Kabul: of Afghanistan Taliban Rulers on Tuesday said there was no evidence of Islamic State al Qaeda Terrorists were present in the country days after Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks in the eastern city of Jalalabad.
Since the toppling of the Western-backed government Accept In the past month, the Taliban have faced pressure from the international community to renounce ties with al-Qaeda, the group behind the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States.
At the same time, they have had to deal with a series of attacks claimed by an ally of Islamic State, with whom they have struggled for many years over a mix of economic and ideological disputes.
Taliban spokesman zabihullah mujahidi rejected allegations that al-Qaeda maintained a presence in Afghanistan and repeatedly pledged that terrorist movements would not attack third countries in Afghanistan.
“We don’t see anyone in Afghanistan who has anything to do with al-Qaeda,” he told a news conference in Kabul. We are committed that there will be no threat to any country from Afghanistan.
The Taliban was ousted from power in 2001 by US-led forces for refusing to hand over the al-Qaeda leaders responsible for the September 11 attacks. They returned to Kabul last month when the US military announced they were leaving and the US-backed government and military collapsed.
Islamic State’s Afghan ally, known as Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), after the region’s old name, first appeared in 2014 in eastern Afghanistan and later in other regions, particularly in the north. entered.
Several years earlier, US forces had put the group’s strength at around 2,000 fighters, although some Afghan officials at the time estimated the number to be higher.
It fought US-led foreign forces and the Taliban for control of smuggling routes, while apparently also seeking to create a global caliphate.
The group claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in eastern Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city over the weekend. It also claimed a suicide bombing attack on Kabul airport last month that killed 13 US soldiers and killed several Afghan civilians who had gathered outside the airport gates.
The Mujahid denied that the movement had any real presence in Afghanistan, although he said it “invisibly carries out some cowardly attacks”.
“The ISIS that exists in Iraq and Syria does not exist here. Nevertheless, some people who may be our own Afghans have adopted the ISIS mentality, which is a phenomenon that people do not support,” he said.
“The Security Forces Islamic Emirate are ready and will stop them.”
Since the toppling of the Western-backed government Accept In the past month, the Taliban have faced pressure from the international community to renounce ties with al-Qaeda, the group behind the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States.
At the same time, they have had to deal with a series of attacks claimed by an ally of Islamic State, with whom they have struggled for many years over a mix of economic and ideological disputes.
Taliban spokesman zabihullah mujahidi rejected allegations that al-Qaeda maintained a presence in Afghanistan and repeatedly pledged that terrorist movements would not attack third countries in Afghanistan.
“We don’t see anyone in Afghanistan who has anything to do with al-Qaeda,” he told a news conference in Kabul. We are committed that there will be no threat to any country from Afghanistan.
The Taliban was ousted from power in 2001 by US-led forces for refusing to hand over the al-Qaeda leaders responsible for the September 11 attacks. They returned to Kabul last month when the US military announced they were leaving and the US-backed government and military collapsed.
Islamic State’s Afghan ally, known as Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K), after the region’s old name, first appeared in 2014 in eastern Afghanistan and later in other regions, particularly in the north. entered.
Several years earlier, US forces had put the group’s strength at around 2,000 fighters, although some Afghan officials at the time estimated the number to be higher.
It fought US-led foreign forces and the Taliban for control of smuggling routes, while apparently also seeking to create a global caliphate.
The group claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in eastern Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city over the weekend. It also claimed a suicide bombing attack on Kabul airport last month that killed 13 US soldiers and killed several Afghan civilians who had gathered outside the airport gates.
The Mujahid denied that the movement had any real presence in Afghanistan, although he said it “invisibly carries out some cowardly attacks”.
“The ISIS that exists in Iraq and Syria does not exist here. Nevertheless, some people who may be our own Afghans have adopted the ISIS mentality, which is a phenomenon that people do not support,” he said.
“The Security Forces Islamic Emirate are ready and will stop them.”
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