Taliban Turning Afghanistan Into Another Waziristan by Relocating Terrorists, Says NRF

The National Resistance Front (NRF) said that as part of an agreement with Pakistan and other countries, the Taliban wants to turn Afghanistan into another Waziristan by relocating "thousands of terrorists" to the north of the country.

NRF added that the Taliban’s relocation efforts will be the last strike to the peaceful coexistence of ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

In a statement on Thursday, NRF said, “These actions of the Taliban have alarmed neighbouring countries and the region and will destabilise Central Asia, Russia, Iran, and China."

According to NRF, these relocations to the border regions of North-East, North, and West of Afghanistan are destabilising the region and disrupting the political, social, and economic order in the regional countries.

In the statement, NRF stressed that the Taliban has no support base among the people, and therefore, the group has been relocating its allies such as the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Jamaat-e-Islami Ansarullah, ISIS, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Jaish Mohammad, and several other groups led by Al-Qaeda and ISI" to northern Afghanistan to transform the geopolitics of the region.

The National Resistance Front emphasised that resistance against the Taliban is necessary to "prevent the relocation of terrorists and end the occupation" of Afghanistan.

NRF has urged the international community, especially regional countries, to fulfil their responsibility towards Afghanistan and stop engagement with the Taliban.

Earlier, many local sources reported that dozens of families have been transferred to Takhar province from border areas and Pakistan in recent days. Some sources said these were Pakistani citizens, but others said that they were Afghans who had been displaced by war during the previous years.

Last week, the Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed that refugees from North Waziristan region of Pakistan are being transferred to some parts of Afghanistan.

Over the past few days, reports had been published about the agreement between the Taliban and the government of Pakistan regarding the relocation of members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan to northern Afghanistan.

However, this week, the foreign ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation also asked for the prevention of forced ethnic and religious displacement in Afghanistan.