UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations Security Council report has come as a reminder about the persistent threat Pakistan’s security faces from the Afghanistan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), saying the militant group also poses a threat to the region. “The link between the Taliban and both Al-Qaeda and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) remains strong and symbiotic,” the annual report of the 1988 Taliban sanctions committee monitoring team noted. The report comes amid escalating TTP attacks inside Pakistani territory to which Pakistan has repeatedly drawn the attention of the international community. “It is too early to judge the impact of the decree by the Taliban in April 2022 banning poppy cultivation,” the report added. Key Taliban individuals remain closely involved in production and trafficking.” However, the Afghan Taliban dismissed the report and called it “full of prejudice”, according to media reports.
