Fazl-ur-Rehman Denies Claims of Attacks From Afghan Soil on Pakistan

The leader of Pakistan’s Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party also said that Pakistan has provided the use of its airspace to the United States over the past twenty years to attack border areas of Afghanistan.

Maulana Fazlur Rehman said: “They gave bases to attack Afghans, they gave airspace to attack Afghans. Have they ever complained to you, asking ‘why are airplanes taking off from your airports and attacking us?’ They never complained about the planes, nor about the bombings. You destroyed thousands of people with your planes for twenty years, you destroyed tribes.”

The Islamic Emirate said that anti-security incidents in Pakistan have no connection to Afghanistan, and this country should seek the roots of anti-security incidents within its own territory.

Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesperson for the Islamic Emirate, told TOLOnews: “Sometimes when there is insecurity there, it is not related to Afghanistan because all incidents happen on their soil in different provinces, hundreds of kilometers away from the Durand Line.”

Amid increasing anti-security incidents over the past two years in Pakistan, senior military and political officials of this country have occasionally claimed that Afghan soil is being used against this country.

“The TTP issue is an internal matter of Pakistan. Instead of turning it into a project, it is better for Afghanistan and Pakistan, as neighboring and Islamic countries, to seek each other’s political stability and security in responding to the demands of the people,” Nasir Shafiq, a political analyst, told TOLOnews.

This comes as anti-security incidents in Pakistan over the past three years have cast a shadow over relations between Kabul and Islamabad.