NEW YORK: Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Munir Akram has said the border attacks from Afghan soil into Pakistan by terrorist group, the TTP, have become more lethal due to the acquisition and use of advanced military equipment, apparently from the stocks left behind by foreign forces in Afghanistan.
He said the presence of terrorist groups in Afghanistan had posed a major security threat to Pakistan.
Speaking at the UN Security Council in New York, he said the TTP was cross-border terrorist attacks inside Pakistan from Afghanistan, including the one in Chitral in Sept 6th that left five Chitral Scouts personnel martyred.
Mr Akram said there are over four million Afghans in Pakistan and another six hundred thousand Afghans have made their way into Pakistan over the last two years.
He urged the international community, and Afghan interim government to cooperate with Pakistan in securing the repatriation of all illegal Afghans.
Despite challenges, Pakistan believed that engagement and cooperation is the only feasible path to promote to a peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan.
He said that Pakistan remains committed to the goal of a nuclear weapons free world, addressing regional and global challenges and assuring undiminished security for all States.
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