How did the Pentagon prevent the liquidation of Qari Fasihuddin?
Author: Farid Ahmad, Editor-in-Chief, Sangar
Qari Fasihuddin boasts that he defeated America and liberated Afghanistan from American occupation. But if not for the Americans, today grass would grow on his grave. If not for the Pentagon, he would not be the head of the General Staff of the Taliban army today. Qari Fasihuddin should raise his hand to the sky after each prayer and pray for America or perform several rak'ahs of nafl - prayer every day because it is thanks to the Americans that he is alive, walks the earth and enjoys life and an armchair.
The source, referring to Asadullah Varduji, former police chief of the Varduj district, Badakhshan province, now living in Iran, says that Qari Fasihuddin was saved from death in one of the battles of the Republican period on the orders of the Pentagon - the US Department of Defense.
Almost six years ago, Afghan government forces and NATO planned a joint operation to eliminate Qari Fasihuddin. This operation was led by an American captain who came from Kabul. Intelligence reported the presence of Qari Fasihuddin in the village of Rakhshan of Varduj district. The Americans connected the Giga Wave device to the reconnaissance aircraft and began to establish the exact location of its presence. They soon found him. In one of the guest houses in the village of Rakhshan, the device confirmed the presence of 5 armed persons.
Explanation: Giga Wave is a portable device that connects to reconnaissance and attack aircraft and allows you to monitor the combat area from the ground. The Americans provided the Afghan army with PS-12 reconnaissance aircraft, which were only being removed (several such aircraft are now in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). They had MS-12 aircraft, which both filmed and attacked. Another aircraft - ISR was of two types, one, simple, which was only reconnaissance, and the second, both detected and attacked. Thus, the operations, which were carried out on purpose and with the participation of American forces, were monitored live in the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan and the Pentagon - the US Department of Defense.
The American captain asked Asadullah if he knew Qari Fasihuddin. The answer was positive. Then he called him to the apparatus and showed the people present in the guest house. Qari Fasihuddin was lying on his side, dressed in a "qaqma" chapan, and next to him was a Kalashnikov assault rifle. Asadullah recognized him.
The American said that it is impossible to attack Qari Fasihuddin inside the village, because people may suffer and their houses and property may be damaged, that's why we will attack him when he leaves the village. Finally, Fasihuddin left the guest house, then left the village, and moved to the left towards the village of Ghochan. The American captain ordered the aircraft to destroy the target. A voice came from the plane that we would prepare and attack in a minute. But literally within that one minute, the captain received a call from the Afghan Ministry of Defense and gave him an order from the Pentagon to stop the operation. The American got so angry that he hit his head on the table and was perplexed: “How? Is the goal in our hands? Why was I not allowed to destroy Fasihuddin?” He packed his things and left.
IF NOT FOR AGHAKHAN
The other person is a former Joint Special Forces (KKA) officer, in the Afghan armed forces, who says he has been involved in about a hundred night operations and has witnessed similar incidents many times.
Explanation: The Joint Conquest Special Forces (KKA-Kta Khas Afghanistan) was created by personnel from the Ministries of Defense and Interior and Afghan National Security and operated with direct financial and air support from the United States and conducted all of its operations at night. For about 7 years, its commander was Mavlavi Jalal Yaftali and, in recent years, Khalid Amiri. Now both commanders of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan.
There were targets that when our forces went out at night to destroy them and it became clear that there were liaison officers or the Taliban working for the US, the operation was interrupted on the spot and the forces turned back. Our interlocutor spoke about such cases in the provinces of Logar, Wardak, Helmand, Uruzgan, and others, when Taliban camps were visible from above, even their flags and militants on motorcycles, but American and Afghan planes ignored them. They conducted a minor operation elsewhere and returned to base.
The KKA forces in Badakhshan once clashed with Qari Fasihuddin. In May 2017, the Taliban forces under his command, with the assistance of foreign terrorists from Central Asia and Chinese Uighurs, occupied the Zebak and Ishkashim regions. At the time, Qari Fasihuddin was the Taliban's shadow governor in Badakhshan, with Qari Amanuddin as his top commander. The capture of these two areas was a joint plan of the Afghan and American intelligence agencies with the aim of placing the Taliban in these areas of Badakhshan and near the border with Tajikistan. However, Aga Khan IV expressed concern about the current situation and asked the Afghan government to free these two areas from the Taliban and terrorists as soon as possible.
Residents of Zebak, Ishkashim, Shugnan, and Wakhan - the four districts of Badakhshan - are mainly followers of the Ismaili madhhab of the Shiite branch of Islam, and there was fear that armed extremists would not spare them.
The operation to free Ishkashim and Zebak was led by the commander of the KKA, Mavlavi Jalal. Two weeks later, the areas were cleared of the Taliban and terrorists, but this was the last war for Mawlavi Jalal as commander of the KKA. In this war, 7 fighters of these troops were killed and for this reason, he was dismissed from command. Mavlavi Jalal himself told the author of these lines that when he returned to Faizabad after the liberation of Zebak and Ishkashim, two American generals came to him and complained to him about why he had liberated these two regions.
The Americans and the Afghan National Security Administration provided a lot of weapons and equipment to the forces under the command of Qari Fasihuddin to conquer Ishkashim and Zebak. He was given weapons, even vehicles, which the Afghan army also had. When they fell into the hands of government forces, it was clear that they were all new and had not been captured in wars, but given to him by someone.
"RESURRECTED"
Officer of 777 special air brigade of the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan spoke about another operation in the Warduj region of Badakhshan province, which was carried out against the forces of Qari Fasihuddin and he personally participated in it.
For almost 5 years, Warduj was under the control of the Taliban and was considered their main base in the north and east of Afghanistan, the commander of which was Qari Fasihuddin. Al-Qaeda, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Jamaat Ansarullah, and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement of the Chinese Uighurs militants were present and created their camps in this city. This situation greatly disturbed civil society and anti-Taliban circles in Badakhshan, and they asked the government to take action. The militia warned that if the government and the Americans did not act, they would carry out the operation themselves. Some blamed the government and foreigners for the Talibization. There was a big scandal. The Afghan Ministry of Defense and the US military were forced to take action because their plan, which was actually a talibization, was not revealed.
Explanation: The troops of the NATO member countries - Germany, Denmark and Belgium were in Badakhshan, but did not take part in the operations. The Americans provided air support to the actions of the Afghan government troops from the Bagram airfield.
In September 2019, special forces of the ministries of defense and internal affairs, national security, and the forces of the people's militia launched a joint operation to free Varduj. It was supported from the air by the 777th Special Air Brigade of the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan and the US Air Force.
A few days later, the Taliban forces and foreign terrorist organizations were defeated and left the area. The Afghan Ministry of Defense said that during the operation to free Warduj, about 100 local and foreign Taliban were killed, including Qari Fasihuddin, the so-called governor of Badakhshan, and dozens of their key and important commanders, as well as dozens of others, were injured, and none of the government forces were not injured.
The death of Fasihuddin shocked society and, above all, removed fears about the presence of the Taliban and their terrorist partners in Badakhshan. The government of Afghanistan and the United States proved to the people that Talibanization is nothing more than a myth, and doubts about their strengthening of the Taliban and terrorists are the inventions of critics.
In fact, Qari Fasihuddin was alive. In fact, Qari Fasihuddin was alive. After the defeat, his troops retreated to the pass between Varduj and the Khostak valley. There he held a meeting with his group commanders and said that they had two options: either surrender to the government or go with him. He and Qari Amanuddin decided to go to the province of Nuristan.
BACKGROUND: The former Afghan national security officer in Kunduz province says that at the time, most al-Qaeda commanders and fighters were in Nuristan province, including Mawlawi Shabir Ahmad, Jazjan provincial police chief in the first Taliban regime and a man close to Osama bin Laden, now a member of the leadership of the Islamic Emirate. Qari Fasihuddin was also a member of al-Qaeda and was in contact with Mawlawi Shabir. In northern Afghanistan, he recruited local commanders to al-Qaeda. It is not known how accurate this information is, but the fact that the Americans, as guardian angels, protected Qari Fasihuddin, shows that he is a very important player in the secret games of intelligence in Afghanistan.
When Qari Fasihuddin and Qari Amanuddin left the limits of Varduja, crossed the pass, and headed towards Mount Khirsak, he received a call from the Afghan Ministry of Defense and was told that the operation was stopped and the Americans wanted him to return and restore his forces.
The government troops that liberated Varduj were stationed in the village of Zu, at the end of the Varduj valley. They were ordered to retreat. The line of defense of government troops was assigned to the village of Ghnev, which is 7 km from Chokaran, the center of the Varduj district. Fasihuddin returned and settled in Zu. Soon after, he regained his strength and fought the government for another two and a half years. Finally, in July 2021, a month before the fall of Kabul, the forces of the Afghan Ministry of Defense, without a fight and on the orders of Defense Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, surrendered Warduj to Fasihuddin.
