A new UN report establishes the symbiotic links between ISIL-K, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Islamabad:
A Pakistani envoy sent to the Taliban in an attempt to fight India, a former Afghan envoy has said, citing former Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf.
Mahmoud Saikal, former deputy minister of Afghanistan and ambassador to the UN and Australia on Saturday, tweeted: “According to @P_Musharraf, Pakistan gave birth to the Taliban to counter Indian action against it. @ImranKhanPTI believes that the the Taliban have broken the bonds of slavery. @SMQureshiPTI and @YusufMoeed are currently busy putting pressure on the world to relate to the Taliban. “
In accordance with @P_Musharraf “Pakistan gave birth to the Taliban to counter Indian action against it.” @ImranKhanPTI he believes the Taliban have “broken the shackles of slavery.” @SMQureshiPTI & @YusufMoeed they are currently busy putting pressure on the world to relate to the Taliban. 3/7
– Mahmoud Saikal (@MahmoudSaikal) August 28, 2021
Saikal also referred to a paper entitled “The Sun in the Sky: The Relationship between the Pakistani ISI and the Afghan Insurgents at the Matt Waldman Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
“Only a policy of pressure / sanction and a conditions-based rapprochement with Pakistan can bring real positive change to Afghanistan and maintain international peace and security,” the former Afghan envoy said in a subsequent tweet.
Saikal also said a new UN report establishes the symbiotic links between ISIL-K, the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
The UN, in its latest 12th report of the analytical monitoring and sanctions team, said a significant part of al-Qaeda’s leadership resides in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan, alongside Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent. A large number of al-Qaeda fighters and other foreign extremist elements aligned with the Taliban are found in various parts of Afghanistan.
The group’s leader, Aiman Muhammed Rabi al-Zawahiri, is believed to be somewhere in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Previous reports of his death from illness have not been confirmed, according to the report.
Al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent (AQIS) operates under the Taliban umbrella of Kandahar, Helmand (especially Baramcha) and Nimruz provinces. According to reports, the group is made up mainly of Afghan and Pakistani citizens, but also people from Bangladesh, India and Myanmar. Its current leader is Osama Mahmood, who succeeded the late Asim Umar.
The group is said to be such an “organic” or essential part of the insurgency that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to separate it from its Taliban allies.
Several member states characterized this relationship by noting that the wife of the former al-Qaeda leader to the leader of the Indian subcontinent Asim Umar was among the 5,000 Taliban prisoners released by the Afghan government in 2020 as part of the agreement. of Doha, according to the report.