‘TTP planning attacks on Pakistani positions from Afghanistan’

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‘TTP planning attacks on Pakistani positions from Afghanistan’
‘TTP planning attacks on Pakistani positions from Afghanistan’

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry on Monday said that Mehmood Khan Achakzai was sent to Afghanistan as Pakistan’s special representative after Islamabad received reports that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan was planning attacks on border posts from Afghan soil.

He said there were reports that a big incident could happen in Afghanistan “and we wanted to inform the Afghanistan government about the threat”




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Pakistan on Thursday called for an immediate end to the blockade of Gaza to allow humanitarian relief to reach Palestinians.

The appeal came a day after Pakistan voted along with other UN Human Rights Council members to launch a probe into Israel´s offensive in the territory, with rights chief Navi Pillay saying the Jewish state´s military actions could amount to war crimes.

The 47-member council backed a Palestinian-drafted resolution by 29 votes, with Arab and fellow Muslim countries joined by China and Russia, plus Latin American and African nations.

"The blockade of Gaza must be ended in order to allow access of any humanitarian assistance," Pakistan´s most senior foreign office bureaucrat Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry told a press briefing."

And that is why even in the UN Security Council and later in UN Human Rights Council we called for humanitarian pauses," Chaudhry said.

"Unless this blockade is lifted we cannot send any relief assistance," he continued. Chaudhry said the Israeli military offensive had led to the killings in Gaza of "innocent non-combatant and unarmed Palestinians including women and children".

"We have spoken clearly and unambiguously in the United Nations Security Council yesterday and call for an end to hostilities and to revive the peace talks.

"He said Pakistan was also actively working with Muslim and like-minded countries to secure humanitarian access to those who are badly wounded and stranded in the shelters.