The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday reiterated its “deep concern” for the presence of advanced weapons that were left in Afghanistan used for terrorist activities against Pakistan in the midst of US reports that require the return of said military team.
When American troops left Afghanistan in August 2021, they destroyed more than 70 airplanes, dozens of armored air vehicles and disabled aerial defenses before flying from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport after a chaotic evacuation operation. However, there was still a large stock of weapons and teams that the Afghan taliban co -opted.
The arms also fell into the hands of the prohibited militant group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and other terrorist attire, as Pakistan and others pointed out. Islamabad has repeatedly expressed concerns about the use of Afghan land for militants for cross -border terrorism and has asked the United Nations for a “concerted campaign” that recovers all weapons of terrorist groups such as TTP.
Meanwhile, the previous administration Joe Biden maintained that the US forces did not leave any equipment during the removal of Afghanistan that could be used by terrorists to attack Pakistan.
However, in a demonstration in Washington the day of its inauguration of January 20, President Donald Trump had said when referring to the Biden administration: “They gave our military team, a large part of the enemy.”
Trump had conditioned the aid to Afghanistan at the return of the military team. “Tell them that we are not going to give them the money unless they return our military team. … then, we will give you a couple of dollars; We want the military team to return, ”he said.
In a January 21 report, Bloomberg He had summoned a person familiar with the matter by saying that the Afghan Taliban would not return any of the military teams.
In a statement issued today on consultations regarding the previous development, FO spokesman Shafqat Ali Khan said: “The presence of advanced weapons in Afghanistan, left behind after the withdrawal of their troops in August 2021, has been A problem of deep concern for the security of Pakistan and its citizens. “
He added that weapons had been used by terrorist organizations, including TTP, to carry out terrorist attacks in Pakistan. “We have been repeatedly asking the de facto authorities in Kabul to take all the necessary measures to ensure that these weapons do not fall into the wrong hands,” he said.
Pakistan, particularly Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, saw a strong increase in incidents related to terrorism in 2024 and in general since August 2021. Terrorist attacks have increased since the TTP broke a high -fragile fire contract with the government in 2022, that we go to the objective security forces and other agencies of application of the law.
Nine terrorists were killed in an authorization operation after infiltrating the Mianwali Air Force of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in November 2023. According to the reports, the terrorists climbed the eight -foot -high limit wall The PAF base after cutting the wire context and attacked some land connected airplanes in addition to damaging an oil inclination. There were also reports from American weapons allegedly used in the attack of the Air Base.