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Pakistan plans to encircle India with a jehadi belt and destabilise peace in Central Asia, a top field comander of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance has claimed.
"Pakistan's strategic goal is to create a belt of Islamic jehad around India, " and disturb peace in Central Asia with assistance from the Taliban, commander of anti-Taliban forces in Panjshir sector, Bismillah Khan, told a Russian daily.
Also, despite US sanctions, Taliban continues to receive arms from Pakistan, Vremya Novostyei quoted him as saying.
Another senior leader of the Northern Alliance, former Interior Minister in the Rabbani Government, Yunis Kanuni said the key to peace in Afghanistan is in the hands of Islamabad as the Taliban militia is a "Pakistani puppet" .
Meanwhile, Russia has warned against establishment of an international terrorist centre on the Taliban-controlled Afghan territory amid media reports about the appointment of Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden as the chief of the Taliban forces and Juma Namangani as his deputy.
"Under the cover of protecting pseudo-religious
values, the Taliban are preparing a base to expand militant extremism and
separatism beyond the borders of the region," the Russian foreign ministry
said in a statement.
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