Pakistan violating other nations’ sovereignty: Afghanistan

In his statement to the powerful UN Security Council on the debate on UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) here on Tuesday, Afghanistan’s Permanent Representative to the UN Mahmoud Saikal said Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour was “tracked” and killed in Pakistan’s Balochistan in an American drone strike. 

The incident “exposed” that Mansour had a Pakistani passport in a fake name that he had used to fly numerous times from Pakistani airports.

“Despite this, the charade of plausible deniability, duplicity, and blame of Afghan weaknesses continues, which must come to an end if we are to succeed in counter-terrorism,” he said. 

Saikal accused “elements within the state structure of Pakistan” of facilitating most of the terrorist groups active in the region and warned that a country using “good and bad terrorists” against each other is “playing with fire”. 

“The fact that notorious terrorist leaders were found and killed in their safe havens there is a clear proof that the country has violated the sovereignty of other nations,” he said adding that this constitutes a flagrant violation of UN Security Council resolutions on the Sanctions Regime against the Taliban. “We believe that there is an urgent need for proper implementation of the existing counter terrorism resolutions of the UN Security Council,” he said.