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In this exclusive interview, Maj Gen Rajan Kochhar (Retd) dives deep into Pakistan's complex security challenges and explore the deadly power struggle between the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) and the Taliban. WATCH.

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00:00When Pakistan says that it wants to target TTP militants, which have been provided a safe haven in Afghanistan,
00:08why doesn't it do anything related to IS Khurasan, which is sitting inside of Pakistan and attacking Afghan soil?
00:16Why these double standards are the part of Pakistan?
00:20See, Pakistan has always believed this.
00:23If you ask the Pakistan government, they will tell you that we've got nothing to do with ISIS Khurasan.
00:28But we know that the inside story is that ISIS Khurasan is being monitored, funded and orchestrated by the Pakistan ISI.
00:40And they are quite active in Afghanistan against the Taliban and many attacks in Gurdwaras and all these places have taken place in Afghanistan by the ISIS Khurasan.
00:52That is their way of hitting back at the Taliban government to tell them that don't mess with us.
01:00So the point here is that conventionally, see, if you compare the militaries of the two countries, I have done a detailed comparison.
01:10I don't want to get into the nitty-gritties of it.
01:13Seven billion dollars worth of American weapons were left behind by the Americans and they are in the hands of the Taliban and Tariqe Taliban and also the BLA now.
01:28So what is happening now is that you have a 1.5 lakh Taliban forge, I will call it.
01:38It's not a regular army as such.
01:40It has a semi-structure like army.
01:43It has got a brigade and things like this.
01:45And it has a suicide element into their army.
01:49They are capable of guerrilla attacks.
01:53They are highly motivated.
01:55And they live off the land.
01:59That implies that they know the land better than the Pakistan army because Pakistan army 11 and 12 core is here.
02:07And they are basically from Punjab Regiment, Sindh Regiment, different areas of Pakistan.
02:17They don't know this area well.
02:19And they are not motivated because, remember, you are fighting against your own people.
02:25Because if you have an ethnicity within your own country in terms of 40 billion people and you are hitting their brothers, it implies you are killing your own people.
02:41So that moral factor is very important.
02:45And of course, they are not very well trained in guerrilla warfare.
02:49That is why the casualties are very high.
02:52So, Pakistan always does double standard.
02:55I can give you an example of Kashmir also.
02:57Where Jayshai Mohammed, Lashkar, Tawbad, the resistance fund, they keep on changing the name of their political, these terrorist organizations.
03:06So, you are absolutely right, you know, that Pakistan always plays double standards.
03:11These double standards are getting exposed to the world now.
03:14Because Balochistan, you know, Balochistan after 10 p.m. in the night.
03:19No area in Balochistan is under control of the Pakistan army.
03:24And Pakistan army generally is in the barracks because of very heavy casualties.
03:31The Jafar Express has been attacked three times in the last six, eight months now.
03:37So, Pakistan has no control over this situation.
03:42Almost two lakh of Pakistan security troops are there in these two states, Balochistan and Khyber Pakturwa.
03:51And they have got only a handful of fighters.
03:54Like BLA strength is not more than 8,000 to 10,000 fighters.
03:58They are able to give back to the Pakistan army in a very, very strong measure.
04:11We have seen visuals of sniper attacks, ambushes and all this taking place.
04:20So, you are absolutely right, the double standards.
04:25And Pakistan has got no other way of hitting back against Afghanistan.
04:30As a matter of fact, when you start using your air, when you start using your JF-17, your most advanced aircraft, against civilians.
04:42And I believe today, three or four members of the Afghanistan cricket team have been killed.
04:51And there is a very great backlash in Afghanistan on this.
04:55We are just doing this.
04:56And we are in the first place, right?
05:00So, there is no one of these leaders.
05:04Right?
05:05But we are in the first place.
05:08We are in the first place.
05:09And there is a lot of people that we are in the first place that we have not been to.
05:14So the one of us that we are in the first place.
05:16And what?
05:17We are in the first place, in the third place.
05:22The third place is very nicely clear.
05:24There is definitely a lot of people that we have to.
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