The Taliban regime has appointed an expert in making sticky/magnetic bombs Ashraf Ghairat as Vice Chancellor of Kabul University. After Ghairat’s appointment, 70 faculty members have resigned from the University.
Ghairat, 45, is only a graduate and has close links with Pakistani covert agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and terror groups like Haqqani Network, Al Qaeda and Army of Mohammad among others. Earlier, VCs in different universities in Afghanistan, including in Kabul, used to have doctorates.
The move is aimed at converting the campus into a hub for radicalization of young minds as the Taliban has asserted that Ghairat has all the qualifications that are required for the top post at Kabul University.
The interim government in Kabul already has listed terrorists from the Haqqani Network and Taliban. Such terrorists have been designated by both the United Nations and the United States.
Under the Doha pact with the Taliban, the US has committed itself to lifting the sanctions on all such leaders holding key positions in the current regime in Kabul.
The Haqqani Network as also the Taliban are projects of the Pakistani Army-ISI syndicate. The Haqqani Network has planted Ghairat as the VC as part of a conspiracy to convert the campus into a breeding ground for future global terrorists.
Ghairat has in the past trained hundreds of trainers for fabricating sticky or magnetic bombs and IEDs. He has also masterminded executions of sticky bomb blasts to kill scores of people opposed to the Haqqani Network or the Taliban.
The Kabul University attracts students from a number of countries in the region and radicalization of such youth will help expand the terror footprint in the entire region.
Founder President of Afghanistan Republic Salvation Front and senior counter-terrorism expert of Afghan origin, Ajmal Sohail said, “The move is clearly aimed at revival of the global terrorist groups with renewed recruitment of young minds from university
campuses like Kabul University.”
By ramping up the terrorist cadres, the Taliban and its cohorts like the Haqqani Network and Al Qaeda aim at creation of a global caliphate, Sohail added.
Other counter-terrorism expert Dr Rituraj Mate said, “The Taliban is aiming at converting the Kabul University into a nursery of terrorism and radicalization for fueling global jehad. Appointing such a person from hardcore terrorist background is an ominous sign and agencies need to keep a watch on such developments to formulate suitable and timely counter measures.”
Young minds are vulnerable to radicalization and inclined to take risks. Once radicalized and trained in making IEDs, the youths can be used for executing terrorist actions like blasts in their home country under the garb of jehad, Dr Mate added.
