Fall of Afghanistan is bad

news for India’s war on terror

- By Ankit Agrawal

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 INTRODUCTION

On the night of November 11, 2001, the Taliban melted away without
a fight and the coalition forces captured the capital.

Two decades later, the wheel is turning full circle.

The hasty pullout of US forces from Afghanistan has accelerated its

recapture by the Taliban.

Surging out of their bases in western Pakistan, the advancing Taliban

have met with little or no resistance.

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 The 300,000-strong Afghan National Army (ANA) has
disappeared and capital Kabul has been encircled
and could fall anytime now.

There now exists the very real prospect of the Taliban’s dual-
tone flags fluttering over Afghanistan before September 11,
2021, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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 RISE OF TERRORISM AGAINST INDIA

The Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in 1979 saw eight

years of a resistance movement backed by the US.

The war ended with the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1988.

The years that followed saw Pakistan’s deep state diverting vast
stockpiles of ex-Afghan War arms and ammunition into Kashmir in
the late 1980s to fight a proxy war that continues till date.

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 The Afghan war honed and refined the deep state’s ability to wage
covert war and also to understand how political Islam
could be weaponised by proxy forces.

Pakistani terrorist outfits like the LeT, HuJI and HuM were in fact set
up inside Afghanistan to fight the Soviet occupation forces
but were used by the deep state against India.

Pakistan’s deep state again played a key role in raising and training the
Taliban from among Pashtun areas of eastern and
southern Afghanistan.

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 DURING TALIBAN’S RULE

The Taliban Emirate that ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001 offered
sanctuary to jihadist groups from across the world, from Chechnya
to the Philippines, and, of course,

Al Qaeda, which fled its sanctuary in Sudan in 1996 to become an honoured

state guest of the Taliban’s Mullah Omar.

Thousands of terrorists trained in Afghanistan went on to fight in other

battlegrounds across the world.

The Soviet defeat in Afghanistan, its subsequent disintegration and the

attacks on the US emboldened these groups.

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 FALL OF TALIBAN

The fall of the Taliban in 2001 ended the use of Afghanistan as a terror base.

That reality could now return to Afghanistan.

Reports suggest that several British nationals had travelled to fight

alongside the Taliban.

The last time this happened was between 2014 and 2017 when a terrorist
group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) operating in Syria and
Iraq, controlled a territory the size of Great Britain in both countries.

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 ISIS actively solicited recruits from across the world and over
10,000 persons are thought to have travelled to its territories.

The prospect of Afghanistan becoming another nursery for

terrorist groups is what could cause serious worry in New Delhi.

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 IC 814

In 1999, four Pakistanis hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC 814 from

Kathmandu and diverted it to Kandahar in Afghanistan.

There, protected by the Taliban, the hijackers secured the release of

terrorist leaders Maulana Masood Azhar, Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar and
Omar Saeed Sheikh in exchange for the 150 airline passengers.

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Azhar went on to launch his terrorist outfit, the Jaish-e-Mohammed,
responsible for sensational terrorist attacks, including the
December 2001 attack on India’s Parliament.

More recently, the JeM claimed responsibility for the February 14,
2019 suicide bombing at Pulwama in which 40 CRPF were killed.

On February 26, IAF jets bombed the JeM training camp in Balakot,
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, in retaliation to the attack.

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 SHIFTING THE TERRORIST CAMPS

The prospect of Pakistan moving its camps into Afghanistan—away

from the range of retaliatory attacks by India--is one of the
scenarios that cannot be wished away.

There is also the danger of warehouses of sophisticated arms and

ammunition the Taliban captured from the Afghan government forces
being sold or diverted to India-specific militant groups.

The prospect of battle-hardened foot soldiers being infiltrated to fight

in India remains a distinct possibility.

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 WHAT ABOUT INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION?

The presence of the US in Pakistan and Afghanistan meant Indian

agencies could access intelligence relating to these two countries.

Indian intelligence agencies cooperated closely with their counterparts

in Afghanistan’s external intelligence agency, the National
Directorate of Security.

All that will come to an end now.

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A former Indian intelligence official compares the situation as
akin to someone turning off the lights in those countries.

These developments add a worrying new dimension for

India’s war on Pakistan-based terror.

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 CONCLUSION

The fall of Afghanistan marks one of the catastrophic failures of

US military intelligence.

How did the Taliban plan, organise, position and execute this massive
nationwide offensive under the noses of USMIL, CIA, DIA,
NDS, ANDSF etc.”

The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban could have wider ramifications

for the world in general and India in particular.

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Q. “Khad” is the name of secret agency belongs to?

A) Iran

B) Turkey

C) Iraq

D) Afghanistan

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 Fall of Afghanistan is bad
news for India’s war on terror

- By Ankit Agrawal

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