UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: According to experts, a new United Nations report focusing on the worldwide danger presented by Al-Qaeda, Daesh, and associated organisations highlights the growing cross-border terrorist threat to Pakistan posed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) operating from Afghan land.
The UN Monitoring Team’s 28th report, which was recently presented to the UN Security Council, reiterates prior UN findings that the TTP, a banned organisation, poses comparable cross-border terrorist risks to Pakistan as a result of its re-unification and strengthening in Afghanistan.
According to the most recent UN Monitoring Team report, the TTP has expanded its financial resources through extortion, smuggling, and taxation.
These latest UN assessments bolster Pakistan’s worries about the TTP’s activities from Afghanistan, causing Pakistan to call on the international community to prohibit the TTP, Daesh, Al-Qaeda, and other terrorist organisations from using Afghanistan’s territory.
The rise of the TTP and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) in Afghanistan as a consequence of external financial and material backing has alarmed Islamabad.
Pakistan revealed solid proof of Indian backing for the TTP and the JuA in carrying out terrorist strikes against Pakistan last year.
According to diplomatic sources, India’s backing and financing of such terror groups appears to be intended not just at undermining Pakistan’s recent victories against the TTP and JuA, but also at sabotaging any prospect of peace and security in Afghanistan.
The withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan has exacerbated Pakistan’s security concerns from terrorist groups in Afghanistan, and there has been a significant increase in the number of cross-border terrorist attacks by the TTP from Afghanistan against Pakistan in recent months, it was noted.
According to the sources, Pakistan continues to believe that the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan would allow “spoilers” to enter the country and disrupt the country’s and the region’s peace.
The UN study, which raises awareness of the TTP danger, comes amid an upsurge in the number of terrorist strikes inside Pakistan.
Pakistan has released the findings of its investigation into the June 23 terrorist incident in Lahore.
During Pakistan’s investigations, strong proof of India’s sponsorship and assistance for the Lahore terrorist assault was discovered, according to Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf.