The Haqqani network carries out all terrorist operations attributed to ISIS to extort money from around the world.
Author: Abdul Naser Noorzad, security and geopolitics researcher, especially for Sangar
The Taliban terrorist group has claimed to have carried out more than 2000 operations against ISIS and other groups. It is strange how a group that has a terrorist nature and is similar to ISIS and other radical terrorist movements in terms of its performance and ideology, is trying to deceive people and shows that is anti-terrorism and the companion of the modern world.
Of course, there is no doubt that today's terrorism has become a tool in the hands of the great powers through which they seek political, security, economic and geopolitical goals. But what is interesting is that state terrorism operates against group terrorism and claims to have contributed to the process of ensuring public security.
Since the Taliban group is essentially a terrorist group and has been considered a major threat to security since its establishment, the current government of this regime, which has no popular legitimacy and is not accepted by the region and the world, adds to its terrorist and threatening nature. The Taliban group gives shelter to twenty other terrorist groups that threaten the security of the region and the world and supports them.
Now the question is how is it possible for a terrorist group that has a black history of terrorism and destruction to fight against other terrorist groups that are in ideological, functional and organizational alliance with them? In general, these groups are identical in terms of ideology, performance and goals and are operating in the same direction. There is no difference between the Taliban and the imaginary ISIS-Khorasan, because ISIS-K is basically the Taliban itself, and the Taliban abuse the name of ISIS-K to score points in the region and the world.
According to unconfirmed information, the Qari Haroon network is one of the subgroups of the Haqqani terrorist network, which has the upper hand in killing people and is based in Logar province puts it, while in principle ISIS-K in Afghanistan is the same Haqqani terrorist network. This group uses the ISIS-K card with all its strength for its security and political purposes. In order to suppress Taliban opponents, carry out terrorist operations, blackmail and whitewash the Taliban, this group has always used the trick of fighting against the imaginary ISIS-K, which is nothing more than a verbal invention.
The fact that the Taliban are trying to fight against ISIS is a pure lie and an intelligence game that the supporters of the Taliban and the intelligence and information networks that support this group and provide them with the necessary advice and help, make this group and encourage them to use of the name of ISIS-K in their operations.
If this analysis is not correct, what the Taliban are doing is to provide the necessary platform for the emergence of the imaginary ISIS-K that does not have a physical and operational existence in the future. The security situation in Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban is really serious, tense and full of potential and actual security threats, which in the short and medium term, its adverse effects on the situation of Afghanistan and the region will be evident.
In my opinion, the region should not be fooled by these verbal games of the Taliban and their extra-regional supporters. The triangle of Taliban-ISIS-Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups is an ominous triangle of blackmail for security purposes, which in the context of an insecure Afghanistan, helps to promote drug trafficking, religious terrorism, separatism and disruption of the security order in the region. As long as the Taliban terrorist group is in power, the goal of providing security in this country, where the region can live safely, cannot be realized.