For too long, our nation has borne the grievous wounds inflicted by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a terrorist syndicate that has found a willing sanctuary across our western border. For years, we have pleaded, demanded, and provided irrefutable proof to successive governments in Kabul about these vipers nesting on their soil, only to be met with a wall of denial and obfuscation. Pakistan has sent delegation after delegation, file after file of evidence, but the response has been a consistent, insulting fiction: the TTP, they claim, is not there. But the funerals in our cities and villages tell a different story. The blood of our children, our soldiers, and our citizens is a testament to this lethal reality.

The time for polite diplomatic overtures is definitively over. The recent trilateral meeting in Kabul, attended by our officials and our Chinese allies, was not just another talk. It was the delivery of an ultimatum, forged in the fires of our people’s........

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