Pakistan Shifts LeT to Afghanistan as Part of Strategic Depth against Indian Interests
Taliban
Maintains Good Relations with All Terrorist Outfits
Main
Points:
1. LeT threatens India's assets in Afghanistan.
2. Pakistan always uses LeT against India.
3. India's $3 billion worth investments are at
stake.
4. India has built roads, dams, infrastructure,
schools and colleges in Afghanistan.
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New
Age Islam Staff Writer
31 July
2021
As the US
and NATO forces are pulling out of Afghanistan, the country is fast moving
towards a civil strife and a state of anarchy. The vacuum created by the US
pull out has provided considerable space to non-state actors and terrorist
groups in Afghanistan. The ISIS and Al Qaida have already made their presence
felt with attacks on civilians particularly on Shias in Kabul in May this year.
Now the
Afghan government has made another disclosure that has caused a great concern
to India. Two days ago, the Afghanistan government informed India that Pakistan
has shifted Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad to Afghanistan. Earlier
Afghanistan's National Security Council spokesperson Javid Faisal had said that
Taliban maintains a good relationship with the ISIS, Al Qaida-K and LeT. This
is against the conditions of the peace agreement between the US and Taliban.
Taliban had promised that it will not allow terrorist groups to operate in
Afghanistan. But according to the Afghan sources, Pakistan had started shifting
terrorist groups operating in Pakistan to Afghanistan a year ago.
The Taliban
will go to any extent in trying to dislodge the Afghan government and so it
will acquire all the physical and logistic support from all the terrorist
groups active in the region. On the other hand, Pakistan's main target will be
diplomatic and trade interests of India in the country. This is the reason,
Pakistan has pushed LeT and Jaish-e-Mohammad into Afghan imbroglio.
India has
provided assistance to Afghan government in rebuilding the country's economy
and infrastructure and in the last 20 years India invested $3 billion in
building roads, infrastructure, dams, schools, colleges and hospitals under the
protective presence of the NATO. India had also strengthened centuries old
cultural ties with the Afghan people. All this was an eyesore for Pakistan.
Therefore, as soon as the situation changed, it found an opportunity to try and
break this relationship. It has fielded LeT in Afghanistan as part of its
strategic depth. The Jaish-e-Mohammad and LeT will not only fight against the
Afghan government forces shoulder to shoulder with Taliban but will also
conduct terrorist attacks at Indian projects and Indian workers. Sensing this
the Indian government has already issued an advisory to the Indians working and
staying there to take utmost security measures.
This game
played by Pakistan will only cause instability in the region as Afghanistan
will again become a hotbed of terrorist activities. It will not be easy for
Taliban to dislodge the democratic government of Afghanistan and capture power.
The country is going to witness a long civil strife in which terrorist
organisations will only play a destructive and destabilising role. By depending
and relying on terrorist organisations like Jaish and LeT, Pakistan will gain
nothing. On the contrary, it will lose. It is in the Grey List of FATF and will
remain so for aiding and harbouring terrorist organisations. It funds and gives
protection to LeT to use it against India as it did in Mumbai terror attacks in
2008. Now it has pushed LeT into Afghanistan to use it against Indian assets in
Afghanistan.
India needs
to be on vigil and tighten its security at its borders and chalk out diplomatic
and defence strategy to protect India's assets in Afghanistan and to thwart any
conspiracy of the LeT-Jaish-Taliban-Al Qaida-ISIS combine in India and
particularly in Kashmir.
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