It’s now a Doorand line: Afghan Taliban using TTP to further its interest of not accepting British-era border with Pakistan
Pakistan army took out its pent-up anger by carrying out airstrikes on an encampment of Pakistani nationals in Paktika province of Afghanistan on December 24, alleging that it was a training camp of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a charge vehemently denied by the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban claimed that those killed were mostly women and children of refugees living there.
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On the other hand, the Taliban interim foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, speaking at the funeral ceremony of Taliban minister Khalil urRahman Haqqani, alleged that out of seven suicide attacks by Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) recently, six were planned outside the country (Pakistan).
The present Taliban leadership in Afghanistan, with whom the army is now almost at war, is the same that was hosted and supported by it for decades, even at the cost of annoying the United States. Its failure to make the ‘friendly’ Taliban regime agree to address its concerns on Baloch separatism and TTP violence frustrates the army no bounds.
Most importantly, despite ‘friendly’ Taliban taking over in Afghanistan, till date Pakistan could not produce even a shred of evidence of Indian support to these groups, which it always alleged when Hamid Karzai and
