2024-03-19 15:50:30
Islamabad: Pakistan on Tuesday revealed that two officer-ranked Afghan nationals serving in the army were among those expelled from the country as part of its drive against illegal immigrants. This disclosure has come after the airstrike of Pakistani Air Force in Afghanistan. There is extreme tension between the two countries regarding this airstrike. Eight Afghan women and children have died in this air strike by Pakistan, although Pakistan claims that it has killed the terrorists. Pakistan alleges that terrorists hiding in Afghanistan are attacking its land. It has blamed the attack on Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a splinter group of the Afghan Taliban.
Why is there enmity between Pakistan and Taliban?
Pakistan has repeatedly requested the Taliban to take action against TTP. However, Taliban says that there is no terrorist group present on its soil, which is involved in attacks against Pakistan. Due to this, the crisis between Pakistan and Taliban is continuously deepening. In such a situation, to teach a lesson to Taliban, Pakistan has started a campaign to send illegal Afghan citizens present in its country back to their country. Lakhs of people have been evacuated from Pakistan under the campaign that started on October 31 last year. These also include a large number of women and children, who were living in Pakistan as refugees.
What did Pakistani Defense Minister say on Afghan citizens?
Speaking to a private TV channel, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said that there has been no further infiltration from Afghanistan at the state level, although there are infiltration attempts by terrorists from time to time. According to The Express Tribune newspaper, the Defense Minister mentioned the open nature of the Pak-Afghan border and said that due to the absence of fencing, any person can easily enter Pakistan from Afghanistan. Can obtain legal documents in their country and even enlist in the armed forces.
Many Afghan civilians were expelled from Pakistani army
Asif said, “As defense minister, I signed two or three files in which Afghan recruits have been fired, one of them was a captain and one was a lieutenant.” Referring to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)-affiliated terrorists in Afghanistan, Asif said a large number of these terrorists reside in Afghanistan, while 3,000-4,000 were released during Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government. The terrorists were brought to Pakistan for ‘rehabilitation’.
Pakistan is blaming Taliban for terrorist attack
“We also briefed the National Assembly on this issue,” the Pakistani defense minister said. Stressing the need to resolve the issue together with the Afghan government, Khawaja Asif, during his party’s previous tenure in Kabul, Cited travel. He claimed that during this period the involvement of Afghan civilians in terrorist attacks in Pakistan was discussed with the Taliban and evidence was presented.