ISLAMABAD: A senior Pakistani official in southwestern Balochistan province on Saturday accused Taliban officials in Afghanistan of playing a “double game,” asserting that despite multiple requests from Pakistani authorities to hand over militants targeting its people and security forces, they had not received a positive response.
Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant attacks and suicide bombings since the beginning of the year, which it attributes to the proscribed militant network, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), whose leadership is said to be based in Afghanistan.
After a major suicide attack in Peshawar that claimed nearly 100 lives earlier this year, Pakistan raised the issue with Kabul but complained of not receiving a favorable response.
Subsequently, officials in Islamabad launched a deportation drive against “illegal immigrants,” mostly Afghans, after informing the public that Afghan nationals in Pakistan had been found involved in most suicide…