UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has called for global action against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Majeed Brigade operating from safe havens in Afghanistan.
“This threat of Daesh, TTP and Majeed Brigade is a threat not only to Afghanistan and Pakistan but to the entire region and beyond,” the Pakistan envoy Munir Akram said in a debate on the 20th biannual report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by Da’esh to international peace and security.
“We must sincerely address the terrorist threats from Afghanistan,” he added.
Ambassador Akram said the international community has failed to address State terrorism, including the use of State power to suppress legitimate struggles for self-determination or to continue foreign occupation.
“There must be accountability for the violation of fundamental human rights, especially the right to self-determination and in situations of foreign occupation,” he said, referring to the suppression of the freedom struggles of Kashmiri and Palestinian people.
Opening the debate, UN Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Voronkov, who heads of the Office of Counter-Terrorism, said that Da’esh remains a serious global security threat despite years of sustained efforts to dismantle its operations.
“Terrorism remains a significant and evolving threat to global peace and security, one that no State can confront in isolation,” he said.
In his remarks, the Pakistani envoy also said that terrorist attacks have increased globally, especially across the Middle East, Africa and in and from Afghanistan.
“While Al-Qaeda ‘core’ was decimated in Afghanistan, largely due to Pakistan’s efforts, I may mention, several of Al-Qaeda’s subsidiaries have emerged elsewhere, including in North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa,” he said, pointing out that D’aesh was suppressed in Syria and Iraq, but the franchises have also emerged in Afghanistan and in the Sahel.
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As such, Ambassador Akram stressed that the international community must address the terrorist threat together, through a comprehensive, coordinated and principled strategy based upon the Global Counter Terrorism Strategy (GCTS) adopted by the General Assembly.
