India exposes Pak connection of terrorists based in Afghanistan
ror issues during the high-level meetings to be held in March in Delhi. The meetings of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) NSAS, G20 Foreign Ministers and Quad Foreign Ministers would focus on how to deal with the menace of terrorism emanating from Afghanistan apart from other issues. “Pakistan’s support to LET and JEM, despite the country facing a massive financial crisis, would obviously be discussed during bilateral talks here,” sources said. “We have documents ready with us that prove Pakistan’s support to LET and JEM which are using Afghan soil for anti-india activities,” sources added.
The revelations in a report by UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres on the threat posed by ISIL-K in Afghanistan are quite significant. The report says that the ISIL-K have “threatened to launch terrorist attacks against the embassies of India, Iran and
China in Afghanistan and by targeting them, the terror group sought to undermine the relationship between the Taliban and the UN member states in the Central and South Asia region.” “The activities of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant-khorasan (ISIL-K) remained a significant terrorist threat in Central and South Asia, and the group retained ambitions to conduct external operations,” said the 16th report of the Secretary-general on the threat posed by ISIL (Da’esh) to international peace and security and the range of United Nations efforts in support of member states in countering the threat. Several UN reports have already said thousands of LET, JEM and Daesh fighters are currently in Afghanistan.
“The UN report would be used by India to present its case during the upcoming meetings and bilateral talks,” officials told this newspaper. “These inputs confirm what India has been cautioning against,” sources added. Meanwhile, UN Security Council members have hailed the significance of the “Delhi Declaration” adopted at a special meeting of the UN Counter-terrorism Committee in India last year, saying it offers a “solid basis” to counter the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes and symbolises the Council’s “shared determination” to address the challenge.