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Monday, September 1, 2025
TopicTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

Topic: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

At least 13 Pakistani soldiers killed, 10 wounded in suicide bombing near Afghan border

An explosive-laden car rammed into a Pakistani military convoy Saturday. No one has claimed responsibility so far.

Taliban commander slams TTP attacks in Pakistan as ‘un-Islamic’, warns only emir can declare jihad

Saeedullah Saeed's remarks come amid a sharp increase in TTP-led violence emanating from Afghan territory, with over 600 attacks in Pakistan recorded in 2024, according to a UN report.

Pakistan’s attempt to mobilise anti-Taliban leaders is misguided, dangerous

Pakistan’s ISI has a long history of maintaining clandestine and not-so-clandestine ties with various Afghan political groups, including the Afghan Taliban.

Pakistan’s TTP threat is now out of control—Taliban can’t help, public doesn’t trust military

The frequency of TTP attacks in Pakistan has increased—from 267 in 2021 to 365 in 2022—and the militant group has also been systematically going after hard targets.

Pakistan races against time to negotiate release of nuclear agency employees abducted by Taliban

Year 2024 was Pakistan’s deadliest in a decade, with at least 685 civilian fatalities & roughly 444 terror attacks, according to an annual security report by a Pakistan-based think tank.

On Camera

‘India is worst’ in Trump’s America. What’s behind the U-turn

The imposition of industry-breaking tariffs on Indian goods is with a view to sending a strong message to China: ‘look what we can do if you don’t toe our line.’

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.