Due to increased cross-border attacks by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in recent months, Pakistan has requested the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) help in calling on the interim Afghan government to terminate ties with the banned organization.
“I am confident that this council [UNSC] will join Pakistan in demanding that the Afghan government terminates its relationship with the TTP,” said Islamabad’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Munir Akram, at a UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Wednesday.
The ambassador’s words come as the country’s overall fatalities in terrorist acts and counter-terror operations reached a six-year high of around 1,000, according to The News, which cited the Centre for Research and Security Studies’ (CRSS) Annual Security Report in January.
Pakistan has seen a considerable increase in attacks on security forces in recent months, with militants employing superior weaponry and technology.
Islamabad has repeatedly urged the interim Afghan government to prevent the TTP and other terrorist outfits from using its territory to launch strikes against Pakistan.
The envoy urged the UN to call on the Afghan side to prohibit such cross-border attacks and infiltration by the TTP and other terrorists into Pakistani territory, as well as to investigate the militant group’s financing and acquisition of modern weapons.
