Afghan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan persistent threat to Pakistan: UNSC report
India Today
Pakistan faces a persistent security threat from the Afghanistan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a United Nations Security Council report claimed, according to a media report.
A United Nations Security Council report reminded about the persistent threat Pakistan’s security faces from the Afghanistan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and warned that prospects of success of the ongoing peace process with the dreaded terror group were bleak, according to a media report.
The annual report of the 1988 Taliban sanctions committee monitoring team noted TTP’s linkages with the Afghan Taliban and explained how the group benefitted from the fall of the Ghani regime last year and touched upon its relations with other terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan.
The banned TTP, the report noted, had up to 4,000 fighters based in east and south-east areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and made up the largest group of foreign fighters based there, according to Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.
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This was the team’s first report for the committee since the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August last year.
The report's original focus was on the Taliban’s internal politics, its finances, relations with Al-Qaeda, Daesh, and other terrorist groups, and the implementation of the UNSC sanctions.
The report’s launch coincided with the start of the third round of talks between the Pakistan government and TTP last Thursday.
