TALIBAN ACCUSE TAJIKISTAN OF INTERFERING IN AFGHANISTAN’S INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Sun 26 September 2021:

Tajikistan is interfering in the internal affairs of Afghanistan, Abdul Ghani Baradar, the acting deputy head of the Afghan government formed by the Taliban, said on Sunday.

“Tajikistan interferes in our affairs, for every action there is a reaction,” Ghani Baradar said in an interview with al Jazeera tv channel.

A day earlier, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter that the movement had sent thousands of fighters to the Afghan province of Takhar, which borders Tajikistan. According to Mujahid, this was needed to counter security threats.

تخار کې د اسلامي امارت د منصوري لښکر لسګونه تنه ځانګړي ځواکونه د امنیتي او نورو احتمالي ګواښونو د له منځه وړلو په هدف ځای په ځای شول.

ده ها تن از نیروهای خاص لشکر منصوری امارت اسلامی به هدف از بین بردن تهدید های احتمالی امنیتی و موانع دیگر جای به جای شدند. pic.twitter.com/X5Z2smw1zQ

— Zabihullah (..ذبـــــیح الله م ) (@Zabehulah_M33) September 25, 2021

Earlier this month, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon suggested creating “a security belt” around Afghanistan to prevent the potential expansion of terrorist groups.

Rahmon was speaking at a joint summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which was focused on the recent developments in Afghanistan.

Afghan Resistance Mulls Formation of Government in Exile

The leaders of Afghanistan’s armed resistance against the Taliban have left the country and are regrouping with former senior figures of the toppled Ghani administration with the aim of forming a government in exile.

Politicians including ministers and parliamentary deputies of the deposed government, as well as senior military figures, are in neighboring Tajikistan, seeking financial and military support to bolster a formal opposition to the extremists who took control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, former officials living abroad said.

Ahmad Massoud, son of a famed resistance leader, and former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh, who both led a short-lived resistance in the Panjshir Valley northeast of Kabul, fled across the border in recent weeks after their efforts to hold out against the Taliban were crushed.

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