Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has warned that the Taliban’s failure to fulfil its commitments under the Doha Agreement is contributing to regional instability, urging Afghanistan’s interim government to honour its pledges.
‘We did not invite this carnage. Yet when terror’s black banners crossed our frontiers, from the peaks of our mountains to the markets of Quetta, we did not flinch. We chose to resist’ Bilawal said at the opening session of an international conference titled “Pakistan’s War on Terror for the World”, organised by the Islamabad Policy Research Institute.
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He asserted that Pakistan would continue its fight against terrorism to ensure a secure future for coming generations.
‘The broken promises of the Taliban regime are destabilising the region,’ he said, urging the Afghan interim government to uphold its obligations.
“We saved Kabul. Sovereignty confers duty. Stop the exodus of fighters, choke the traffic of arms, and honour the blood price of the Doha accord or be judged by the company you keep.”
‘Just last year, 2024, was our deadliest in a decade. At least 685 of our service members embraced martyrdom in 444 separate attacks. 1,612 Pakistanis—teachers, traders, traffic wardens—never returned home. These are not mere statistics. They are vacant chairs at breakfast tables. Yet each tragedy strengthens our resolve. Every fallen comrade plants a flag that digs deeper into the soil extremists covet but will never own.’
‘Let us be clear, any so-called shura may issue threats in Pashto, but its digital propaganda is subtitled in every language of discontent,’ Chairman PPP said.
‘A bomb in Peshawar today draws its ideological fuse from a chatroom in northern Africa, its wiring diagram from a tutorial filmed in Damascus. Terrorism is borderless. The fight we wage is not Pakistan’s private quarrel. It is civilizational self-defense on behalf of all humanity. When the Tehrik-e-Taliban or the Majid Brigade tweets its manifesto, the algorithm that amplifies it does not stop at the Durand Line. It ricochets through Paris, Perth, and beyond. If we stand down, who will stand up?’
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Bilawal also called on India to engage in dialogue for lasting peace, emphasising the need to resolve the Kashmir dispute in line with the aspirations of its people and to end the use of water as a weapon.
Highlighting Pakistan’s sacrifices in the war on terror, he said the country had paid a heavy price in both lives and economic losses, but remained resolute.
“Over the past two decades, Pakistan’s armed forces backed by iron willed citizens have broken the backs of Al Qaeda networks, dismantled so-called caliphates such as Daesh, and driven the TTP [Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan] from the fortress to the fox hills.”
“Operation Zarb-e-Azab drained the northern swamp, Raddul Fassad uprooted the sleeper cells in our cities and elsewhere. Today operations in Balochistan sever the connection between separatism and foreign funded terror.”
He called on the international community to learn from Pakistan’s experience in combating terrorism and reiterated that extremists have no religion, nationality, or ideology and pose a global threat.
“Terrorism recognises no law, borders or beliefs,” he added, advocating for united global efforts to eliminate the threat.
