Kakar said 15 suicide bombings in recent months had been carried out by Afghans, and dozens of Afghans had been killed in clashes with Pakistani security forces.
He said Pakistan had continuously conveyed concerns about militant safe havens in Afghanistan but, despite repeated assurances, the Taliban-led administration had not taken action.
Instead, evidence suggested militants had been facilitated in Afghanistan, said Kakarm in an unusually strongly-worded statement against the Taliban, who for years were considered to be close allies of Pakistan.
A spokesman for the Taliban administration did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They have previously denied the accusations.
Kakar said Islamabad had hoped the Taliban’s ascent to power in 2021, which followed the withdrawal of US-led foreign forces from the country, would bring peace and cooperation.
But since then, he said, there had been a 60 per cent rise in militant attacks in Pakistan and a 500 per cent rise in suicide bombings in which more than 2,200 Pakistanis had been killed.
There has been a resurgence of attacks by Islamist militants in Pakistan since talks between Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Pakistani state broke down in 2022.
TTP, an umbrella organisation of militant groups, pledges allegiance to and gets its name from, the Afghan Taliban but is not directly a part of the entity that rules Afghanistan.
Kakar said that Pakistan had communicated to the Taliban administration that it had to “choose between Pakistan and the TTP”.
Source: CNA
