Kabul, Afghanistan: Some foreign terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda helped the rapidly growing Taliban in Afghanistan amid the withdrawal of US troops, said a recent media report.
According to Nikkie Asia, when US troops and allies were almost completely drawn, the Taliban had made a rapid territorial increase, capturing rustic plots, cities and border crossings, especially with the support of Al-Qaeda and allied groups, including the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM ), Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP); And Central Asian terrorist clothes such as the Islamic Movement of the Islamic Uzbekistan (IMU) and Jamaat Ansarullah, Terrorist clothing is also known as Taliban Tajik.
Nikkie Asia reported quoting government officials, local tribal and journalists that foreign terrorists, especially Tajiks, Uzbeks, Pakistan and Uyghur related to Al-Qaeda allies have been seen in the Taliban rank during the recent progress in Afghanistan.
Denies reports, Suhail Shaheen, one of the Taliban representatives told media outlets: “We do not have foreign terrorists in our ranks.” “Such reports or claims are intended to mislead people in the world about reality in the field in Afghanistan.” Afghan Ambassador Ghulam Isaczai During the latest briefing at the UN Security Council said that since mid-April, the Taliban had launched more than 5,500 attacks in 31 of the 34 Afghan Provinces “with direct support from more than 10,000 foreign terrorists representing 20 groups, including al-Qaeda, including Al-Qaeda Ethim, and TTP, and IMU.
“” Links between the Taliban and transnational terrorist groups are stronger today than at the latest, “said Isaczai.
The Afghan defense ministry on Saturday claimed that 30 al-Qaeda terrorists were among 112 terrorists who were killed in air strikes launched by Afghan forces to protect Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, from the Taliban, reported Nikkie Asia.
On Thursday, the Taliban claimed that he arrested Herat, the capital of the eleventh province in the country hit by a war.
Afghanistan witnessed a surge in violence because the Taliban had intensified his attack on Afghan forces and civilians with a full setback for foreign troops just a few weeks.
Due to increasing violence in the country by the Taliban, the situation worsened as bad as a group of terror looted people and killed civilians after capturing many regions of the government.
The Taliban increased his attack on Afghan forces as soon as US forces began to leave Afghanistan in large quantities after a peaceful agreement was signed between Washington and the Taliban in February last year.
On Wednesday, the President of Ashraf Ghappointed a new head of the Army staff in an effort to give a strong response to terror groups in the field.
Haibatullah Alizai replaced Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai, as the new Army Chief of Staff.
Alizai previously worked as a commander of the Afghan National Army Command.