Pakistan’s ISI involves in Afghan parliament attack

A Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer named Bilal has presented the scheme plan of Afghan Parliament attack to Haqqani network, spokesman of NDS said.

Hasib Sidiqi, spokesman of National Directorate Security (NDS) stated that the attack on Afghan parliament has been planned three times since the beginning of this year.

Sidiqi noted that the Haqqani Network spent 7.5 million Pakistani Rupees to carry out the attack.

This is not the first time that the involvement of Pakistan’s ISI reveals behind the terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.

Bilateral relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have always been more or less uneasy.

Afghan officials have always accused Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence ISI of manipulating the ongoing situations that emerged out of the electoral stalemate in Afghanistan to destabilize the country and sabotage the security situation in order to chase its strategic objectives.

For four decades, Pakistan’s spy-generals have played Afghanistan like a powerful chip in a consequential game of poker. They know the important local militants, have open channels to their favorite groups, and regularly play various groups against the Western coalition.

The twin justifications for the aggressive intervention in Afghan affairs are India and American withdrawal. Since Pakistan’s humiliating dissection at Indian and nascent Bangladeshi hands in 1971, Islamabad’s doctrine vis-à-vis Afghanistan has been known as strategic depth.

For the ISI, Afghanistan is to be a safety net should the delusional prediction that India will invade a weaker Pakistan actually come true.

The Taliban attacked the Afghan Parliament on Monday just as lawmakers were convening for their third attempt to confirm a defense minister, while in northern Afghanistan a second district fell toTaliban insurgents.

At least two bystanders died in the attack on Parliament and more than two dozen were injured, but government officials said that all members of Parliament had been taken to safety with at most only minor injuries.