Pakistan rejects Afghan Taliban’s Nuristan allegations, with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Sunday issuing a categorical rejection of claims linking Pakistani security forces and intelligence agencies to alleged violence in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province, describing them as “frivolous, baseless and devoid of any truth”.
The fact-check statement came in response to a statement from the Afghan Taliban’s Ministry of Defence, which alleged that several groups affiliated with Daesh, along with what it called elements of subversion, had crossed the Durand Line into the Kamdesh district of Nuristan with the support of Pakistani militias. The Taliban claimed its security forces killed 28 of the alleged infiltrators and captured 32 others alive, while the remainder fled back across the Durand Line.
In its response, the ministry stated that “not a shred of evidence has been produced to substantiate Pakistan’s involvement — no identities, documents, communications, forensic evidence or independent verification.” It also rejected allegations that Pakistani agencies had recruited or trained former Afghan security personnel or facilitated Daesh or any other terrorist group operating in Afghanistan.
The ministry further dismissed a video circulating on social media purporting to support the claims, saying it merely showed a few unarmed individuals who were not even properly dressed or equipped, in what appeared to be a pre-planned video shoot by an Afghan Taliban regime “well known for lies and fabricated claims”. The statement asserted that attempts to manufacture a Pakistani connection could not obscure reality.
It pointed to successive reports by the United Nations and other neutral international organisations documenting the presence and activities of various terrorist groups inside Afghanistan. According to the statement, these groups continue to find sanctuary and a permissive environment for growth on Afghan territory.
“It is particularly ironic for the Afghan Taliban regime to accuse Pakistan of supporting terrorism while terrorist organisations operating from Afghanistan continue to pose a direct threat to Pakistan and regional security,” the statement said.
Pakistan urged the Taliban regime to take credible and verifiable action against terrorist organisations operating from Afghan soil and to fulfil its commitments that Afghan territory would not be used for terrorism against Pakistan or any other country, rather than deflecting responsibility through fabricated accusations. The ministry added that the Taliban’s claims reflected attempts to externalise internal dissent and conceal the regime’s oppression of women, children and minorities.
The sharp exchange underscores continuing tensions between Islamabad and the Afghan Taliban administration over security and cross-border militancy, even as Pakistan maintains that its territory is not being used against Afghanistan.
Source: Geo News