Pakistan has terror safe havens and the world knows about it, says Afghan envoy

There is a clarity among the UN Security Council members on the existence of terrorist safe havens inside Pakistan, a top Afghanistan envoy to the world body has said, calling for action against it.

Afghanistan’s UN Ambassador, Mahmoud Saikal, in an indirect reference to Pakistan, said his government has provided evidences to the UNSC about violations of its resolution by “a country in the region”.

In an interview to PTI, Saikal said he has stressed the need for action against “the country”, as mandated by the UNSC resolutions.

He said there is unanimity more than ever and clarity among UNSC members about the presence of terrorist safe havens in Pakistan, days after an ambassadorial-level of delegation of the 15-member powerful body returned from a trip to Kabul.

“I have not heard any member of the council denying the existence of these (terror) safe havens in Pakistan. I have not heard any member of the council stand up and say, ‘no this is not true’,” Saikal told PTI.

“But we need to go beyond that,” he said, adding, “we need to get the council consensus that ‘yes, they are there’.

Once there is consensus that they (terrorists) are there (in Pakistan), then the (security) council is obliged …read more