Taliban leaders keen to assess India’s stance towards group
3 min readBoth Sher Mohammed Abbas Stanekzai, deputy head of the Taliban political office in Qatar, and Haqqani, a member of the group negotiation team, has also become part of the outreach of India during the past week.
When the Taliban moved closer to the formation of government in Afghanistan, senior leaders expelled Mohammed Abbas Stanekzai and Anas Haqqani had been involved in secret efforts to measure thinking in groups.
Both Stanekzai, deputy head of the Taliban political office in Qatar, and Haqqani, a member of the group negotiation team, has also become part of an outreach of India during the past week. This has resulted in them seen as the main contact for each Taliban contact with India in the coming days.
Haqqani, the youngest son of the founder of the Haqqani Jalaluddin Haqqani network and Deputy Brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, has made contact with intermediaries in Kabul and New Delhi to assess the latest thoughts on the Indian side of the Taliban, people who are familiar with these developments with the terms of anonymity.
During this contact, Haqqani shows a clearer picture of all types of formal involvement with India will only appear at the end of September, the people said. This is because the direct task of the Taliban forms a government and consolidates its position in Afghanistan.
Haqqani also indicates during this contact that if the Indian has a condition for involvement with the Taliban, the group will also have certain conditions, said people.
Angkur from Stanekzai, who trained for several years at the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in Dehradun in the early 1980s, did not cause a new surprise in New Delhi as an outreach of Haqqani, whose family still headed the Haqqani network, related to the Haqqani network, related to Some of the braveest attacks on Indian interests in Afghanistan.
Former Amar Amar Sinha, who served as an Indian envoy in Kabul, said the Haqqani network would have a “special problem” in life down the old connection with Pakistan.
“We can listen to this charm of offensive but we also have to test them. There is credible evidence connecting the Hazqqani network to attack Indian interests,” he said.
The famous Haqqani network was explained in 2011 by Admiral Mike Mullen, then the Chair of the US Joint Chief of Staff, as “the actual intelligence arm of the Pakistan service”. The latest report has suggested that the Haqqani network will try to control intelligence settings and interior ministries and defense in new settings.
Indian officials, Afghanistan and the US have said for years that there is strong evidence that the Haqqani network is behind the July 2008 suicide car bombing at the Indian Embassy gate in Kabul, which resulted in the death of nearly 60 people, including the defense. Brig Ravi Datt Mehta and Diplomat V Venkateswara Rao.
There are also Haqqani network reports that work with Lashkar-e-Taiba (leave) fighters in Afghanistan.
Both Stanekzai and Haqqani in the past few days made public comments that seemed to be intended to ease Indian concerns about the Taliban and their relationship with the Pakistani military establishment.
In a video statement issued last week, Stanekzai said the Taliban wanted to continue the political, economic, and culture of Afghanistan culture with India.
Haqqani, in an interview with a newspaper channel, even stepped as far as saying “unlike the Haqqani network, but only the Emirates” from the Taliban, who wanted good and positive relations with all countries, including India. He added that even though the Indian government has supported the Taliban opponents in Afghanistan for 20 years, the group did not want to remember the past because he wanted good relations with all nations.