Pak rejects Taliban declare that US used its airspace to kill Al Qaeda chief | World News

Pakistan has rejected the Taliban's claims about Islamabad's airspace getting used for the US strike that killed Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in July.

The response comes after the Taliban blamed the Pakistani authorities for permitting its airspace for use by US drones.

Appearing Defence Minister of Afghanistan, Mullah Yaqoub, on Sunday mentioned that illegitimate use of drones to patrol Afghanistan's airspace is a transgression of the nation's borders.

The assertion was made throughout a press convention held on Sunday midday by Mullah Yaqoub and the Chief of Employees of the Taliban's army forces, Khaama Press reported.

"Our data exhibits that they (US drones) are coming into into Afghanistan from Pakistan, utilizing the airspace of Pakistan," Mujahid informed reporters when requested the place the drones have been coming from, as per Daybreak newspaper.

In the course of the Press Convention, the Taliban's appearing Defence Minister strongly claimed that US used Pakistan's airspace as a medium to enter and assault Afghanistan.

Beforehand, Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in a CIA drone assault in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, in response to US President Joe Biden, who broke the information in a stay broadcast.

In line with the US, two Hellfire missiles fired from a drone killed the al-Qaeda chief whereas inflicting little harm elsewhere, stopping non-combatant fatalities.

The Taliban's appearing Protection Minister's remarks come at some extent of time when the phobia group has mediated peace talks between the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), aka Pakistani Taliban, and the federal government of Pakistan.

TTP, popularly referred to as Pakistan Taliban, not too long ago set alarm bells ringing in Islamabad after the outlawed group reappeared in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swat valley.

Taliban militants reportedly had occupied hilltops of Swat district's Matta subdivision just a few months in the past, creating panic in a number of neighbouring districts.

The Taliban's surprising look led to anger among the many individuals and induced harm to tourism because the day Taliban have been reported to have arrived within the valley.

Talks between the 2 sides started in October 2021 to hunt a political resolution to the difficulty. The talks that have been held on the request of the Afghan Taliban led to a one-month ceasefire in November. Nevertheless, the truce couldn't final lengthy as variations emerged quickly.

The continued peace talks between the TTP and Pakistan authorities reached a stalemate because the outlawed group refused to provide in on its demand for the reversal of the merger of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

Regardless of a sequence of conferences between the 2 sides in latest weeks to interrupt the deadlock, there has additionally been a stalemate over the difficulty of TTP laying down arms in case of a peace deal.