Key Points
Pakistans military on Tuesday said a suicide bombing that killed five Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver in March was planned in neighboring Afghanistan and that the bomber was an Afghan citizen.P)..
Sharif also said Pakistani Taliban who have sanctuaries in Afghanistan were behind a surge in attacks inside Pakistan since January that killed 62 security forces nationwide, and that Pakistan had solid evidence of the group's involvement in the rising violence..
The Pakistani Taliban a separate group but a close ally of the Afghan Taliban which seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 had denied being behind the March attack, saying in a statement at the time that our sole targets are security forces (and their agents) imposed upon us..
On Tuesday, Mohammad Khurasani, spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP repudiated using Afghan soil for attacks on security forces inside Pakistan..
He said Pakistan's military had completed 98% of a fence being constructed along the border with Afghanistan and 91% of a fence along the Iranian border had also been completed to check illegal movement, curb smuggling and prevent cross-border militant attacks..
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