Peshawar, June 16 -- : A United Nations report released last week said that the risks of an Al-Qaeda revival are rising as the US and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) wind down their military presence in Afghanistan.
The report said that Taliban operatives consisting of Afghan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar nationals now run Al-Qaeda's Indian sub-continent chapter from Kandahar, Helmand and Nimruz provinces in Afghanistan.
FM Shakil, writing in Asia Times said that hundreds of of Al-Qaeda operatives including the terror group's elusive leader Ayman al-Zawahiri are sheltering in the Pakistan-Afghan border region, a hidden presence that could come above ground as Afghanistan tilts towards a new era of civil war.
The UN r...