Taliban* government appoints al-Qaeda* members to government positions
KABUL, June 9 - Sangar, Farzam Kazemi. The Taliban promised the international community and neighboring countries to stop cooperation with international and regional terrorist organizations.
Citing his sources in Afghanistan, an Afghan secret service official from the republican time told Sangar website that after coming to power, the Islamic Emirate appointed a number of al-Qaeda members to government positions at the request and suggestion of Aminulhak, a key leader of al-Qaeda.
“Amin ul-Haq is a resident of the Khogyani district of Nangarhar province. Now he is in charge of liaison with security forces - the ministries of defense and internal affairs and the Taliban National Security Directorate. He has opened offices in Kabul and Nangarhar and works for al-Qaeda,” the source said.
The source, citing Abu Yasser, an Iraqi citizen and currently deputy director of an al-Qaeda training center in Nuristan province, said that Amin ul-Haq has been working with the Taliban security forces for two months now and is thus seeking the appointment of members of al-Qaeda to government posts and creates a network for the collection of intelligence information.
“One of the duties of Amin ul-Haq is to cooperate with the military training centers of the Islamic Emirate, which operate in camps or in places where clandestine training takes place. Amin ul-Haq is recruiting military instructors for these centers to train the Taliban in the style of al-Qaeda", the source said.
According to him, a group of al-Qaeda specialists of 15 people are advising Amin ul-Haq so that he can formulate and implement the organization's plans.
“The political and operational task of this team is to ensure that the Taliban do not develop too close ties with the US or Russia and China. Relationships between terrorist organizations in Central Asia and other foreign countries with the Taliban are managed by this team, and they are investing a lot of money in all this work," the source said.
According to him, Amin ul-Haq managed to appoint a number of al-Qaeda commanders to the power and civilian structures of the Taliban due to his connections with the leadership of the Islamic Emirate.
“For example, Qari Sajed, former police chief of Sherzad district, Nangarhar province, was appointed chief of staff of the Nangarhar garrison on January 15, 2022. At the suggestion of Amin ul-Haq, he was appointed by Mullah Yaqub, the Minister of Defense of the Islamic Emirate,” the source said.
Thus, at the suggestion of Amin ul-Haq, a number of other members of Al-Qaeda were also appointed, including Janaga Golnar, commander of the training center of the Mazar-e-Sharif garrison, Qari Idris Mohammadanwar, known as Dangar, deputy governor of Kabul, Mawlawi Pirmuhammad, deputy chief of intelligence of Ghazni province, Mullah Pakhtagul, deputy chief of intelligence of Khost province, Mawlawi Akmal, chief of police of Qarabagh district, Kabul Province, Mawlawi Abdul Wahed, director of intelligence of Khaki Jabbar district, Kabul province, and Mufti Yusuf Jamalzai, chief of police of Nuristan province (in the upper photo).
"All are members of al-Qaeda and are closely associated with Amin ul-Haq" the source said.
On February 29, 2020, when the Taliban signed an agreement with the United States in Doha, the capital of Qatar, they pledged not to cooperate with international and regional terrorist organizations, especially Al-Qaeda.
But Sangar website has credible reports indicating a widespread presence of terrorist organization fighters in Afghanistan, especially in its northern regions. According to these reports, these organizations operate freely in different parts of Afghanistan and are engaged in the establishment of bases. There are various reports of the presence of ISIS*, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan*, Jamaati Ansarullah* and others terrorist organisations militants in the provinces bordering the countries of Central Asia.
Last month, there were two rocket attacks from Afghanistan, one against Uzbekistan and another against Tajikistan, for which ISIS claimed responsibility, but the Taliban did not comment on the incidents.
On the contrary, the group claims that there is no ISIS in Afghanistan and there will be no threat to its neighbors from its territories.
But cooperation between al-Qaeda and the Taliban dates back to 1996. At that time, with the help of large sums of money from Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, who came to Afghanistan under US pressure from Sudan, the Taliban managed to capture key Afghan cities - the capital of Kabul and Jalalabad.
Meanwhile, al-Qaeda was one of the main reasons for the fall of the first Taliban government (1996-2001). Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban, has rejected US and Saudi demands for the extradition of Osama bin Laden. After the al-Qaeda attack on the headquarters of the World Trade Organization in New York, the United States once again demanded that the Taliban extradite him. But Mullah Omar surrendered Afghanistan, but not Osama.
20 years the Taliban and al-Qaeda fought the US and its Western allies in Afghanistan. On August 15, 2021, they took Kabul. On August 30 of the same year, Osama bin Laden's assistant Amin al-Haq arrived in Afghanistan, which marked the beginning of a new chapter in the cooperation between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
* The organization is under UN sanctions or banned due to terrorist activities.
