ISIL-K: Foreign members of ISIL-K, al-Qaida entered Afghanistan via Pakistan: UN report

Virtually all international members of ISIL-Ok and al-Qaida have entered Afghanistan by way of Pakistan and the leaders of those outfits together with these of the Taliban have been residing in Pakistan, based on a brand new United Nations report.

The UN Monitoring report has additionally established symbiotic ties between ISIL-Ok, Taliban and al-Qaida.

“A major a part of the management of Al-Qaida resides within the Afghanistan and Pakistan border area, alongside Al-Qaida within the Indian Subcontinent. Giant numbers of Al-Qaida fighters and different international extremist components aligned with the Taliban are positioned in numerous elements of Afghanistan,” mentioned UN report from Analytical Assist and Sanctions Monitoring Group.

Al-Qaida continued to endure attrition throughout the interval below evaluation, with a variety of senior figures killed, typically alongside Taliban associates whereas co-located with them, the report mentioned. It mentioned the first element of the Taliban in coping with Al-Qaida is the HaqqNetwork.

Ties between the 2 teams stay shut, based mostly on ideological alignment, relationships solid by means of widespread battle and intermarriage. The Taliban has begun to tighten its management over Al-Qaida by gathering data on international terrorist fighters and registering and limiting them.

“The Taliban takeover of Kabul has already invited the novel/extremist/terrorist teams within the area to maneuver into Afghanistan. The creeping aggression of Pakistan will quickly flip Afghanistan right into a breeding floor of terror, jeopardizing worldwide peace and safety,” mentioned Mahmoud Saikal, former Afghanistan envoy to the UN.

In keeping with the UN report, the first element of the Taliban in coping with Al-Qaida is the Haqqani Community. “Ties between the 2 teams stay shut, based mostly on ideological alignment, relationships solid by means of widespread battle and intermarriage.”

Taliban has begun to tighten its management over Al-Qaida by gathering data on international terrorist fighters and registering and limiting them.

“Nevertheless, it has not made any concessions on this regard that it couldn’t simply and rapidly reverse, and it’s unattainable to evaluate with confidence that the Taliban will stay as much as its dedication to suppress any future worldwide risk emanating from Al-Qaida in Afghanistan,” UN report mentioned.

Al-Qaida and like minded militants proceed to have a good time developments in Afghanistan as a victory for the Taliban’s trigger and thus for international radicalism, the report added.