'Certain military elements': Taliban targets Pak army; accuses it of creating tension

NEW DELHI: A time aft bid talks betwixt Kabul and Islamabad successful Turkey broke down, Afghanistan connected Saturday accused “elements wrong the Pakistani military” of pursuing “anti-Afghanistan policies for years.

”Also Read | 'No willingness to instrumentality responsibility': Afghanistan-Pakistan bid talks neglect again; what next? “Unfortunately, definite subject elements successful Pakistan look to presumption a unchangeable and beardown Afghanistan arsenic contrary to their interests,” Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said successful a connection connected X. “They person agelong exploited Afghanistan’s instability, conflicts, and displacement, and present look intent connected creating tensions done fabricated pretexts.”Mujahid besides rejected claims that the emergence of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was linked to the Taliban’s instrumentality to powerfulness successful Kabul. “Some groups person falsely accused the Islamic Emirate, suggesting that instability successful Pakistan and the TTP’s maturation began with our arrival.

In reality, some day backmost to 2002, a effect of misguided policies by definite Pakistani subject elements who aligned with the US, permitted drone strikes successful Waziristan, and turned against their ain people,” helium wrote.He pointed to a bid of Pakistani subject campaigns against the TTP — including Operations Al-Mizan, Rah-e-Rast, Sher Dil, Nijat, Koh-e-Safid, and Zarb-e-Azb — that, helium said, displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians.

“In this alleged warfare connected terror, 80,000–90,000 soldiers and civilians were killed, by Islamabad’s ain count, agelong earlier the Islamic Emirate’s rise,” Mujahid added.Also Read | 'Projectiles fired, civilian areas targeted': Pakistan breaches truce, says Kabul amid bid talks Calling Pakistan’s instability “an interior issue,” Mujahid remarked the Taliban has taken steps to forestall cross-border militancy since taking power. These see mediating dialog among governmental and spiritual figures, relocating refugees from the Durand Line, banning weapons among exile populations, and issuing fatwas against unauthorized overseas jihad.“The Islamic Emirate welcomes each efforts that let refugees to instrumentality safely,” helium stated, reaffirming that Afghanistan would not let its territory to beryllium utilized to interfere successful different country’s affairs. “We volition instrumentality each indispensable steps to forestall specified actions, God willing.”