Haqqani Wants Kingmaker Role, Pits Mullah Yaqoob As Taliban’s Head, Says UN Report

Nazary addressed the Canadian Parliament's Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee.

This NRF official said that Afghanistan will face a power vacuum due to Taliban’s disintegration and inability to provide security and stability.

On Thursday, in response to the question of the Canadian members of parliament over NRF’s expectations from Canada, Nazary said that the front seeks political and moral support from the international community and other countries like Canada.

He also explained that the NRF has been part of a political process in Vienna to achieve unity and consensus among the Taliban opposition groups to form a democratic alternative.

Ali Maisam Nazary also asked for the establishment of a “better mechanism” for international aid to prevent the Taliban’s exploitation of the humanitarian assistance.

Nazary spoke about the international community’s sanctions as a lever of pressure on the Taliban and said that sanctions can accelerate the collapse of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

He pointed to Amnesty International’s recent report about the Taliban’s violation of human rights and explained that the Taliban committed war crimes in different areas of Afghanistan against the Afghan civilians.

He also criticised that the allocation of aid alone cannot solve the current humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and emphasised on the need to create a transparent mechanism to prevent the Taliban from accessing humanitarian financial resources in Afghanistan.

NRF has reacted to Tuesday’s attack in which Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the Taliban’s deputy governor in Badakhshan was killed in Faizabad city. On Thursday, another explosion targeted the funeral ceremony of the deputy governor in Faizabad city, in which Safiullah Samim, a senior Taliban commander, and 11 civilians were killed and 30 others were injured.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack on Ahmadi, but no group has yet claimed responsibility for the explosion that targeted the funeral ceremony.

NRF, however, has expressed sympathy with the families of the civilian victims who died in the recent explosions in Badakhshan and has said that suicide attacks and explosions in mosques are the legacy of the Taliban.

In a statement, NRF emphasised that the Taliban’s claim to provide stability in Afghanistan is a lie to deceive the international community and regional players.

Imankulov suggested to secretaries of the security council of the CSTO member states to focus on the situation of Afghanistan.

Kyrgyz media reported on Friday that in this meeting, the challenges and threats facing the Collective Security Treaty Organisation and the necessary measures to prevent them have been discussed.

The CSTO senior security officials agreed to expand cooperation in the framework of CSTO in order to increase the treaty’s political-military effectiveness in the region.

The Committee of Secretaries of the Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation too approved a new regulation on regional counterterrorism operations.

Earlier, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation had expressed concerns about the threats emanating from Afghanistan.

“We pulled back the India-based diplomats and staff after the Taliban took control of Kabul. At that time we had legitimate security concerns. With the passage of time, we have sent back a technical team to the Embassy. Their job is essentially to monitor the situation and to see how we can support the Afghan people,” Jaishankar said.

He added that right now India is not stressing on the “political issues” there and instead on the humanitarian crisis prevailing in the country as it had faced a vaccine shortage, wheat shortage and even medicine shortage recently.

Commenting on India's relationship with the Taliban, Jaishankar said that our priority is to help the Afghan people because "we have historical relations with the people of Afghanistan”.

India had deployed a technical team at their embassy in Kabul in June this year, however, their stance on recognition of the Taliban still remains the same.

Mohammad Nabi Mullahworor, a Taliban military official, said that the purpose of these exercises was to for more “military experience" of the Taliban forces.

Mullahworor stressed that these trainings have been conducted by “professional” trainers in Zaranj city of Nimroz province.

These trainings are conducted by the Taliban as there was a border skirmish that took place between Iranian and Taliban border guards in Nimroz province and Iranian border guards used heavy weapons and artillery in attacking Taliban positions.

Nimroz, which is on the border with Iran, has witnessed several armed clashes between the Taliban and Iran.