Pakistan Continues To Be A Victim Of Terrorism From Afghanistan, Says US
John Kirby, the White House National Security Spokesperson, said that the people of Pakistan continue to be victims of terrorist attacks from the Afghan border.
John Kirby, the White House National Security Spokesperson, said that the people of Pakistan continue to be victims of terrorist attacks from the Afghan border.
Kirby said that the United States will continue to work with Pakistan on counterterrorism.
Kirby said at a news conference on Wednesday that Islamabad has never been a "technical ally" of the United States and that no formal treaty has been signed between the two countries. He added that the United States has cooperated with Islamabad over the past two decades in countering terrorist threats on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Despite this, the United States and Pakistan have cooperated over the past several decades to counter the threat of terrorism, which "still exists in the backbone of Afghanistan and Pakistan," Kirby said at a news conference in Washington on Wednesday, January 15.
These threats still linger on the Afghan-Pakistan border, he said.
Pakistan accuses the Afghan Taliban of supporting militants opposed to the country, but the Taliban have always claimed that they do not do so.
Islamabad has repeatedly called on the Afghan Taliban over the past three years to expel TTP militants from Afghanistan and hand over its leaders to Pakistan.
For the past few decades, Pakistan has been an important partner of the United States, first in the fight against Soviet influence in Afghanistan and then in the fight against terrorism.
However, Pakistan sheltered Taliban leaders during the two-decade presence of the United States and NATO in Afghanistan, and according to officials of the former Afghan government, Islamabad supported the group's war.
