Afghan Taliban Supports Terrorists, Says Pakistan Religious Leader
The head of the Pakistan Ulema Council accused the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan of supporting militants and failing to act against armed groups targeting Pakistan.
The head of the Pakistan Ulema Council accused the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan of supporting militants and failing to act against armed groups targeting Pakistan.
Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said enemies of Pakistan were present in Afghanistan and plotting to destabilise the country, urging the Muslim world and the international community to take Islamabad’s concerns seriously.
He said the Pakistani public and armed forces would stand together against what he described as a wave of terrorism and would defeat it again, as in the past.
Ashrafi made the remarks in response to a series of militant attacks attributed to the Baloch Liberation Army.
The group carried out a series of coordinated assaults across multiple cities in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Saturday, according to officials and media reports.
Ashrafi said the Taliban’s interim administration in Afghanistan was supporting militants instead of eliminating them and had taken no effective action. He called the situation unacceptable and urged what he described as responsible figures in Afghanistan to address the issue.
He also said the people of Pakistan stood alongside their armed forces and that both the Pakistani Taliban and the Baloch Liberation Army would be defeated.
The violence followed an earlier attack on the Jaffar Express train on the Quetta–Peshawar route in March 2025 and is considered one of the largest actions by Baloch separatists in recent years.
According to Agence France-Presse, armed attackers using firearms and hand grenades carried out nearly a dozen coordinated assaults early Saturday in southern Pakistan, targeting a high-security prison, police posts and paramilitary facilities.
