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KABUL Hundreds of foreign militants are fleeing a months-long Pakistani military offensive and seeking sanctuary in Afghanistan, bolstering the ranks of Taliban factions and triggering one of the bloodiest starts to the spring fighting season in years, according to Afghan officials and analysts.
The growing influence of the foreign fighters, officials said, was evident over the weekend in the northeastern province of Badakhshan, where a few hundred Taliban fighters overran Afghan army posts, killing 18 soldiers and wounding 10. Eight of the soldiers were beheaded a first by the Taliban in this region before the insurgents vanished into the mountains with seized weapons.
The foreign Taliban fighters beheaded the soldiers, not the local Taliban, said Ahmad Nawid Froutan, a spokesman for the provincial governor. In the past, the local Taliban have never committed such brutality.
The fresh wave of foreigners, with likely ties to al-Qaeda and the ultra-violent Pakistani branch of the Taliban, has added a potential new dimension to the Afghan conflict, threatening more instability in the first year after the United States officially declared its longest war over. With most American and international forces gone, the foreign fighters will further test the already beleaguered Afghan security forces as they battle to fill the military gap.
In the political realm, the cross-border influx is triggering anger among Afghan lawmakers and powerbrokers, potentially tainting President Ashraf Ghanis ongoing efforts to improve relations with neighboring Pakistan and gain their assistance in facilitating peace talks with the Taliban.
Afghans have long accused Pakistan of meddling in their affairs and of using their military and intelligence services to back the Taliban. Even with Ghanis overtures, suspicion of Pakistan remains deep. Both Kabul and Washington have been pressing Islamabad to target the militant havens in its northwestern tribal regions, bordering Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, the anger was palpable in the Afghan parliament. In a televised session, lawmakers railed at top police and military commanders for their failure to prevent the Taliban from brutally targeting their soldiers. Some believed that the foreign fighters were aligned with the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, underscoring a prevailing fear here of the militant group, whose base is in Syria and Iraq.
Taliban and Daesh havent got fighter jets or choppers, they havent got heavy artillery and bulletproof military trucks, declared one lawmaker. But they are still able to attack Afghan security forces and behead them. It clearly shows that you guys are not doing your duties properly, and so you should resign.
Their outcry came minutes after Interior Minister Noor-ul-Haq Ulumi informed them that 11 Afghan provinces face high security threats, while another nine face medium-level threats. He placed the blame squarely on Pakistans offensive in its North Waziristan region that he said was pushing the insurgents to enter Afghanistan. The foreigners are behind the recent insecurity in the country, Ulumi told the lawmakers.
In June 2014, the Pakistanis launched their long-promised military offensive in North Waziristan and other border zones. The region is part of the tribal areas where the leadership of the Taliban and al-Qaeda sought sanctuary after the U.S.-led intervention in 2001 that toppled the Taliban regime after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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Officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan held talks Tuesday on an agreement that would boost bilateral commerce and lower the cost of trading items between the neighboring countries.
A Pakistani delegation led by Trade Minister Khurrum Dastagir visited Kabul for the negotiations.
Pakistan's Minister of State for Education and Narcotics Control, Muhammad Balighur Rehman, told parliament that Pakistani officials shared a draft of the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with their Afghan counterparts. He said both countries were also establishing a joint business council.
Ikram Hoti, an Islamabad-based expert on Afghan-Pakistani economic issues, told VOA's Deewa Radio that trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan generally incurred high transportation costs and that the proposed agreement would reduce the cost of the traded goods.
He said fruits were one of Afghanistan's most exported items, noting the agreement would give Afghan traders the opportunity to explore other Pakistani markets.
Last year, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani vowed to double annual trade with Pakistan to $5 billion.
Separately, Alyssa Ayres, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state and now a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Deewa that India needed to play a greater role in Afghan civilian security in the coming years, as the war-torn nation underwent a critical rebuilding phase.
"The international approach to Afghanistan is to also promote the integration of Afghanistan across the region in better economic, communication and transportation kinds of activities," Ayres said. She noted that for Afghanistan, this is also a means to "integrate itself [into] all regional diplomatic forums," said Ayres.
According to Afghan officials, India holds a very important position in Afghan foreign policy especially in terms of an economic partnership.
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In this Sunday, April 12, 2015 photo, Ismail Khan, long dominant figure in Afghanistans western province of Herat, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Herat city, west of capital Kabul. Afghanistan could face a war with the Islamic State group if the government does not resolve internal differences and improve the security situation, one of the countrys most powerful warlords warned in an interview with the AP. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)(The Associated Press)
In this Sunday, April 12, 2015 photo, An Afghan National Army soldier searches a civilian on a road in Herat city, west of capital Kabul. Afghanistan could face a war with the Islamic State group if the government does not resolve internal differences and improve the security situation, one of the countrys most powerful warlords warned in an interview with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)(The Associated Press)
In this Sunday, April 12, 2015 photo, Ismail Khan, long dominant figure in Afghanistans western province of Herat, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Herat city, west of capital Kabul. Afghanistan could face a war with the Islamic State group if the government does not resolve internal differences and improve the security situation, one of the countrys most powerful warlords warned in an interview with the AP. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)(The Associated Press)
In this Sunday, April 12, 2015 photo, Afghan National Army soldiers patrol a road in Herat city, west of capital Kabul. Afghanistan could face a war with the Islamic State group if the government does not resolve internal differences and improve the security situation, one of the countrys most powerful warlords warned in an interview with The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)(The Associated Press)
In this Sunday, April 12, 2015 photo, Ismail Khan, long dominant figure in Afghanistans western province of Herat, waits ahead of an interview with The Associated Press in Herat city, west of capital Kabul. Afghanistan could face a war with the Islamic State group if the government does not resolve internal differences and improve the security situation, one of the countrys most powerful warlords warned in an interview with the AP. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)(The Associated Press)
HERAT, Afghanistan Afghanistan could face a war with the Islamic State group if the government does not resolve internal differences and improve the security situation, one of the country's most powerful warlords warned in an interview with The Associated Press.
The Islamic State group, based in Iraq and Syria, is believed to have a small presence in Afghanistan, where the Taliban are the most powerful militant group and have been waging an insurgency against the government.
Ismail Khan, long a dominant figure in Afghanistan's western province of Herat, told the AP that the numbers of IS supporters are growing because of the government's divisions.
Seven months after taking office, President Ashraf Ghani has yet to appoint a Cabinet to introduce reforms that could boost economic growth, reduce poverty and create jobs. Khan, like many Afghans, attribute the failures to differences between Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, who was his opponent in the bitterly contested presidential election and became his partner in a national unity government under an arrangement brokered by the United States.
"The differences that exist in the national unity government . are helping to boost the enemies' morale, the morale of Daesh and the Taliban," Khan told the AP, using an acronym for the Islamic State group. "This has made people really very worried."
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