A day after seven Pakistan Army personnel, including two officers, were killed in a terrorist attack, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif stated that militants are utilizing Afghan soil to carry out terrorist strikes in Pakistan.
“Terrorism against us is mostly carried out from Afghanistan,” the defence minister told reporters in Sialkot on Sunday.
On Saturday, two Pakistan Army officials and five troops were killed while defending a security station in the North Waziristan district against a terrorist onslaught.
Pakistan has often accused Afghan authorities of failing to take action against terrorist groups operating on its turf, including the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which have carried out cross-border assaults on security forces and civilians.
According to Radio Pakistan, Asif stated during today’s press conference that several terrorist facilitators have been identified, and that Pakistan has raised the problem with the Afghan authorities.
He went on to say that “those people [foreign national] who do not have valid documents would not be allowed to live in Pakistan” .
Earlier today, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar accused the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) social media team of being behind the accounts targeting the Pakistan Army and the soldiers who were killed in North Waziristan the day before, asking them to take action.
Tarar, commenting on the terror attack, stated that the Pakistan Army, police, and citizens had made sacrifices in the fight against terrorism.
