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India-Pakistan
Can Pakistan face down a growing Taliban insurgency?
2023-02-02
[DW] The suicide kaboom at a mosque in northwestern Pakistain that killed dozens of officers is the country's worst terrorist attack in years. It signals a growing wave of Taliban
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-fueled militancy targeting the state.


After the Taliban toppled Afghanistan's government in August 2021, authorities in neighboring Pakistain warned that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), the Taliban's Pak allies, would be emboldened in their yearslong rebellion against the government. Throughout 2022, faceless myrmidons stepped up attacks throughout Pakistain, with tensions escalating in November after the TTP called off a fragile cease-fire with the Pak government and ordered their fighters to carry out attacks "wherever you can in the entire country."
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  I predict a Siegfried and Roy final finale for Pakistan.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-02-02 14:20  

#4  Unmentioned is an act undertaken in Pakistan by the TTP in 2014 when a threatening fatwa was issued by its Religious Committee. The fatwa put the Pakistan media on notice that articles in opposition to TTP would be considered haram. The media has played lapdog ever since.
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672   2023-02-02 07:49  

#3  
Posted by: Frank G   2023-02-02 07:03  

#2  Pak Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan said the Afghan Taliban must fulfill their commitments to the international community and not allow any group to use Afghan soil for orchestrating attacks against another country.

Karma
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-02-02 06:58  

#1  As well as other Muslim and Orthodox nations would be my guess.
Posted by: Nomad   2023-02-02 02:14  

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