Afghanistan-based jihadi group Al-Qaida is expanding its terrorist operations in India and Bangladesh, a new United Nations report admits. The revelation comes just weeks after Indian security forces arrested Al-Qaida-linked operatives looking for recruits to stage jihad terror attacks.
Al-Qaida and Taliban have close ideological and operational ties with Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and other Muslim terrorist groups waging jihad against India in the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir.
Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in the spring of 2021 after President Joe Biden’s disastrously-managed U.S. withdrawal, Al-Qaida once again flourishes under the protection of the new Islamic Emirate.
Following the Taliban’s takeover, Al-Qaida renewed its call for a worldwide jihad. The Taliban “victory demonstrates what the Islamic nation is capable of when it unites (and) proves that the way of jihad is the only way,” al-Qaida declared in a statement in early September 2021. “It’s time for you to prepare for the next stage of the struggle,” the jihadi group added.
“UN report notes Al-Qaida’s plan to spread operations into J&K, Bangladesh,” by Singh Rahul Sunilkumar, Hindustan Times, July 27, 2023:
Terror group Al-Qaida is “shaping” its regional affiliate in the Indian subcontinent to spread its operations into Jammu and Kashmir, Bangladesh and Myanmar, according to a UN report.
The 32nd report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the 1267 ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council, released this week, noted that “one Member State assessed that Al-Qaida is shaping AQIS (Al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent) to spread its operations into neighbouring Bangladesh,” Jammu and Kashmir and Myanmar.
“That Member State also noted that certain limited elements of AQIS are ready to either join or collaborate with ISIL-K (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant- Khorasan),” it said.
The Al-Qaida core in Afghanistan remains stable at 30 to 60 members, while its fighters are estimated to be 400, reaching 2,000 with family members and supporters included, in the country.
In the Indian Subcontinent, the Al-Qaida has approximately 200 fighters, with Osama Mehmood being the emir.
Aum says
There will be many sympathisers I suspect.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Including many in the “triptikaran” (rebranded appeasement) movement. Just yesterday, the BJP named a muslim vice-president of the party w/ strong ties to Aligarh Muslim University. It’s high time anybody disabuse themselves of the notion that this is a “Hindu nationalist” party