Russia’s claim; Western intelligence agencies are seeking to support groups opposed to the Islamic Emirate

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Kabul: Sergei Narishkin, while criticizing the West's freezing of Afghan assets, said that Western intelligence agencies are trying to create disorder and support armed groups opposed to the Islamic Emirate. He said the moves were in violation of sanctions against Afghanistan.

 

Narishkin praised the efforts of the Islamic Emirate government to form a state, stressed the need for international recognition of the government and accused the West of trying to destabilize Afghanistan for geopolitical interests. He also met with Azerbaijani security officials and considered the geopolitical position of Afghanistan and its development in everyone's interest.

 

The head of Russia's foreign intelligence agency stressed that the West not only does not want to recognize the current government, but also wants to keep Afghanistan unstable to ensure its geopolitical interests.

 

"Russia has positively assessed the efforts of the caretaker government officials to form a government and has raised the need for official recognition of the government," he said. The main obstacle to this scenario is the West's desire to destabilize Afghanistan to expand its geopolitical interests.

 

According to Shamshad News, with the fall of the previous regime, a number of political and military officials who held high government positions in the past two decades have created movements abroad against the interim government. In addition, the Khorasan branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has also emerged as an anti-government group with sporadic attacks, although its activities have been largely contained.

 

However, political analysts see these figures as failures and say that based on this background, it seems unlikely that they will regain public trust.