Pakistanis Leading Terror Groups al-Qaida in Indian Subcontinent, ISIL-K and TTP; Not Yet Blacklisted: UN Report
Pakistani nationals stay on the management ranges in terror teams akin to al-Qaida within the Indian Subcontinent, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and lots of of them are but to be blacklisted, in keeping with a UN record.
The 26th record of the Analytical Toughen and Sanctions Tracking Crew relating to ISIL, al-Qaida and related people and entities mentioned that during April and Would possibly, the Afghan particular forces performed a sequence of countrywide operations and arrested the pinnacle of the ISIL-Okay Aslam Farooqi (sometimes called Abdullah Orokzai) and his predecessor Zia ul-Haq (sometimes called Abu Omar Khorasani) and others.
Farooqi, who hails from Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is the mastermind at the back of the fatal terror assault on a distinguished gurudwara in Kabul in March that killed 25 Sikhs.
He isn’t blacklisted by means of the UN Safety Council’s 1267 al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee. In a similar way, Haq may be a Pakistani nationwide and has now not been blacklisted but.
Al-Qaida within the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) operates beneath the Taliban umbrella from Afghanistan’s Nimruz, Helmand and Kandahar provinces and its present chief is Pakistan-born Osama Mahmood, who may be “now not indexed” beneath the united states sanctions. Mahmood succeeded Asim Umar.
The record mentioned that the crowd reportedly has between 150 and 200 individuals from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan and “is reportedly making plans retaliation operations within the area to avenge the loss of life of its former chief.”
The Sanctions Tracking Crew record mentioned that the “massive terrorist workforce found in Afghanistan Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is led by means of Amir Noor Wali Mehsud.
Pakistan-born Mehsud was once designated a world terrorist by means of the united states sanctions committee most effective this month, greater than two years after he was once named the TTP chief, following the loss of life of former TTP head Maulana Fazlullah.
Mehsud is supported by means of his deputy Qari Amjad and TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khorasani, each now not indexed beneath the united states sanctions.
This demonstrates that the Pakistani nationals function at management ranges within the terror organisations and level to the fear teams’ Pakistani hyperlinks.
The record mentioned that al-Qaida is covertly energetic in 12 Afghan provinces and its chief Aiman al-Zawahiri stays primarily based within the nation.
The tracking workforce estimates the whole choice of al-Qaida combatants in Afghanistan at between 400 and 600.
The management maintains an in depth touch with the Haqqani Community. In February 2020, al-Zawahiri met with Yahya Haqqani, “the main Haqqani Community touch with al-Qaida since mid-2009, to talk about the continuing cooperation.
