Pakistan’s banned organization TTP is increasing its power in Afghanistan
About 6,500 trained members of Pakistan’s banned armed group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are active along the Afghan border. They have a haven and a safe haven inside Afghanistan. A new report of the United Nations has stated this information.
The TTP, linked to al-Qaeda, operates freely across Afghanistan, with former camps in Jalalabad and Kandahar, and carries out terrorist activities inside Pakistan.
While the Taliban denies the presence of terrorists, the United Nations has also questioned the Taliban’s counter-terrorism efforts.
The 28th report of the United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Group also confirmed the presence of hundreds of anti-Beijing Muslim militants near Afghanistan’s border with China. The report was submitted to UNC this week.
UN observers have noted that the TTP and the Taliban continue to maintain relations largely as before, despite growing mistrust.
According to the information of the media Dawn, for the last two years Pakistan has been continuously demanding the Taliban government to use the soil of Afghanistan to prevent any kind of terrorist attack in Pakistan. The Pakistani armed group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is an affiliate of the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan. After the Taliban took power in Kabul, the country became a safe haven for the TTP. From there, they cross the border and occasionally attack Pakistani military and civilian targets.
Islamabad wants the Afghan Taliban to rein in the TTP. But the cool response of the Afghan Taliban to this demand has in turn emboldened the TTP.
TTP is banned in Pakistan. Their main target is the Afghan border area in the north-west of the country.
Relations between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan have deteriorated over the past few years, and experts have warned that recent tensions over the TTP have the potential to spiral out of control.
Source: Afghanistan Times
