Terrorist groups based in Pakistan Lashkar-E-Taiba (Let) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (Jem) are present in parts controlled by the Taliban of Afghanistan where they run training camps and have deep ties with The ruling regime, including meetings at the level of top level, according to the latest report of the United Nations surveillance team on Afghanistan.The report also indicates that al-Qaeda in the Indian subcontinent (AQIS) has between 180 and 400 fighters, including “nationals of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan … located in the provinces of Ghazni , Helmand, Kandahar, Nimruz, Paktika and Zabul ”.
However, this adds that even if Al-Qaeda “enjoys greater freedom under the new Afghan regime”, it is “unlikely to set up or direct attacks outside Afghanistan for the next year or two, due to both a lack of capacity and Taliban restraint »The report quotes a Member State to declare that “Jem maintains eight training camps in Nangarhar, three of which are directly under the control of the Taliban”. Let is “said to maintain three camps in Kunar and Nangarhar” and “provided expertise in finance and Taliban operations training” earlier.
“The same Member State reported that in January 2022, a Taliban delegation visited a training camp used by Let In in the Haska Mena district in Nangarhar,” he said. “In October 2021, according to a Member State … Leader, the leader, Mawlawi Assadullah, met with deputy Minister of the Interior Taliban Noor Jalil,” he said.
The report refers to Jem as a Deobandi group which is ideologically closer to the Taliban. “The group’s leader is Masood Azhar and Qari Ramazan is Jem’s newly appointed chef in Afghanistan,” he said. On Let, the report notes: “In Afghanistan, according to a Member State, it is led by Mawlawi Yousuf.”The surveillance team assists the United Nations Security Council sanctions committee, and this report has been its first since the fall of Kabul in August 2021. Circulated among the members of the CSNU sanctions committee, the report provides advice for The future UN strategy towards Afghanistan.Currently, India is president of the CSNU sanctions committee, and Russia and the United Arab Emirates are vice -presidents – The Committee has the 15 CSNU members.
The report also indicates that the Taliban “seem confident in their ability to control the country and” wait “for the international community to obtain possible recognition of their government.According to the report, the group force like Isil-K has decreased, and they are not considered “capable of mounting international attacks before 2023 at the earliest”.The report also details for the first time that internal power struggles in the Taliban, the emerging power structure of the regime and the weapons and weapons left by the United States and NATO.
Internal tension: he indicates that around 180 senior Taliban would have traveled for deliberations with the chief of the Taliban Hibatullah Akhundzada for a three -day jirga from March 22 to 24 in Kandahar.”The rally has revealed certain divisions within the movement, while the consultations on key political decisions ended with Hibatullah supporting the decision to prohibit the education of girls. He exhibited Kandahari against Haqqani, Kandahari against the de facto cabinet and military rivalries against the Ulema. There was no Tadjik or Ouzbék representation, and key personalities such as [the Minister of Foreign Affairs] Amir Khan Motaqi… were absent, “said the report.
“The main internal division within the Taliban has been defined by opposite opinions between moderate and hard -line blocks. The moderate block is made up of senior Taliban, including Mullah Baradar, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, who believe that the Taliban must engage in working relations with foreign partners and be integrated into the international system, in particular global finances ” , he says.States”Independently, to a certain extent, of one or the other block are Sirajuddin Haqqani and the Haqqani network which are considered to be more closely aligned with Hardliners but adopt a pragmatic approach to secure Taliban interests,” said he.
According to the report, the Taliban of Kandahari (Durrani) are tried in the ascendant among the leaders of the Taliban.Haqqani and decline: the report indicates that the Haqqani network has moved quickly to secure the control of certain portfolios and key ministries: interior, information, passports and migration. The de facto ministerial posts provided by the Haqqani network are those occupied by the de facto Minister of the Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani and the de facto minister of refugees Khalil Ahmed Haqqani, according to the report.
“Nevertheless, there was a decline against the Haqqanis. During the March Jirga in Kandahar, it appeared that the Haqqanis expected an approval of the elevation of Sirajuddin to the Deputy Prime Minister. It did not materialize. A decision to carry out searches at home in Kabul was taken without Sirajuddin being consulted and without the commanders of Haqqani being exempt from the searches, the actions considered to be difficult of the authority of Haqqani, “he said.
Weapons in the hands of the Taliban: “Some Member States report that the Taliban claim to have 40 operational planes. Currently, these include two confirmed mid -7 helicopters as operational, as well as two Hawks Black UH-60, two light helicopters Cayuse MD-530, two mid-24 helicopters and a fixed wing transport plane, that all were Observed in flight, ”says the report.“The management of these planes has a propaganda value for the Taliban but little military utility. For the few planes in service, the Taliban lacks parts, have formed mechanisms to maintain them and, above all, the pilots to pilot them, “he said.
