KABUL (SW) – The Islamic Emirate authorities have discarded reports about the Pakistani Taliban hiding in the northern provinces of Afghanistan.
After the broadcast of reports about the transfer of 320 armed members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Dasht Qala district of Takhar, Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, said these reports are baseless. He said that only those migrants are transferred to other provinces that Pakistan has concerns about.
The spokesman of the Islamic Emirate added: “If the Pakistani side feels worried about anyone, the people that Pakistan is worried about can be transferred to other provinces, and there are about seven to eight thousand Pakistani immigrants on the border of Afghanistan, but not all of them are needed to be transferred to another province.”
Meanwhile, Pakistani officials have always claimed that the attacks on the country’s forces are organized by the Pakistani Taliban based in Afghanistan.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has recently said insecurity and terrorist incidents have increased in Pakistan, and the cause of most of these incidents is the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. According to him, the Pakistani Taliban are using the territory of Afghanistan to attack Pakistan, a claims that the Islamic Emirate has always denied.
Aziz Stanekzai, a military affairs expert, confirmed the presence of the Pakistani Taliban in Afghanistan, and said that the government of Pakistan and the Islamic Emirate should have joint intelligence cooperation to resolve these concerns. He added: “We cannot deny that they are definitely present in Afghanistan and we have more or less 2000 km border of the this hypothetical Durand Line, there is no way that this whole line can be controlled and that the warring people will not penetrate to this side.”
It should be mentioned that last year, the government of Pakistan and the Pakistani Taliban, with the mediation of Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Acting Minister of Interior of the Islamic Emirate, had a ceasefire for a while. But for some time now, the two sides have resumed offensives against each other.
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