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On October 8, 2024, the pro-Afghan Taliban media outlet Hindukush released a short video of a Dari-speaking Afghan and admitting that he was linked to a plot hatched by the Pakistani military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to cause rebellion against the Taliban in Badakhshan province.
According to the transcript, a translation of which is given below, three colonels of the Pakistani army held a meeting in Islamabad at which they planned to stir unrest in Wakhan corridor, which links Afghanistan to China.
Following is a translation of the Dari-language statement:
"My name is Azimullah Farooqi, [I am also] known as Rasikh; my father's name is Faizullah and my grandfather's name is Safar Muhammad. Originally, I am from Orin village, Yeftal-e-Payan district, Badakhshan province. Currently, I live in the Yunus Abad area of the sixth security zone of Taluqan city, the center of Takhar province.
"I was introduced to Syed Raza Hashmi through Abdul Yaqeen. Syed Raza Hashmi has been working with Pakistan's ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] for seven years. Syed Reza Hashmi is a resident of Kishm Tagab district of Badakhshan province. He is the head of the Afghanistan Movement for Liberation and Justice.
"Syed Raza Hashmi sent me a visa and told me to come to Pakistan. I attended a meeting at the Afghan House Hotel in Islamabad. Colonels from Pakistan's intelligence service and a number of senior officials of the former government of Afghanistan were present at this meeting. Col. Khalid, Col. Shahid and Col. Liaquat Ali Pasha – the colonels of the ISI of Pakistan – were present at this meeting. Their job was related to Afghanistan.
"In this meeting, Syed Raza Hashmi gave some documents to the Pakistani colonels, in which many proposals were explained in this plan, the most important of which was the establishment of a headquarters in Islamabad and a military base in Chitral.
"Another proposal was to open three ways from the territory of Pakistan to the three provinces of Afghanistan – Badakhshan, Kunar, and Nuristan – in order to go to Afghanistan via these three routes... and start a rebellion against the Islamic Emirate. The request of the Pakistani colonels was that you should first create insecurity in Afghanistan, especially in the Wakhan [corridor link to China] in Badakhshan.
"After this meeting, Syed Raza Hashmi told me to go to Afghanistan, organize the former soldiers and the disaffected Taliban. When I came to Afghanistan, I met many people, and many people declared their support for us. I sent a letter to the president of Tajikistan; this letter was written by Hashmi. The letter requested that Tajikistan support Syed Reza Hashmi. As a whole, Tajikistan and Pakistan want unrest in Afghanistan, and one of their demands is to destroy the interests of the region in Afghanistan."
Source: X.com, October 8, 2024.
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