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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Tablighi Jamaat men organised a congregation of 250,000 participants near Lahore in Pakistan on March 11, despite the request of the Pakistani authorities to postpone or cancel it. And, perhaps, unknowingly, they gifted the coronavirus and deaths to whole of the Muslim world from Gaza to Malaysia. In India, the religious gathering of over 2,400 [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tablighi Jamaat men organised a congregation of 250,000 participants near Lahore in Pakistan on March 11, despite the request of the Pakistani authorities to postpone or cancel it. And, perhaps, unknowingly, they gifted the coronavirus and deaths to whole of the Muslim world from Gaza to Malaysia. In India, the religious gathering of over 2,400 people took place at the Markaz in Nizamuddin Basti of New Delhi, on 13-15 March, against the government&#8217;s advise and directions and knowingly gave exponential rise to Kovid-19 cases around the country over the next two weeks. The count was rising at the time of writing.</p>
<p>There are two kinds of enemies; those we see and those we cannot. Evidently, the latter poses more serious threats. The invisible enemy is not just the one we cannot see; it includes enemies camouflaged as friends. Who is so fortunate as not to have been deceived by such an enemy? Julius Caesar&#8217;s tormented &#8220;Et tu, Brute&#8221;, as he collapsed more from shock of a friend&#8217;s betrayal than by wounds inflicted by Cassius or Casca. Shakespeare had to abdicate grammar and use a double-superlative to describe this extreme anguish… the most unkindest cut of all. Saeed Rahi speaks for all of us when he painfully pens “Dost ban banke mile mujhko mitane wale.” (Jagjit Singh).</p>
<p>History is rife with instances of enemy posing as friend, while all the time plotting sinister designs, like the Greek subterfuge of the Trojan Horse to enter the impregnable Fort of Troy or Shivaji Maharaj employing the waghnakh to kill the mighty Afzal Khan. What has this got to do with Tablighi Jamaat? Well, everything. But, first, what is Tablighi Jamaat?</p>
<p>About the Tablighi Jamaat</p>
<p>Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) is a proselytizing group. It is the snooty word for a group involved in preaching and coercion for religious conversion. Educated and evil-intentioned humans have a way of creating euphemisms for unpleasant or embarrassing activities. No one likes a group called Religious Converters Forum, hence the camouflage. If radical Islamisation is a threat then security of India, like that of so many non-Islamic or secular countries, is under peril from organisations like TJ. The solution, naturally, lies in ensuring radicalisation does not take place.</p>
<p>TJ was started by Maulana Muhammad Ilyas Kandhalawi in Mewat, India, near Delhi in 1927 and is managed from its international headquarters at Nizamuddin Markaz, New Delhi. It has an Advisory Council (Shura), headed by an Ameer, that outlines goals and targets, gives general direction and makes budgetary allocation for specific missions. In 1995, Shura discarded the post of Ameer. Members of Shura, by rotation, lead as Faisals.</p>
<p>It has country HQs in almost all countries. The country heads are called Zimmedars (The Responsibles). TJ&#8217;s activities are coordinated through centres called Markaz, which organise groups of ten to twelve people (jamaats), for propagating the word of Allah.</p>
<p>Despite having over a million followers and presence in over 180 countries, TJ remains largely unknown, even to scholars of Islam. It avoids open discussion on controversial political subjects affecting Muslims, like Palestine, Kashmir and Chinese Uighurs to portray itself as a virtuous movement dedicated to scholarly pursuit of Islamic studies, individual faith, introspection and spiritual development. TJ does not seek donations nor any kind of publicity for the same reason. However, considering the size and geographical spread of the movement and its growing tilt towards jihad bin saif, it can be surmised that it receives copious funding from pro-Islamist governments, organisations, waqfs, philanthropes and wealthy Arabs.</p>
<p>The frugal lifestyle of TJ missionaries and their projected stand against social ills misleads most observers about their motives and influence on society. In reality, TJ members are staunch and motivated missionaries indoctrinated in Islamic teachings, mass-psychology, motivation, secrecy, as well as in the use of weapons, explosives and IEDs. They are geared for spreading Islam across the globe, less by hook and more by crook. The explosive growth of Islam may well be attributed to the use of explosives by TJ sponsored terrorists. Never have so many wolves worn sheep&#8217;s clothing!! In short, TJ meets all the characteristics of an invisible enemy; the kind every nation must be wary of, especially India, which for many Islamists is the last and the most stubborn frontier.</p>
<p>TJ has a threefold aim: firstly, to wean errant Muslims away from the Western way of life, secondly, to cajole, persuade or threaten non-Muslims to convert to Islam and, thirdly, to kill the kafirs. One section of TJ believes they should pursue jihad bin nafs (jihad through conscience) while another advocates jihad bin saif (jihad through the sword). In practice, TJ follows the radical Wahabi-Salafi jihadist ideology that most terrorists follow.</p>
<p>TJ was founded at a time when Muslim influence was beginning to assert itself in the Congress Party. It was common those days for Muslims in India, like Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Madhubala, etc to adopt Hindu/Christian names, without renouncing Islam, for better career prospects and to escape fatwas for pursuing trades declared haram in Islam. None of these Muslims were anti-India; they were just being careful. Conspiracy theorists believe the Nehrus, too, were Muslims but foresaw profound political advantage in assuming a Hindu name. Jawaharlal Nehru, who claimed to be a Kashmiri Pandit in his biography, even prefixed the Hindu priesthood title of Pandit to his name. There is no doubt that the Congress Party pursued an agenda of Muslim appeasement.</p>
<p>Muslim educational institutions and madrassas flourished under government patronage and organisations like TJ gained in strength. Hindus remained under the false impression that their secular and noble Hindu prime minister was appeasing a deprived minority community. If you use a design repeatedly, it soon becomes a doctrine. By the 1970s, pro-Muslim bias had become a firm but clandestine doctrine of the Congress and its allies. By the time Congress was ousted from power in 2014, the administrative bias in favour of the Muslims was so deep, any attempt to restore balance appeared glaringly non-secular and anti-Muslim.</p>
<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-819 alignleft" src="https://imrmedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/09-Head-of-the-Tablighi-Jamaat-Maulana-Saad-who-absconding-after-Delhi-Police-registered-an-FIR-234x300.jpg" alt="" width="481" height="617" srcset="https://imrmedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/09-Head-of-the-Tablighi-Jamaat-Maulana-Saad-who-absconding-after-Delhi-Police-registered-an-FIR-234x300.jpg 234w, https://imrmedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/09-Head-of-the-Tablighi-Jamaat-Maulana-Saad-who-absconding-after-Delhi-Police-registered-an-FIR-328x420.jpg 328w, https://imrmedia.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/09-Head-of-the-Tablighi-Jamaat-Maulana-Saad-who-absconding-after-Delhi-Police-registered-an-FIR.jpg 518w" sizes="(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px" /></p>
<p>The Prophet being a great visionary, not only foresaw the power of numbers when the word democracy was not even coined, he found simple and ingenious ways to ensure rapid proliferation of his fledgling Islam. Grant of four wives, easy Talaq (divorce) and confinement of women to the home were aimed at increasing Muslim population four times faster than other faiths. The simplicity of the plan is astounding and grudgingly applaudable. Hence, despite a 600-year handicap, Muslims are poised to overtake Christians in world population by 2050 AD and nobody can do anything about it!! Even if there were no crusades to spread Islam, the Prophet&#8217;s Womb Bomb, would do the trick.</p>
<p>It is not clear if it was the Qu&#8217;ran, the Prophet or his mischievous clerks that promised an afterlife of eternal youth in Jannat, with 72 houris (beautiful, buxom, wide-eyed virgins who could never get pregnant), eternal supply of sharab (wine) that would not intoxicate them and a life of fabulous luxury with 80,000 servants each, to kamikaze killers of kafirs. Young men, with brains in their libido, living an unrewarded Islamic bachelorhood, devoid of female touch, would cheerfully commit Jihadi self-destruction for the promised afterlife. Some Islamic scholars, to parry negative commentary on afterlife debauchery, have interpreted the 72 houris not as escorts but as 72 wives – instantly converting a juicy reward into a cataclysmic punishment.</p>
<p>One TJ-assissted method for spread of Islam involves a three-step process.</p>
<ul>
<li>Step One – identify a target location, ie, the recipient country. A recipient is any rich and peaceful democracy, which is non-Islamic and a citizen-friendly welfare state. Countries of western Europe, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, etc, qualify for this.</li>
<li>Step Two – identify a donor region. This is a region where poor Muslims are living in squalid conditions. Almost the entire Muslim world qualifies as donors except oil-rich countries.</li>
<li>Step Three – transport a few hundred poor Muslim families from donor to recipient country.</li>
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<p>This is done in many ways but projecting them as life-threatened refugees always works. Once these steps are completed, it is a wait and watch period of 30-40 years for the womb-bomb to take effect. Studies have shown that democracies having 14% Muslim population reach the irreversible Islamisation point. Countries with less than 14% Muslims have a slender chance if they take swift remedial measures. India is already in the irreversible zone. Western Europe is a repentant victim of this methodology.</p>
<p>Other methods include forcible marriage of kafir girls with Muslim men (Love Jihad), forcible conversion of non-Muslim minorities and mass killing of kafirs through terrorist attacks. TJ is adept at all these methods with almost all terrorist groups as its clients.</p>
<p>TJ organises annual gatherings in South Asian countries, called Ijtema, attended by one to four million members. The logistics of such huge events can be imagined but the official line is the attendance and associated expenses are borne by the attendees themselves. The Ijtema lasts three days and is not so much for decision making as for a show of strength. However, in the prevailing scenario of Covid-19, such huge gatherings have been used as a bio-weapons against unsuspecting kafirs.</p>
<p>Despite the outbreak of Covid-19 worldwide, Ijtemas were organised in Feb-Mar 2020 in Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and India. These have become the largest vehicles of transmission of the virus in South and SE Asia averaging 30% of all positive cases in this region. The cases are bound to grow exponentially as the TJ missionaries are determined to use the virus as a weapon &#8220;sent by Allah to punish the kafirs.&#8221; They are spitting on people and in public areas and attacking doctors, nurses and others trying to contain the virus. All the good work of the Indian government and crores of law-abiding Indians, through the 21-day lockdown, has been neutralized in one fell stroke by TJ missionaries.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the naqaab (veil) of secrecy of TJ&#8217;s operations has been removed by Covid-19. Non-Islamic nations are now aware of TJ&#8217;s Islamisation threat. A global threat cannot be tackled at national level. A united and synchronous effort by all threatened countries is vital to initially contain and subsequently neutralize the threat of TJ and any isotopes that may germinate instead. One can emulate China&#8217;s handling of Uighur Muslims but then not everyone has a one-party pseudo-democracy. USA, Russia, Australia, Canada, Japan, Latin America and India seem to tacitly agree on the Islamisation threat. UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Greece are already suffering consequences of admitting Muslim refugees and immigrants. Post Covid-19, it may well be time for these nations to join forces to make the world a little less Green. China, for all its unipolar ambitions, is unlikely to oppose such a move. Oil supply may prove a temporary problem but can be surmounted if the world is united. There are enough oil reserves in Venezuela, Canada, Russia, USA, China and Brazil to survive, with some rationing. Covid-19 has already taught the world to live sans travel. Without oil exports, the damage to oil-rich Muslim countries shall be more crippling.</p>
<p>Muslims living in India and other non-Islamic countries must accept secularism or move to Islamic countries. India was partitioned on religious grounds and Muslims that opted to stay on in India must accept living in a secular or even a Hindu state, much like the Hindus that opted to stay on in Pakistan must accept Islam as the state religion. India has a right to promulgate true secularism where citizens are free to practice their religion, including Islam, but have no right to obstruct others or to proliferate their faith. All attempts at religious conversions run contrary to the spirit of secularism and must be illegal.</p>
<p>India must cast-off tolerance and political niceties towards proven anti-nationals who promote Islamic agenda for personal gains. Pure Islamists always place faith above the nation, which leads to sedition and treachery. While the state promises no afterlife rewards, TJ emissaries promise Jannat, tilting the scales heavily in its favour at the expense of national patriotism. Time has come for swift and exemplary punishment to traitors and enemies of the state. Events like Shaheen Bagh blockade, stone-pelting on security forces, JNU-like seditious speeches, spitting on doctors etc should all be firmly and immediately suppressed. At the international level, India must impose crippling economic sanctions against nations abetting, supporting or sponsoring Islamisation of India. We need to learn the art of handling Muslims from Israel.</p>
<p>This fight is not against Muslims, most of whom are good, law-abiding and secular citizens. This fight is against the obsession of Islam to exterminate all other faiths.</p>
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<p>Head of the Tablighi Jamaat Maulana Saad, who absconding after Delhi Police registered an FIR</p>
<p>Followers of the Tablighi Jamaat started vacating the building in Nizamuddin, New Delhi, only after the national security adviser Ajit Doval met the leaders after midnight on 28/29 March 2020. The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on 1 April, said that the number of coronavirus cases across India may rise due to negligence and carelessness, with reference to the recent Markaz Nizamuddeen episode in Delhi.</p>
<p>Joint Secretary of the Health Ministry, Lav Agarwal, said ther main reason for exponential increase in the number of cases was that members of Tablighi Jamaat had travelled across the country ignoring all advisories issued by the central and state governments.</p>
<p>As of 4 April 2020, the total number of Coronavirus infected cases shot up to 2,978, with 555 new ones recorded on 3 April and the death toll stood at 78. There were only 1000 cases on 30 March. Most new cases were reported among those who had attended the Tablighi Jamaat event, or people who had come in direct contact with the participants, who had left Delhi to reach their hometowns across India.</p>
<p>Tablighis from all over the country and across the world had been arriving in New Delhi from the last week of Feb 2020. Three thousand people from over eleven nations stayed at the Masjid for several days violating the law of the land. During their stay, the infection of Corona Virus spread rapidly, and presently accounts for as much as 30 per cent of total infections in the entire country, and the count is only rising.</p>
<p>On 13 March the first order was issued prohibiting all sports gathering including IPL, conferences and seminars of more than 200 people in Delhi for the prevention and control of the outbreak of COVID-19. Subsequently, on March 16th, a second order was issued by the Health and Family Welfare Department of the Delhi Government under the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and gatherings above 50 were prohibited.&nbsp; On 18 March, the Office of the Commissioner of Police, New Delhi prohibited assembly of five or more individuals. More than a thousand were still at the Masjid after the People’s Lockdown on 22 Mar 2020.</p>
<p>Maulana Saad Kandhalvi, who hosted the infamous Tablighi Jamaat event, went missing from 28 March after he was served a notice by the Delhi police. An FIR was registered against Maulana Saad and others members of the Tablighi Jamaat under the Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in connection with the spread of coronavirus. Markaz cleric Maulana Saad, Dr Zeeshan, Mufti Shehzad, M Saifi, Younus, Mohd Salman, and Mohammed Ashraf have been named in the FIR.</p>
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<p>The Tablighi Jamaat Markaz Connection</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. D Bhalla IAS]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Gunmen stormed a religious gathering of Afghanistan&#8217;s minority Sikhs in their place of worship in Har Rai Sahib gurdwara at Dharamshala, in the heart of the Afghan capital&#8217;s old city on 25 March. n mission. All four suicide bombers, who attacked Dharamshala, were killed by Afghan security forces after nearly six hours of fighting. There [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gunmen stormed a religious gathering of Afghanistan&#8217;s minority Sikhs in their place of worship in Har Rai Sahib gurdwara at Dharamshala, in the heart of the Afghan capital&#8217;s old city on 25 March. n mission.</p>
<p>All four suicide bombers, who attacked Dharamshala, were killed by Afghan security forces after nearly six hours of fighting. There were about 150 people inside the temple.</p>
<p>Even while the grieving Afghan Sikhs were cremating the victims , a bomb exploded nearby creating further scare in the area.</p>
<p>The massacre was the second ISIS attack on a religious minority in March; a gathering of the predominantly Shia Hazara ethnic minority was also attacked earlier this month, with more than 30 people killed.</p>
<p>Islamic State&#8217;s (IS) Amaq media claimed the Kabul gurudwara attack was a &#8220;revenge for the Muslims in Kashmir.&#8221; Indian security analysts believe that the sophistication of the well planned attack on the gurudwara had characteristics of a more evolved, well trained IS-K.</p>
<p>A spokesman for the Taliban, which signed a withdrawal deal with the US government, on 29 February, and is moving towards intra-Afghan talks, was quick to deny any responsibility in the killings.</p>
<p>Afghan and Western security agencies believed that the strike was ordered by Quetta Shura of Taliban at the behest of Pakistani deep state with the larger motive of driving out India from Afghanistan. The entire operation was code-named Blackstar by the Pakistan intelligence, which used the Haqqani network led by Taliban&#8217;s deputy commander Sirajuddin Haqqani and elements of LeT.</p>
<p><strong>Sikhs in Afghanistan</strong></p>
<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s tiny Sikh community is one of few religious minorities in the country, protected by law but frequently targeted by extremists and subject to discrimination. Thirty years ago it was 500,000 strong, but after decades of conflict and the rise of the Taliban – who ordered Sikhs to wear yellow armbands – many sought asylum in India and the community was thought to have been reduced to about 300 families.</p>
<p>In 2018 a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus travelling to meet the president, Ashraf Ghani, was targeted by an Islamic suicide bomber.</p>
<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Proxy ISKP</p>
<p>One of the terrorists killed by the Afghan security forces has been identified as Mohsin (with several aliases), 29, from Kerala. He was reportedly a school dropout who left for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) more than two years ago and found his way into Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K).</p>
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<p>Pakistan&#8217;s involvement in Mohsin&#8217;s training was also apparent from the video that was released soon after the attack. It mimicked what is typically heard from terrorists in similar situations in Kashmir. He also spoke in Urdu, the language used by Pakistan for training and handling terrorists.</p>
<p>IS-K is a branch of ISIS. Khorasan is a historical region comprising the present territories of north-eastern Iran, much of Central Asia, parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. IS-K came into existence in 2015, with defectors from the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP). It is active in the border region of eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.</p>
<p>In November 2019, after a two-month-long operation, Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), supported by Popular Uprising Forces and the United States Air Force, killed 50 terrorists and more than 250 ISKP members surrendered. They were mostly Pakistani, Indian, Iranian, Jordanian, Kazakhs, Maldivians, Tajiks and Uzbeks.</p>
<p>IS-Khorasan, which attacked Kabul gurdwara, is led by 43-year-old Mawlawi Aslam Farooqi , an ex- Lashkar-e-(LeT) Taiba man. LeT is proscribed by the UN as a terrorist organisation and is linked to the Pakistani security establishment. It is a loose conglomerate of several jihadist tanzeem with differing targets and aims. The group&#8217;s relations with the Taliban, and with Pakistan, are critical elements in its still evolving identity.</p>
<p>Farooqi took charge of the IS-KP in April 2019, according to a report submitted to the UN Security Council in July 2019 by a UN committee that monitors Daesh (or Islamic State), al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. The report said Farooqi (also spelt Faruqi), who had been previously in charge of IS-K operations in the Khyber region on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, was promoted to the leadership in place of Mawlawi Zia ul-Haq in April 2019.</p>
<p>Aslam Farooqi was arrested by Afghan authorities on 5 April. Pakistan was quick to ask Afghianistan to hand over Farooqi to it for anti-Pakistan activities in Afghanistan. A Pak Foreign Office statement said the Afghanistan ambassador to Pakistan was called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to convey Pakistan’s views with regard to the arrest of Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) leader Farooqi, which was announced on April 5.</p>
<p>In his book The Islamic State in Kohrasan &#8211; Afghanistan, Pakistan and the new Central Asian Jihad, Antonio Giustozzi, a well known academic who has written extensively on the IS and Afghanistan, has provided a detailed account of the rise of Farooqi in IS-K. Giustozzi says Farooqi was chosen as the &#8220;governor of Khorasan&#8221; by the military shura of IS-K on May 22, 2018, a year earlier than what the UN report says. Two months later, in July 2018, IS-K claimed an attack on a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus in Jalalabad, in which 19 people were killed, 13 of them Sikhs.</p>
<p>Pakistan seems to be using IS-K to get a free-run against India&#8217;s interests intensify its proxy war against India. It is particularly helpful to Pakistan that IS-K has recruits from India among other countries.</p>
<p>In February 2020, Islamic State&#8217;s new digital magazine, Sawt-ul-Hind, (Voice of Hindustan), referred to the communal violence in northeast Delhi to incite Muslims in India, &#8220;Democracy is not going to save you…only Sharia implemented in its purity in the shade of Khilafah (the caliphate) can now save you.&#8221;</p>
<p>In a combined reference to the US-Taliban agreement and the Delhi riots, Al-Qaeda&#8217;s wing, Ghazwat-ul-Hind (Conquest of India) said, &#8220;these glorious times when the crusaders army in Khorasan have signed the final document of their defeat and in such a hopeful season when Indian Muslims have decided not to bear the atrocity and oppression of Hindu polytheist groups&#8221;, and that the jihadists in Kashmir will be energised by these events.</p>
<p><strong>Haqqani Network</strong></p>
<p>According to counter-terror analysts, the Haqqani network comprises mainly of Zardan tribe based in Nangarhar, Khost, Nuristan and Kunar provinces, which is in direct conflict with the miniscule Sikh community over land in Jalalabad and trade in Kabul.</p>
<p>On July 1, 2019, the Haqqani network targeted the Sikh community in Jalalabad as they came to meet President Ashraf Ghani during his visit to Nangarhar province. In both cases, the Islamic State was allowed to take credit for the attack.</p>
<p><strong>Comments</strong></p>
<p>The Taliban&#8217;s operational leadership is now in the hands of Sirajuddin Haqqani of the Haqqani group, which has been blamed for several attacks on Indian targets, including the 2008 Indian Embassy bombing in Kabul. The Taliban have denied having anything to do with the gurdwara attack, and Pakistan has condemned it strongly. Who, really, is the IS-K in Afghanistan is a question that security experts have been asking for some time now.</p>
<p>Some analysts were puzzled over why the LeT would target the Sikh community at a time when, according to these officials, Pakistan has gone out of its way to woo this Indian minority group, especially since mid-2018, through the Kartarpur Corridor initiative.</p>
<p>Pakistan is setting sights on forcing India out of Afghanistan post withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan. With Taliban, Haqqani network, LeT and JeM all under control of the Pakistani deep state, Afghanistan again will provide strategic space to its terrorist arm for controlling Kabul and hitting at Kashmir.</p>
<p>Some estimates indicate that since 2016, around 100 people from India, mostly from Kerala, have joined the ISIS. Some of them travelled to the Gulf, and from there into the folds of ISIS in Iraq-Syria, and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>It is, therefore, important that immediate measures must be taken to limit this new virus being unleashed by Pakistan-ISI. First, India needs to institute measures to keep a vigil on its workforce in the Gulf countries, to safeguard their men being recruited by ISIS and other terrorist groups. Second, India must be even more mindful for the need for social cohesion, as its politico-economic-religious fault lines are being exploited for propaganda and potential recruitment. Third, India must work together with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Central Asian Republics, to check the IS-K.</p>
<p><strong>Intra-Afghan Talks in Trouble</strong></p>
<p>Taliban will not take part in intra-Afghan talks until the Afghan government releases about 5,000 of their prisoners, it said on 2 March, presenting a partial end to the truce and a major possible barrier to ending the war.  The statement came as a bombs went off during a football match the same day in Khost in eastern Afghanistan, killing three people and injuring 11 others.</p>
<p>The limited truce between the Taliban, US and Afghan forces preceded the signing of a landmark deal between the insurgents and Washington in Doha on 29 February. The agreement sets out a timetable for foreign forces to quit Afghanistan within 14 months, subject to Taliban security guarantees and a pledge by the insurgents to hold talks with the Kabul government. Under the accord, the two sides are committed to working towards the release of combat and political prisoners as a confidence-building measure.</p>
<p><strong>Prisoners&#8217; Release</strong></p>
<p>The Taliban announced they would resume attacks against Afghan forces, a day after President Ashraf Ghani warned he was not committed to a key clause in the Doha deal involving the release of thousands of Taliban prisoners. The agreement calls for up to 5,000 Taliban prisoners to be freed in exchange for up to 1,000 Afghan government captives by March 10. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, not involved in the talks, has rejected that demand.</p>
<p>Ghani&#8217;s government was not part of the Doha accord, so while the agreement states that the &#8220;United States commits to completing this goal&#8221; of releasing the Taliban prisoners, it is unclear how that can happen if Kabul is on board. Any prisoner release is &#8220;not in the authority of the US, it is in the authority of the Afghan government,&#8221; Ghani said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It could be included in the agenda of the intra-Afghan talks, but cannot be a prerequisite for talks.&#8221; The Taliban had, until now, refused to negotiate with Ghani&#8217;s administration – which they considered a US puppet regime – but the withdrawal agreement hinges on Kabul and the insurgents reaching a separate peace deal through &#8220;intra-Afghan&#8221; negotiations.</p>
<p>The Taliban believe that the Americans have committed to securing the release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners in exchange for 1,000 Afghan soldiers held by the Taliban before any intra-Afghan negotiations commence. They have termed as unsatisfactory the phased release that Ghani has proposed viz 1,500 before the talks commence and the remaining 3,500 to be released in batches of 500 every two weeks after the start of direct talks between the Taliban and a negotiating team appointed by the Afghan government, and the further condition that prisoners released provide a written pledge not to return to fighting.</p>
<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s Stand</strong></p>
<p>Iran also dismissed the US-Taliban agreement saying that the US had no legal standing to sign an agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan. &#8220;Iran welcomes any initiative that helps to secure stability and peace in Afghanistan, but that will only be possible through domestic talks and by taking into consideration the interest of Afghanistan&#8217;s neighbours,&#8221; Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry said.</p>
<p>It may be in America&#8217;s interest, and that of its allies, including principal regional ally India, to continue supporting the people of Afghanistan and their government with badly needed aid. This may help moderate the Taliban, who may now be expected to call the shots and dominate other political trends. Perhaps this will help keep Afghanistan on its version of the democratic track.</p>
<p><strong>Funding</strong></p>
<p>Funding of Afghan security will play a role in the success of the peace deal. The United States Afghanistan Security Forces Fund, governed by a US-Afghan agreement, pays for equipping and running Afghanistan&#8217;s security forces. The ASFF was about $4.9 billion annually, reduced to about $1 billion from the current $6.5 billion. The Trump administration the Taliban know that maintaining this level of funding till 2024 is not likely, particularly when there are no foreign troops present.</p>
<p>India can have a role to play in this if in the changed context it is able to persuade all Afghans, including the Taliban, that its friendship is for the people of Afghanistan and not any particular political dispensation. Only such an outlook on India&#8217;s part can keep Afghanistan out of Pakistan&#8217;s pernicious grip even when the Taliban are in command.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All right. Well, take care yourself. I guess that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re best, presence old master? A tremor in the Force. The last time felt it was in the presence of my old master. I have traced the Rebel spies to her.</p>
<p>Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him. I can&#8217;t get involved! I&#8217;ve got work to do! It&#8217;s not that I like the Empire, I hate it, but there&#8217;s nothing I can do about it right now.</p>
<blockquote class="td_quote_box td_box_center"><p>Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.</p></blockquote>
<p>The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands. The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands. Leave that to me. Send a distress signal, and inform the Senate that all on board were killed. Red Five standing by.</p>
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<p>I find your lack of faith disturbing. A tremor in the Force. The last time I felt it was in the presence of my old master. Hey, Luke! May the Force be with you. Red Five standing by. Red Five standing by. Your eyes can deceive you. Don&#8217;t trust them.</p>
<p>Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. I find your lack of faith disturbing. The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. As you wish.</p>
<blockquote class="td-quote-classic"><p>Thanks for looking at our theme</p></blockquote>
<p>I need your help, Luke. She needs your help. I&#8217;m getting too old for this sort of thing. Oh God, my uncle. How am I ever gonna explain this? As you wish. Escape is not his plan. I must face him, alone. You mean it controls your actions?</p>
<p>Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him. The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands. Ye-ha! The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands.</p>
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<p>Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid. I find your lack of faith disturbing.</p>
<p>The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. As you wish.</p>
<p>Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him. The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands. Ye-ha! The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands.</p>
<p>The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. In my experience, there is no such thing as luck. Red Five standing by.</p>
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<p>A tremor in the Force. The last time I felt it was in the presence of my old master. I have traced the Rebel spies to her. Now she is my only link to finding their secret base. Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him.</p>
<p>I need your help, Luke. She needs your help. I&#8217;m getting too old for this sort of thing. Red Five standing by. Don&#8217;t be too proud of this technological terror you&#8217;ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force. The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands. The plans you refer to will soon be back in our hands.</p>
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<p>All right. Well, take care of yourself, Han. I guess that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re best at, ain&#8217;t it? A tremor in the Force. The last time I felt it was in the presence of my old master. I have traced the Rebel spies to her.</p>
<p>Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him. I can&#8217;t get involved! I&#8217;ve got work to do! It&#8217;s not that I like the Empire, I hate it, but there&#8217;s nothing I can do about it right now. It&#8217;s such a long way from here. I call it luck.</p>
<p>The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. In my experience, there is no such thing as luck. Red Five standing by.</p>
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<p>You are a part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor! Take her away! Red Five standing by. All right. Well, take care of yourself, Han. I guess that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re best at, ain&#8217;t it? Alderaan? I&#8217;m not going to Alderaan. I&#8217;ve got to go home. It&#8217;s late, I&#8217;m in for it as it is.</p>
<p>Oh God, my uncle. How am I ever gonna explain this? Hey, Luke! May the Force be with you. I find your lack of faith disturbing.</p>
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