Former CIA officer, Sarah Adams, revealed to reporters across the globe in a stunning turn of events information that could see intelligence communities shaken across the globe. she made serious allegations on the Indian Afghan Group (IAG). Adams says IAG scheme involved the murder of several renowned Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) leaders, including Gulmurod Khalimov, Umar Farooq and Qais Laghmani. They were declared dead by IAG in joint counterterrorism calls with others, but these people were alive and were allowed to regroup, ready to renew their threats across the region.

These staged deaths were piece of a much wider strategy that did not include them, which painted an illusion of success in the war against terror to the West, while allowing terrorist elements to build strength behind the scenes

Adam claims have rekindled old anxieties with which Pakistan has long taken offense, accusing India of using Afghanistan as a base for covert operations. She said, these staged deaths were piece of a much wider strategy that did not include them, which painted an illusion of success in the war against terror to the West, while allowing terrorist elements to build strength behind the scenes. Adams notes that such tactics only increase instability throughout the region and put global security in jeopardy by giving a free reign to terror networks.

India used to send $10 million through India’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) to the Taliban to target specific assassinations of militants in Pakistan who were associated with Kashmiri and Khalistani movements

This is not the first time Sarah Adams has been headline news for exposing covert dealings of the region. She had previously blown the cover that India used to send $10 million through India’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) to the Taliban to target specific assassinations of militants in Pakistan who were associated with Kashmiri and Khalistani movements. And this staggering revelation read like a hidden web of financial and operational ties between collective military forces and local commercial agents bent on destabilizing Pakistan with the pretension of strategic counter terrorism operations.

Pakistan is proven right that India has adopted a covert strategy of waging proxy war through IAG and Afghan go-betweens garnering Western false flags support 

Taken together, these disclosures show that IAG’s heart is a deadly duplicity. On the one hand, IAG is a cooperative partner to the world that publicly advocates for the destruction of ISKP and Al-Qaeda. On the other hand, it is said to tamper with the narrative (using false intelligence, tampering with the narrative) as it pursues ungentlemanly occupations of war, behind the scenes, with fabricated information, misinformation and even with proxies of terrorist organizations. With this, Pakistan is proven right that India has adopted a covert strategy of waging proxy war through IAG and Afghan go-betweens garnering Western false flags support and turns itself as an ally.

For the first time, Pakistan’s claims have the weight of insider testimony from a respected former CIA official. This shift is significant

For the first time, Pakistan’s claims have the weight of insider testimony from a respected former CIA official. This shift is significant. It gives the conversation concrete intelligence failure and deliberate misinformation. The guilt of allowing Islamist extremist networks to thrive is especially damning when it comes to the exposure of fake ISKP leader deaths.

Adams’ revelations are made even more alarming because it details the connections between her Indo-Taliban (as she puts it, an unholy alliance that is a global security threat). This previously unseen nexus, running behind diplomatic tin privacy and backed up by phony counterterrorism stories, has given birth to and seen the return to power of extremist groups that serve to destabilize South Asia. It points out that success in fighting counter terror can be given an appearance that disguises much more threatening realities down on the ground.

As far reaching as the implications are, they are not only regional. But for the West, especially the U.S. and its allies, these revelations have brought up uncomfortable questions about such things as reliability of intelligence and effectiveness of cooperative arrangements named in the spirit of countering terrorism. Such a situation, if true, makes plain a widespread and potentially crippling bug in our collective global counterterror strategy, which other states runs are happy to exploit.

What is also most notable though is that at the center of the news, IAG appears completely silent in the wake of Adams’ explosive claims. An unwillingness to respond in any way other than silence acts as a rebuttal in itself. If there is no voice coming back, these claims only garner more credibility, presenting a version of an intelligence apparatus that has lost its moral compass and is willing to go around and enable the shit it claims to fight against.

All this now creates a frightening tale of deception and an agenda behind the fake ISKP deaths, covert financial support to Taliban and targeting militants on Pakistani soil

Sarah Adams has thus opened a Pandora’s box. Be that as it may, thanks to her insider perspective, she takes credence to well-established claims and forces a realignment of South Asian policy. All this now creates a frightening tale of deception and an agenda behind the fake ISKP deaths, covert financial support to Taliban and targeting militants on Pakistani soil.

Considering these disclosures, the world’s international bodies and intelligence alliances have to agree with their assessments and partnerships in the region. The need to go deeper into IAG’s activities is warranted, and is a necessity. It has been far too long that we continue to live on politicized narratives and filtered intelligence for shaping policy. And we have direct testimony from a former CIA operative now to no longer have any excuse for ignorance or inaction.

Coming forward has given Sarah Adams the opportunity to bring light onto a deeply troubling reality, but also, to show her courage

Coming forward has given Sarah Adams the opportunity to bring light onto a deeply troubling reality, but also, to show her courage. This provides an opportunity for a fresh look at misbegotten assumptions, to expose and punish those who have used deception to advance their own aims, and to make sure that this fight is not turned by the would be hijackers, into a predatory instrument in the service of their own ambitions.

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