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Pakistan’s defense minister warned Afghanistan on Wednesday that any new “terrorist or suicide attack” by militants on Pakistani soil would draw a stern response, hours after talks between the two countries in Istanbul failed to secure a peace agreement.
The footage has reignited questions about Pakistan’s continued role as a breeding ground for extremist groups that spill violence across borders.
Pakistan has acknowledged allowing the US to operate drone strikes from its territory targeting militant groups in neighbouring Afghanistan. The shock.
Pakistani Taliban's deputy chief Amjad killed by army during infiltration attempt in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, highlighting ongoing security challenges.
Dozens of fighters were killed in overnight border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, both sides said on Sunday, in the most serious fighting between the neighbours since the Taliban came to power in Kabul.
Khawaja Asif accused the Taliban government of harbouring fighters of TTP, the militant group responsible for a string of deadly attacks inside Pakistan.
As Pakistan continues to claim that the Taliban are acting at India’s behest, India has said that Pakistan is infuriated with Afghanistan exercising its sovereignty.
Referring to recent border skirmishes between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban regime, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that New Delhi was waging a “low-intensity war”