Overview

• At the Contact Group’s inaugural meeting in New York, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar urged Kabul to take concrete, verifiable steps to ensure Afghan territory is not used for terrorism against Pakistan.
• He identified the TTP, BLA, Majeed Brigade and ETIM as operating from Afghanistan and said they were collaborating with al-Qaeda.
• Pakistan cited a UN Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team report that allegedly details a Kabul–TTP nexus, including logistical, operational and financial support.
• Dar noted that 12 Pakistani soldiers were killed earlier this month while confronting TTP infiltrators along the Afghan border.
• He proposed an OIC expert working group and a six-point plan spanning humanitarian funding, economic and banking stabilization, sustained dialogue on obligations, alternative livelihoods for ex-poppy farmers, lifting curbs on women and girls, and conditions for safe refugee return, framing further support as contingent on Taliban political will.