In response to Pakistan's airstrikes on Paktika, Taliban’s intelligence agency spokesman Jawad Sargar said that Punjab has been separated from other parts of Pakistan and now the possibility of Pakistan's disintegration is stronger than ever.
Sargar said that the Pakistani army has no incentive to fight and that the Taliban should seize the opportunities.
"The tribes have risen up, the soldiers of Islam are fighting there, the people are suspicious of the government, and the army has no incentive to fight," Sargar wrote in a note on social media platform X.
In the note, which appears to be in response to recent attacks by Pakistani warplanes on TTP centres in Barmal district of Paktika province, the Taliban’s intelligence agency spokesman wrote, "Now is not the time for promises or expressions of feelings, strategic alliance is needed, power is needed, unity is needed."
According to the Taliban spokesman, Punjab province has been separated from other parts of Pakistan and there is a "high probability of disintegration" of Pakistan.
He described the history of the Pakistani army as full of "shame and disgrace", which he said the "Ummah of Islam" considers the Pakistani government to be the second "Zionist regime".
In his note, the Taliban's intelligence agency spokesman stressed that "we must therefore seize the opportunities”. The Taliban spokesman did not specify who he meant by "soldiers of Islam”.
However, he appears to be referring to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants who have intensified their attacks against Pakistani security forces in recent years, especially after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan.
Islamabad expected that with the Taliban's rise to power in Afghanistan, the intensity of attacks by its allies, including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Pakistan, would decrease, but on the contrary, the group increased the intensity of its attacks in the country.
Senior Pakistani officials have accused the Afghan Taliban of harbouring and training TTP fighters. Earlier, Pakistan's defence minister had threatened that Islamabad might launch an attack against TTP bases on Afghan soil.
On Tuesday evening, as Pakistan's special envoy Mohammad Sadiq visited Kabul and met with senior Taliban officials, Pakistani warplanes attacked TTP headquarters in Barmal district of Paktika in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban said that 46 civilians, including women and children, were killed in the attack.
Earlier on Wednesday, TTP spokesman Mohammad Khurasani said at least 50 people, including 27 women and children, had been killed in Pakistani airstrikes. The victims are displaced persons who fled to Afghanistan due to the Pakistani army's invasion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, he said.
