28/08/2017
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal told Dawn that the Taliban were using Afghanistan as the launch pad for their operations, both inside and outside Pakistan.
He said the Taliban had no need to hide in Pakistan, since they held more than 40 per cent of Afghanistan. “If they have control over so much land and resources in Afghanistan, it means they have hideouts there, not in Pakistan,” he said.
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