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Direct invasion of Afghanistan by Pakistan: Spanta
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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.
Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Afghanistan tomorrow (Tuesday), officials said on Monday.
The Ministry of Transport said that a Turkish Airlines plane will land in Kabul airport on Tuesday.
“Tomorrow, Turkish Airlines will resume its flights to Kabul International Airport. There will be four flights between Kabul and Istanbul per week. This is good news for Afghan travelers. For those Afghans who travel to European countries, they can move easily through Turkey,” said Imamuddin Ahmadi, the spokesman of the Ministry of Transport.
However, the Chamber of Commerce and Investment emphasized that visas should be provided to businessmen and citizens of the country, otherwise companies will benefit the most, not Afghan citizens and businessmen.
“Not a single passenger is allowed, the reason is that they do not issue visas. If the Turks don’t start issuing visas, or the Arabs don’t issue visas, the plane will come for the cargo and there will be little movement of people,” said Khanjan Alokozay, a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Investment.
In a meeting with Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Deputy Prime Minister said the Islamic Emirate will participate in the third Doha meeting if its “position” is accepted.
He said that Afghanistan is under the complete control of the Islamic Emirate and that the country “has an Emir” and the government is “obeyed”.
According to a statement issued by Mawlavi Abdul Kabir’s office, the deputy prime minister told DiCarlo: “The previous meeting in Doha was incomplete due to some shortcomings of its organizers, and the position of the Islamic Emirate should be accepted in the next meeting so that the delegation of the Islamic Emirate will participate in it.”
The Secretary General of the United Nations once expressed regret for the Islamic Emirate’s non-participation in the Doha meeting, but at the same time said that accepting the demands of the Islamic Emirate is equivalent to its recognition.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Emirate is asking the United Nations and other countries to recognize them as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
Kabir said that the Islamic Emirate has fulfilled all its obligations and “rules over the entire geography of Afghanistan… There is a central government in all of Afghanistan that has an emir and is obeyed.”
The United Nations is expected to hold the third Doha meeting with the participation of special representatives of countries for Afghanistan, but it has not set a date for it yet.
The Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs of the United Nations meanwhile visited Kabul this week and invited the Islamic Emirate’s officials to participate in the Doha meeting.
According to the deputy prime minister’s office, DiCarlo informed Kabir about the Doha meeting and said that “the Islamic Emirate’s conditions for participating in this meeting are not difficult.”
She expressed hope that a delegation of the Islamic Emirate will participate.
She said that representatives of a number of international organizations and countries have been invited to the Doha meeting, including the World Bank.
Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai, and the country’s former CEO Abdullah Abdullah met with Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs this weekend, regarding the third Doha meeting.
In a statement issued by Karzai’s office, it is stated that during the meeting they emphasized the need to help and support the people of Afghanistan and said that they considered education in Afghanistan essential.
They also emphasized the need for national understanding to achieve peace.
DiCarlo, who is on a trip to Kabul, has already met and discussed numerous issues with a number of officials of the Islamic Emirate.
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