The Taliban using Pakistani Madrasas to recruit fighters: Afghan NSA
New Delhi: The National Security Advisor (NSA) of Afghanistan passed another statement on the Taliban and Pakistan, in which he said that “as many as 15,000 militants could enter Afghanistan from Pakistan to fight the Afghan forces. Every year, the Taliban were defeated in Afghanistan but they had an opportunity to recuperate, to re-recruit people from Madrasas in Pakistan and bring them back the next year.”
NSA Hamdullah Mohib expressed tension and worries about the rising presence of the Taliban in several states of Afghanistan.
“This year, we estimate that 10,000 fighters have come in from Pakistani madrasas to fight in Afghanistan this fighting season, and intelligence shows that they could be as many as 15,000 more recruits coming towards Afghanistan,” Hamdullah Mohib added.
Hamdullah Mohib, NSA Afghanistan further added that “The Taliban have had safe havens in Pakistan throughout this period they enjoyed their leaders living there at peace and in Pakistan, their injured were treated in Pakistani hospitals, they had military and emotional support and financial support from elements within the Pakistani military establishment and it continues to be the case.”
President of Afghanistan also said that “The Taliban has ‘deep ties’ with ‘Al Qaeda’, ‘Lashkar-e-Taiba’, and ‘Jaish-e-Mohammed’ and the group want Afghanistan to become a haven for insurgents”. This statement arrived during a visit to the Special Operations Command Center in Kabul.
According to India-based international politics experts “Withdrawal of foreign troops converting Afghanistan into the battleground where government and the Taliban are fights. The presence of the Taliban consistently increasing in the several states of Afghanistan and local people are already in fear of death.”
A few days back – group of gunmen in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan reportedly killed more than 100 civilians. The Interior Minister of Afghanistan confirmed the news reported in media and blaming the Taliban for the murder of civilians. Spin Boldak district of Afghanistan’s Kandahar province is under the control of the Taliban.
