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Pakistan Seeks UNSC Assistance to Force Taliban Severe Ties With TTP

© AP Photo / B.K. BangashPakistan army soldiers sit guard outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives for talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018.
Pakistan army soldiers sit guard outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives for talks in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. - Sputnik India, 1920, 07.03.2024
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Islamabad has continuously alleged that the Afghan Taliban* are hand-in-glove with the banned Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP**) and now seeks the United Nations Security Council's (UNSC) support in overcoming this problem.
Pakistan on Thursday sought the help of the United Nations Security Council to put pressure on the Taliban to terminate its ties with the proscribed terrorist organization, TTP.
"I am confident that this council [UNSC] will join Pakistan in demanding that the Afghan government terminates its relationship with the TTP," Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Munir Akram, said in a statement on X following a UN Security Council (UNSC) meeting in which he put forward his demand.
In the last few months, Islamabad has repeatedly accused Afghanistan's current rulers of offering safe havens to the TTP, which Pakistan accuses of a spate of terror incidents in the South Asian sovereign state, including last year's suicide bombing of a mosque in Peshawar city that killed over 100.

The Taliban has strongly denied these allegations, stressing that security in Pakistan was the responsibility of the government there.

Despite the Taliban's denial, friction between the two sides persists on the matter.

Last year, Pakistan's then-Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari even warned the Taliban to conduct a military operation inside Afghan territory to flush out TTP militants allegedly residing there.
A security officer walks outside the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023.  - Sputnik India, 1920, 05.02.2024
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**banned terrorist group
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