ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday categorically rejected allegations made by the Afghan Taliban regime linking Pakistani security forces and intelligence agencies to alleged violence in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province, calling the claims “frivolous, baseless and devoid of any truth”.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued a fact-check statement rejecting the Taliban’s accusations, including allegations that Pakistani agencies had recruited or trained former Afghan security personnel or facilitated Daesh or any other terrorist group operating in Afghanistan.”Not a shred of evidence has been produced to substantiate Pakistan’s involvement — no identities, documents, communications, forensic evidence or independent verification,” the statement said.The fact-check came in response to a statement issued by the Afghan Taliban’s Ministry of Defence, which claimed that several groups affiliated with Daesh, along with what it called elements of subversion, had crossed the Durand Line into the Kamdesh district of Nuristan with the support of Pakistani militias.
The Taliban claimed their security forces had killed 28 of the alleged infiltrators and captured 32 others alive, while the rest fled back across the Durand Line.
Meanwhile, the ministry also dismissed a video circulating on social media to support the claims, saying it merely showed a few unarmed individuals who were not even properly dressed or equipped, in what appeared to be a pre-planned video shoot by an Afghan Taliban regime “well known for lies and fabricated claims.”
