Citizens Of Tajikistan, Pakistan Perpetrators Of Most Attacks In Afghanistan, Says Taliban

The Taliban's Security and Clearance Commission on Wednesday, January 22, in its annual report, named the citizens of Tajikistan and Pakistan as the main perpetrators of attacks in Afghanistan.

In the report, the Taliban claimed that the attacks were "mainly designed outside Afghanistan".

The Taliban's Security and Clearance Commission said that "evil projects" have been completely destroyed in Afghanistan in the past three years. The Taliban call their opposition groups "mischievous".

The commission has claimed that many commanders, heads of key branches, masterminds and perpetrators of high-profile attacks, and hundreds of its members have been killed and detained in Afghanistan.

This comes as following the Taliban's rise to power, there have been reports of the arrest and torture of the members of security forces of the former Afghan government by the Taliban.

In the past three years, the Taliban has killed or arrested a large number of people on charges of collaborating with ISIS, the National Resistance Front, performing their duties in the security agencies of the former regime, and disobeying orders.

Afghanistan International's findings show that these individuals are being tortured in various ways in the detention centres of the Taliban's intelligence directorates in Kabul and other provinces of Afghanistan.

Announcing that there are a large number of foreign nationals among them, the Taliban's Security and Clearance Commission said, "Some of the leaders and members of this project, who fled to Afghanistan's neighbouring countries after the crackdown, started their organisation with impunity, and indirect support from some factions."

According to the report, these groups deployed in Balochistan and some tribal areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, have been provided with training camps, fundraising facilities, and conditions for propaganda and recruitment from different countries of the world.

The Taliban's Security and Clearance Commission has claimed to have reliable information that these individuals transfer new recruits from some Asian and European countries to their bases in Balochistan and the tribal areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through the airports of Karachi and Islamabad.

The Taliban has not provided any evidence for their claim.

"The attacks are mainly planned outside Afghanistan, and the perpetrators came to Afghanistan from abroad under various guises, many of which were carried out by foreign nationals, especially citizens of Tajikistan and Pakistan," the commission's annual report said.

This comes as Tajikistan has repeatedly expressed concern over the presence of ISIS in Afghanistan and has called for the creation of a security belt around Afghanistan. In October 2022, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon proposed the plan at an extraordinary meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), which has been welcomed by countries in the region. At the time, he stressed that in order to prevent danger, it was necessary to create a security belt around Afghanistan.

Pakistan also blames Afghanistan for the increase in attacks on its soil. Officials in this country have repeatedly announced that members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have safe havens in Afghanistan and plan and carry out their attacks from this country.

Asif Durrani, Pakistan's former envoy to Afghanistan, announced in January that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is operating in eastern Afghanistan with the support of the Haqqani Network. Referring to the history of the Haqqani Network's closeness to Pakistan's intelligence, Asif Durrani said, "This network plays the role of friend and foe at the same time.

Following the increase in insecurity in Pakistan, the country's army bombed targets in Paktika province in airstrikes.

‘Expulsion of corrupt people from Taliban ranks’

In another part of the report, the Taliban's Security and Clearance Commission announced the expulsion of "undesirable and corrupt individuals" from the ranks of its security and defence forces.

In its annual report on Wednesday, January 22, the Taliban's Security and Clearance Commission wrote, "In the past twelve months, undesirable and corrupt individuals who have been involved in harassing people or committing various crimes have been identified and expelled from the ranks."

The Taliban's Security and Clearance Commission did not provide details about the fate of these individuals.

In the report, the Taliban claimed that all factors of insecurity in Afghanistan have been eliminated and a safe environment has been provided for work.

At the same time, the commission claimed that it has made significant achievements in strengthening borders and security monitoring, reducing crimes, drugs, and training and strengthening its security forces.