Pakistan’s Ambassador to the UN, Munir Akram, has asked the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to urge the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan to terminate their relationship with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The TTP could “soon pose a global terrorist threat” if left unchecked, Ambassador Akram warned the UNSC on Wednesday while addressing a special Security Council session on Afghanistan.
A total of 306 terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan in the year 2023 — including 23 suicide bombings — which killed 693 people (330 security personnel, 260 civilians, and 103 militants) and injured 1,124 others.
In February alone, the country experienced 97 militant attacks, resulting in 87 fatalities and 118 injuries, the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) said.
Furthermore, a report by the Pak Institute for Peace Studies’ Pakistan (PIPS) Security found that banned organizations such as the TTP accounted for over 82pc of terrorism-related deaths and conducted 78pc of terrorist attacks recorded in the country.
The report said that the militants’ intensifying attacks indicate that the TTP and its affiliates will continue to resort to an intensified terrorism onslaught to ‘force’ Pakistan to reinstate the process of dialogue.
“The Afghan interim government’s failure to control the TTP and other terrorist groups erodes its claim of full control of its territory that it asserts to secure international recognition,” he said.
He also urged the UN to investigate how the TTP acquired advanced military equipment and weaponry and identify the source of its finances, which has helped sustain its estimated 50,000 fighters and terrorist operations.
