The US media recently reported that terrorists attacked the Jaffar Express with NATO grade weapons. BBC confirmed that half of around a million weapons left behind in Afghanistan are either being sold to global terrorists or smuggled out of Afghanistan by the Afghan Taliban.

The report did not mention where a large number of weapons had been smuggled, but intelligence reports from Pakistan suggest they are already in Pakistan and being used by terrorists against the state of Pakistan.

It's been since August 15, 2021 that I have been expressing apprehensions in these columns that the US-abandoned weapons would be used against Pakistan. From 2022 onwards, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and the UN organisations dealing with Afghan affairs had been drawing attention to the fact that Afghan Taliban were hosting, funding and weaposnising global terrorists such as Al-Qaeda and TTP.

But during the same time the US had been providing funds through different means........

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