ISLAMABAD: Protests against the strengthening of the Taliban erupted in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

According to the DPA report,  the demonstrators on Friday urged the Islamabad government to take greater action against any attempts by the Taliban, who administer Afghanistan, to annex Pakistan's North Waziristan region.

The protests were described as "sabotage" and "sponsored by the West" by a Taliban spokesman.  According to local authorities, protesters blocked a major road that connected the area to the rest of the nation.

On their rooftops, they flew black flags in opposition to the Taliban. In the vicinity of North Waziristan, in the Swat region, protests have already occurred.

Malala Yousafzai, the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize winner who lives in Swat, narrowly escaped a Taliban assassination attempt after advocating for girls' and women's education.

Before the Pakistani military drove the terrorists into Afghanistan in 2014, the North Waziristan region close to the Afghan border was regarded as a bastion of the Pakistani Taliban.

Ever since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in August 2021, cross-border disputes on the Durand line, about 1,600 miles of the border with Pakistan, have persisted. Thousands of Afghans regularly cross into Pakistani terrain through the porous borders for medical treatment and trade. 

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