MOSCOW, March 2. /TASS/. The CIS anti-terrorist center forecasts an upsurge in anti-Taliban resistance in Afghanistan and redistribution of the markets of weapons, narcotic drugs and human trafficking, the center’s press-bureau said following a report by the center’s chief, Yevgeny Sysoyev, at the 15th conference of the chiefs of CIS national anti-terrorist centers.
"According to the forecast, the situation in Afghanistan this year will remain unstable. There are a number of prerequisites for its potential aggravation, such as a worsening of the humanitarian crisis, stronger anti-Taliban resistance, growing confrontation between the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) and other terrorist groups, redivision of criminal markets of weapons, narcotic drugs and human trafficking," the center said.
It stressed that the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan had created pre-requisites for expanding the hotbeds of terrorism near the Central Asian member countries of the CIS. In particular, there has been growing negative influence on the radicalization of civilian population in the neighboring countries, greater threats to the national security of the CIS member-states from foreign militants drifting from the zones of terrorist activity in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan with the flows of migrants.
The Taliban radical movement on August 15, 2021 entered the Afghan capital Kabul without encountering any resistance to have established full control of the city within a matter of hours. Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani said he was leaving the country in an attempt to prevent bloodshed. Vice-President Amrullah Saleh said that under the Constitution he was taking over as the head of state and called for armed resistance to the Taliban. The Western countries evacuated their citizens and embassy staffers.