New report indicates Pakistan is allegedly purchasing US military weapons from the Taliban amid worries they may fall into the hands of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
During this time, Imran Khan’s government has been in talks with a banned outfit over a comprehensive ceasefire agreement. Since the Taliban assumed charge in Afghanistan this year in August, cross-border hostilities have been surged in Pakistan.
In August reports surfaced that the Taliban was supplying a large number of American weapons seized by it from the Afghan army to Pakistan. The US weapons that were captured by the Taliban, as the US troops withdrew from the war-ravaged nation, were openly being sold in Afghan gun dealer shops, the New York Times reported last month.
As the US army pulled out from Afghanistan, the Taliban accumulated a large quantity of weapons. Pentagon earlier said that advanced weaponry was disabled before troops left Afghanistan, but still thousands of weapons were still left for the Taliban, as per NYT report.
