WASHINGTON (Dunya News) - US State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel on Thursday said the United States was working to ensure that Afghanistan never serves as a launching pad for terrorist attacks against the United States or our allies.
Vedant Patel stated this while replying to a question by a journalist that ISIS and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), have more than 6,000 fighters attacking on Pakistani soldiers and pose a threat to regional peace.
He said that ISIS-K is a transnational terrorist network that has the ambition and capacity to launch international terrorist attacks. “We are taking a whole-of-government approach to our Afghanistan counterterrorism efforts,” he said.
“We are cooperating with partners and allies, including in the immediate region; and we’re working vigilantly to prevent the re-emergence of external threats from Afghanistan, including by working with partners to counteract terrorist recruitment efforts as well,” he said.