Pakistan, June 26 -- Pakistan has spent the better part of the last few years telling the world that anti-Pakistan militant groups are operating from across the border in Afghanistan. Successive governments, military commanders and diplomats have repeatedly argued that the Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan has found space to regroup on Afghan soil and uses that space to plan and launch attacks inside Pakistan. More often than not, these conacerns were met with polite acknowledgements abroad but little else.

That may now be changing.

In a recent interview, British Special Representative for Afghanistan Richard Lindsay said plainly that the TTP is a terrorist organisation. He also acknowledged that the group receives support from Afghanistan and...