Pakistan has reiterated that he will continue to take “all necessary measures” to protect the country from terrorist outfits in Afghanistan, calling Kabul for “not being able to address the threat raised in the region.
The relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have been tensioned due to the frequent border and Islamabad skirmishes repeatedly demanding that Kabul takes measures against the prohibited Pakistan of Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) for using an Afghan floor to launch attacks in Pakistan. Kabul denies the accusations.
Speaking during the informative session of the UN Security Council (UNSC) about Afghanistan in New York yesterday, Pakistan’s permanent representative before the UN ambassador, Munir Akram, declared: “Pakistan will continue to take all the necessary measures to eliminate terrorist threats to our national security in accordance with our right to self -defense under international law and in the agreement with the relevant resolutions of the” Security Council “.
He said that Kabul authorities “had not been able to address the threat represented for the region and beyond other terrorist groups, such as Al-Qaeda, the TTP and the terrorists of Baloch, including the Bla (called Baluchistan Liberation Army) and the Majeed Brigade, which are present in Afghanistan.”
“The TTP, with 6,000 combatants, is the largest designated terrorist organization that operates from Afghanistan,” said the ambassador.
The forbidden outfit was “perceived as enjoying the sponsorship of Kabul” and was rapidly emerging as an organization umbrella for regional terrorist groups, the envoy reiterated his warning of last year.
He said that Pakistan had evidence against Kabul’s authorities that “they not only tolerated but are complicit in the behavior of TTP cross -border attacks.”
Akram also declared that the TTP was collaborating with other terrorist groups present in Afghanistan, such as the Bla and Majeed Brigade, and added that the latter sought to destabilize Pakistan’s ties with China.
“The TTP also receives external support and financing from our main adversary,” said the one sent in an apparent reference to India.
Akram continued: “Pakistan has faced the adverse impacts of the series of crisis that Afghanistan has lived, during the last 40 years, that millions of Afghan refugees house, infected by their extremist groups and the entry of weapons and drugs.”
“In the 20 -year conflict, which ended in 2021, Pakistan constantly advocated the commitment and tried to negotiate an inclusive peace,” he said, referring to the withdrawal of the United States in Afghanistan.
During his speech, the ambassador also talked about restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan, stating that restrictions were also against Islam. “The situation of human rights in Afghanistan is another self -inflicted injury,” he said.
According to the 35th Report of the Analytical Equipment of Support and Monitoring of sanctions submitted to the UNSC last month, the continuous support of the Afghan Taliban for TTP was feeding the growing attacks of the group in Pakistan.
The “Scale of Atuend attacks in Pakistan has increased significantly” and the “state and force of TTP in Afghanistan had not changed,” said the UN report.
He also confirmed that Afghan Taliban continued to provide the TTP forbidden “logistics and operational space and financial support, reinforcing the group’s ability to maintain their activities.”
In January of this year, the head of the Army staff, the general also Munir, had said that the only dispute point between Pakistan and Afghanistan was the presence of TTP and cross -border attacks.
The previous month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, while reiterating his call to improve relations with Afghanistan, had also emphasized that the administration in Kabul must control the TTP first.
In November 2022, the TTP broke an agreement of high fragile fire with the Pakistani government, promising intense attacks throughout the country and attacking the police, security forces and other agencies for the application of the law (LEA).
In the midst of growing attacks, Pakistan has intensified military operations under “Azm-i-Intehkam”, attacking TTP hiding places through the Afghan border, particularly in Paktika and Khost. These military measures include cross -border raids and retaliation strikes.
