The Biden administration’s Machiavellian approach in white washing the Taliban and call it a separate entity from Haqqani network shows the desperation folks to exit Afghanistan at regardless of the cost. State Department spokesperson Ned Price may be a spinmeister for the Biden administration, but his statement that the Taliban and Haqqani network are separate entities shows his shallow knowledge of jihadists in Af-Pak region. the elemental rule of the sport is that there are not any good terrorists and political Islam may be a thanks to seize power not sermon the believers.
While one can understand the rationale behind Ned Price’s lie, but if this is often the understanding of the State Department then the war against terrorism globally is doomed. The rather feckless administration of Joe Biden may now cover for sharing list of yank evacuees and Special Immigrant Visa holders by drawing this unheard off distinction, but everyone knows that Mullah Omar , the one-eyed founding father of the Taliban, was radicalised in Darul Uloom Haqqania in Khyber-Paktunkhwa, from which the Haqqani network derives its name. The Haqqani network may be a jihad group incorporated in Pakistan with two of its members, Sirajuddin Haqqani, deputy leader of Taliban, and Khalil Haqqani, the Taliban emissary, carry USD 15 million in reward on their head. Another relative Anas Haqqani is at the middle of negotiations among the varied factions of Taliban as also with the Panjshiri resistance. Fact is that Kabul is in check of over 6,000 murderous cadre of Haqqani network with Mullah Yaqoob, son of Mullah Omar , playing the second fiddle.
While there could also be several ideological fault-lines among the varied jihadists groups spawned in Pakistan, there’s unity among these terrorists when the target is that the democratic world. Puritan Islamists describe of these terrorist groups as “Takfirs” as they need no qualms in killing Sunnis what to speak of Shia Kaffirs in pursuance of their political objectives. therefore the Haqqani network’s logistics support is employed by Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) to mount attack on Indian embassy in Kabul even as the so-called Islamic State of Khorasan is employed by Pakistani deep state to focus on Indians in Afghanistan. The Jaish-e-Mohammed under the leadership of Mufti Rauf Azhar operates on each side of Pakistani border. It fought the US led coalition forces along side the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, while its is a component of coaching camps with Haqqani network across the Khyber Pass . If Ned Price has any difficulty in understanding this, then they ought to ask UK intelligence, to whom the Americans outsourced the whole Afghan policy thanks to their legacy relationship with Rawalpindi.
Although for Biden administration it really doesn’t interest determine the umbilical relations between Haqqani etwork and therefore the refore the Taliban after they exit Kabul but the graveyard that’s Afghanistan has surely buried another empire after British and the Soviets. Only time will tell whether US loses power the Soviet way after the 1979 withdrawal (it is named de-induction in military jingo) from Afghanistan or rise once more after the 1976 Saigon withdrawal. Either way things is bleak.