KABUL (TOLOnews): The Islamic Emirate in response to the detention of Afghan citizens who are accused of involvement in the terrorist attack in Pakistan, said that the details of this detention have not been shared with the current Afghan government.
The Islamic Emirate’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, noted that the crime is a personal matter and therefore this issue should not be linked to Afghanistan.
“It has been repeatedly done in Afghanistan, where we have arrested and killed nationals of Pakistan as followers of Daesh. We cannot claim that Pakistan committed this crime or that the government of Pakistan was involved in this. Anyone who committed an act, it is a personal and individual act,” the spokesman added. Earlier, Pakistani media reported the arrest of 9 suspects in the Dera Ismail Khan suicide attack in this country, citing the Pakistan Counter-Terrorism Department, and added that six of the facilitators in Pakistan are from Afghanistan.
Earlier, Pakistani media reported that the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), arrested nine terrorists and seven facilitators involved in the deadly attack on the compound of security forces in Dera Ismail Khan, of which six terrorists involved in the attack come from Afghanistan.
“The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday arrested nine terrorists including the mastermind and seven facilitators involved in the deadly attack on the compound of security forces in Dera Ismail Khan that left at least 23 soldiers martyred earlier this month. According to the CTD documents available with Geo News, the mastermind involved in the terrorist attack belongs to Daraban area of DI Khan while six terrorists involved in the attack hail from Afghanistan,” the report reads. “These remarks of Pakistan are political, and during the past fifty years, their goal was to implement their strategic plans. Today, when they cannot implement those plans in Afghanistan, they want to distort public opinion by making such statements,” said Mohammad Zalmay Afghanyar, a political analyst. Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in a “Weekly Media Briefing by Spokesperson” said that Islamabad cannot confirm the arrest of TTP members by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
In response to a reporter’s question about the publication of reports about the arrest of 40 members of the TTP in Afghanistan, she added: “We are unable to confirm the existence, scale or effectiveness of any action along those lines.”
“Our issue right now that we are focusing on is the action that the Afghan authorities must take against TTP elements and rein them in so that the terror threat against Pakistan from the Afghan soil is eliminated,” Baloch added.
“Afghanistan’s relations with Pakistan are deteriorating and I think that the main reason is that the internal political dynamics of Pakistan are encouraging the rulers of Pakistan to increase their accusations against Afghanistan,” Wahid Faqiri, a political analyst said. Previously, Pakistani media had reported that Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry had summoned the Islamic Emirate’s charge d’affaires in connection with the recent attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, an issue that the Islamic Emirate had denied.
Mujahid reacts to claims of Afghans involved in Pakistan attacks
