Turkey Pledges $15 Million in Military Aid for ANDSF December 14,2020
ANKARA - Turkey has agreed to assist Afghanistan with 100 million Turkish Lira (about US$13 million) in military equipment for the Afghanistan National Defense and Security Forces over the next five years plus another $2 million for training. In a statement issued by the Afghan embassy in Ankara, Turkey, on Saturday night, government said the Military-Financial Cooperation Agreement and the Implementation Protocol of Financial Assistance were signed between representatives of the two governments on Wednesday in Ankara. In addition to the $13 million aid package for the ANDSF, Turkey “will provide the amount of 14 million Turkish Lira (around 2 million USD) for education and training of the Afghan National Army, the Ministry of Interior and the NAtional Directorate of Security,” the statement read.
VP Saleh: There Is Tactical, Operational Alliance between Taliban and IS-K
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Kabul (BNA) In a tweet on Saturday, the First Vice President, Amrullah Saleh said that there isn’t and shouldn’t be any political correctness in explaining who the enemy is and what does he want, adding that there is an alliance between IS-K & the Taliban at tactical & operational level.
“There isn’t and shouldn’t be any political correctness in explaining who the enemy is and what does he want. None. Calling a spade, a spade is courage not recklessness. There is an alliance between IS-K & the Taliban at tactical & operational level. Ask,” he tweeted.
Ambiguity Continues Around Probe into Attack on Yama Siawash
Public criticism continues to mount on the Afghan government and the country’s security agencies for not providing details about the November 7 attack on Central Bank officials in Kabul that killed three people including former TOLOnews presenter Yama Siawash.
Family of Ahmadullah Anas, who was killed in the attack, once again leveled strong criticism against the Afghan government for not sharing details of their investigation about the perpetrators who plotted the deadly attack.
Anas’s brother said that no government institution bothered to provide any clue and details about the nature of the attack, the motives and the plotters.
WITH the ongoing war in Afghanistan seemingly of little interest to much of the British media, journalist Joe Glenton’s new documentary is very welcome.
Having served in Kandahar with the British army in 2006 before going Awol and refusing to fight in the war, Glenton returns to Afghanistan to try to uncover the truth about shadowy death squads operating in the country.
Visiting Kabul and Jalalabad, he speaks to the family of victims, researchers, dissident and former MP Malalai Joya and government officials.
The 25-minute film highlights how raids supposedly targeting Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents, and often including extrajudicial executions, are carried out by the so-called Zero Units, paramilitary units operating in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
LAHORE: Security agencies in a joint intelligence-based operation smashed an alleged terrorist network reportedly sponsored by the Indian intelligence agency.
The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and the country’s premier intelligence agency’s counter-terrorism wing arrested five suspected terrorists from a warehouse in Shahdara around 3pm on Wednesday, just hours before they were allegedly scheduled to detonate an improvised explosive device (IED) in front of the Peoples House Gate of the Civil Secretariat at the time of its closing.
A forensic analysis of the suspects’ mobile phones detected their alleged links with the Indian Research and Analysis Wing’s officials present in Afghanistan, who were the alleged masterminds behind the plan.