EXCLUSIVE | Classified Afghanistan Data in Pakistan Hands? 3 Planes Fly Back With ‘Bags of Documents’
day after Pakistan announced economic plans for Afghanistan with an intention to regulate the Afghan economy, it’s now reportedly also taken the country’s important data within the sort of classified documents.
This development comes whilst the Taliban cancelled its plans to inaugurate the newly-appointed interim government on 9/11 – the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks within the US. The interim government was announced on September 7.
According to sources, three C170 planes that came with humanitarian aid for Kabul on Thursday went back with bags filled with documents.
A source working with former national security adviser told CNN-News18 that these were classified documents taken by Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The documents are mainly NDS classified documents, hard disks and other digital records.
Top sources said the info are going to be deciphered by ISI for its own use, which could pose a serious security threat. this may also make the Taliban government hooked in to Pakistan, sources added.
Sources further said the info was live because the previous Afghanistan government didn’t anticipate a takeover like the one unleashed by the Taliban. The military unit , however, also didn’t have any control over these documents as employees responsible of the info had not returned to figure , sources added.
The movement of documents was coordinated by Pakistan’s Afghanistan ambassador Mansoor Ahmed, sources said.
Pakistan’s quest to handhold the new Taliban regime is reflected within the country’s presence within the Afghan army also because the intelligence.
The neighbouring countries have also decided to conduct bilateral trade Pakistani rupees. Earlier, the Taliban bilateral trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan was in US dollar, and therefore the Afghan currency was powerful. Through this move, Pakistan’s currency will have a hold over Afghan traders and therefore the businessmen .
A few days ago, ISI chief Hamid Faiz was also in Kabul as Pakistan was trying to find a backdoor entry into the new Taliban regime. The aim was to urge the Haqqanis within the running to revamp the Afghan army, which is in compete disarray after the Taliban takeover. The ISI is considered being a patron of the Haqqani network, which happens to be a UN-and US-designated terror group. Sirajuddin Haqqani, who headed the scary Haqqani network, has been appointed to the key post of interior minister.
