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Taliban fail to secure Pak-Afghan border, ensure regional stability: Durrani

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former special representative on Afghanistan, Asif Khan Durrani, said on Wednesday that Pakistan’s expectations from the Taliban rule of tranquility along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and stability in the region have been dashed. Ambassador Durrani was speaking at a seminar at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI) on the “Sustainable Peace and Security in Post-Taliban Afghanistan”. “Ever since the arrival of the Taliban, there has been a seventy per cent increase in TTP attacks along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan. Alarmingly, many Afghan nationals have been found in the TTP formations attacking Pakistan’s border areas,” Durrani told the participants.He