Pakistani Taliban fighters, who were arrested by Afghan border police, stand during a presentation of seized weapons and equipment to the media in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 5, 2016.
Ayesha Tanzeem, VOA: Why Pakistan Won't Go After Afghan Taliban
ISLAMABAD—Pakistan is hesitant to take action against the Afghan Taliban on its soil because of concerns the group will redirect its violence against Pakistan and Afghan intelligence will support it, a senior Pakistani official said.
“We have to think twice before taking action. Anybody we take action against is immediately supported from the other side,” the official told VOA on the condition of anonymity.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani recently demanded that Pakistan either take military action against Taliban commanders on its soil or arrest them and hand them over to Kabul.
Pakistan has often complained that when it launched military operations in Swat and South Waziristan in 2009, militants belonging to Pakistani Taliban took shelter in Afghanistan and started using it as a base, with the help of Afghan intelligence, to carry out operations against Pakistan.
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What isn't adequately addressed is the fact that Afghanistan since 1947 has rejected the legitimacy of the border between the two countries, and persistently requests that Pakistan agree to "re-negotiate" the border. Even until today, the Afghans protest whenever Pakistan tries to fence the border, using the flimsy excuse that "families will be divided" if Pakistan is allowed to secure its border.
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