(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
India has told the UN Security Council that there is a
significant increase in ISIL-K presence in Afghanistan, as it
warned that linkages between proscribed outfits such as
Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed and provocative
statements by other terror groups pose a direct threat to the
region's peace and stability.
“As we have repeatedly stated at the Security Council, India has
direct stakes in ensuring the return of peace and stability, given
our position as a contiguous neighbour and long-standing partner of
Afghanistan, as well as our strong historical and civilisational
linkages to the Afghan people,” India's Permanent Representative to
the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj said.
Speaking at the UNSC briefing on Afghanistan on Monday, Kamboj
underlined that on terrorism, the recent findings of the 1988
Sanctions Committee's Analytical Support and the Sanctions
Monitoring Team Report indicated that the current authorities in
Afghanistan needed to take much stronger action to fulfil their
anti-terrorism commitments.
“There is a significant increase in the presence of ISIL-K (The
Islamic State-Khorasan Province) in the country and their capacity
to carry out attacks. ISIL-K, with its base reportedly in
Afghanistan, continues to issue threats of terrorist attacks on
other countries,” she said.
Kamboj told the Council that the series of attacks at religious
places of the minority community, including the recent attack at
the Sikh gurdwara on June 18 in Kabul followed by another bomb
explosion near the same gurdwara on July 27, is“hugely
alarming”.
“The linkages between groups listed by the UN Security Council
such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed as well as
provocative statements made by other terrorist groups operating out
of Afghanistan pose a direct threat to the peace and stability of
the region,' she said.
In her address, Kamboj stressed the need to see concrete
progress in ensuring that“such proscribed terrorists, entities, or
their aliases do not get any support, tacit or direct, either from
Afghan soil or from the terror sanctuaries based in the
region”.
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