The Taliban on Monday taunted Pakistan and warned of a befitting reaction after the united states of america’s indoors minister Rana Sanaullah hinted at a probable army operation in opposition to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) hideouts in Afghanistan.
Taliban chief and deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Yasir mocked Pakistan through sharing a picturegraph on Twitter of Islamabad surrendering to India after the 1971 conflict that brought about the formation of Bangladesh.
“Interior Minister of Pakistan! Excellent Sir! Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistan aren’t Turkey to goal the Kurds in Syria. This is Afghanistan, the graveyard of proud empires. Do now no longer consider a army assault on us, otherwise, there might be a shameful repetition of the army settlement with India,” Yasir stated.
The iconic picturegraph shared through the Taliban chief is of the Pakistan Army’s commander in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Lieutenant General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi accepting the decisive defeat and signing the ‘Instrument of Surrender’ in Dhaka withinside the presence of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) of Indian and Bangladesh Forces in Eastern Theatre Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora in 1971.
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Later withinside the day, Afghanistan’s defence ministry issued a declaration refuting the claims of the Pakistani indoors ministry that there are hideouts of TTP internal Afghanistan, terming it “fake and provocative”.
“In the past, such provocative statements and claims have broken the connection among the 2 countries. We name on Pakistan to proportion its issues with the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan (IEA) and clear up the problem via dialogue,” the declaration issued through the IEA’s intervening time Defence Minister Mullah Yaqoub stated.
“Afghanistan isn’t always ownerless or with none heirs and prefer always, is prepared to shield its united states of america and the territorial protection and its freedom. Any strive of aggression perpetrated closer to Afghanistan might be replied to befittingly. We are properly organized to reply to any offensive,” the declaration added.
In a latest interview to a Pakistani information channel, the minister had stated Islamabad can also additionally goal the TTP in Afghanistan if Kabul does now no longer take cast off them.
“When those troubles arise, we first ask Afghanistan, our Islamic brother nation, to cast off those hideouts and surrender those people to us, however if that doesn’t happen, what you cited is possible,” Sanaullah had stated.