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Sep 13, 2021 - Week 39

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Afghan resistance forces take to guerrilla

warfare from Panjshir mountains

Sep 13, National

Resistance Front (NRF)

of Afghanistan fighters

have receded into the

high mountains of

Panjshir after a Taliban

led force occupied the

valley.

Sep 6, the NRF handle

on Twitter disputed

Taliban’s claim of

occupying Panjshir as

false. It said NRF forces

were present in

strategic positions all

across the valley and

will continue the fight.

NRF assured the people

of Afghanistan that the

struggle against the

Taliban & their partners

will continue until

justice & freedom

prevails.

Two days later it

tweeted a letter

condemning Taliban’s

large scale and

deliberate attacks on

civilians in the Panjshir

province. It accused

the Taliban of

massacring civilians

and perpetrating war

crimes that border on

genocide.

On Sep 13, a video

aired by BBC accused

the Taliban of killing at

least 20 civilians in

Panjshir. Footage

shows the Taliban

Bharat First

Ecosystem, Sangam

Talks and Jaipur

Dialogues organized the

anti-Jihad event that

trended with a hashtag

#DismantlingJihad on

Twitter.

The #DismantlingJihad

conference saw far

greater participation

with over 50,000

attendees than its rival

‘Dismantling Global

Hindutva’. The tweet in

the image above spot

lighted the disparity in

draws, a paltry 25

Over the past 2 month the

home ministry has

suspended foreign funding

of 8 NGOs citing violations

of the Foreign Contribution

(Regulation) Act (FCRA).

Most of these are Islamic

or evangelical charities

that were under the

scanner for misusing funds

for religions conversions.

An organization can no

longer receive foreign aid

once its FCRA license has

been revoked. Suspension

also freezes its bank

accounts.

The Islamic charities were

based out of Lucknow,

Kerala and Hyderabad and

include one ‘Al Hasan

Educational and Welfare’,

connected to Umar

Gautam who was

apprehended for mass

conversions after the UP

CM order a probe. The

evangelical ones were

based in Delhi, Orissa and

Chennai and included

Commonwealth Human

Rights Initiative, that

received funds from

George Soros’s Open

Society Foundation. 2

others charities were in

Bengaluru and AP. At: OpIndia

Visit IndiaWiki.org

On Sep 30, the by-poll at

Bhabanipur in Kolkata will

see a contest between

CM Mamata Banerjee

who has to win the

election to hold on to her

position and BJP’s

Priyanka Tibrewal.

Tibrewal, a BJP lawyer

who has fought the 2021

cases of post poll violence

commendably said she

had already defeated the

CM in a court of law and it

was the second time she

is taking her on. – IE, MSN

3 helipads have also

been built next to the

airstrip. The road is built

to withstand the landing

weight of large aircrafts

and has service lanes at

both sides.

Road traffic was closed

between 7 am and 2 pm

as the Air-Force

successfully tested

touchdown, takeoff and

fueling at the airstrip

with Sukhois, Jaguars

and AN-17s. Such a

strip can accelerate

response time for cross

border strikes, extend

aircraft range and

provide alternative

airfields when needed.

Built with PM Modi’s

consent, Mr Gadkari

now plans to create 20

such highway airstrips

and 450 flanking

helipads across India.

More at: IndiaTVNews 1-2-3

Sep 10, India will induct

its first nuclear missile

tracking ship INS Dhruv

into its Strategic Forces

Command (SFC) which

handles nuclear warfare

and reports directly to the

prime minister’s office.

The 75 meter long ship

has a maximum speed of

21 knots, a 300 member

crew and displaces 15,000

tonnes. It will be used to

detect incoming nuclear

ballistic missile, anti-

satellite missile, aircraft,

satellite and rocket

launches and flight

trajectories. It will capture

telemetry data for Indian

missile tests. Fitted with

advanced X and S band

AESA radars it has a

detection range of up to

1,500 km and augments

shore based tracking.

India joins a band of 5

other countries, US,

Russia, China and France

that own such ships.

DefenseXP, JanJagrosh, image-

DefenceDirectEducation

shooting a man dead by

the roadside.

Freelance journalist

Natiq Malikzada

explained why Taliban’s

hoisting of a flag at the

Panjshir governor’s

office doesn’t imply

they have control of the

valley. Panjshir is a

valley with only one

main road that goes till

a dead end. Dozens of

other valleys branch

out from it. The

governor office was on

the main road while

Resistance Forces are

fighting from other

valleys.

TribuneIndia, HuffingtonPost, BBC

Sep 3, the NIA filed a

chargesheet against ex-

Maharashtra API, Sachin

Waze. Over 10,000 pages

with 200+ testimonies it

implicates Waze,

encounter specialist

Pradeep Sharma and 8

others for extortion and

murder. Feb 25, Waze

planted a Scorpio with

explosives at industrialist

Mukesh Ambani’s Antilia

residence in Mumbai. He

tried to pass it off as a

terror attack by Jaish-ul-

Hind, to extort money. He

also forced the car owner

Mansukh Hiren, to report

the vehicle was stolen.

When Hiren refused to

play along, Waze and

accomplices plotted to

murder Hiren. Waze

booked an Oberoi Hotel

room for 100 days to

execute the plot. Sharma

paid ₹45 lacs to 4 accused

for the murder. They

dumped Hiren’s dead

body in a Thane creek

and fled to Nepal. Waze

dumped their phones and

gadgets in the Mithi river.

At: Republic, TOI

participants in the

Hindutva hate

conference.

Questions had been

raised about the timing

and purpose of the

Hindutva hate

conference. Some

believe it was timed to

divert public attention

away from Islamic

terror on a 9/11

anniversary and smear

Hindutva instead. The

Hindutva hate

conference had

claimed backing of

nearly 60 universities.

Hindu groups such as

Vishwa Hindu Parishad

of America (VHPA), the

Coalition of Hindus in

North America

(CoHNA) and the Hindu

American Foundation

(HAF) rallied to send

out more than 1.3

million emails to

universities to

withdraw their support

for the controversial

conference and a

several universities

backed out and its low

attendance was an

apposite conclusion.

Twitter, OpIndia, AlJazeera

Sep 9, 40 km from the

Pakistan border, a 3 km

stretch on the national

highway 295, in the

Gandhav Bhakasar

section, south of Barmer

in Rajasthan, has been

put to additional use as

an emergency Air-Force

runway. Thursday,

Defense minister

Rajnath Singh, surface

transport minister, Nitin

Gadkari and chief of

defense staff, Bipin

Rawat inaugurated the

airstrip, landing on it in

one of the Air-Force’s

largest planes, a 70

tonne C-130 Hercules.

The 33 meter wide

airstrip has aircraft

parking bays on both

sides, an aircraft fueling

facility, a two-storeyed

aircraft control tower

(ATC), a mobile radar

system and space for an

air defence system.

Vishwakarma Jayanti, Sep 17, image – Amazon; Hindi Diwas, Sep 14, image – EducationWorld

France calls out

Taliban lies and

unkept promises

Right dismantles hate-Hindutva online conference

BJP fields Priyanka

Tibrewal against

Mamata in by-poll

NIA files

chargesheet

against Waze

Air-Force jets touch down and take

off from Rajasthan highway stretch

INS Dhruv nuclear

missile tracking

ship launched

Foreign fund freeze

on 8 Islamic and

evangelical NGOs

Sep 10, the Cabinet

Committee for Security

has approved the

reengineering of 6 Air

India A-321 passenger

aircrafts into airborne

warning and control

system (AWACS). They

CCS approves ₹10,500 crore for 6

indigenous ‘eye in the sky’ systems

Sep 13, The Taliban are

lying and France will not

have any relationship

with its newly-formed

government, French

foreign minister Jean-

Yves Le Drian said on

Saturday before talks in

Qatar on Sunday to

discuss future

evacuations from

Afghanistan.

Post talks, he expressed

disappointment in the

Taliban for failing to live

up to its promise of a

more moderate and

inclusive style of

leadership, forsaking

terrorists, allowing

citizens right of travel,

protecting delivery of

aid and women’s rights.

‘We have heard the

statements made (by

the Taliban), though we

are waiting for actions,’

Le Drian told reporters.

‘Words are not enough.’

France has evacuated

3,000 people but a few

hundred are still left in

Afghanistan.

More: NewIndianExpress, AlArabia

Sep 7, five Taliban

members released from

Guantanamo Bay by the

Obama administration in

2014 in exchange for a

US Army deserter, Bowe

Bergdahl, are part of the

Islamic fundamentalist

group’s attempted new

hardline government in

Afghanistan. They have

been given designations

of director of

intelligence, ministers of

borders and tribal

affairs, deputy defense

and information and

culture and governor of

the Khost Province.

Despite the assessments

recommending

“continued detention”

for the 5, then-president

Barack Obama signed

off on the swap. Wasiq,

Fazl and Khairkhah held

posts of deputy

intelligence chief, army

chief of staff and as

interior minister in the

previous Taliban regime.

Two were accused of

ordering the massacres

of ethnic Hazaras, Tajiks,

and Uzbeks in the city of

Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998.

At: JihadWatch

Five released by

Obama in Taliban

government

will be fitted with 360◦

Active Electronically

Scanned Array (AESA)

radars. To be readied

between 4 and 7 years,

they will add to 3

Phalcon and 2 Netra

AWACS India has.

IndiaTimes, image-IndiaBlooms

Sep 9, OpIndia editor

Nupur Sharma announced

that after the unrelenting

persecution by Mamata

Banerjee’s government

she had decided to move

to Delhi from Kolkata. The

unfortunate development

comes a week after the

SC stayed a 4

FIR filed by

the state against OpIndia.

At: Organiser, TGW

OpIndia editor

moves out of

Bengal; cites threats

ISRO International

Space Conference 2021

Sep 13 to Oct 4, 2021

https://www.isro.gov.in/

Sep 11, seizing the

initiative, Kapil Mishra,

BJP leader launched an

online conference

titled ‘Dismantling

Global Islamic

Communist Jihad’, and

timed it to coincide not

only with the 9/11

Islamic terrorist

attacks on America but

also to counter an

online conference

targeting Hindutva,

‘Dismantling Global

Hindutva’. Hindu

groups, the Hindu

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Does US have the will to act against Pakistan?

use precursor

chemicals that come

from two fertilizer

plants in Pakistan.

While conducting

research for a history

of US diplomacy with

rogue regimes and

terror groups, I

interviewed a number

of Pakistani officials

about the Taliban. One

former head of

Pakistan’s Inter-

Services Intelligence

(ISI) agency

acknowledged to me

over tea in the

Islamabad Club that

Pakistan was playing

both sides of the

issue—supporting the

Taliban insurgency

while then charging the

United States

extortionate fees so

that the Pentagon

could resupply its

forces. From the ISI’s

standpoint, it was like

hitting the jackpot.

Since the 9/11 attacks,

the United States has

given Pakistan almost

$23 billion in security

assistance and Coalition

Support Funds.

Afghanistan is a diverse

country; the Taliban do

not represent

traditional Afghan

culture nor, for that

matter, do they

represent most

Pashtuns, despite a

quarter-century of

Pakistan’s support. This

is why the Taliban

refuse to submit

themselves to

elections: The

movement knows that

they could never

achieve their extremist

society in a poll of their

peers, so they seek

instead to impose it

through the force of

arms.

The American defeat to

the Taliban and, by

extension, Pakistan is a

humiliation rooted not

in a US military failure

but the corrosiveness

and shortsightedness of

America’s own

political debate. It is a

blow the United States

might have avoided,

but should not take

without a response.

Simply put, it is time to

sanction Pakistan.

The case against

Pakistan is strong.

Pakistan remains jihad

central. It sustained

the Taliban and

sheltered Usama Bin

Laden in Abbottabad, a

town that is Pakistan’s

equivalent of West

Point. Pakistan also

sheltered 9/11

mastermind, Khalid

Shaikh Muhammad,

before his 2003

capture. The United

Nations believes Bin

Laden’s successor

Ayman al-Zawahiri

lives under Pakistani

protection. US drone

strikes have killed

several Taliban and Al

Qaeda leaders inside

Pakistan, including

Mullah Akhtar

Mansour, who had

succeeded Mullah

Omar, the movement’s

founder. Pakistan also

hosts Lashkar-e-Taiba,

a group that has killed

Americans including

during the 2008

Mumbai bombings.

The current Taliban

assault did not

materialize out of thin

air, but rather is a sign

of deception: Pakistani

officials deceived their

American counterparts

they were facilitating

peace talks while in

reality they were

preparing the Taliban

to take over

Afghanistan.

Pakistan’s current

behavior is not the

exception, but rather

the rule. Pakistani

authorities have long

distrusted the United

States. They believe

(rightly) that, upon

India’s partition,

Pakistan was

Washington’s second

choice, and they accuse

the United States of

failing to support them

when they

subsequently started

wars with India. History

is full of diplomatic

grievances, but

Pakistani authorities

use their exaggerated

sense of grievance

repeatedly to backstab

America. This was the

case in the 1980s when

Pakistan authorities

violated their

commitments not to

build a nuclear arsenal.

Today, Pakistan’s

nuclear arsenal is not

only a fait accompli, but

incitement has reached

such depths that

Pakistani politicians

threaten to use nuclear

weapons. A.Q. Khan,

the father of Pakistan’s

nuclear bomb program,

subsequently

proliferated the

technology to Iran,

Libya, and North Korea.

While the United States

often

compartmentalizes

Pakistan with

Afghanistan, Pakistan

also threatens

American interests

elsewhere. First Prime

Minister Nawaz Sharif

and then-incumbent

Imran Khan have

transformed Pakistan

into a Chinese vassal.

This is a tragedy for

Pakistani nationalists,

but it also affects the

entire Indo-Pacific

region by giving China

an outlet to the Indian

Ocean. That Pakistan

receives US military

training and gains

access to US equipment

only to embrace Beijing is

a paradox that the Biden

administration should

immediately end. Today,

China trains the ISI and

the Pakistani Army and

the Chinese People’s

Liberation Army have

increasingly strong links.

The State Department

has long been reluctant

to impose sanctions on

Pakistan. Perhaps senior

diplomats believed they

might better compel

Pakistan with carrots

rather than sticks, but the

net result of US inaction

was a sense of impunity

in Islamabad and an

emboldened Taliban.

American credibility is

also at stake. The State

Department’s failure to

designate Pakistan a state

sponsor of terrorism

hemorrhages the

credibility of the terror

list, because it shows it to

be subjective rather than

objective. The U.S. and its

allies must also support

adding Pakistan to the

Financial Action Task

Force (FATF) black list;

this Pakistan remains on

the grey list signals to

Pakistani leaders that

they can finance terror

and launder money with

impunity. Nor should the

United States consider

Pakistan a major-non

NATO ally. Perhaps it was

one for a short period

after 9/11, but no longer.

Simply put, all sales of

military and dual-use

technology to Pakistan by

the United States and its

allies should cease

immediately. The United

States and its allies—

many of whom have also

suffered because of

Pakistani duplicity—

should withdraw support

for loans for Pakistan

from the International

Monetary Fund, World

Bank, and Asian

Development Bank.

Lastly, it is time to impose

targeted travel and

banking sanctions on ISI

and Pakistani army

officers involved in

supporting the Taliban

and other terrorist

groups.

Mr. President, for the

honor of not only

Afghanistan but also the

United States, make

Pakistan pay. A future

generation of Pakistanis

who aspire to live in a

normal country not

hijacked by extremism

will one day thank you.

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At: NationalInterest.org

Image: NewComWorld

Email: IndiaWiki2020@gmail.com Website: http://TheGoodWord.IndiaWiki.Org

An extract from an

article by Michael

Rubin, a senior fellow at

the American Enterprise

Institute, published in

National Interest last

month:

It need not have been

this way. President Joe

Biden decided to

withdraw forces to

honor a peace

agreement his and

President Donald

Trump’s Special Envoy

Zalmay Khalilzad hashed

out with the Taliban,

never mind that the

Taliban never abided by

the terms of the

agreement. As

Afghanistan collapses,

Biden now blames the

Afghan government for

its corruption and the

Afghan military for its

failure to counter the

Taliban advance.

Corruption is a major

problem, though

Afghanistan has tackled

some of the worst

abuses and so improved

in Transparency

International’s ratings.

If corruption alone was

the problem, however,

then its similarly-ranked

peers—Burundi, Guinea

Bissau, and

Turkmenistan—would

suffer a similar fate. As

for the Afghan military’s

failure to fight, Afghans

are correct to point out

that the fight would

have been far easier if

the United States had

not forced the Afghan

government to release

imprisoned Taliban

fighters.

The real problem,

however, is not

Afghanistan but rather

its neighbor Pakistan.

Simply put, if Pakistan

had not taken the

decision to support, co-

opt, and control the

Taliban, Afghanistan

would never be in such

a dire situation. The

majority of Taliban car

bombs and improvised

explosive devices (IEDs)

It is the greatest

manifestation of

power — this

tremendous restraint;

self-restraint is a

manifestation of

greater power than all

outgoing action. A

carriage with four

horses may rush down

a hill unrestrained, or

the coachman may

curb the horses.

Which is the greater

manifestation of

power, to let them go

or to hold them? A

cannonball flying

through the air goes a

long distance and

falls. Another is cut

short in its flight by

striking against a wall,

and the impact

generates intense

heat. All outgoing

energy following a

selfish motive is

frittered away; it will

not cause power to

return to you; but if

restrained, it will

result in development

of power. This self-

control will tend to

produce a mighty will,

a character which

makes a Christ or a

Buddha. Foolish men

do not know this

secret; they

nevertheless want to

rule mankind. Even a

fool may rule the

whole world if he

works and waits. Let

him wait a few years,

restrain that foolish

idea of governing; and

when that idea is

wholly gone, he will

be a power in the

world. The majority of

us cannot see beyond

a few years, just as

some animals cannot

see beyond a few

steps. Just a little

narrow circle — that is

our world. We have

not the patience to

look beyond, and thus

become immoral and

wicked. This is our

weakness, our

powerlessness.

Even the lowest forms

of work are not to be

despised. Let the man,

who knows no better,

work for selfish ends,

for name and fame;

Swami Vivekananda

Karma Yoga

a series of extracts

Swami Vivekananda Image courtesy Newsgram.com;

Sep 12, US Congressman

from Florida, a colonel in

the U.S. Army Green

Berets sharpened the

attack on the Biden

administration over a

Fox News panel debate

on the Afghan

withdrawal and the US

government stance on

the Taliban.

Waltz asked when is the

Biden government going

to let go of the fiction

that the Taliban will

form an inclusive and

diverse government?

He added Biden and

Blinken keep saying we

are going to judge the

Taliban by their actions.

‘Look at their actions.’

he said emphatically.

He brought up the

beatings and killings of

the opposition, of

journalists who are

covering protests of

women who have been

denied the right go to

work or to university.

The Taliban spokesman

when asked why there

were no women

ministers had replied

bluntly that the women

could not handle the

role and that women

should stay at home and

produce babies.

Waltz said Democrats

like to be portrayed as

defenders of monitories

and women's rights but

are silently engaging

with a terrorist regime.

Waltz added that the

head of the Police and

border enforcement,

who decides which

individuals can or can’t

enter Afghanistan, is a

terrorist by the name of

Sirajuddin Haqqani, who

is on the FBI’s most

wanted list.

Waltz then shared from

his own past that he had

personally tried to kill

Sirajuddin Haqqani on

multiple occasions as

Haqqani was responsible

for the deaths of

hundreds of Americans

and was holding an

American hostage, right

as they spoke on TV,

navy veteran Mark

Frerichs.

The majority of

Taliban car bombs

and improvised

explosive devices

(IEDs) use

precursor

chemicals that

come from two

fertilizer plants in

Pakistan.

He added that American

allies who still wanted

to fight and still stand

with America were

suffering a genocide in

the Panjshir valley. He

accused the Taliban of

literally pulling out

young boys and killing

them so that no future

generation can ever

resist the Taliban rule.

Finally he added the

Taliban is also partnered

with Al-Qaeda. The Al-

Qaeda will come roaring

back. The intelligence

on that was very clear,

Waltz concluded.

The Afghanistan

National Resistance

Front (NRF)

spokesperson Ali

Maisam Nazary tweeted

quoting Waltz that

America had left its

allies in the lurch at

Panjshir while the

Taliban committed

genocide so that no

future generation of

Panjshir could resist

them.

Sep 8, speaking to CNN

Nazary had asserted

that both NRF leaders

Ahamad Massoud and

Amrullah Saleh were

inside Afghanistan at a

safe place. He would

not disclose other

details of their

whereabouts in the

interest of their safety.

On the following day,

Mike Waltz on a Foreign

Policy Panel had also

criticized the Biden

administration for

making a false

maximalist choice

between a draw down

of all American forces in

Afghanistan to zero

versus the impression of

a D-day type of invasion

with hundreds of

thousands of American

forces Biden would have

to send in. There were

plenty of policy options

in between Waltz said.

A smaller force should

have been left behind

for a time to help

stabilize Afghanistan

during the pull out of

American troops.

More at: FoxNews,

ForeignPolicyPower, CNN

Congressman Mike Waltz

sharpens attack on Biden