The information comes from the Tajik resistance in Panjshir. Apparently, meetings were held with Al Qaeda and with Tajik, Uzbek and Uyghur formations. The fears of neighboring Tajikistan. The Taliban had pledged not to host terrorist centers before the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Moscow () – The National Resistance Front (FRN) of Afghanistan, the Panjshir resistance group founded by Ahmad Massoud, reported that, according to its sources, there was a secret meeting in Kabul between the Taliban leaders and 16 group leaders. foreign terrorists. The Taliban would later have accompanied their guests to the northern provinces of Baghlan, Kunduz and Badakšan. The Taliban government did not comment on the matter.
According to the FRN website, the leaders involved are Hadji Forgan, head of the Islamic Movement of East Turkestan, Mawlavi Ibrohim, leader of the “Jamaat Ansarullah” group (made up of militants from Tajikistan), Shayk Zakir, head of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Abdullah Uygur, representative of Al Qaeda in northern Afghanistan. There would also be others, who arrived in Kabul at the end of August as the guests of Hadji Afzal, one of the leading exponents of the “Haqqani Network” in Kabul’s Wazir Akbar Khan district.
The terrorist leaders reportedly met with the Taliban government’s interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, to discuss plans to form a network of fighters in the north of the country. According to the agreement reached, about half of the members of the terrorist organizations could be sent to various Central Asian countries in the next six months. The Haqqani Network would have entrusted the coordination of this new formation to Mawlavi Ibrohim, who was recently seen near Kunduz together with some Al Qaeda representatives.
As for the other leaders, they would have been recognized in Baghlan, in the north of the country, where a Taliban headquarters is located. Zakir reportedly went to Badakšan province with some Taliban leaders. These maneuvers have provoked a new reaction from the government of Tajikistan, which has repeatedly denounced Afghanistan’s threat to Central Asia.
Dushanbe’s Foreign Minister, Sirojiddin Mukhriddin, spoke at the UN Assembly on September 24 and expressed concern about the situation. “Afghanistan is trying by all means to become a haven for terrorists, and a base for the spread of Islamic extremism throughout the region,” he warned.
The movement of terrorist groups to the north of Afghanistan accentuates this plan, according to the Tajiks. These are outsiders from other Central Asian countries who want to create border tensions, and as Mukhriddin recalled: “The consequences for Tajikistan will be enormous, since it has 1,400 kilometers of border with Afghanistan.”
It was only on September 26 that a representative of the Taliban, Zabihullah Modjahid, assured correspondents of Radio Ozodi that “the Taliban deny that their aim is to turn our country into a concentration of terrorists ready to attack neighboring states, and Allah forbid. We will give guarantees for the safety of all; Tajikistan’s fears are unfounded.”
The Taliban invite the Tajiks to officially discuss these problems, but from Dushanbe they insist that the Kabul government lacks representation. Despite numerous calls, the Taliban government has not wanted to integrate the country’s multiple ethnic, political and geographic expressions, of which the Tajik component is one of the most significant.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faysal bin Farhan Al Saud also called on the Taliban not to allow Afghanistan to become an international center of terrorism. “For this it is necessary to develop close cooperation at the international level,” he added.
Speaking at the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, also expressed his concern. Fears have increased following the elimination of Al Qaeda chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri. The United States managed to identify the leader’s secret base in Kabul, and killed him with a drone strike, on Biden’s orders.
