Musa Khan Jalalzai
Mr. Rajnath Singh said Pakistan is responsible for the attack. “I am deeply disappointed with Pakistan’s continued and direct support to terrorism and terrorist groups,†he said. However, on 26 October 2016, Pakistan conveyed to the US that Indian intelligence agency RAW and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) are patronising terrorist groups to attack soft targets in the country. Last month, the intelligence war between India and Pakistan intensified when Pakistan called its diplomatic staff from Delhi and India reciprocated in the same manner. Pakistan’s foreign office condemned the arrest of its embassy staff in India. On 03 November 2016, Pakistan foreign office said, “As you are aware, a number of Indian diplomats and staff belonging to Indian intelligence agencies RAW and IB have been found involved in coordinating terrorist and subversive activities in Pakistan under the garb of diplomatic assignmentsâ€. In fact, the influx of terrorist groups like ISIS and Taliban in Jalalabad province, and their control over several districts, challenged the writ of the administration and forced thousands of Afghan families to leave the region for a safe place. As a close friend of Afghanistan, India never realised to help these displaced families, build schools for children or help Afghanistan in maintaining security across the country. International Rescue Committee (2016) in its recent report spotlighted the causes of insecurity while the United Nation Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) reported the miseries of internally displaced people in 2016. The UN experts also reported more than 45,000 terrorists fighting against the Afghan army across the country. Propaganda machine of the Islamic State (IS) is also causing a great concern for parents as their school-going children become victim of the so called jihadist culture.The emergence of Russia and China as economic and military powers has changed the concept of political rapprochement and diplomatic mechanism in South and Central Asia. China is deeply involved in Afghanistan, while Russia wants to revive its old contacts in the country, and extend hand of friendship to Pakistan exerting more pressure on the US and NATO forces to leave the country. Now, Russia has become a strong competitive party in Afghanistan by providing arms and training to its own Taliban group to dismantle the terrorist network of the Islamic State and form a new political alliance in the country. Both China and Russia have also established contacts with former communist leaders. Chinese and Russian Intelligence agencies are closely watching the operational mood of the ISIS and its collaboration other terrorist organisations. They face multifaceted threats from the ISIS that recruits Russian and Chinese Muslims in Afghanistan. In a recent Moscow conference, President Putin’s special representative warned that “there are several camps operated by Islamic State in Afghanistan that train people from Central Asia and some regions of Russia. The rise of Islamic State in Afghanistan is a high priority threat.†He also added that there is a wide national variety of instructors in those camps.
