No Attack Planned Or Executed on Afghan Soil, Says TTP Rejecting Pak Army Statement
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) rejected the recent statements of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff about the group’s hideouts in Afghanistan.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) rejected the recent statements of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff about the group’s hideouts in Afghanistan.
Mohammad Khorasani, TTP’s spokesperson, said that the group does not use Afghan soil for its attacks and stressed that they plan and execute their attacks inside Pakistan.
In a statement on Saturday, Khorasani said that the TTP is stationed inside Pakistan and does not use the territory of any neighbouring country.
On Friday, Asim Munir, the Chief of Staff of the Pakistan army visited the injured soldiers of the recent armed attacks in Quetta city and said that the Pakistani Taliban have safe havens in Afghanistan. Munir expressed concerns that TTP has been planning operations against Pakistan from Afghanistan and number of Afghan citizens support the group.
However, the Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan said that they attack areas of Pakistan that do not have a border with Afghanistan.
Earlier, Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman of the Taliban, had assured the neighbouring countries, especially Pakistan, that Afghanistan's soil would not be used against any neighbouring country and called TTP an internal issue of Pakistan.
These developments happen while the Pakistani army has confirmed that the process of installing barbed wire on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan near the Durand Line is in the process of completion, but with all these measures, the Pakistani army has been complaining that militants enter Pakistan from Afghanistan.
In a statement on Friday, Pakistan Army stressed that according to the Doha agreement, they expect the Taliban to not allow Afghanistan’s soil to be used for terrorist attacks against any country.
It seems that this is the first time that the Pakistan Army in its statement mentions the non-implementation of the obligations contained in the Doha Agreement, which was signed in 2020 between the United States and the Taliban. Many consider the signing of this agreement to be the cause of the collapse of the previous Afghan government.
So far, the Taliban in Afghanistan have not said anything regarding the recent statements of the Pakistan army chief.
