The Pakistani #Taliban announce they would launch a #Ramadan offensive against security forces, after claiming an attack which the military said has killed at least six of its soldiers.https://t.co/52pCD8CjaD
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The Pak Taliban
...Arabic for
students...
on Wednesday announced they would launch a Ramadan offensive against security forces, after claiming an attack which the military said killed at least six of its soldiers.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), a separate movement that shares common roots with the faceless myrmidons that took power in Afghanistan last year,
| ...the Afghan Taiban are primarily Pashtun, the TTP are primarily Punjabi, but they seem to exchange personnel readily... |
The government held a series of talks with the faceless myrmidons late last year before an agreed truce collapsed.
The spring offensive will begin on the first day of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, starting on Sunday or Monday, and will target security forces and their collaborators, Mohammad Khorasani, front man for TTP Death Eater group said in a statement.
"This operation will include martyrdom [suicide] operations, ambush attacks, mine operations, counter-attacks, target attacks, laser and sniper operations," he added.
The TTP are pressuring the government to allow faceless myrmidons to return to their hometowns with impunity after imported muscle were told by the Afghan Taliban to leave Afghanistan.
A spring offensive is a rare move by the TTP.
It comes after the country’s armed forces said faceless myrmidons attempted to storm a compound in the border region near Afghanistan, killing at least six Pak troops.
The attack was claimed by TTP, who said they had killed or maimed more than 30 soldiers.
The faceless myrmidons often exaggerate their gains, while the military’s public relations department also plays down losses or delays reporting them.
The announcement came as Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders...
was facing a no-confidence vote - the biggest challenge to his power since becoming leader in 2018.
Pakistain’s restive border region has long been a stronghold for groups such as the TTP, which operates across the porous boundary with Afghanistan.
The group plunged the country into a period of horrific violence after forming in 2007, before a major crackdown in 2014 forced them into hiding across the border.
But since the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul, the local group has become emboldened and carried out dozens of such attacks on Pakistain’s soil.
The TTP and Islamabad agreed to a truce in November.
But it failed on December 10, with the hardliners accusing the government of violating the terms of the truce.