Haqqani in charge of Kabul security; IMF loans Belarus $1 billion

8-28-21  KABUL:  The US who first designated the Haqqani Network as a terrorist group in 2012, is now a part of the government in Afghanistan post the Taliban takeover of the war-torn country.

Without bold action that doesn't cow to the demands of the terrorists now running Afghanistan there will be many avoidable deaths in the next few weeks--related to the airport operations alone.  There will be massive human rights violations, especially against women, said Jason Criss Howk, writing in Clearance Jobs.  "key members have also 

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Taliban political bureau spokesman Naeem also denied that Kabul’s security was now in the hands of

Khalil Haqqani, who is (the terrorist most) wanted by Washington for links to al-Qaeda and who, according to some reports, was greeted in Kabul with boisterous cheers in recent days.

  At a news conference Tuesday the Taliban spokesman said this was not the same Taliban that governed the country from 1996 until 2001.  The group made many of the same professions of moderation when it came to power in 1996.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/23/taliban-qaeda-afghanistan/

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8-19-21   Although negotiations are on within the Taliban leadership on the formation of government at Kabul, the Pakistan based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a fellow Deobandi terrorist group, is apparently demanding a stake in the Afghan pie with jagirs or land in south Afghanistan. With the ascent of Taliban in Kabul, there is celebration both within the JeM as well as their handlers in Rawalpindi as troves of cash and top of the line US weapons and military vehicles have been seized by the new invaders.

While India and its close allies are in a wait and watch mode, the Taliban are getting support from Britain whose Chief of Defence Staff General Nick Carter is openly lobbying for the Sunni Pashtun group to be given a chance at Kabul.  It was Carter along with Pakistan Army who were instrumental in cutting out a botched up deal for the US with the Taliban through special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad.

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  On August 23 last year 250,000 people marched through Minsk protesting dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s self-declared victory in the sham elections held earlier that month.  Then exactly one year later the IMF (hq:  Washington D.C.) announced that it was awarding Lukashenko’s government $1 billion, undermining the sanctions the IMF issued a press release shirking culpability for any abuses to come from the money, stating: “the decision on how best to use [it] rests with our member countries.   ”https://secure.everyaction.com/p/Wyv1dnUlg0y2S-18p2p-Ew2#Story2

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