Dr. Rangin Dad Far Spanta, former head of Afghanistan National Security Directorate (NDS) has said that by using Afghanistan, Pakistan’s claim based on India’s “Proxy War” against this country is silly; many take advantages of the use of this word, both overt and covert. There is no problem with the way they are taking advantage by the use of this word. However, the problem is their intensions.

Afghanistan former head of NDS revealed Haqqani Network’s direct contact to Paksitani ISI, saying Haqqani Network takes order from Pakistan’s ISI for terrorist activities.

“The problems include elimination of the border between friends and foes, locating victims and criminals in one line and undermining the resistance of Afghan people against the invasion of Pakistan from the first half of 1990s until now. Another biggest backlash would be: Afghans’ fight for freedom against Pakistan is lost and relegated by intelligence war between India and Pakistan inside Afghanistan. The army of Afghanistan is reduced to be pro-India. Afghan national army is currently busy in a fierce fight against the Taliban. The Taliban are pro-Pakistan. Nevertheless, by the use of word proxies, realities are depicted but in opposite direction.” Spanta said.

Sapanta said, the spy agency of Pakistan speaks of India’s proxy war in Afghanistan against Pakistan. I prefer to point out to a number of facts here:

Pakistan has claimed several times that India has 14 consulates in Afghanistan. This claim is totally baseless.

India has four consulates in Afghanistan—the same like Iran and Pakistan. The consulate offices were established ahead of 2002. Now, if ISI’s henchmen inside Afghanistan want the Afghan government to reject the consulates, it is up to them, but the freedom fighters of this country will never give this right to Pakistan to take control of Afghanistan’s foreign policy and press Kabul to tell India to cease its consulates in the country.

They also claim that India helps Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters in Kunar province. They allege the former government of Afghanistan trained and sheltered Pakistani Taliban in collusion with India. This claim is also unfounded. Kunar province had never been in control of Afghan security forces until mid-2014. The US troops had more than 60 small and big military bases in the province. In presence of ISAF troops, neither Afghanistan nor India could establish sanctuaries in the areas or could train the militants there.

Pakistan claims that India helps the Baluchistan freedom movement via Afghanistan. This allegation of Pakistan is also far from reality. The fact is that after the martyrdom of Nawab Akbar Bugti, a Baluch nationalist leader, in 2006, his family members and relatives migrated to Afghanistan, and the then Afghan government gave them refuge purely on humanitarian grounds because then administration informed the UN office and also the embassy of Pakistan in Kabul.
After many years of supporting militancy in the region, the Pakistani government now wants to wash its hands of the problem by claiming that its origins lie in Afghanistan. Under the National Action Plan initiated after the Peshawar school attack, Pakistan projects to expel many Afghan refugees, with little regard for the costs of reintegrating them that the Afghan government will have to bear or the risk that some extremists will enter Afghanistan among the refugees.

This comes as Afghanistan National Unity Government Leaders are trying to persuade Pakistan to cooperate in Peace process with Afghanistan.

Simultaneously, Pakistan has also promised to bring Taliban leaders to the negotiation table.