Pakistan’s Everlasting Consultant to the United Nations Ambassador Munir Akram on Tuesday termed the presence of greater than 20 terrorist organisations in Afghanistan as the best menace to safety and stability within the area.
Talking at a United Nations Safety Council (UNSC) assembly, the ambassador warned that the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) — residing in Afghanistan — was rising as an umbrella organisation for regional terror teams.
Envoy Akram’s remarks come towards the backdrop of Pakistan’s ongoing efforts to curb the menace of terrorism because the nation, as per a International Terrorism Index 2025 report, has emerged because the second-most terrorism-affected nation on this planet.
Positioned on the second spot from its beforehand fourth place — witnessed an alarming 45% enhance in terrorism-related deaths with the whole rising from 748 in 2023 to 1,081 in 2024 — one of many steepest surges globally.
The variety of terror assaults greater than doubled from 517 in 2023 to 1,099 in 2024, which additionally marked the primary yr that assaults exceeded the 1,000 mark because the inception of the Index.
The rise in terrorist assaults, as per the report, coincides with the rise of the Afghan Taliban to energy in Kabul.
Final week, safety forces efficiently thwarted a cowardly terrorist assault on Bannu Cantonment in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing all 16 militants who tried to intrude into the power.
Nevertheless, within the change of fireside, 5 troopers have been martyred together with 13 civilians. Undeterred, the nation’s safety forces proceed to take vital motion towards terrorists and even arrested Mohammad Sharifullah alias Jafar — a Daesh-Khorasan operative — on intelligence supplied by America’s Central Intelligence Company (CIA) and handed him over to the USA.
The terrorist’s arrest holds significance as a consequence of his standing as the principle suspect within the assault on the Abbey Gate suicide assault on the Kabul Airport in Afghanistan in 2021 which resulted within the deaths of a minimum of 170 Afghans in addition to 13 US troops.
‘Proof of Kabul’s involvement’
Echoing the GTI report, Ambassador Akram mentioned that the TTP — with as many as 6,000 fighters — was the biggest terrorist organisation working from Afghan soil.
“With [terrorrist] secure havens near our border, the TTP has performed quite a few assaults towards Pakistan’s troopers, civilians and establishments leading to tons of of casualties,” remarked the envoy.
“We’ve got proof that the Kabul authorities haven’t solely tolerated however are complicit within the conduct of the TTP’s terrorist cross-border assaults,” he famous, including that the TTP was collaborating with different terrorist teams current in Afghanistan, just like the Baloch Liberation Military (BLA) and the Majeed Brigade, which search to destabilise Pakistan and disrupt the nation’s financial cooperation with China.
The assertion backs the statistics talked about by the GTI report which not solely termed the TTP because the deadliest terrorist group for Pakistan — accounting for 52% of all terrorism-related fatalities — but in addition highlighted that the banned organisation had capitalised on elevated operational freedom and entry to secure havens throughout the border.
“The Kabul authorities have failed to handle the menace posed to the area and past by different terrorist teams, reminiscent of Al-Qaida, the TTP and Baloch terrorists, together with the BLA and the Majeed Brigade, that are current in Afghanistan,” the envoy remarked.
Akram additional highlighted the restoration of contemporary weapons — acquired by the Afghan authorities from shares left behind by international forces —throughout counter-operations towards the TTP.
Lamenting that it was “unusual” that the Secretary-Basic’s report which is entitled “The state of affairs in Afghanistan and its implications for worldwide peace and safety”, lined the humanitarian, financial, and human rights points however didn’t tackle the problem of terrorism, the ambassador mentioned that Islamabad will provoke consultations on the creation of an applicable mechanism to handle this problem, together with a Working Group on CT throughout the Doha course of.