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- The terrorists behind school shootings supported from Kabul
The terrorists who massacred 132 schoolchildren and 12 teachers in Pakistan, supported by our allies in Kabul, according to experts.
- Afghan intelligence, in cooperation with Indian intelligence, supports Taliban groups in Pakistan, says Helge Lurås, head of the Centre for International and Strategic Analysis (SISA).
- Many will not believe that our allies can do this, but this is not conspiracy theories, he says to NTB.
Lurås stressed that the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), not to be confused with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
- Pakistani Taliban regime in Islamabad as the main enemy, while Afghan Taliban in all the years has been supported by the Pakistani intelligence service (ISI), said Lurås.
- In Kabul spoken about the "good Taliban" and "bad Taliban," he says.
Professor Thomas Johnson at the Naval Postgraduate School in California agrees and emphasizes that the two rebel groups have widely differing objectives.
- Although they were originally allies, they have gone their separate ways, he says to CNN.
In the same way as S-section of ISI stands for support for the Taliban, supported Tehreek-e-Taliban from their own section of the Afghan intelligence service (NDS). They financed paradoxically largely by the United States.
- Afghans have enough tried to keep this business hidden for Americans, but it is clear that some have known about this, says Lurås.
- But we in the West are naive to thousands and easily deceived, and that applies Americans too, he adds.
In October last year got outside world a glimpse of their collaboration, when the Pakistani Taliban leader Mehsud Latif was captured by US forces east in Afghanistan.
Mehsud was accompanied by Afghan security personnel and on the way to a meeting with NDS, and then President Hamid Karzai was furious over his arrest.
Karzai spokesman Aimal Faizi admitted that Afghan intelligence longer had cooperated with Mehsud.
- He is part of an NDS operation, in the same way as other intelligence agencies have similar operations, said Faizi.
Indian intelligence
Afghanistan's newly elected president Ashraf Ghani has made it clear that he wants to improve relations with Pakistan, which he partly selected by visiting Islamabad last month. Nothing indicates that he still has stopped support for Tehreek-e-Taliban.
- This is a regional game, stating Lurås.
Although Afghan intelligence stops support for the Taliban in neighboring, it by no means certain that India will do it, he says.
- India is heavily involved in Afghanistan and has also created a number of consulates east of the country. These consulates are staffed by intelligence personnel, who are in close contact with Pakistani Taliban Lurås.
– Terroristene bak skolemassakre støttes fra Kabul | ABC Nyheter
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