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Taliban Presence In Northern Afghanistan Reduces ISIS Threat To Central Asia - Diplomat
Umer Jamshaid Published August 03, 2021 | 02:54 PM
The presence of the Taliban movement (outlawed as a terrorist group in Russia) in Afghanistan's north will suppress the growth of threat from the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS, also banned in Russia) to Central Asian countries, Russia's special presidential representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said on Tuesday
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 03rd August, 2021) The presence of the Taliban movement (outlawed as a terrorist group in Russia) in Afghanistan's north will suppress the growth of threat from the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS, also banned in Russia) to Central Asian countries, Russia's special presidential representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said on Tuesday.
"Many other international terrorist organizations have been based on these territories for a long time, I would put ISIS in the first place but there are still about 20 smaller but no less harmful terrorist groups that cooperate with each other for tactical reasons ... So they could take advantage of the chaotic situation in northern Afghanistan and try to use it to undermine stability in Afghanistan's neighboring states .
.. The Taliban have very bad relations with ISIS, and the Taliban have been actively fighting the ISIS all these years, which cannot be said about the Americans and NATO or about the current Afghan government. And, oddly enough, the very presence of the Taliban in these territories will restrain the growth of threats from the ISIS and other international terrorists against Central Asian states," Kabulov said at a round table discussion, hosted by the Gorchakov Fund.
The diplomat also qualified Kabul's claims about the Taliban's links to the Al-Qaeda terrorist group (banned in Russia) as the authorities' attempt to justify their own failures.
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