Pakistan, Feb. 11 -- A United Nations Security Council monitoring report has challenged the Afghan Taliban's claim that no terrorist groups operate from Afghan soil, stating that no member state supported the assertion while recording a rise in attacks on Pakistan launched from Afghanistan.

Issued by the UN's Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, the report describes the continued presence of multiple militant organisations in Afghanistan as a regional security concern and links the increase in violence inside Pakistan to the operating space available to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since the Taliban takeover.

No UN member state, the report says, accepted the Taliban's position on the absence of terrorist groups, wit...