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KABUL – Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar said on Wednesday that terror attacks in Pakistan have surged 60 percent and suicide bombings by 500 percent after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, a claim long disputed by the Taliban.
“After the establishment of the interim Afghan government in August 2021, we had a strong hope that there would be long-term peace in Afghanistan. Strict action would be taken against Pakistan-opposing groups, especially the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and they would absolutely not be allowed to use Afghan soil against Pakistan,” Kakar said at a press conference in Islamabad.
But Pakistan is now claiming that the Afghan government is “doing nothing against terrorism emanating from Afghan soil”. Islamabad claims that it is the violation of the US-Taliban Doha agreement that made American withdrawal from Afghanistan conditional on the basis of Taliban’s assurance that Afghanistan “will not become a safe haven for terrorists”. “But unfortunately, after the establishment of the interim Afghan govt, there has been a 60 per cent increase in terror incidents and a 500 per cent rise in suicide attacks in Pakistan,” he said.
He said that 2,267 Pakistani citizens were killed in the past two years due to the attacks by the TTP using Afghan soil.
“During this time, 15 Afghan citizens were also among the people involved in suicide attacks. Other than this, till now, 64 Afghan citizens were killed while fighting Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies during the counterterrorism campaign,” he said.
His terse remarks come after a spate of attacks in the past week, including on Mianwali Training Air Base in the Punjab province, which was claimed by the Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan and the killing of soldiers in an ambush in Gwadar, claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Front.
