The Taliban are not some military outfits but normal civilians, said Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, asking how a country is supposed to hunt them down when it has three million Afghan refugees at the border.
During an interview with PBS NewsHour, Khan claimed that Pakistan hosts three million Afghan refugees of which the majority are Pashtuns, a group similar to Taliban fighters.
“Now, there are camps of 500,000 people; there are camps of 100,000 people. And Taliban are not some military outfits, they are normal civilians in these camps,” he said.
He further added that thousands of Pakistanis lost their lives in the aftermath of the US war in Afghanistan when Pakistan had nothing to do with what happened on September 11, 2001, in New York.
UN Security Council prepared a report which says about 6000 terrorists of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are active on the Afghan border. UN monitor has observed that TTP has distinctive anti-Pakistan objectives but also supports the Afghan Taliban militarily inside Afghanistan against Afghan government forces.
