New Delhi, Oct 9 (NVI) Pakistan has become a major hub of illicit drug trafficking whose revenues are used to strengthen the deadly terrorist organisation ISIS-K to cause destabilisation in Afghanistan, the Taliban regime’s Acting Foreign Minister Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi has said.
These significant remarks slamming Pakistan were made by Muttaqi at the Joint Session of the 7th Moscow Format meeting, ahead of his visit to India to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral ties, including in the spheres of security, political, economic and trade.
He said Pakistan is a leading country worldwide in opium poppy cultivation, and from the revenues of the illicit drug trade, terrorist organizations such as ISIS-K are being strengthened.
ISI-K has been carrying out sustained campaign of terrorism in Afghanistan in an attempt to destabilise the Taliban regime which seized power militarily in August 2021.
Insisting that there are no bases or strongholds of any irresponsible armed groups, including ISIS, inside Afghanistan, Muttaqi said his country’s problems lie beyond its borders, in a clear reference to Pakistan.
He underlined that regional countries must work together to take action against ISIS and other groups that threaten the security of Afghanistan and the entire region.
He said the international community must take serious steps to prevent these major problems, because the situation is a grave threat to the whole world. (NVI)
