Islamabad (Web Desk): Pakistan has sought the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) support to call on the interim Afghan government to cut off its links with the banned outfit.
“I am confident that UNSC will join Pakistan in demanding that the Afghan government terminates its relationship with the TTP,” Islamabad’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Munir Akram said in a UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting on Wednesday.
Urging the UN to call on the Afghan side to prevent such cross-border attacks and infiltration by the TTP and other terrorists into Pakistani territory, the ambassador also called for a probe into the financing and acquiring of modern weapons by the militant group.
“The UN should investigate to find out how the TTP has acquired advanced military equipment and weaponry and to identify the sources of the group’s financing, which is sustaining its 50,000 fighters and their dependents and its terrorist operations.
“Left unchecked, the TTP, supported by Al-Qaeda and some other state-sponsored groups, could soon pose a global terrorist threat”, he added.
“Interim Afghan government’s failure to control the TTP and other terrorist groups erodes its claim of full control of its territory that it asserts in order to secure international recognition,” Akram maintained.
Pakistan has witnessed a significant surge in attacks on security forces in recent months with the militants using advanced weaponry and equipment.
