The Afghan Taliban leaders have promised to cooperate with Pakistan on its worries approximately the presence of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants and sanctuaries on their soil after Islamabad introduced a stark caution to them to rein withinside the outlawed outfit amid a upward thrust in terror assaults throughout the country. The promise got here in the course of a day-lengthy ride through a high-degree Pakistani delegation led through Defence Minister Khawaja Asif to Kabul on Wednesday, amidst the worsening of ties among the 2 neighbours over the trouble. Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch stated the TTP and IS-K chance become mentioned and “the 2 facets agreed to collaborate to correctly cope with the chance of terrorism”.
The delegation covered ISI leader Lt Gen Nadeem Anjum, Foreign Secretary Asad Majid, Special Envoy on Afghanistan Muhammad Sadiq and Pakistan`s chargé d`affaires in Afghanistan Obaid Nizamani. Baloch stated that the high-degree delegation met pinnacle Afghan leaders, together with Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Baradar, Defence Minister Mawlavi Yaqoob, Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. “The facets agreed to collaborate to correctly cope with the chance of terrorism posed through terrorist entities and organizations.
It become additionally agreed to bolster multifaceted bilateral cooperation among the 2 countries,” she stated on the weekly media briefing here. She introduced that the talks with Afghan leaders had been centered on safety and counterterrorism topics and all elements of this trouble had been mentioned. “The facets have agreed that they might collaborate to correctly cope with the chance of terrorism posed through terrorist entities and organizations, together with the 2 entities that had been mentioned,” she introduced.
To a query approximately the closure of the important thing Torkham border crossing, Baloch stated that it become now no longer closed through Pakistan however “we had been in touch with our neighbours from Afghanistan and all topics regarding the border together with on fencing continue to be beneathneath dialogue among the 2 facets, together with at nearby levels.” The go to occurred days after the TTP gunmen raided the police headquarters in Karachi wherein 4 human beings together with 3 safety employees misplaced their lives.
Earlier a suicide bomb explosion in Peshawar mosque on January 30 claimed extra than a hundred lives. The TTP become blamed for the mosque assault as well. Pakistan has witnessed a surge in TTP violence in view that peace talks among the militant organization and the authorities started out to falter final year. The TTP officially ended the ceasefire on November 28 and in view that then fifty eight assaults had been claimed through the organization wherein a hundred and seventy human beings died. Many of those assaults had been deliberate and directed through the TTP management primarily based totally in Afghanistan. A senior Pakistani authentic stated the delegation introduced a pointed message to the Taliban officers that Afghanistan-primarily based totally TTP factors should be reined in, the Dawn newspaper stated.
Afghan leaders have withinside the beyond usually rejected the allegations that TTP used their country`s soil for assaults in Pakistan, however the authentic stated this time they exceedingly agreed to cooperate at the trouble, the record stated. “Probably they realised the gravity of the situation,” the authentic in addition stated. The information of the cooperation towards the TTP might be labored out in next conferences among the 2 facets on the professional and technical levels.
The Afghan Taliban, meanwhile, stated the 2 events had mentioned financial cooperation, nearby connectivity, trade, and the country of bilateral relations. Mullah Baradar advised Pakistan now no longer to allow “political and safety worries to have an effect on enterprise or financial topics”. The authentic stated the delegation connected to development on these kinds of thoughts for boosting bilateral cooperation with the Afghan Taliban addressing the worries approximately TTP presence of their country, the paper stated. The TTP has expanded the assaults in current months and seemingly, it has turn out to be more potent for the reason that takeover of Afghanistan through the Taliban who requested Pakistan to maintain talks with the organization. But the talks have failed as Islamabad become now no longer geared up to just accept the needs of the rebels.
The TTP, which has ideological linkages with the Afghan Taliban and is likewise referred to as the Pakistan Taliban, become installation as an umbrella organization of numerous militant clothes in 2007. Its foremost purpose is to impose its strict emblem of Islam throughout Pakistan. Pakistan had was hoping that the Afghan Taliban after coming to electricity might forestall the usage of their soil towards Pakistan through expelling the TTP operatives, however they have got seemingly refused to achieve this on the price of straining ties with Islamabad. The TTP, which is assumed to be near al-Qaeda, has been blamed for numerous lethal assaults throughout Pakistan, together with an assault on navy headquarters in 2009, attacks on navy bases and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. In 2012, Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai become attacked through TTP. She suffered bullet accidents and become admitted to the Military Hospital (CMH) Peshawar after which taken to London for in addition treatment.
The TTP claimed obligation for the assault, announcing that Yousafzai become a “Western-minded girl”. In 2014, the Pakistani Taliban stormed the Army Public School (APS) withinside the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar, killing as a minimum a hundred and fifty human beings, together with 131 students. The assault despatched shockwaves internationally and become broadly condemned.