Pakistan asks UNSC to press Afghanistan for stopping TTP attacks
UNITED NATIONS (MNP) – Pakistan on Wednesday demanded the world community to press the Afghan government to stop the attacks carried by the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Everyone should know how and from where the banned TTP is acquiring arms and ammunition, said Munir Akram – Pakistan’s permanent representative at the UN.
Addressing a UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan, Akram said there was a need to trace the financial sources of TTP in Pakistan’s western neighbour and the Afghan interim government should asked to sever ties with the terrorist organisation.
Earlier, Roza Otunbayeva – the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Afghanistan – said Pakistan too had serious reservations over the TTP and it would be difficult to recognise the Afghan Taliban government until they fulfilled all the promises they had made.
She briefed the gathering on the latest situation and said recent arbitrary arrest of Afghan women for alleged Islamic dress code violations was having a chilling effect among the wider female population, “many of whom are now afraid to move in public”.
“The denial of women’s and girls’ access to education and work, and their removal from many aspects of public life, have caused immense harm to mental and physical health, and livelihoods,” she added.
