Exclusive: Taliban denies ties with Pakistan-based terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed

Taliban told Zee Media that it has sent a message to international terror groups that the soil of Afghanistan will not be used against 'any other country'.  

New Delhi: Taliban on Sunday (July 18, 2021) said that it has sent a message to international terror groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) that the soil of Afghanistan will not be used against 'any other country'.   In an exclusive interview with Zee Media, the Taliban's spokesperson for International Media Suhail Shaheen denied 'any ties with' the two Pakistan-based terror groups.  Recently, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani had said that intelligence estimates indicate the influx of over ten thousand Jihadi fighters from Pakistan and other places in the past month, a development that comes amid the Taliban making rapid territorial gains.