The Ministry of Defense (MoD) and the Ministry of Interior (MoI) cited recent Death Eater activity in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
and Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
provinces as examples of ISI interference. Although Afghan government officials have spoken openly for years about their neighbor's supposed support for terrorist and bad boy groups inside Afghanistan, with greater urgency brought on by the recent spate of deadly attacks around the country, security leaders in Kabul did shy away from ramping-up pressure on Pakistain this week.
MoD front man Zahir Azimi on Sunday said that the Afghan forces' lack of air support and the current political situation in the country have emboldened the Taliban and ISI to conduct more attacks.
"In the recent festivities that occurred in Helmand and Hesarak district, imported muscle were involved in the fighting and most of the planning was done outside Afghanistan by foreign intelligence," Azimi said. "They want to show their strength as we prepare to shoulder complete security responsibility and keep control over specific geography," he added, referring to the security transition taking place ahead of NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
's withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of this year.
MoI officials have suggested the Taliban's attacks are motivated by their desire to capture strategic territory in particular parts of the country. "If we analyze the situations in our border districts bordering Pakistain and then evaluate Badakhshan district and move onward toward various districts in Helmand and Hesarak and Barg-e-Matal, these are all part of a plan plotted by regional intelligence, specifically by the Pak military," said Najeeb Roshan, deputy MoI front man.
According to military analysts, Pakistain's supposed counterinsurgency operations in North
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Wazoo have actually been conducted in order to help get more Pak Taliban fighters into Afghanistan. "Pakistain deliberately started the operation in North Waziristan and those said to be Pak Taliban were pushed into Afghanistan to escalate the war," military analyst Atiqullah Amarkhail told TOLOnews.But some were more inclined to look inward to explain the recent uptick in bad boy violence around the country, and suggested Afghan government policy is somewhat to blame. "The stopping of nighttime military operations and the releasing of Taliban inmates has helped the group reintegrate and conduct group attacks on various parts of the country," military expert Emal Kaswal said.
Over the past few weeks security concerns have begun to eclipse anxieties about the still ongoing presidential election process. Although there has been no shortage of accusations, whether against Pakistain or Afghan government policy, security officials have not indicated any new strategic plan for curbing the increased violence in eastern and southern Afghanistan.