The Pakistani Taliban has US weapons, is there anything new?

An American newspaper has also admitted that the Pakistani or Afghan Taliban has repeatedly raised the issue of US weapons, now a US newspaper has also admitted that the weapons left behind in a hurry from Afghanistan are giving the Pakistani Taliban a military force.

2001 From 2007 to 2007, during the coverage of extremism in the then FATA, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, I have seen the modern weapons of the Pakistani Taliban myself, so what is the difference between that and today?

The banned Tehreek -e -Taliban Pakistan founder Amir Baitullah Mehsud had a slightly small Kalashnikov -like gun in his hand during a press conference. A foreign journalist was curious to see his picture of which Baitullah had a gun. Research later found that she was an American -made Kalashnikov.

Later, the chair of Baitullah Mehsud was taken over by his young student Hakimullah Mehsud, and he invited him to come to Waziristan. Upon arriving there, he showed us a sniper rifle from the Americans in Afghanistan and also offered to run, but we refused in a way.

Shortly afterwards, Hakimullah Mehsud showed journalists in Khyber District ‘Humvi’ and made pictures from US troops. These photos were published in international media.

So the Pakistani Taliban have been using US weapons for a long time, but now why is concern is being expressed and now in Afghanistan, the wealth of the Taliban has come to the hands that Pakistan is raising the issue again and again?

The same question I kept in an interview with the Independent Urdu in December 2023 in front of the caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul Haq Kakar. He said that the weapons that governments only sell to governments have been handed over to militants in Afghanistan. It also includes Night Vision Google.

The answer is that there are two major reasons for Pakistan’s concern. According to the Washington Post report, one is the modernization of US weapons left behind in 2021 and the other is a huge amount of it.

The weapon is in the use of militants, which has been confirmed in the past. In 2018, a US rifle was found at the Jaffar Express attack in Balochistan yesterday.

According to the report, there was $ 7 billion worth of US weapons in Afghanistan on the eve of the evacuation. In addition to two and a half million rifles, 18,000 nights were included in the Google weapons.

The US withdrawal seems to be that not only the Afghan but the Pakistani Taliban have become stronger. That is why their attacks are increasing day by day.