{"id":192242,"date":"2026-01-09T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=192242"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:05:34","slug":"pakistan-afghanistan-relations-deteriorate-due-to-talibans-refusal-to-act-against-ttp-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/01\/09\/pakistan-afghanistan-relations-deteriorate-due-to-talibans-refusal-to-act-against-ttp-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan-Afghanistan relations deteriorate due to Taliban\u2019s refusal to act against TTP: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-192244\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Islamabad: The International Crisis Group (ICG) has said Pakistan has been the worst-affected country since the Taliban\u2019s 2021 takeover of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the Brussels-based independent and non-profit think tank, in a new report, says that relations between the two countries have tanked, mainly because of the Afghan Taliban\u2019s refusal to crack down on the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).<\/p>\n<p>Since 2022, violence in Pakistan has spiralled. In 2025 alone, militants martyred more than 600 Pakistani soldiers and police, mostly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, the two provinces bordering Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Islamabad says that the banned TTP are responsible for these attacks, along with Baloch insurgent groups, which it believes with evidence, are backed by arch-rival India.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels-based think tank says Islamabad may strike Afghanistan again if militant attacks continue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUN monitors assert that the TTP enjoys Taliban support,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>On its western flank, after 11 Pakistani military personnel were martyred in a TTP attack on Oct 8, Islamabad conducted cross-border airstrikes, including its first-ever strike on Kabul, ostensibly targeting TTP chief Noor Wali Mehsud. The report cautions that Islamabad is likely to lash out again if it traces another strike back to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The International Crisis Group (ICG) has said Pakistan has been the worst-affected country since the Taliban\u2019s 2021 takeover of Afghanistan. According to Kashmir Media Service, the Brussels-based independent and non-profit think tank, in a new report, says that relations between the two countries have tanked, mainly because of the Afghan Taliban\u2019s refusal to crack &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":192244,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/01\/3-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192245,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192242\/revisions\/192245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}