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CNN: ‘Taliban’s Pashto chauvinism helps ISIS-K’ recruitment from other ethnic groups

1st April, 2024 · admin

Khaama: Edmund Fitton-Brown, a senior adviser to the New York-based Counter Extremism Project, told CNN that ISIS-K “has the desire and a growing ability to project beyond Afghanistan and carry out regional attacks” in Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia, bolstered by a robust media output in Tajik, Uzbek and Russian. Fitton-Brown said that in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s “Pashto chauvinism has helped ISIS-K recruit from other Afghan ethnic groups.” CNN, citing a senior advisor to the new-York-based extremism project, said that the Taliban’s Pashtun extremist nationalism has facilitated the recruitment of other Afghan ethnic groups into ISIS Khorasan. Click here to read more (external link).

Posted in Ethnic Issues, ISIS/DAESH, Taliban | Tags: Pashtun dominated Taliban government, Pashtunization, Taliban government failure, Taliban Security Failure |
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