delegations would be sent to Tehran and Kabul to “ask them to ensure that their soil is not used by terrorists against Pakistan”.

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1622065196129984512

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will ask the supreme leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban to rein in militants in Pakistan after a suicide bombing killed scores of police in a mosque, officials said on Saturday.

Since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul, Pakistan has witnessed a dramatic uptick in attacks in regions bordering Afghanistan, where militants use rugged terrain to stage assaults and escape detection.






Officials have blamed an affiliate of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for the January 30 blast in Peshawar, which claimed the lives of over 100 people at a mosque, located inside a fortified police compound.

The TTP share common lineage and ideals with the Afghan Taliban, led by Hibatullah Akhundzada who issues edicts from his hideaway in the southern city of Kandahar.

Special Assistant to Prime Minister Faisal Karim Kundi said delegations would be sent to Tehran and Kabul to “ask them to ensure that their soil is not used by terrorists against Pakistan”.

A senior police official in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Monday’s blast took place said the Kabul delegation would hold “talks with the top brass”.

Hibatullah Akhundzada to be approached, delegations to be sent to neighbouring countries to hold talks

“When we say top brass, it means… Afghan Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada,” he said on condition of anonymity.

Afghan officials did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment.

However, Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Wednesday warned Pakistan should “not pass the blame to others”.

“They should see the problems in their own house. Afghanistan should not be blamed,” he said.

During the 20-year US-led intervention in Afghanistan, Islamabad had often been accused of giving covert support to the Afghan Taliban, but since the ultra-conservatives seized Kabul in 2021, their relations with Pakistan have soured, in part over the resurgence of TTP. Over the first year of Taliban rule, Pakistan witnessed a 50 per cent uptick in militant attacks, concentrated in the border regions with Afghanistan and Iran, according to Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies.

The TTP, notorious for shooting schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, has “arguably benefitted the most of all the foreign extremist groups in Afghanistan from the Taliban takeover”, a UN Security Council report said in May 2022.

Last year Kabul brokered peace talks between Islamabad and the TTP but the shaky truce collapsed.

 

[Sifar zero]

Only a MK 84 would solve this problem not delegations.

 

[Bleek]

Not ask, to tell them.

If it isn't acknowledged then rain hell upon them.

Enough is enough.

Only a MK 84 would solve this problem not delegations.

How about a MOAB on Kabul?

 

[Erieye]

So this is essentially an indirect confirmation that Iran's soil has been used against us.

Likely the BLA terror network is operating via their soil. Khulbushan Yadev basically confirmed this.

 

[R2D2]

Not ask, to tell them.

If it isn't acknowledged then rain hell upon them.

Enough is enough.


How about a MOAB on Kabul?

Army is supposed to hit military targets according to the law of war. Here people with supposedly military careers talk about targeting civilians.

 

[Bleek]

Army is supposed to hit military targets according to the law of war. Here people with supposedly military careers talk about targeting civilians.

I don't care about your shitty law of war

We will hit targets that achieve results and complete objectives

 

[villageidiot]

I don't care about your shitty law of war

We will hit targets that achieve results and complete objectives

I agree with you that laws have to be bent but what purpose could possibly be acheived by targeting civvies?

 

[Kuru]

Only to Iran and Afghanistan?

Does this mean Pakistan firmly believes that India has no role in terrorism in Pakistan?

This is a good development and will create a positive atmosphere.

 

[khansaheeb]

Not ask, to tell them.

If it isn't acknowledged then rain hell upon them.

Enough is enough.


How about a MOAB on Kabul?

Do they allow you to use a computer in a mental asylum?

 

[Zhukov]

Only to Iran and Afghanistan?

Does this mean Pakistan firmly believes that India has no role in terrorism in Pakistan?

This is a good development and will create a positive atmosphere.

There is no movement between India Pakistan Border and it is strictly monitored on both sides. Also the border areas are stable metropolitan areas compared to western border.

Positive atmosphere will only start to become reality once Indian Statesmen stop ranting irresponsible statements like scenarios on media about how Pakistan part of kashmir will be taken by India by means of military operation and so on.
And lower the heat on state sponsored media campaign against Pakistan on local and international stage.
Pakistani people are not stupid. They see it all. Hate begets hate. This circle needs to slow down from both ends.