The Pakistani government needs the Taliban. Pakistan considers Afghanistan the strategic depth of Pakistan and the best situation for Pakistan in terms of promoting its interests is for Afghanistan to function as a vassal state.
The Taliban and the governments of Pakistan have ideological sympathies. Pakistani terrorist groups e.g., Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) assured Mullah Yaqoob, the Taliban’s deputy leader, of their full support in recruiting several jihadists for his group.
There are three large new camps in the Tera Agency area of Pakistan to recruit fighters who would fight on the side of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Pakistani military is training about 5,000 Taliban fighters in LeT camps in Hyderabad, Punjab.
Pakistani terrorist organizations such as
- Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
- LeT
- JeM
- Lashkar-e-Islam
- Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JuA)
- Tanzim-ul-Badr
- Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Involved in battles in eastern provinces such as Kunar, Nuristan, and Nagarhar, the Haggani network fights in Ghazni, Logar, Host, Paktia, Pawzina, Zambul, Kandahar and Helzand province.
LeT has deployed about 7,200 jihadists in eastern Afghanistan. The group’s military commander, Amer Shakib, has settled in Kunar province.
About 300 fighters from LeT, JeM, Jentim-al-Badr and other radical Pakistani groups joined three separate teams in Achin, Nazian and Bor Bada.
800 jihadists have been sent to the Taliban military commission, of which 600 will be deployed in eastern and northern provinces.
The Pakistani government denies that Pakistani jihadists are fighting in Afghanistan, but Pakistan is taking the dead bodies of its citizens from the Chaman-Spin Boldak and Torkhum borders.
