Afghanistan has provided what it claims to be proof to Islamabad that the Islamic State and Taliban attackers who killed about 200 people on Afghan soil over the last month trained and planned the assaults in Pakistan.
Pakistan has long provided a safe haven to the Taliban and other jihadist and criminal organisations, leading President Trump to “put Pakistan on notice.”
It is long overdue for Pakistan to be recognized as the state sponsor of terrorism that it is. It recently condemned a US drone strike that killed two Islamic jihadis, signalling that it is no friend and ally to America.
Despite what is known about Pakistan, Afghanistan is no better, being itself a base for terrorists. In fact the two trouble spots have a kind of symbiotic relationship, as Pakistan harbours its terrorists in Afghanistan according to intelligence sources.
“Afghanistan Publishes ‘Undeniable’ Proof Islamic State, Taliban Jihadis Trained in Pakistan”, by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, February 1, 2018:
Afghanistan has provided what it claims to be proof to Islamabad that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Taliban attackers who killed about 200 people on Afghan soil over the last month trained and planned the assaults in Pakistan.
The Associated Press (AP) reports:
The Afghan officials said some of the latest evidence came from confessions by captured militants. They said they told the Pakistani side that some of the militants had been trained at Islamic seminaries in the Pakistani border town of Chaman.
Earlier in the week, Afghanistan’s U.N. envoy Mahmoud Saikal tweeted that the father of one of the insurgents involved in the bloody Jan. 20 assault on Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel “conceded his son was trained in Chaman” by Pakistan’s InterServices Intelligence [ISI].
Echoing the Pentagon, Wais Ahmed Barmak, the interior minister in Afghanistan, also unveiled evidence, including confessions, that purportedly show Pakistan allows Taliban leaders to “roam freely” on its territory, notes AP.
On Thursday, Barmak and Afghanistan’s spy chief Masoom Stanekzai spoke to reporters, saying Afghanistan handed “undeniable” evidence to Pakistan showing that the recent spate of attacks was planned on Pakistani soil, reports the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
The attacks, which reportedly killed about 200 people, were apparently “planned from across the border,” declared Stanekzai, adding, “We asked Pakistan to hand over the culprits of the attacks in Afghanistan, and we shared undeniable evidence that the attacks were planned there.”
Afghanistan’s interior minister told reporters Kabul presented evidence to Pakistan during a meeting in Islamabad on Wednesday.
The Pakistani embassy in Kabul said the evidence provided by Afghan spy chief Stanekzai was “being examined for its authenticity.”
“Pakistan has not given any commitment to give [a] reply to the information received from the NDS [National Directorate of Security] Chief Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai,” the embassy said in a statement, reports TOLO News.
Islamabad has reportedly condemned the recent deadly attacks in Afghanistan.
During a visit to the Islamabad-based Afghan embassy, Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said his country “strongly condemns terrorism in all forms and manifestations,” points out AFP.
He added that, during Wednesday’s bilateral meeting, the two countries “agreed to work together to strengthen mutual trust and bilateral engagement.”
The revelations that the recent attackers planned the deadly assaults in Afghanistan from Pakistan come as the U.S.-NATO mission recently conceded that the Taliban continues to expand its influence in Afghanistan where it now controls or contests about 45 percent of the country.
Late last year, the United Nations also reported that the Taliban’s rival—the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan known as the Khorasan province (ISIS-K)—is growing and has extended its jihadi tentacles to seven provinces in recent months.
“Nearly 200 people have been killed over the past month in attacks claimed by the Taliban and a rival Islamic State [IS] affiliate,” reports AP.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to suspend about $2 billion in security aid to Islamabad over Pakistan’s reluctance to take decisive action against jihadists who operate on its soil and are fighting against American troops and their allies in Afghanistan, namely the Afghan Taliban and its al-Qaeda-linked ally, the Haqqani Network.
In its most recent assessment of the more than 16-year-old Afghanistan war issued in December, the Pentagon notes that Pakistan remains a “sanctuary” for terrorists, adding:
The Afghanistan-Pakistan border region remains a sanctuary for various groups, including al- Qa’ida, al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), the Haqqani Network, Lashkar-e- Tayyiba, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), ISIS-K, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
Sanctuary on the Pakistani side and presence on the Afghan side remain security challenges for both countries and pose a threat to regional security and stability.
The Pentagon considers the Haqqani Network, blamed for at least one of the recent deadly attacks in Afghanistan, to be the primary threat facing U.S. troops and their allies.
Islamabad has repeatedly denied that it harbors jihadist, but it has acknowledged that it holds some influence over the Afghan Taliban.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have long accused one another of supporting terrorists…..
J H says
As we always knew, Pakistan is right in the middle of all this shlt thus, making Pakistan ans Muslims a ligitimate enemy of the west, so why the f*** are we allowing them to just wander around on our streets, raping our children and allow them to do all sorts of horrendous thing, whilst, not only do the so called British Authorities turn a ‘blind eye’, but allow more in and do nothing while sharia courts popup everywhere with sharia taking over while we just sit on our buts
elee says
Who was ever denying that Pakistan is an Islamist front?
Guy Forester says
The west has been involved in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan for over 200 years, and what do we have to show for it? Lots of us are dead.
Meanwhile, India and a whole lot of other countries, muslim or otherwise, have moved to some degree into the modern era.
I recommend that we leave Afghanistan and Pakistan and send no government money to either of them. If NGO’s want to work there for humanitarian reasons, using NO government money, then go for it. Leave these crackpots to their own devices. Support and work with India. If the PRC is stupid enough to think they can move into the area and have these hell holes as friends, good luck. It won’t last long.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Afghan American stooge leaders are idiots to the core. How can they expect Pakistan to monitor all movements on that wide and forest Mountainous border between the two countries ? . was their occupying Masters the evil united states forces been able to detect Alqaeda and Taliban crossing thé border with their sophisticated survelance cameras ?
LeftisruiningCanada says
You’re right, it is too much to expect one’s neighbor to keep his mad dogs on his side of the fence.
gravenimage says
Apologist for Islamic savagery Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
Afghan American stooge leaders are idiots to the core. How can they expect Pakistan to monitor all movements on that wide and forest Mountainous border between the two countries ? . was their occupying Masters the evil united states forces been able to detect Alqaeda and Taliban crossing thé border with their sophisticated survelance cameras ?
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In other words, why should a Muslim country be expected to protect against Jihad terror bred on their own soil? To expect that would be “Islamophobic”…
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Satan (holy spirit) worshiper Gravenimage, ask savage mad devil Trump to use the security money he suspended for Pakistan be given to Durga goddess and Dharma idols to do the the job
LeftisruiningCanada says
You know Ibrahim, something strange is going on today.
I think we might agree for the second time within hours.
SK says
It doesn’t matter whether Pakistan likes India or not. Trump was not the first president to have a problem with Pakistan refusing to take a lot of action on the issue.
If they were interested in taking action on the borders, America has a drone war going on. If you’re concerned about that, then be aware that Pakistan could be helping make it less likely to hit people who weren’t involved. Besides, aren’t the Taliban the sort of people who hold the interpretations of your text that you claim are “perverted interpretations”?
It doesn’t have to be a team-up with the Americans. It can be a team-up with a country you like. It just has to be done at all. Look at Nigeria and the Sambisa Forest.
mortimer says
Pakistan is the country whose ARMY created Al Qaeda to fight the SOVIETS, then continued to protect, fund and encourage the Al Qaeda. Pakistan uses the Al Qaeda to destabilize its neighbors.
The Pak Army built a huge secure fortress for Osama bin Laden right next to the Pak military academy so that OBL could pop in for din-din or send secure secret messages to Al Qaeda using the Army’s best equipment. Pakistan continue to thwart the war on terror.
Pakistan is not the friend of its nominal Allies in the West. Pakistan is a traitor to them, shovelling hot steaming pile of TAQIYYA on a limitless basis. There’s more TAQIYYA where Pakistan got it from … ISLAM.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
mortimer, you must be mischievous ignorant. It means you dont know that It was your united states that sustained Osama bin Ladan to fight soviet Union during cold war ? It is not in dispute
gravenimage says
Afghanistan publishes “undeniable” proof Islamic State, Taliban jihadis trained in Pakistan
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Wouldn’t surprise me.