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Despite claims that the Taliban will not allow Afghanistan or weaponry to be used for terrorism, the group has been accused of transporting firearms to Pakistan, which might be used in cross-border clashes with India.
According to the International Forum for Rights and Security (IFFRAS), a Canadian think tank, “Because they are a better Taliban, the Taliban has insisted on proper security procedures to prevent weapons smuggling. However, the weapons market is booming, and weapons smuggled into Pakistan will eventually be utilised in cross-border clashes with India and end up in India.”
However, if Pakistan does not control illicit arms trafficking, it would have to pay a high price.
It will be the first to suffer when separatist and terrorist groups operating from its soil have access to these weapons on a massive scale, it said.
The US left majority of the military equipment and ammunition at the discretion of Afghan forces in August 2021, which afterwards came into the hands of the Taliban.
Taliban not only grabbed governmental control of Afghanistan after conquering Kabul, but they also took possession of all US-made weapons and military equipment left behind by fleeing Afghan soldiers.
Afghan gun dealers openly trade US-made weaponry and military equipment at their businesses. Weapons are being collected from abandoned Afghan army bases and purchased from Afghan government personnel and Taliban fighters by the smugglers.
These weapons are then sold in tribal communities along the Afghan-Pakistan border’s weapons marketplaces or arms bazaars.
Smugglers of weaponry are having a field day along Pakistan’s borders. In trucks transporting fruits and vegetables, guns from Afghanistan are smuggled into Pakistan. The Torkham border crossing, Chaman (Baluchistan), Ghulam Khan (North Waziristan), and Nawa Pass (Bajaur) are the main points of entry via which the weaponry are trafficked, according to the report.
According to an article in Islam Khabar, Afghanistan is the primary supplier of opium for global drug markets, while Pakistan is the transportation hub, with drug networks operating out of the country and exploiting its drug routes to reach foreign markets.
According to the publication, Pakistan’s geographic location makes it a major drug transit hub along the Southern route. Pakistan is also reliant on the narcotics trade to fund terrorism in India, according to the report.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have a 2400-kilometer porous border. As a result, drug traffickers have used it as a transit route. In order to reach foreign markets, 40% of Afghan drugs pass through Pakistan.
Tons of opiates and meth are transported from Afghanistan to Ghulam Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Torkham border crossing, where they are reassembled into big consignments and sent to Lahore and Faisalabad, according to the story.
The drugs are then carried to Karachi and Gwadar by fishing vessels off the coast of Makran. In Pakistan, Balochistan has also served as a major drug transit corridor.
According to Islam Khabar, the Balochistan province alone has about 60 different drug routes, with Chaman, Noshki, and Chagaghi serving as important hubs.