India exposes Pak connection of terrorists based in Afghanistan

India has ramped up global cooperation to tackle terror organizations such as Lashkar-e-tayyaba (LET), Jaish-e-mohammed (JEM) and ISIL-K in Afghanistan. India has shared documents with the international community to establish that Pakistan continues to be behind JEM and LET there. National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval’s recent meetings with his counterparts in Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States were part of this campaign which will see a more aggressive push on the part of diplomatic and security officials from India, sources told The Sunday Guardian. During a meeting in Moscow last week, Doval urged the global community to increase cooperation so as to tackle the terror organizations like LET and JEM that are active in Afghanistan, with the Taliban taking no action against them. Sources said Doval and other officials accompanying him expressed concern over Pakistan’s backing to these organizations. In a clear reference to Pakistan, Doval said at the Moscow meet that no country should be allowed to use Afghan territory to export terrorism and radicalisation. While participating in a multilateral meeting on Afghanistan in the Russian capital, Doval stressed the need for intensified intelligence and security cooperation to tackle these terror outfits. Sources told The Sunday Guardian that Doval had raised these points during his meeting with his counterpart in the US, Jake Sullivan and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley. Similarly, NSA Doval also discussed the threat of terror from Afghanistan during his brief meeting with his UK counterpart, Tim Barrow and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Diplomatic sources said that India would be discussing Afghan-based ter