“Don’t worry, everything will be fine,” PTI quoted Hameed as saying in a video clip from a press on his arrival in Kabul. Asked if he would meet the Taliban leadership, the ISI chief himself replied, “I have just landed. We are working for peace and stability in Afghanistan,” before turning to Pakistan’s ambassador to Kabul, Mansoor Ahmed Khan. are.”
The first official visit by any top Pakistani official to Afghanistan since the country fell into Taliban hands apparently stemmed from a worsening dispute with allies and factions over his choice of Haibatullah Akhundzada as supreme leader. News agency ANI cited the unverified Twitter handle of Panjshir Observer The gunshots heard in Kabul on Friday night were the result of a power struggle between Baradar and Anas Haqqani.
Writing for the US-based website 19fortyfive.com, Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute said that the Taliban could not meet their goal of unveiling a new government on 3 September because Haqqani and several other Taliban factions were forced to accept Akhundzada as their own. I will not accept. Supreme leader.
Rubin said the delay may have signaled a much bigger crisis within the Taliban, forcing the ISI out of the woodwork and deputing a delegation led by Hameed for an “emergency visit” to Kabul. . According to him, the “unitary Taliban” has always been an illusion because “the” Quetta Shura is separate from the Haqqani network and separate from the northern Taliban.
Amid the ISI’s open interference in the crisis within the new regime, former Afghanistan Vice President Amrullah Saleh was quoted as saying in a “dispatch from the frontline” to the UK-based Daily Mail that, contrary to Pakistan’s claims, the Taliban would be “Micro management” was being done by the ISI. “The Taliban spokesman receives instructions from the Pakistani embassy every hour,” he said.
NS Pakistan Observer The report said the ISI chief is expected to meet Taliban leaders and commanders. “Issues related to Pakistan-Afghan security, economy and other matters will be taken up with the Taliban leadership,” the report quoted sources as saying.
According to the Express Tribune, another Pakistani newspaper, Hameed will also discuss the issue of repatriation and transit through Pakistan of foreign nationals and Afghans fleeing the Taliban regime. “The issue of pending requests from countries and international organizations for repatriation/transit through Pakistan and the need to determine the mechanism through which Pakistan can allow these, meeting with Taliban officials in coordination with ground officials in Afghanistan will be discussed during It said. Geo News reported that the intelligence chief will spend a day in the capital of Afghanistan.
Hameed’s visit to Kabul came as Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa met British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab earlier in the day and said Pakistan would assist in the formation of an inclusive administration in Afghanistan. Raab arrived in Islamabad on Thursday night to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.
Rubin wrote in 19fortyfive.com that some Afghan factions want a more inclusive government and are not enthusiastic about efforts to fight the Panjshiris. He said the Taliban conquered Afghanistan largely on political deals rather than military victories and was not enthusiastic about the damage they now suffer in ground fighting in the Valley and its outlook.
He said Hameed and the factions he directs directly wanted to eliminate Ahmed Masood and Amrullah Saleh, the two main leaders of the resistance.
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