As per the latest reports, a top US official has guaranteed that the Al Qaeda and Islamic State (IS) terrorist groups were “reconstituting” in Afghanistan. Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, the chosen one to head the US Central Command (CENTCOM), offered the comments while tending to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Kurilla’s Claim Rejected By Taliban
One of the difficulties is the threat to the country from Al Qaeda and IS-K (Khorasan). They are reconstituting. The Taliban has not disavowed Al Qaeda. IS-K, with the arrival of the detainees both from the Bagram jail and Pul-e-Charkhi, are in a course of reconstituting,” he said.
CENTCOM’s principle base camp is situated in the US yet has laid out a forward central command in Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
Yet, Kurilla’s case has been dismissed by the Taliban government in Afghanistan.
In a proclamation on Wednesday, Taliban delegate representative Billal Karimi, said: “The claims and purposeful publicity that are being spread-there is no proof or documentation. We trust as opposed to spreading promulgation and claims without proof, the world will approach and draw in and help out the Islamic Emirate.”
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Kurilla’s remarks come after a report by the UN Security Council Monitoring Team said that the presence of unfamiliar dread gatherings have expanded in the conflict torn country after the breakdown of the previous organization in August last year.
The report likewise scrutinized the Taliban’s responsibility under the 2020 Doha Agreement to forestalling “global psychological militant” dangers from having a traction in Afghanistan and communicated worries that unfamiliar gatherings may track down place of refuge in Afghanistan.
Terrorist Group Al-Qaeda Reports 200-400 Fighters: UNSC
In another update, the terrorist group al-Qaeda’s Indian subcontinent associate has held a presence in something like six areas of Afghanistan and has around 200-400 fighters, including Indian nationals, another United Nations Security Council (UNSC) report has uncovered.
The report, which was delivered late Monday, was ready by an UNSC bunch that screens counter-psychological warfare sanctions focusing on al-Qaeda and the Islamic State.
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[Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent] holds a presence in Afghanistan, in the areas of Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, Nimruz, Paktika and Zabul, where the gathering battled close by the Taliban against the removed government. AQIS is assessed to have somewhere in the range of 200 and 400 fighters, basically from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan,” it said.
The 22-page report, endorsed by UNSC Committee Chair and Norwegian public Trine Heimerback, additionally expressed that as opposed to media reports, Aslam Farooqi, previous head of the Islamic State group Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP), had “got away” from an Afghanistan jail and “consequently rejoined the gathering in a senior capacity”.
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