Yerevan (Armenia): The Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP), which has claimed responsibility for the horrific Kabul attack, is a "clever creation" of notorious Pakistan intelligence agency--ISI--to deny responsibility for the recent spiralling crisis in Afghanistan, said an Armenian think tank. In a piece in Mirror-Spectator, Armenian Network State said that the experts believe that Pakistan created ISKP by planting Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operatives in leadership positions in the outfit.
"ISKP is a clever ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence, of Pakistan] creation to help in ensuring deniability to the Pakistani intelligence agency as Pakistan was being blamed for whatever was being done by the Taliban," the think tank said. "The Pakistani project in Afghanistan has nearly succeeded with one Pakistani proxy Taliban becoming a 'good boy' and another Pakistan proxy ISKP becoming a 'bad boy'. The latest attack on Kabul airport is indicative of the fact that ISI's operation has been launched in full swing," it added.
On Thursday, a suicide bomber and multiple ISIS-K gunmen killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 169 Afghan civilians in the attack at the Kabul airport. Soon after the attack, ISKP came forward to claim the responsibility. A commander of the ISKP named Amaq issued a statement on its Telegram channel wherein he claimed that a suicide bomber, Abdul Rahman al-Logari, managed to reach near a group of US soldiers, translators, and collaborators and detonated his explosives.
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