The Islamic Emirate’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, denied Moscow’s claim regarding establishment of US and UK intelligence bases in Afghanistan.

He said that no country will be allowed to use the Afghan soil against other countries.

“We call on the countries to not pursue their rivalries in Afghanistan. They should attempt to do their competition outside of Afghan borders. Afghanistan is not a ground for the regional competition,” said Zabiullah Mujahid, the Islamic Emirate’s spokesman.

This comes as Alexander Bortnikov, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director, said American and British intelligence services are playing an "active role" in fomenting a "belt of instability" in Afghanistan near the southern borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), where the Al-Qaeda and

Islamic State (IS) terrorist groups (outlawed in Russia) are being reinforced, TASS reported.

According to the report, Bortnikov said that the US and NATO have "precisely now, under the guise of containing the Afghan terrorist threat, begun actively foisting their services for military, technical, and border security assistance on our [CIS] partners among the Central Asian republics," and “we are confident that their goal is to militarily colonize the CIS space and introduce new lines of division between [CIS member states].”

Toreq Farhadi, a political analyst, said that Moscow is seeking to promote propaganda against Washington.
“Russia is in a propaganda war with the US. These remarks are not correct. Afghanistan is an independent country, and it can get close to any country it wants to,” he said.

“They [Russia and US] compete and they seek their interest from Afghanistan,” said Sayed Menhaj Agha, a political analyst.
Moscow has repeatedly accused Washington of trying to destabilize Afghanistan and the region.