Taliban denying links with ISIS is similar to Pakistan’s strategy, says President Amrullah Saleh

After the deadly terror attack, allegedly carried out by ISIS-Khorasan at the Kabul airport and the subsequent denouncement by the Taliban, Afghanistan’s President Amrullah Saleh said the Taliban have learnt it from their master Pakistan to deny their links with ISIS. 

The Taliban has also blamed America for this attack by saying that the attack took place because of the presence of foreign troops in the airport.

“Every evidence we have in hand shows that IS-K cells have their roots in Talibs & Haqqani network particularly the ones operating in Kabul. Talibs denying links with ISIS is identical/similar to the denial of Pakistan on Quetta Shura. Talibs have learned very well from the master. #Kabul,” Saleh said in a tweet.

President Amrullah Saleh who is now in the Panjshir valley and is the leader of the resistance explained that the Taliban, the Haqqani and the Islamic State-Khorasan province are all together in this.

There are enough reports to suggest that the Haqqani network which is the most radical and violent partner of the Taliban has ties not only with Al Qaeda but also the Islamic State and had carried out some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan in the last 20 years. Its leader Jalaluddin Haqqani was once a valuable CIA asset in the 1980s but he later allied with the Taliban and still carried a reward of 5 million dollars.

The twin blasts near Kabul airport could not have come at the worst time because of the deadline set by the Americans as thousands of people are still waiting to get out of the clutches of the Taliban even though the Taliban has made it very clear that it will not allow Afghanistan as a breeding ground for global Jihad terror again.

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