{"id":7909,"date":"2026-04-01T20:11:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=7909"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:11:19","slug":"from-safe-havens-to-terror-afghan-taliban-ttp-link-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2026\/04\/01\/from-safe-havens-to-terror-afghan-taliban-ttp-link-exposed","title":{"rendered":"From safe havens to terror: Afghan Taliban-TTP link exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"471\"><strong data-start=\"189\" data-end=\"209\">Islamabad\/Kabul:<\/strong> Recent investigations by international analysts and defense experts have once again highlighted the deepening links between the <strong data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"363\">Afghan Taliban regime<\/strong> and the Pakistani militant group <strong data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"469\">Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as \u201cFitna-al-Khawarij.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"823\">According to multiple reports, the Afghan Taliban is not only providing <strong data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"560\">safe havens<\/strong> to TTP militants but is also supplying <strong data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"636\">financial and logistical support<\/strong> to aid their operations. Experts note that this collaboration has moved beyond ideological alignment and now involves <strong data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"788\">concrete terrorist activities<\/strong> targeting neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"1039\">Defense authorities warn that this policy poses a <strong data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"915\">serious threat to regional stability<\/strong>, particularly for <strong data-start=\"934\" data-end=\"946\">Pakistan<\/strong>, which has witnessed a recent uptick in cross-border attacks originating from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1041\" data-end=\"1345\">Central and South Asian nations have expressed growing concern over the Taliban-TTP nexus, highlighting that terrorism is increasingly becoming <strong data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1202\">transnational<\/strong> in nature. The Taliban\u2019s long-standing assurance that \u201cAfghan soil will not be used against any other country\u201d now faces serious skepticism.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1347\" data-end=\"1771\">Recent counter-terrorism operations in Pakistan\u2019s <strong data-start=\"1397\" data-end=\"1427\">Khyber and Bannu districts<\/strong> provide tangible evidence of this collaboration, with militants neutralized, weapons seized, and communication links confirming cross-border coordination. Analysts warn that unless the Afghan regime changes course, the region could see a <strong data-start=\"1666\" data-end=\"1709\">further escalation in militant activity<\/strong>, threatening peace and security across neighboring nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad\/Kabul: Recent investigations by international analysts and defense experts have once again highlighted the deepening links between the Afghan Taliban regime and the Pakistani militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as \u201cFitna-al-Khawarij.\u201d According to multiple reports, the Afghan Taliban is not only providing safe havens to TTP militants but is also supplying financial and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,2294],"class_list":["post-7909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-headline","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7911,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions\/7911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}