samples 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION Naval Postgraduate School REPORT NUMBER Monterey, CA 93943-5000 9. SPONSORING /MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSORING/MONITORING N/A AGENCY REPORT NUMBER 11. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES The views expressed in this thesis are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Submitted By
    EXTREMISM-TERRORISM IN THE NAME OF ISLAM IN PAKISTAN: CAUSES & COUNTERSTRATEGY Submitted by: RAZA RAHMAN KHAN QAZI PhD SCHOLAR DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR (DECEMBER 2012) 1 EXTREMISM-TERRORISM IN THE NAME OF ISLAM IN PAKISTAN: CAUSES & COUNTERSTRATEGY Submitted BY RAZA RAHMAN KHAN QAZI PhD SCHOLAR Supervised By PROF. DR. IJAZ KHAN A dissertation submitted to the DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR, PESHAWAR In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN International Relations December 2012 2 DECLARATION I hereby declare that this dissertation is the outcome of my individual research and it has not been submitted to any other university for the grant of a degree. Raza Rahman khan Qazi 3 APPROVAL CERTIFICATE Pakhtuns and the War on Terror: A Cultural Perspective Dissertation Presented By RAZA RAHMAN KHAN QAZI To the Department of International Relations University of Peshawar In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Ph.D. in International Relations December 2012 We, the undersigned have examined the thesis entitled “Extremism-Terrorism in the Name of Islam in Pakistan: Causes & Counterstrategy” written by Raza Rahman Khan Qazi, a Ph.D. Scholar at the Department of International Relations, University of Peshawar and do hereby approve it for the award of Ph.D. Degree. APPROVED BY: Supervisor: ___________________________________ PROF. DR. IJAZ KHAN Professor Department of International Relations University of Peshawar External Examiner: ………………………………………………. Dean: ________________________________________ PROF. DR. NAEEM-UR-REHMAN KHATTAK Faculty of Social sciences University of Peshawar Chairman: _______________________________________ PROF.DR. ADNAN SARWAR KHAN Department of International Relations University of Peshawar 4 INTRODUCTION The World in the post Cold War period and particularly since the turn of the 21st Century has been experiencing peculiar multidimensional problems that have seriously threatened human and state security.
    [Show full text]
  • CTP-2-AQIS Paper-Roul-NL-MFA-GC
    CTP No. 2 JULY, 2020 SSPCONLINE.ORG COUNTER-TERRORISM PERSPECTIVE Writings on armed insurgencies, islamist violence, radicalisation, violent jihad and other forms of asymmetric conflicts and policy responses in South Asia and beyond. No. 2, July 30, 2020 AL QAEDA IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT Spearheading Jihad in South Asia: 2014-2020 ANIMESH ROUL Executive Director, Society for the Study Peace and Conflict, New Delhi https://www.sspconline.org 1 CTP No. 2 JULY, 2020 SSPCONLINE.ORG ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: “The author acknowledges the Government of the Netherlands and the Global Center on Cooperative Security for their support of this project. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Global Center or the Government of the Netherlands.” 2 CTP No. 2 JULY, 2020 SSPCONLINE.ORG CONTENT 1. KEY FACTS: (Name, Type, Status, Leaders, Summary) 2. INTRODUCTION 2.1. Group Formation 2.2. Aims and Objectives 2.3. Areas of Operation 2.3.1. Afghanistan 2.3.2. Pakistan 3. THREAT ASSESSMENT 3.1. Overview 3.2. Strategy and Targets 3.3. Information Campaigns 4. AQIS BEYOND AF-PAK 4.1. AQIS Bangladesh (Ansar al Islam) 4.2. Alliance with Rohingya Insurgency 4.3. AQIS Shadows in India 4.3.1. Base Movement 4.3.2. Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind, Kashmir 4.4. AQIS and Transnational Threat 5. LEADERSHIP PROFILEs 5.1. Asim Umar (Sanaul Haq, AQIS Emir, Deceased) 5.2. Osama Mahmoud: (Present Emir, Spokesperson) 5.3. Ustad Ahmad Farouk (Deputy Emir, Deceased) 5.4. Syed Mohammad Ziaul Haque (AQIS Bangladesh) 5.5. Tamim Al Adnani (AQIS Bangladesh-Fugitive) 6.
    [Show full text]
  • Badal a Culture of Revenge the Impact of Collateral Damage on Taliban Insurgency
    Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive Theses and Dissertations Thesis and Dissertation Collection 2008-03 Badal a culture of revenge the impact of collateral damage on Taliban insurgency Hussain, Raja G. Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School http://hdl.handle.net/10945/4222 NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA THESIS BADAL: A CULTURE OF REVENGE THE IMPACT OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE ON TALIBAN INSURGENCY by Raja G. Hussain March 2008 Thesis Advisor: Thomas H. Johnson Thesis Co Advisor: Feroz H. Khan Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instruction, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Washington headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302, and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (0704-0188) Washington DC 20503. 1. AGENCY USE ONLY (Leave blank) 2. REPORT DATE 3. REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED March 2008 Master’s Thesis 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE BADAL: A Culture of Revenge 5. FUNDING NUMBERS The Impact of Collateral Damage on Taliban Insurgency 6. AUTHOR(S) Raja G. Hussain 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION Naval Postgraduate School REPORT NUMBER Monterey, CA 93943-5000 9.
    [Show full text]
  • Petersberg Papers on Afghanistan and the Region
    Liechtenstein Colloquium Report Petersberg Papers on Afghanistan and the Region Wolfgang Danspeckgruber Editor Volume IV 2009 Petersberg Papers on Afghanistan and the Region Wolfgang Danspeckgruber Editor Liechtenstein Colloquium Report Volume IV © 2009 The Trustees of Princeton University Produced and published by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination This report was made possible in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The statements made and the views expressed herein are solely the responsibility of the contributing authors. Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA Telephone: 609.258.6200 Facsimile: 609.258.5196 Electronic Mail: [email protected] Website: www.princeton.edu/lisd CONTENTS List of Abbreviations ........................................................................................................................... 4 Foreword Wolfgang Danspeckgruber .................................................................................................................. 6 Special Statements Opening Address Rangin Dadfar Spanta .................................................................................................................. 7 An Exit Strategy for Afghanistan Volker Stanzel .............................................................................................................................. 10 Special Statement Rita Kieber-Beck ........................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Tehrik-E-Taliban Pakistan
    DIIS REPORT 2010:12 DIIS REPORT TEHRIK-E-TALIBAN PAKISTAN AN ATTEMPT TO DECONSTRUCT THE UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION AND THE REASONS FOR ITS GROWTH IN PAKISTAN’S NORTH-WEST Qandeel Siddique DIIS REPORT 2010:12 DIIS REPORT DIIS . DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 1 DIIS REPORT 2010:12 © Copenhagen 2010, Qandeel Siddique and DIIS Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS Strandgade 56, DK-1401 Copenhagen, Denmark Ph: +45 32 69 87 87 Fax: +45 32 69 87 00 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.diis.dk Cover photo: Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud promising future attacks on major U.S. cities and claiming responsibility for the attempted car bombing on Times Square, New York (AP Photo/IntelCenter) Cover: Anine Kristensen Layout: Allan Lind Jørgensen Printed in Denmark by Vesterkopi AS ISBN 978-87-7605-419-9 Price: DKK 50.00 (VAT included) DIIS publications can be downloaded free of charge from www.diis.dk Hardcopies can be ordered at www.diis.dk Qandeel Siddique, MSc, Research Assistant, DIIS www.diis.dk/qsi 2 DIIS REPORT 2010:12 Contents Executive Summary 4 Acronyms 6 1. TTP Organization 7 2. TTP Background 14 3. TTP Ideology 20 4. Militant Map 29 4.1 The Waziristans 30 4.2 Bajaur 35 4.3 Mohmand Agency 36 4.4 Middle Agencies: Kurram, Khyber and Orakzai 36 4.5 Swat valley and Darra Adamkhel 39 4.6 Punjab and Sind 43 5. Child Recruitment, Media Propaganda 45 6. Financial Sources 52 7. Reasons for TTP Support and FATA and Swat 57 8. Conclusion 69 Appendix A.
    [Show full text]
  • Rhetoric, Ideology and Organizational Structure of the Taliban Movement
    [PEACEW RKS [ RHETORIC, IDEOLOGY, AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE TALIBAN MOVEMENT Michael Semple ABOUT THE REPORT The withdrawal of NATO troops in 2014 means that a new Afghan government will need to develop a strategy to confront the Taliban’s campaign. Commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) as part of its ongo- ing commitment to conflict resolution in Afghanistan, this report offers insights into the movement’s doctrine, organization, and rhetoric and is intended to inform efforts to end the Taliban violence. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Michael Semple, a peace practitioner and scholar who focuses on Afghanistan and Pakistan, is currently visiting professor at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queen’s University Belfast. He previously worked as a political officer for the United Nations mission and deputy to the European Union Special Representative for Afghanistan. From 2009 to 2013, he was a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Cover photo: Mullah Omar’s bunker near his palace in Kandahar on December 13, 2001, in Kandahar (City), Afghanistan Documents (Photo by Patrick Aventurier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) The views expressed in this report are those of the author alone. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Institute of Peace. United States Institute of Peace 2301 Constitution Ave., NW Washington, DC 20037 Phone: 202.457.1700 Fax: 202.429.6063 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.usip.org Peaceworks No. 102. First published 2014. ISBN: 978-1-60127-274-4 © 2014 by the United States Institute of Peace CONTENTS PEACEWORKS • DECEMBER 2014 • NO.
    [Show full text]
  • Views Were Conducted During Fieldwork in the Summers of 2008 And
    The Role of Media in the Framing of the Afghan Conflict and the Search for Peace A dissertation presented to the faculty of the Scripps College of Communication of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy Roshan Noorzai August 2012 © 2012 Roshan Noorzai. All Rights Reserved. This dissertation titled The Role of Media in the Framing of the Afghan Conflict and the Search for Peace by ROSHAN NOORZAI has been approved for the School of Media Arts and Studies and the Scripps College of Communication by _____________________________________________ Don M. Flournoy Professor of Media Arts and Studies _____________________________________________ Scott Titsworth Dean, Scripps College of Communication ii Abstract NOORZAI, ROSHAN, Ph.D., August 2012, Mass Communication The Role of Media in the Framing of the Afghan Conflict and the Search for Peace (306 pp.) Director of Dissertation: Don M. Flournoy This dissertation explores media framing of conflict and peace in post-September 11, 2001 Afghanistan. The media selected for this study included: the BBC Pashto Service and Azadi Radio at the international level; Tehran’s Pashto Radio at the regional level; National Radio and Television of Afghanistan [NRTA], Tolo Television and Ariana Television at the national level; and Salam Watandar Network and Hewad Television at the local level. In-depth interviews were conducted during fieldwork in the summers of 2008 and 2009. Participant observation, textual analysis and documents analysis were the other methods used in this study. Using comparative frame analysis, this study identified the following main frames: state building, occupation as failure and civilian victims.
    [Show full text]