The war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq seems to be shifting to South and Central Asia as because the jihadists terrorist group has been stepping up attacks in Afghanistan while losing territory in its self-proclaimed caliphate in Baghdad and Damascus.
Fighting between ISIS,the Taliban and government forces and allied militias has displaced afghan civilians that are now seeking refuge in Europe.
Afghanistan had been earlier a theatre of war between government, Talibans and various warlords but now the situation is getting complicated with the presence of 5000 Islamic State fighters in the country.
With the governments of Afghanistan, India and Iran undertaking development projects and works like Chabahar and silk routes to boost the economic activity in the region, the ISIS fighters are actively targeting Shias and Hazaras to create sectarian violence which is being seen as an attempt to “divide the nation” and “to ignite civil war”.
In 2015, Islamic State and Taliban declared jihad on each other after ISIS chief Abu Bakr Baghdadi called Taliban leader Mullah Omar “a fool and an illiterate warlord”. Thereafter ISIS established “emirate of Khorasan” on the territories of India,Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
The main difference between the two is that whereas Taliban desire to have its rule and impose sharia law in Afghanistan while ISIS is a global jihadist group which declared war against Shia-Zionst-Crusader alliance and both are vying fiercely for leadership in Afghanistan.In this context Taliban have recently overrun Kunduz which is still under their control
As the National Investigation Agency is busy identifying and arresting ISIS men in India, intelligence services of India, Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates are in search of a kerala men Sajeer Mangalachari Abdullah who is the main ISIS recruiter in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan with capital at Jalalabad.
Abdullah facilitated the travel of 21 Kerala new recruits to Nangarhar.
Russian Foreign Ministry 's director of the second Asian Department in Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said “The rise of Daesh in Afghanistan is a concern for Russia because it has far reaching geopolitical consequences for Russian safety.”
The ISIS was infact created and then facilitated and sponsored by western agencies to serve a useful purpose in Syria and Iraq and Turkish intelligence agency (MIT) have been facilitating ISIS fighters crossing the border into Syria as well as supporting terrorists in Xingjiang province of China.
In October 2014, US vice president Joe Biden accused America's Sunni allies in the Middle East of supporting militant extremists in Syria.
Joe Biden said in "Our allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria The Turks were great friends and the Saudis ,the Emirates what are they doing They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad -except that the people who were being supplied were al Nusra al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from the other parts of the world.”
Even former Afghan President Hamid Karzai agreed that ISIS could not have expanded into Afghanistan "without a foreign hand, without foreign backing."
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