- Ambassador Iftikhar highlights the online dimension of terrorist threat.
- TTP the largest terrorist group in Afghanistan with 60,000 warriors: envoy
- Pakistan paid heavy price in foil of terrorist attacks, says iftikhar.
Pakistan has told the UN Security Council that terrorism from Afghanistan remains the biggest threat to its national security and calls for the issue to be addressed as a priority for regional peace.
When he spoke on the council’s orientation of Afghanistan, Pakistan’s permanent representative of the UN, ambassador Asim IFTIKHAR Ahmad said that several terror units, including Daesh-K, Al-Qaida, Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), East Turkestan Islamic Movement (Etim), Balochistan Liberation Army (Bla) operate from Afghan shrines.
He said that more than 60 terrorist camps act as hubs for cross -border infiltration and attack, adding that Pakistan has “credible evidence” for cooperation between these groups through joint education, illegal arms trade, refuge to militant and coordinated assaults aimed at civilians, security forces and development projects in Pakistan.
Ambassador IFTIKHAR highlighted the online dimension of the threat and said that almost 70 propaganda accounts that were traced to Afghan IP addresses were used by these groups and must be limited with collaboration with social media platforms.
The broadcast said that Pakistan and China had jointly requested the UN 1267 sanction committee to list, among others, and majed Brigade and expressed hope of rapid action on the proposal.
He described TTP with an estimated 6,000 warriors as the largest terrorist group on Afghan Earth and said Pakistan had foiled several infiltration attempts in which the sophisticated sophisticated military class weapons left by foreign forces during their withdrawal from Afghanistan.
He said these operations had come at a heavy price and noted that 12 Pakistani soldiers were martyrated this month while they defended the boundaries.
Ambassador ITIKHAR also drawn attention to Afghanistan’s economic and humanitarian crisis, pointing out that the UN’s humanitarian needs and response plan from 2025 had only received 27% of its required funding.
He said Pakistan had hosted millions of Afghan refugees for over four decades, often with insufficient international assistance, and called for a more just division of the burden.
While acknowledging that civil war in Afghanistan had ended for the first time in 40 years, the ambassador said the situation remained “deeply worrying” and stressed that sustained engagement – rather than isolation – was the only way to achieve peace.
