{"id":113614,"date":"2023-02-23T08:28:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T03:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=113614"},"modified":"2023-02-23T08:28:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T03:28:52","slug":"kabul-willing-to-help-address-ttp-sanctuaries-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=113614","title":{"rendered":"Kabul willing to help address TTP sanctuaries issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has witnessed a surge in TTP violence since peace talks between the militant group and the government began to falter in the later half of last year. The TTP formally ended the ceasefire on November 28 and since then 58 attacks have been claimed by the group in which 170 people died.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right    media--uneven  media--stretch\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--newskitlink  \"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Many of these attacks were planned and directed by the TTP leadership based in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Pakistani official, while talking to\u00a0<em>Dawn<\/em>, on the background said the delegation delivered a pointed message to the Taliban officials that Afghanistan-based TTP elements must be reined in.<\/p>\n<p>The visiting delegation had met Taliban Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Beradar Akhund, Defence Minister Mawlavi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan leaders have in the past always rejected the allegations that TTP used their country\u2019s soil for attacks in Pakistan, but the official said this time they surprisingly agreed to cooperate on the issue. \u201cProbably they realised the gravity of the situation,\u201d he further said.<\/p>\n<p>The details of the cooperation against the TTP would be worked out in subsequent meetings between the two sides at the experts and technical level.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides in their meetings also discussed the broader issues of counter-terrorism and border security cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan Taliban, meanwhile, said the two parties had discussed economic cooperation, regional connectivity, trade, and the state of bilateral relations.<\/p>\n<p>Mullah Baradar urged Pakistan not to allow \u201cpolitical and security concerns to affect business or economic matters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The official, who spoke on background, said the delegation linked progress on all these ideas for enhacing bilateral cooperation to Afghan Taliban addressing the concerns about TTP presence in their country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has witnessed a surge in TTP violence since peace talks between the militant group and the government began to falter in the later half of last year. The TTP formally ended the ceasefire on November 28 and since then 58 attacks have been claimed by the group in which 170 people died. Many of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[588,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113616,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113614\/revisions\/113616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}