As the two neighbours entered into ceasefire, it is unlikely to be a lasting solution. History and ideology, among others, will see Kabul and Islamabad at odds again.
ThePrint Explorer unpacks who the TTP are, and what they’re fighting for in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and how Pakistan army is struggling to carve a way out of the conflict.
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 ISI has a long history of maintaining clandestine and not-so-clandestine ties with various Afghan political groups, including the Afghan Taliban.
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.
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.
DMK govt accuses Centre of withholding funds, tightening borrowing, unilateral deductions from state accounts. Says Centre's accounting & funding decisions have 'artificially inflated' debt burden.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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