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Pakistan had birthed Taliban in an attempt to counter India, a former Afghan envoy has said citing former Pakistan president General Pervez Musharraf. Saikal also referred to a paper titled "The Sun in the sky: The relationship between Pakistan's ISI and Afghan insurgents by Matt Waldman Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Saikal also said that a fresh UN report establishes the symbiotic ties between ISIL-K, Taliban and the al-Qaeda.
According to @P_Musharraf “Pakistan gave birth to the Taliban to counter Indian action against it.” @ImranKhanPTI believes the Taliban have "broken the shackles of slavery." @SMQureshiPTI & @YusufMoeed are currently busy lobbying the world to engage with the Taliban. 3/7
— Mahmoud Saikal (@MahmoudSaikal) August 28, 2021
The UN in its latest 12th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team said that a significant part of the leadership of Al-Qaeda resides in the Afghanistan and Pakistan border region, alongside Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. Large numbers of Al-Qaeda fighters and other foreign extremist elements aligned with the Taliban are located in various parts of Afghanistan.
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