- “Non-state actor is using weapons to fuel the struggle”.
- The envoy warns of increasing sophistication, reaching the Moren weapons.
- Atif Raza asks for measures against the black market of arms.
New York: Due to increased attacks from militants working from Afghanistan, Pakistan has urged the United Nations to ban and prevent arms access to such groups such as banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Mazed Brigade.
Pakistan Mission Syed Atif Raza’s counselor on Saturday said “UNSC Arria-Formula meeting” in UNSC Arria-Formula meeting “said at the UNSC Arria-Formula meeting,” the terrorist armed groups are in the possession of billions of armed groups of billions of armed groups.
The diplomat’s comment comes against the background of a new report by the geneva-based “Small Arms Survey”, which has highlighted the illegal spread of small weapons and light weapons which is a significant concern with the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
The report titled “Availability of Arms in Afghanistan”, highlights the smuggling of weapons in the region, which suggests that both Soviet-era and NATO-Pattern weapons are accessible in informal markets despite efforts to control the distribution of both arms.
Conclusions suggest that weapons are regularly converted into non-state armed groups, including TTP and al-Qaeda, which raise concerns about regional security.
The survey should be explained and taken in terms of the report of the Global Terrorism Index 2025, which not only keeps Pakistan as the second most terrorism -affected country in the world in 2024, with a 45% increase in terrorism -related deaths, but also retaliated by TTP’s repeated stance on the use of Afghanistan’s territory.
Given that terrorist groups working from Afghanistan have intensified their attacks, especially with the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the report states that TTP remains the most deadly terrorist group in the country, which is 52% of all terrorism-related deaths.
In addition, the country has been increasing the terrorist attacks that enforced laws and security forces since returning to power in Afghanistan in 2021, especially in the border provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
According to data released by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICS), a think tank, Pakistan saw a sharp increase in terrorist attacks in January 2025, increased by 42% compared to the previous month.
Constructing his arguments in this regard, counselor Raza highlighted that small arms and light weapons have become tools for state and non-state actors to destabilize any country or region and to destabilize any country or region through illegal armed groups, organized crime and terrorism support.
“These concerns are more complex with the increasing refinement of illegal weapons and access to modern weapons at the disposal of illegal armed groups, which often work on national borders.”
Pointing to the dangers facing Islamabad, the diplomat said: “Pakistan is concerned with the acquisition and use of modern and sophisticated illegal weapons by terrorist groups such as TTP-one unnecessary terrorist organizations, which operates with impureness from Afghanistan as well as a Supa Bla and Majrid Brigade”.
He said, “We ask our international partners to fix the vast reserves of abandoned weapons, stop their access to armed terrorist groups and measures to close this rich black market of illegal weapons,” he said.
