Taliban say Afghan soil not being used for attacks in Pakistan.

Afghan soil was not being used for attacks in Pakistan, as the nation was “a Muslim and brother country”.Taliban government’s statement

“Taliban spokesperson says the Taliban signed the Doha agreement with the US, not with Pakistan and Its policy towards Pakistan is different.”

He asked: “Does it mean the Doha agreement binds the Taliban to rein in only some militants, not all?”

Agreeing with Babar’s interpretation, Asif said irrespective of Afghanistan’s stance, Pakistan stands resolute in uprooting terrorism from its soil, whatever the source.

“This is regardless of whether or not Kabul has the will to reign in militants from within its borders.”

TTP has also become active in Balochistan after multiple attacks in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, where the Pakistan Army had uprooted the militant safe havens after successful operations.

The militant group has stepped up attacks since revoking a ceasefire agreement with the government in late 2022, including the bombing of a mosque in Peshawar that killed more than 100 people earlier this year.

Senior Pakistani politicians, including Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, are worried over the Taliban government’s statement that they signed the Dohal deal with the US, not Pakistan, which has come amid surging violence in the country.

In an interview with BBC Pashto, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, in response to the defence minister’s remarks that Afghanistan is not fulfilling its obligations under the deal, had said that they didn’t sign the peace accord with Islamabad.

But at the same time, he claimed that Afghan soil was not being used for attacks in Pakistan, as the nation was “a Muslim and brother country”.

Pakistan has witnessed a sharp spike in terrorism across the country which it believes is perpetrated by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) despite assurances by their benefactors of reining in the militant group.

The army has “serious concerns on the safe havens and liberty of action available to TTP in Afghanistan,” it said, adding such attacks are intolerable and would elicit an effective response from the security forces of Pakistan.

While responding to Mujahid’s assertion, veteran politician and senior PPP leader Farhatullah Babar termed it “disturbing”