Operation Ghazab Lil Haq (Pakistan - Afghanistan War)

Sultan Aziz Azzam, born in 1978 in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, is a graduate of the University of Nangarhar and served as the head of ISKP’s Al-Azaim media network, a key propaganda and recruitment arm of the terrorist organization.

He joined ISKP in 2016 and was designated a US Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) in November 2021 for his central role in advancing the group’s extremist ideology and operational outreach.

The arrest marks a major blow to ISKP’s leadership and propaganda infrastructure, reinforcing Pakistan’s ongoing efforts against transnational terrorism.
 

A clear indictment​

Editorial
December 19, 2025

YET again, the UN Security Council’s monitoring report on Afghanistan has painted a grim picture of the presence of transnational terrorist groups on Afghan territory. The report, a regular feature, reiterates that Afghanistan remains a staging ground for some of the most lethal terrorist outfits in the world. Pakistan, which has been a victim of the TTP, based in Afghanistan, has known this painful reality for years.

The report notes that over 20 international and regional terrorist organisations currently call Afghanistan home. These include IS-K, Al Qaeda, the TTP and ETIM, among others.

With the exception of IS-K, these groups have good relations with the Afghan Taliban. Importantly, the report says that the Taliban’s claims that no militant groups are based on their soil are “not credible”.

For Pakistan, the TTP — largely due to the permissive environment it enjoys under Afghan Taliban rule — poses a major security challenge. The UN document says that the terrorist group has conducted over 600 attacks against this country in the current year.

Moreover, TTP chief Noor Wali Mehsud is believed to spend time in Kabul, while other anti-Pakistan terrorists, such as Gul Bahadur, are also based in Afghanistan.

The report highlights links between the TTP and Al Qaeda, as well as ETIM. Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen Pakistan, said to be a front for TTP and Al Qaeda fighters, is amongst the other terrorist groups active next door. Meanwhile, another matter of grave concern is the presence of madressahs run by IS-K near the Pakistani border.
 
The details mentioned in the UN report shatter any illusion that Taliban-run Afghanistan poses no threat to its neighbours. On the contrary, just as it used to be before the US-led invasion, Afghanistan has become a safe haven for extremely dangerous and violent militant outfits that threaten the region and the world.

And while the report says that there are differences within the upper echelons of the Taliban leadership on how to deal with the TTP, Kabul’s rulers are unlikely to take action against the group, as the regime may actually “lack the ability to do so”.

This should be a matter of great concern for the international community, particularly Afghanistan’s neighbours. Nearly all states bordering Afghanistan have experienced terrorist attacks carried out by groups based on Afghan soil, with Pakistan the hardest hit.

The way forward does not seem to be clear-cut. More conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan will not solve the problem in the long run. Talks with the Kabul regime have also failed to provide meaningful outcomes.

In such a situation, perhaps the least bad option is to reach out to the relatively ‘moderate’ elements within the Taliban set-up, and press upon them the need to stop terrorists from threatening Afghanistan’s neighbours.
 
Any idea what these two Omni Airforce C130s were doing in Kabul ? 🤔

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Ali_Baba said:
Namak harami as their official designation is quite appropriate, don't you think?
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Ingratitude is more like it. We should have never expected loyalty from them. What one could have expected, within reason, is some gratitude for the lengths Pakistan went through for Afghanistan over the past 4 decades.

The latest video of Afghans from the Ibadat University/University of Lahore (?) isn't endearing them to anyone in Pakistan. The foreign vlogger asks them why they don't go back to Afghanistan if they want Swat in Afghan hands and other Afghan nationalistic nonsense and it is crickets chirping.

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Blain2 said:
Ingratitude is more like it. We should have never expected loyalty from them. What one could have expected, within reason, is some gratitude for the lengths Pakistan went through for Afghanistan over the past 4 decades.

The latest video of Afghans from the Ibadat University/University of Lahore (?) isn't endearing them to anyone in Pakistan. The foreign vlogger asks them why they don't go back to Afghanistan if they want Swat in Afghan hands and other Afghan nationalistic nonsense and it is crickets chirping.

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There should be no afghans in Islamabad, illegal or legal.
 
Distant_Observer said:
There should be no afghans in Islamabad, illegal or legal.
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I would not go that far. Those who are legal, law abiding and vested in Pakistan certainly have a place. Unfortunately the "harkatain" of those Takfiris across the border give all of them a bad name.
 
Blain2 said:
Ingratitude is more like it. We should have never expected loyalty from them. What one could have expected, within reason, is some gratitude for the lengths Pakistan went through for Afghanistan over the past 4 decades.

The latest video of Afghans from the Ibadat University/University of Lahore (?) isn't endearing them to anyone in Pakistan. The foreign vlogger asks them why they don't go back to Afghanistan if they want Swat in Afghan hands and other Afghan nationalistic nonsense and it is crickets chirping.

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Both terms can apply in this scenario..
 
Blain2 said:
I would not go that far. Those who are legal, law abiding and vested in Pakistan certainly have a place. Unfortunately the "harkatain" of those Takfiris across the border give all of them a bad name.
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All it takes is one phone call and they will turn into a suicide bomber or gather intelligence.

Get them all out.

Why does it take you people so long to learn your lessons? These are exceptional circumstances.
 
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