A senior official claimed that the al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has maintained close ties with the terrorist outfit Taliban despite the Taliban’s assurance to the US to cut ties with the group, said a senior UN official.
During a webinar as quoted by Tolo News, he said “Senior figures remain in Afghanistan, as well as hundreds of armed operatives,” the coordinator of the United Nations monitoring team for Daesh, al-Qaida and the Taliban, Edmund Fitton-Brown. Tolo News further reported that the Taliban Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri remains close to the Taliban during the peace negotiations with the US. “The Taliban regularly consulted with al-Qaeda during the negotiations with the United States and they offered informal guarantees that would honor their historic ties with al-Qaeda.” However, Taliban rejected the claims and said that “certain intelligence groups” are attempting to disrupt peace in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile,External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar warned that terrorism in Pakistan is publicly acknowledged by their own government. In an online event hosted by the Asia Society, He said, " “Terrorism from Pakistan continues and terrorism from Pakistan remains publicly acknowledged by their government as a policy that they are justifying. (It) makes it very hard to conduct normal relations with them.”
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