Kabul Rejects Claims India Plots Attacks On Pakistan From Afghanistan

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پنجشنبه 21 اسد 1395 ساعت 12:48 آخرین به روز رسانی در پنجشنبه 21 اسد 1395 ساعت 12:51 نوشته شده توسط TOLOnews.com

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Kabul this week rejected claims that terrorist attacks on Pakistan emanate from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan government said that no country can use Afghanistan territory against any country, but that Pakistan has never been honest with Afghanistan.

Pakistan, the country which has been suspected on many occasions of not being honest in its fight against insurgents, recently claimed that India organizes terror attacks on Pakistan from Afghanistan.

Omid Misam, deputy spokesman for the Afghan CEO, in response to this claim said: "Pakistan and Afghanistan are both victims of terrorism. Afghan government many times asked Pakistan to stand on the side of the Afghan government and fight the insurgents in the region honestly.

Leaders of some political parties have meanwhile said that Pakistan is afraid of the Afghan-India friendship.

"Afghanistan must choose its friends itself, no one can tell Afghanistan which country it should have a friendship with and which one it can't (be friends with)", said Anwar Alhaq Ahadi, Director of Afghan-e-Nawin Party.

Political analysts believe that Pakistan is suffering from its own political mistakes.

"Anyone who does the wrong thing will see its results. Unfortunately once again Pakistan's terrorist activities have resulted in its own suffering", said Sahrif Hanifi, a political analyst.

This comes after reports emerged this week that top military commanders reportedly believe the terrorist threat in Pakistan is transforming because of a growing nexus between hostile actors in the neighborhood and 'facilitators' within the country.

Pakistan's Dawn news reports that military commanders believe a network within the country is facilitating the external enemy.

Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif told his commanders that the Quetta attack was an attempt to undermine the successes of operation Zarb-i-Azb, which is in its final phase.

He had said on Monday that the target of the attack was the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

"By adopting a whole of nation approach, the armed forces would not allow anyone to reverse our gains against terrorism," the army chief added.

At a conference this week, generals were told that the threat was emanating from Afghan soil, which was being managed by Indian intelligence agencies, reported Dawn.

However, at the same time there was an acknowledgment that a network of 'facilitators' within the country provided an enabling environment for the external enemy.

During his visit to Quetta after the suicide attack on Civil Hospital on Monday, Raheel ordered intensification of the already under way combing operations against terrorist groups and their sleeper cells.

He further directed expansion in the scope and spread of the operations.

"The military and intelligence agencies have now been mandated to go after the terrorists anywhere in the country, ... wherever there is a clue," a security source said.