United Nations A recent report byTTP) has become the ‘largest terrorist group’ in Afghanistan, backed by Taliban rulers to carry out cross-border attacks in Pakistan.
The UN sanctions monitoring team released the report on Wednesday, at a time when TTP attacks on Pakistani security forces have seen a dramatic increase.
“The TTP operates extensively in Afghanistan and from there carries out terrorist activities in Pakistan, for which it often uses Afghans,” the report said.
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According to the report, it is estimated that there are six to six and a half thousand fighters of this internationally designated extremist group, also known as the Pakistani Taliban, in Afghanistan.
The UN document said that the Afghan Taliban’s support for the TTP has also increased.
TTP’s growing activities have strained relations between Islamabad and Kabul. Afghanistan’s rulers reject allegations of a terrorist group and say they do not allow Afghan soil to be used once morest neighboring countries.
The UN report said that ‘Taliban does not consider TTP as a terrorist group.’
The TTP emerged in Pakistan’s border tribal areas in 2007 under the leadership of Baitullah Mehsud, who provided refuge to the Afghan Taliban once morest the US.
Links to Al Qaeda
The UN report said that regional fighters of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan are supporting the TTP in carrying out high-profile terrorist operations inside Pakistan.
The Taliban did not immediately react to the latest UN findings, but have previously dismissed reports that they say are aimed at discrediting their government.
The UN review cited member states as saying that the TTP was being trained alongside local fighters in al-Qaeda camps, which had established camps in Nangarhar, Kandahar, Kunar and Nuristan.
American weapons and the TTP
The UN member states reiterated that NATO-caliber weapons, especially night-vision capable weapons, supplied to the TTP by the Afghan Taliban, were deployed at Pakistani military border posts. TPK terrorists add lethality to attacks.’
Officials in Islamabad blame the growing number of security forces killed in militant attacks on advanced US weapons, left behind when international forces withdrew from Afghanistan, now in the hands of the TTP.
Islamabad has repeatedly demanded from Kabul to curb TTP-led cross-border terrorism and arrest TTP leaders including Baitullah Mehsud and hand them over to Pakistan. The Taliban’s response has been that it is an ‘internal security problem of Pakistan’.
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2024-07-12 23:39:39