{"id":83348,"date":"2016-11-17T08:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T08:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/is-al-qaeda-still-active-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T08:12:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T08:12:27","slug":"is-al-qaeda-still-active-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/is-al-qaeda-still-active-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Al-Qaeda still active in Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/11 Novomber\/17 Nov\/alqaeda.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): A number of analysts believe that Al-Qaeda still has its presence in Afghanistan but it does not pose direct or serious threats to the country now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Question about Al-Qaeda&rsquo;s presence surfaced after the death of Farooq-al-Qahtani, a commander of this global terrorist organization in the northern parts of Afghanistan, in a U.S. airstrike in Kunar province. A large chunk of the population in the country is still wary about this group. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the issue, Dawlat Waziri, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense (MoD), told Salam Watandar that for the time being, Al-Qaeda is not fully active in Afghanistan, but it is indirectly providing the Taliban, Daesh and other terrorist networks with support. Waziri noted that Al-Qaeda has access to resources, and the group&rsquo;s unintended support for terrorist networks poses serious threat to the country.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson for the MoD mentioned that Al-Qaeda is backing the Taliban militants in the bordering provinces of Kunar, Paktika and Nangarhar. He noted that the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) are busy chasing them there.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Firdows Kawosh, an analyst on political affairs, believed that Al-Qaeda is active in Afghanistan, but it does not pose a major threat. Azizullah Pilot, another expert on military affairs, noted that all the terrorists&rsquo; networks, including Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Daesh are financed by the same sources, and they carry out their destructive activities collectively.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Qaeda is a militant organization founded in 1988 by Osama Bin Laden. After Bin Laden&rsquo;s death in an American raid inside Pakistan, the group has been led by Al-Zawahiri.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): A number of analysts believe that Al-Qaeda still has its presence in Afghanistan but it does not pose direct or serious threats to the country now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}