RASC News Agency: Zahra Mumtaz Baloch, spokesperson for Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that the Taliban have granted a secure sanctuary to terrorist groups within Afghanistan. Baloch made these remarks during a press conference on Thursday, October 31. Baloch added that Islamabad has consistently raised its concerns over the presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan. Sardar Ahmad Shakib, the Taliban’s ambassador to Pakistan, recently asserted that they would not permit any terrorist organizations to use Afghanistan territory against Pakistan.
Previously, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shahbaz Sharif, highlighted the issue at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting in Islamabad, emphasizing that terrorist groups remain active within Afghanistan and calling for action. Pakistani security officials have also persistently warned that the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) continues to launch operations from Afghanistan soil against Pakistani forces.
It is worth noting that in the Taliban’s past war against the former Afghanistan government and its people, over 60,000 foreign fighters from various countries aided the Taliban, with the majority of these terrorist forces coming from Pakistan, particularly the TTP. Recently, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a political and religious supporter of the Taliban in Pakistan’s parliament, stated that more than fifty thousand TTP fighters were involved in the Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan.
Today, all of these terrorist groups, including fighters from Arab countries, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China, Chechnya, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, and more, operate on Afghanistan soil under the Taliban’s financial and political protection.
