UNITED NATIONS:

Terrorism emanating from Afghanistan remains the "gravest threat" to Pakistan's national security, a senior Pakistani diplomat has told the UN Security Council, as he exhorted the Taliban authorities to fulfill their international obligations on counterterrorism.

"The TTP (Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan), with nearly 6,000 fighters, remains the largest UN-designated terrorist group on Afghan soil," Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, said in a debate on the situation in Afghanistan on Wednesday.

Pakistan, he said, had thwarted multiple infiltration attempts of the TTP and the BLA (Balochistan Liberation Army) terrorists from across Afghanistan, confiscating significant caches of sophisticated military grade modern equipment left beh

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