ISLAMABAD: Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt-Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry on Monday said the Taliban regime in Afghanistan had only choices, as they had to either take action against the terrorists on Afghan soil and hand them over to Pakistan.
TERRORISM-NARCOTICS NEXUS
He also mentioned that there was a nexus between terrorism and politics in Tirah — a valley in Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — where he said poppy was cultivated on 12,000 acres of land.
In this connection, the ISPR chief Fitna al-Khawarij — a term used for TTP — and Lashkar-e-Islam — another outlawed terrorist group were involved in narcotics business.
To prove his point, he regretted that some political forces start opposing action against against the terrorists present whenever there is talk about any military operation in Tirah.
KHAWARIJ IN POPULATED AREAS
Lt-Gen Chaudhry expressed these views during an informal meeting with the country’s top journalists, where he said people in Afghanistan want a genuine representative group, not terrorists [Afghan Taliban as their ruler].
The ISPR chief told the journalists that the Khawarij were rapid relocating to the populated parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from the border regions — a development which makes them easier for them to hide while difficult for security forces and law enforcement agencies to identify and target them.
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