In wake of the Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan, US Defence Analyst Sarah Chayes shared her knowledge on the continuing disaster and the explanations that led to the resurgence of the extremist group within the nation.
In an interview with CNN on September 1, 2021, a fortnight after the autumn of Kabul to the Taliban in a swift and lightning offensive, Sarah attributed the fear outfit’s resurrection to the emotional and navy assist it acquired from Pakistan’s infamous intelligence company ISI.
When requested if the Taliban had cleverly utilised the 20 years time to construct its functionality and stake its declare to energy, Chayes stated it wasn’t the fear group however Pakistan’s intelligence company ISI that used its sources cleverly to assist topple the US-backed Ashraf Ghani authorities in Afghanistan.
Former U.S. Defence Analyst@Sarah_Chayes reveals to @CNNi’s Christiane @cAmanpour the reality of Pakistan’s ISI Intel Agency and the way Islamabad skilled the #Taliban inside Pakistan to overthrow the elected Afghan Govt in Kabul. pic.twitter.com/7nZ8GW1GHt— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) September 2, 2021
“Pakistan’s ISI propped up the Taliban against the Soviet forces in the early 90s. Then they repurposed them to establish their control over Afghanistan. Since 2003, I started seeing that the ISI was reconstituting the Taliban. At that time, the Taliban was at its nadir. They could not have stayed inside Afghanistan. Maybe, they would run in one attack and then run back across the border,” Chayes stated whereas revealing Pakistan’s position in serving to the Taliban survive the NATO onslaught.
“As time went on, I saw quite a sophisticated campaign plan developed that responded well to where NATO forces had positioned themselves,” stated Chayes, including that opposite to US and NATO officers’ evaluation, the Taliban was not a disorganised group of terrorists performing randomly in opposition to the western forces.
The US Defence Analyst, who had intently studied Pakistan’s position in maintaining Afghanistan on tenterhooks, additionally shared her opinion on why the Pakistan authorities and the ISI are bent on bringing the Taliban again into energy of their neighbourhood.
“In the current context. Look at them. The simultaneous defeat and surrender of Afghan government forces and the civilian government leaders all around the country, all at the same time. Look at the focus on the north first and then the south. Look at the people who flooded across the border from Pakistan into the border town of Spin Boldak. And I would say do we really believe this ragtag militia as we have been told the Taliban were. Did they have the capacity to conduct such an effective campaign with an obvious plan?” Chayes questioned.
Continued… pic.twitter.com/hSuHJSa3zU— Tarek Fatah (@TarekFatah) September 2, 2021
Chayes just isn’t the one one who has chalked up the resurgence of the Taliban to Pakistan. Her evaluation of Pakistan’s complicity within the disaster that has roiled Afghanistan concurs with others, who additionally consider that Islamabad is pulling the strings of the Talibani authorities in Kabul. Over the years, a number of journalists, from throughout the globe, have arrived on the similar conclusion that Pakistan has been in thick with the Islamic terrorists whereas portraying itself to be an ally of the western nations of their combat in opposition to Islamic terrorism.
2012 documentary reveals Pakistan’s assist to the Taliban in opposition to NATO forces
Back in 2012, nearly a decade earlier than the autumn of Kabul to the Taliban, a documentary was launched by the Frontline, shedding gentle on the double-dealing of Pakistan that recognized itself as an ally of the United States within the combat in opposition to terrorism however was covertly working to undermine its mission in Afghanistan. Titled ‘The Secret War’, the documentary revealed how the United States was preventing a dropping battle in Afghanistan all these years.
During the investigation, Smith and Grey, the 2 journalists related to the Frontline, discovered that the American troopers stationed alongside the Afghanistan-Pakistan border have been sad with the latter, for his or her covert assist to the insurgency and terrorism focused in opposition to the United States. One of the US troops, who wished to stay nameless, confided to the reporters that the bottom troopers manning the border reportedly complained to the seniors in regards to the Pakistani complicity in serving to the Talibani and Al Qaeda terrorists cross the border and infiltrate into Afghanistan.
“It might be turning a blind eye because the insurgents launched rockets from Pakistan to the US bases positioned throughout the border. It is also permitting passage to the terrorists, proper underneath their noses, to soundly cross the border into Afghanistan. It might be offering insurgents with important data akin to particulars of our patrol or the Afghan military’s patrol alongside the border. It was complicity on their half, stated Maj Michael Waltz, US Army Forces Reserves, whereas talking about Pakistan’s treachery in propping up Al Qaeda and the Taliban terrorists in opposition to the United States.
The documentary confirmed that the Taliban leaders, who had fled Afghanistan within the aftermath of the US invasion, moved freely inside Pakistan. The two journalists met a Taliban commander within the outskirts of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The commander informed them how dependent the Taliban was for a sanctuary in Pakistan to proceed their warfare throughout the border.
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