Political Report : The international al Qaeda militant group is trying to be active in Bangladesh, India and Myanmar. To this end, the armed group is reorganizing its regional allies. This warning came in a United Nations report.
Indian media Hindustan Times said in a Thursday (July 27) report that the report was published a few days ago.
According to the report, the 32nd report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the 1267 Daesh (ISIS) and Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the United Nations Security Council was published on July 25. There it was warned about Bangladesh, Indian Jammu and Kashmir and Myanmar.
Basically, the observation of the UN Member States regarding the current activities of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations is highlighted in this report.
Al Qaeda is now organizing its Indian subcontinent affiliate, AQIS (Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent), to expand operations into Bangladesh, Indian Jammu and Kashmir, and Myanmar, at the discretion of a member state.
The group still has between 30 and 60 members in Afghanistan, the main base of al-Qaeda, and the number of its fighters is believed to be 400. On the other hand, the report indicates that the number of family members and supporters may reach 2,000.
According to the report, there are approximately 200 al-Qaeda fighters in the Indian subcontinent. And their leader, Osama Mahmoud. The report stated that some member states considered Saif al-Adel, the successor to Ayman al-Zawahiri, as the leader of al-Qaeda, and indicated that he was still in Iran.
In addition, another militant group active in Afghanistan, ISIS, is now described as the greatest threat to Afghan territory and the wider region in the UN report. It is also believed that 4,000 to 6,000 ISIS members, including family members, are in Afghanistan.
Sanaullah Ghaffari is seen as the most ambitious of ISIS leaders and one of the member states said Ghaffari was killed in Afghanistan last June, but that has not yet been confirmed, according to the report.
The UN report also stated that Afghanistan remains an important bastion of terrorism globally, with about 20 terrorist groups currently operating in the country. According to the assessment of one of the member states, the aim of these terrorist groups is to spread their influence throughout the region and build a quasi-state theocratic entity.
According to the report, the relationship between the Taliban and the Al Qaeda militant group is still very close and sympathetic. The Taliban does not allow Afghan soil to be used for terrorist purposes; In most cases, al Qaeda is operating covertly in Afghanistan to promote such things.
While al-Qaeda’s ability to carry out large-scale terrorist attacks has diminished, the report says, it has a strong desire to carry out such attacks. In this scenario, the armed group uses Afghanistan as a logistical hub to recruit and mobilize new fighters for an ideological and covert reorganization.