"Pakistan could not check the threats posed by the Taliban branch"

Afghanistan's former adviser on national security, Dr. Hamdullah Mohib, says that Islamabad misjudged the support of the Taliban and failed to understand the threats posed by the Pakistani branches of the group.

More than a year after the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan, former Afghanistan National Security Adviser Dr. Hamdullah Mohib says, "Islamabad grossly misjudged the support of the Taliban, disassociating itself from the Pakistani branches of the group." Failed to understand the dangers posed.' Dr. Hamdullah Mohib, National Security Adviser in Afghanistan from 2018 to 2021, was interviewed by Katie Jensen during her program 'Frankly Speaking', a talk show presented by Arab News. He said, "The Pakistani government has always denied that there is any presence of the Taliban in their country." We knew that the Taliban had a lot of support. They had families, they were hosted in Pakistan, they were mobilized from Pakistan. Therefore, a large part of the blame goes to Pakistan. And I think they are suffering the consequences of supporting the Taliban. Now everything that we warned them against is happening. The Taliban's support to the Pakistani Taliban and other groups is now being fulfilled as we expected. 

According to him, the US, Qatar and Pakistan are all responsible for the collapse of the Afghan Republic and the revival of the Taliban.

The US negotiating directly with the Taliban and excluding the Afghan government meant that the Taliban were in no mood for reconciliation at the time. So I think that's where we can see a big part of the blame for bringing down the Afghan government.

Dr. Hamdullah Mohib said that "I understand that with each passing day, the frustration of the Afghan people is increasing due to the oppression of the Taliban." Dr. Hamdullah Mohib's comments came against the backdrop of mass protests in neighboring Iran, where the killing of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mehsa Amini, by Iran's moral police sparked public protests against oppression of women and ethnic minorities. It became a trigger for anger. Dr. Hamdullah Mohib, who previously served as the Afghan president's deputy chief of staff, said, "The risk here is much greater than in Iran, because the Afghan people have changed, seen many changes in governments." are, and know it can be done.'

While Mohib doesn't expect the protests in Iran to have a direct impact on events in Afghanistan, he believes similar events could unfold on the streets of Kabul and other cities. During the talks in Doha, the Taliban tried to convince the world that they had changed from their previous period of power from 1996 to 2001, in which women and girls were educated under an extreme interpretation of Islam. and was barred from public life, and freedom of speech was largely suppressed. However, upon returning to power, the Taliban regime reimposed many restrictions that again halted two decades of progress in women's rights and the country's institutional development. Dr. Hamdullah Mohib said, "I think the Taliban conducted the negotiations very well." He assured all parties including Qataris, Pakistanis. I think they used the Americans, they used all the parties to their advantage during the negotiations. Then there was a global effort to create space for the Taliban. So, they used that space and I think a lot of countries were fooled by it. 

After the Taliban came to power, they never intended to fulfill their promises. We saw that they were not even able to deliver. Either willingly unable to deliver, or unable to deliver. We believe that they never intended to fulfill the promises they made to the international community and Afghans.