Taliban accuse Pakistan of allowing US drone incursion into Afghan territory

MADRID, 28 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Acting Minister of Defense of the Afghan Taliban regime, Mullah Mohammad Yaqub, accused the Pakistani government this Sunday of allowing US military unmanned aircraft to enter Afghanistan and asked the Islamabad authorities to refrain from granting these flight permits.

"According to the information we have, these drones are entering Afghanistan through Pakistan. They are using Pakistani airspace, so we ask them not to use their airspace against us," he said at a press conference. press collected by the RTA Pashto chain.

It should be remembered that the United States announced in July the death of the leader of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri, in an attack with a drone carried out in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Pakistan has denied any prior knowledge of the attack, as well as any involvement in it.

In addition, Pakistan and Afghanistan are going through a moment of certain border tension due to the actions of the Pakistani Taliban, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a group that differs from the Afghan Taliban in organizational matters but follows the same rigorous interpretation of Sunni Islam. .

The TTP, which has rejected all efforts to cement a ceasefire, brings together more than a dozen Islamist militant groups operating in Pakistan, where they have killed some 70,000 people in two decades of violence.