WASHINGTON: Three months of the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the Haqqani network — which is often responsible for the deadliest and highest terrorist attacks on US troops – now has emerged as Kingmaker in Kabul.
Writing for war on stone publications, Jeff M Smith, a research at the Asian Study Center Heritage Foundation explained how in the new hardline government of several members of the Haqqani network was given the position of main minister, submitting terrorist internal security control in Afghanistan.
“It seems that it fell kabul is a victory for the Haqqani network as well as the traditional Taliban leadership.” Smith said that it was no coincidence that Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, a terrorist with a prize of USD 5 million A.
on his head, was appointed to serve as head of security in Kabul one week before the suicide bomb at Kabul Airport.
“Fox finally looks after Henhouse.” US experts ended Haqqanis’s power to rule as a victory for Pakistani military and intelligence institutions.
“Afghanistan who was ruled by the Taliban had become a nightmare scenario.
The Haqqani network, with a track record of jihades abroad, ‘even more suitable ideologically and operational with global jihadist groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State in Afghanistan than the Taliban,” he said .
Smith said that even though there was limited access to Afghanistan, the Biden government must begin to prepare the possibility that global ambitious terrorist groups find direct support or more permissive environment to operate by the Afghan government.
“It must lead international efforts to suppress the new Taliban-Haqqani government to leave support for global terrorist groups, and it must try to rebuild counter-terrorism capabilities in the wider country and region.” Asian experts further warned us not to fall into the “bargain faustian” with Pakistan, exchanging access to Afghanistan for receiving Pakistani support for the same terrorist group targeted by the US.
According to Washington-based researchers, Pakistan with skillfully utilizing Afghan’s cruel geography to position himself as very necessary for the US.
“But US policy makers consistently failed to appreciate that Pakistan has far more lost from the relationship of hostility openly with the United States than the opposite.” Pakistan Stonewalling US in counter-terrorism cooperation in Afghanistan will remove the remaining leverage and the remaining fences that prevent the relationship from the hostility cycle and allegations of demons, he added.
In the Taliban Afghanistan, the Haqqani network is a new Kingmaker: report
