Afghanistan
'ISKP responsible for deadly Kabul blasts is a clever creation of Pakistan's ISI'
A leading newspaper in its opinion piece has described the terror group Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), which is responsible for the recent blasts in Afghanistan's Kabul airport that left over 150 people dead, as a 'clever creation' of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
"As soon as two blasts took place outside the Kabul airport, killing at least 110 people including 13 US servicemen, Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP) came forward to claim the responsibility.
"A commander of the ISKP named Amaq issued a statement on its Telegram channel wherein he claimed that a suicide bomber, Abdul Rahman al-Logari, managed to reach near a group of US soldiers, translators, and collaborators and detonated his explosives," The Armenian Mirror Spectator said in its opinion piece.
"Strikingly, the statement also claimed that members of the Taliban were also amongst its casualties. Experts believe that the special mention of Taliban in the video was a part of the rhetoric that is being tried to be created in a post-US withdrawal Afghanistan," read the newspaper.
"Global watchdogs have previously highlighted that ISKP, which is active in Afghanistan and claims to be a unit of ISIS [the Islamic State], has nothing to do with the original ISIS operating elsewhere in the world. In fact, ISKP is a clever ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence, of Pakistan] creation to help in ensuring deniability to the Pakistani intelligence agency as Pakistan was being blamed for whatever was being done by the Taliban," the opinion piece said.
According to the newspaper's opinion piece, experts believe that Pakistan created ISKP by planting Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives in leadership positions in the outfit.
"The projection of ISKP as an independent player in Afghanistan against the Taliban also helped Pakistan to successfully push a narrative that Taliban can be a reliable partner to the US and the West in fighting international terrorist groups in Afghanistan. On the other hand, ISKP has a specific purpose to Pakistan’s ISI. It could be used to eliminate any Taliban commander who wasn’t falling in line," read the opinion piece.
"The Pakistani project in Afghanistan has nearly succeeded with one Pakistani proxy Taliban becoming a ‘good boy’ and another Pakistan proxy ISKP becoming a ‘bad boy’. The latest attack on Kabul airport is indicative of the fact that ISI’s operation has been launched in full swing," it said.
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