Pakistan is mobilising its assets including terror affiliate Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) jehadis to Afghan-Pak border in order to destabilise Afghanistan following proposed withdrawal of US troops. Pakistan army is training the Lashkar ultras to damage infrastructure built by India in Afghanistan besides hitting security forces there and aid the Taliban regain more areas under its control in a post-withdrawal scenario.
Amid talks of withdrawal of US forces, the Pakistan Army-ISI complex has started harbouring sinister designs to topple the Afghan Government and replace it with Taliban for its long-term agenda in the region, sources here said.
Apprehending enhanced atrocities on the people in the Balochistan region, Baloch groups have stepped up violence against the Pakistan army and Lashkar men in the area. In the wee hours on Wednesday, the Baloch groups killed 16 Pakistan armymen and abducted about 50 soldiers. This was the third such attack by Balochs against Pak Army this month.
The spurt in ambushes by the Baloch groups against Pak army has come in the backdrop of apprehensions that more and camps of LeT will be set up and lead to enhancement of atrocities against the community.
Pakistan Army had been conducting search and cordon operations against the Baloch freedom fighters in concert with the Lashkar jehadis, Both Pakistan army and the Lashkar are known to loot ration from the Baloch people due to lack of authenticated logistics management for the armed forces.
The Pakistan Army-ISI combine has begun training sessions for the Lashkar men in Sibbi and Bolan in Balochistan. The LeT operatives are being trained in sabotage and ambush. The trained Lashkar men will seek to hit infrastructure projects backed and funded by India.
An estimated 500-1000 LeT men are being trained by the Pakistan Army-ISI combine in view of the latter's changed priorities and preferences from the tactical perspective in view of the proposed withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan.
LeT men being trained by Pak army to aid Taliban in gaining more control on the ground post-withdrawal of US troops. In a duplicitous move to hoodwink the international community ahead of the FATF plenary in Paris, the Pakistani agencies have lodged LeT chief Hafiz Sayeed in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail where a number of Haqqani Network for elaborate planning to carry out hits in Afghanistan.
Former Chief of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asif Ghafoor has been made the chief of a Pak army division to provide security to the US forces when the
withdrawal from Afghanistan is worked out, sources
said. Pakistan army has been known to enact abduction of its personnel by its terror
affiliates and seek ransom from the US for their so called release from captivity, they added.