The conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is leading to the accelerated formation of an alliance between Turkey, Azerbaijan and Pakistan.
The head of the Center for the Study of Afghan Politics, Andrei Serenko, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in an interview with Kommersant.
Citing its sources in Peshawar, Pakistan, the newspaper reports that “at least one batch of militants with weapons and ammunition has already been sent to Karabakh several weeks ago.”
“The main reason for Islamabad’s involvement in the Karabakh game lies in the special Pakistani-Turkish relations. The top of the Pakistani army has always valued its alliance with Ankara. And so much so that not a single top political leader of Pakistan, since the collapse of the USSR in 1991, has recognized the independence of Armenia - there are still no diplomatic relations between Islamabad and Yerevan,” Serenko noted.
He noted that information has recently appeared about the recruitment of militants in Pakistan to participate in the Karabakh conflict, which, according to the political scientist, can be regarded as “another gesture by the Pakistani military towards their Turkish ally.”
“The Karabakh issue itself is of little interest to Islamabad. All this is important for him, first of all, in close connection with the interests of Turkey - to strengthen the strategic partnership of the two largest Sunni authoritarian republics. At the same time, the Pakistani army and intelligence services are not acting officially, but in the way they are accustomed to for many years of waging hybrid wars against Afghanistan and India, using a network of terrorist organizations controlled by the Inter-Services Intelligence of Pakistan such as Jamaat-e-Islami, Jaish-e-Mohammad ", "Al-Badr", their madrassas, mosques and recruitment infrastructure," the expert added.
“The current close partnership between Turkey, Pakistan and Azerbaijan in the Karabakh war may prove to be the beginning of a new long-term geopolitical alliance aimed at supporting Ankara’s neo-Ottoman ambitions. The Karabakh aggravation became only a catalyst for the launch of this super project,” Serenko concluded.