New Delhi: A UN monitoring team has found Pakistan-based terror groups Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) as running 11 training camps in Afghanistan after Taliban took over last August.
These Pakistan-based terror groups reportedly are in rapport with the ruling regime, holding top-level meetings, and they have reportedly concentrated their camps in the Nangarhar and Kunar provinces bordering Pakistan.
Alongside the UN Security Council-mandated monitoring team states that the Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) is located in Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, Nimruz, Paktika and Zabul Provinces.
The terror outfit has between 180 and 400 fighters, including nationals from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan, according to The Indian Express.
Under Taliban, according to the report, Al Qaeda enjoys greater freedom but the emaciated terror group, also restraint by Taliban, may not direct its attacks outside Afghanistan for the next year or two.
The Economic Times, accessing the UN report, said that the terror outfit JeM is currently headed by the recently appointed, Qari Ramazan.
JeM's founding leader is Masood Azhar, a UN designated terrorist, whom India released in exchange for hostages following the Kandahar hijack.
The report by UN team finds that JeM as running 8 training camps in Nangarhar Pakistan, with three of the camps come directly under the control of Taliban.
On the other hand, LeT is reportedly led by certain Maulavi Yousuf. In January a Taliban delegation paid a visit to one of the LeT training camps in the Haska Mena district of Nangarhar.
Now the group is said to be running three camps in Kunar and Nangarhar; alongside, the report said that former LeT members including like Aslam Farooqi and Ejaz Ahmad Ahangar joined ISIL-K which is targeting the Taliban.
At present, the group is said to have established three camps in Kunar and Nangarhar. Also, the report has noted that ex-LeT members like Aslam Farooqi and Ejaz Ahmad Ahangar, also known as Abu Usman al-Kashmiri, have joined ISIL-K, which is now targeting the Taliban.