Tag Archives: ISI

Return of the Radio Mullah?

June 16, 2011 · by · in Afghanistan, Kunar, Nuristan · Leave a comment

In keeping with the Nuristan theme, I thought I’d add a small detail that was left out of the story on Sunday. Maulana Fazlullah, nicknamed the “Radio Mullah” after he launched a pirate radio station in Pakistan’s Swat Valley in 2006, is apparently still hiding in Nuristan despite claims that he was killed in May […]

Nuristan – province in terror as Taliban return

June 12, 2011 · by · in Afghanistan, Nuristan · 4 Comments

The Sunday Times The Al-Qaeda instructor spent an hour schooling his protégé, a 12-year-old Afghan boy, in the art of suicide bombing. Flanked by retired officers from Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Arab militant is said to have shown the boy how to approach his target calmly before pressing the handheld button that would detonate […]

Pakistan puppet masters guide the Taliban

June 13, 2010 · by · in Afghanistan, Pakistan · Leave a comment

The Sunday Times THE Taliban commander waited at the ramshackle border crossing while Pakistani police wielding assault rifles stopped and searched the line of cars and trucks travelling into Afghanistan. Some of the trucks carried smuggled goods — DVD players, car stereos, television sets, generators, children’s toys. But the load smuggled by Taliban fighter Qari […]

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