ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has categorically rejected the baseless and misleading allegations by Zalmay Khalilzad of arming Afghans to fight the Taliban and their supporter terrorist groups.
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting’s Fact Check account in a post on X said his sweeping baseless assertions merely recycle speculative narratives as part of his personal agenda.
“It is particularly misleading to conflate Pakistan’s legitimate counterterrorism operations against terrorist organisations operating from inside Afghan Taliban regime-controlled areas threatening its citizens with allegations of recruiting Afghan nationals or sponsoring armed groups inside Afghanistan,” it said.
*𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 | 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠*
◾️ Pakistan categorically rejects the baseless and misleading allegations by Zalmay Khalilzad of arming former Afghans to fight Taliban and their supporters terrorist groups. His sweeping baseless assertions merely recycle speculative narratives as part of his personal agenda to prop terrorism supporting Taliban regime.
◾️ It is particularly misleading to conflate Pakistan’s legitimate counterterrorism operations against terrorist organisations operating from inside Afghan Taliban regime controlled areas threatening its citizens with allegations of recruiting Afghan nationals or sponsoring armed groups inside Afghanistan. Pakistan remains at the forefront of the fight against terrorism and has made enormous sacrifices in protecting regional peace and security.
◾️ Successive UN monitoring reports have documented the continued presence and activities of terrorist organisations, including TTP and Al-Qaeda, inside Afghanistan. Khalilzad’s allegations conveniently divert attention from the Afghan Taliban regime’s responsibility to prevent its territory from being used by Indian sponsored proxies for terrorism against Pakistan.
◾️Mr Khalilzad paddling of such unsubstantiated allegations only expose his skewed agenda based views.𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝
— Fact Checker MoIB (@FactCheckerMoIB) October 24, 2026
The ministry said Pakistan remains at the forefront of the fight against terrorism and has made enormous sacrifices in protecting regional peace and security.
It noted successive UN monitoring reports have documented the continued presence and activities of terrorist organisations, including TTP and Al-Qaeda, inside Afghanistan. Khalilzad’s allegations conveniently divert attention from the Afghan Taliban regime’s responsibility to prevent its territory from being used by Indian sponsored proxies for terrorism against Pakistan.
The Information Ministry said Khalilzad’s paddling of such unsubstantiated allegations only exposes his skewed, agenda-based views.
Pakistan has repeatedly accused terrorist groups operating from Afghanistan of carrying out attacks inside its territory, urging Kabul to take decisive action against them. The Afghan Taliban government, however, has denied allowing Afghan soil to be used for attacks against Pakistan.
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Islamabad maintains that the cross-border threat extends beyond the movement of terrorists, alleging that these groups also receive training, weapons and operational support from within Afghanistan.
According to figures cited by Pakistani authorities, terrorist attacks originating from Afghan soil claimed 1,327 Pakistani lives and injured another 2,484 people in 2026 alone.
