{"id":472474,"date":"2025-04-15T09:14:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=472474"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:14:04","slug":"us-weapons-used-in-jaffar-express-attack-us-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/us-weapons-used-in-jaffar-express-attack-us-media\/","title":{"rendered":"US weapons used in Jaffar Express attack: US media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Washington<br \/>\nSophisticated American military equipment left behind during the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan is increasingly being used by militants in Pakistan, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), according to a Washington Post investigation.<br \/>\nWeapons such as M16 rifles, PVS-14 night-vision devices and thermal optics\u2014originally intended for Afghan forces\u2014have appeared in recent cross-border attacks. The March 11 bombing of the Jaffar Express train involved US-origin rifles, Pakistani authorities confirmed.<br \/>\nInvestigators cited serial numbers on two rifles used in that attack that were traced back to US military stockpiles. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) estimates around 250,000 firearms and 18,000 night-vision systems were left behind, an arsenal comparable to that of the US Marine Corps.<br \/>\n\u201cThe presence of US advanced weapons\u2026 has been an issue of profound concern for the safety and security of Pakistan,\u201d the Pakistani Foreign Ministry stated in documents from January seen by investigators.<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump reignited scrutiny in February, saying, \u201cWe left billions, tens of billions of dollars\u2019 worth of equipment behind\u2026 all the top-of-the-line stuff.\u201d However, Pentagon officials downplayed the scale of the problem, describing recovered weapons as \u201ca minuscule portion\u201d of the overall abandoned arsenal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Sophisticated American military equipment left behind during the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan is increasingly being used by militants in Pakistan, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), according to a Washington Post investigation. Weapons such as M16 rifles, PVS-14 night-vision devices and thermal optics\u2014originally intended for Afghan forces\u2014have appeared in recent cross-border attacks. The March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US weapons used in Jaffar Express attack: US media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/us-weapons-used-in-jaffar-express-attack-us-media\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US weapons used in Jaffar Express attack: US media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington Sophisticated American military equipment left behind during the 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan is increasingly being used by militants in Pakistan, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), according to a Washington Post investigation. 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