By Our Diplomatic Correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday warned that the Af-ghan Taliban regime will eventually face consequences if it fails to take action against terrorists op-erating from its territory.
“If the Afghan government does not take action against terrorists, one day it will have to face the con-sequences itself,” Dar said while addressing the ISSI International Conference on “Pakistan’s evolv-ing terrorism landscape” in Islamabad.
Pakistan has witnessed a sharp rise in cross-border terrorist incidents, particularly in Khyber Pakh-tunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan, since the Afghan Taliban returned to power in 2021.
Pakistan recorded its highest monthly number of militant attacks in 12 years during September 2026.
According to data compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), an Is-lamabad-based independent think tank monitoring anti-state violence in the region, 225 militant at-tacks were recorded across the country in September, compared with 199 in August — an increase of 13%. Militant attacks increased for the third consecutive month.
Addressing the conference, DPM Dar said that terrorism remained the biggest challenge for the region and the world, adding that Pakistan had made immense sacrifices in its fight against militancy.
“Pakistan has sacrificed more than 90,000 lives in the war against terrorism,” he said, calling on the international community to acknowledge the country’s losses.
He also referred to the Jaffar Express incident and the abduction and killings of workers in Balochi-stan, citing them among the challenges facing the country.
According to Dar, operations against terrorists were being conducted daily on the instructions of the Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir.
DPM Dar said that Pakistan had repeatedly urged the Afghan authorities not to allow their territory to be used for terrorism against neighbouring countries.
“Pakistan has only one demand from Afghanistan: that it should not allow its territory to be used for terrorism,” he added.
Pakistan had held talks with Afghan officials on the issue and had undertaken visits to Afghanistan to discuss counterterrorism efforts, he said, referring to a trilateral meeting involving Pakistan, China and Afghanistan held in Kabul in August last year.
However, he said that the Afghan Taliban regime had failed to fulfil its commitments on the issue of terrorism.
He warned that the presence of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other militant groups in Afghanistan posed a threat to regional peace.
He urged the Afghan Taliban authorities to immediately stop providing terrorists with weapons and other forms of assistance.
