ISLAMABAD, 27 June 2021, (TON):  Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid has said “Islamabad is expecting that the Afghan Taliban will not allow terrorists groups like TTP to carry out activities against Pakistan.”

He said while speaking to the media in Islamabad “Prime Minister Imran Khan has categorically said that we [Pakistan] will not give any bases to the United States to use against Afghanistan.”

He said “but we also expect from [Afghan] Taliban that they will not allow TTP [Tehreek-e- Taliban Pakistan] and other elements to carry out any activity which causes harm to the lives and property of Pakistani people.”

PM Imran earlier this week had repeated his firm stance of not providing any bases to the US, saying that "Islamabad is ready to be a partner for peace in Afghanistan with Washington because both the countries wanted stability, development and denial of terrorists’ havens there".

Rashid said the 88 per cent fencing across the Pak-Afghan border has been completed and the rest is expected to be finished by next month.