For the reason that Taliban returned to energy in Kabul, Pakistan has witnessed a dramatic uptick in assaults

Islamabad:

Islamabad will ask the secretive supreme chief of Afghanistan’s Taliban to rein in terrorists in Pakistan after a suicide bombing killed scores of police in a mosque, officers stated Saturday.

For the reason that Taliban returned to energy in Kabul, Pakistan has witnessed a dramatic uptick in assaults in areas bordering Afghanistan, the place terrorists use rugged terrain to stage assaults and escape detection.

Detectives have blamed an affiliate of the Pakistani Taliban — probably the most infamous terror outfit within the space — for the Monday blast in Peshawar which killed 84 individuals inside a fortified police headquarters.

The Pakistani Taliban share frequent lineage and beliefs with the Afghan Taliban, led by Hibatullah Akhundzada who points edicts from his hideaway within the southern metropolis of Kandahar.

Particular assistant to Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Faisal Karim Kundi, stated delegations could be despatched to Tehran and Kabul to “ask them to make sure that their soil just isn’t utilized by terrorists in opposition to Pakistan”.

A senior Pakistani police official within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province the place Monday’s blast passed off informed AFP the Kabul delegation would maintain “talks with the highest brass”.

“Once we say prime brass, it means… Afghan Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada,” he stated on situation of anonymity.

Afghan officers didn’t instantly reply to AFP’s request for remark.

However on Wednesday Overseas Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi warned Pakistan ought to “not move the blame to others”.

“They need to see the issues in their very own home,” he stated. “Afghanistan shouldn’t be blamed.”

In the course of the 20-year US-led intervention in Afghanistan, Islamabad was accused of giving covert help to the Afghan Taliban even because the nation proclaimed a army alliance with the US.

However because the ultra-conservatives seized Kabul in 2021, relations with Pakistan have soured, partly over the resurgence of the Pakistani Taliban, also called Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The TTP — fashioned in 2007 by Pakistani terrorists who splintered off from the Afghan Taliban — as soon as held sway over swathes of northwest Pakistan however have been routed by a military offensive after 2014.

However over the primary yr of Taliban rule, Pakistan witnessed a 50 p.c uptick in terror assaults, concentrated within the border areas with Afghanistan and Iran, in accordance with the Pak Institute for Peace Research.

The TTP, infamous for capturing schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, has “arguably benefitted probably the most of all of the international extremist teams in Afghanistan from the Taliban takeover”, a UN Safety Council report stated in Could 2022.

Final yr Kabul brokered peace talks between Islamabad and the TTP however the shaky truce collapsed.

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