Pakistan has provided the interim government of Afghanistan with intelligence information on terrorist groups operating within the country, according to Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, during a briefing for reporters.
"We have sent Kabul our intelligence on terrorist groups based in Afghanistan and are in constant touch with the Afghan authorities on this issue," Baloch stated.
Islamabad has expressed increasing concern over the continued use of Afghan territory for terrorist attacks on Pakistan. These concerns were communicated to the Afghan embassy representative, who was summoned to the Foreign Ministry earlier this week in connection with an attack by terrorists from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, the Pakistani cell of the Taliban banned in Russia, recognized as a terrorist organization) on Pakistani soldiers in Bannu, resulting in 10 fatalities.
Relations between Islamabad and Kabul have effectively been frozen due to Afghanistan's refusal to end its support for the TTP, a Pakistan-based extremist group responsible for organizing terrorist attacks within Pakistan. The TTP aims to establish an "Islamic system" in Pakistan and has been under UN sanctions since 2011 as an organization linked to Al-Qaeda (banned in Russia). The TTP is believed to have up to 50,000 militants.
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Based on materials from TASS