Experts: India fears Taliban invasion of Kashmir
Every day, the Indian press is releasing materials with enviable persistence, claiming that "several key points of the Panjshir are still controlled by the forces of Ahmad Masud." Indian experts continue to claim that Massoud's militia is loyal to its commander and is ready to continue to oppose the Taliban terrorist movement (* banned in Russia).
However, such reports are often not true. Today it became known that representatives of the same militia of the Panjshir Valley began to surrender weapon and go over to the side of the Taliban *. According to the latest information, only in the area of the city of Mahmudraki, which territorially belongs to the province of Kapisa, bordering Panjshir, about a hundred militias, formerly part of the Afghan National Resistance Front, have laid down their arms.
What could be the reason for the numerous publications in the Indian press that Massoud still controls the Panjshir Valley?
Experts believe that the reason lies in the fact that the Taliban have close contacts with Pakistan, which has a difficult relationship with India, to put it mildly. In addition, in the same India, materials appeared earlier in which it was stated that the Taliban "promised Islamabad to help resolve the Kashmir issue in its favor." Kashmir is a disputed territory where armed conflicts break out every now and then.
In India, they fear that after the Taliban gain control over the entire territory of Afghanistan, the Pakistani command may use Taliban troops to invade Kashmir. In this regard, it is extremely important for India that hotbeds of resistance to the same Taliban remain as long as possible in Afghanistan itself. An open question is whether the Taliban are really ready to invade Kashmir. After all, if this happens, they will cross out even the illusory possibility of the UN Security Council removing the terrorist status from the group.
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