Pakistan Taliban

While Pakistan is bearing the brunt of terrorist attacks emanating from Afghanistan, the threat is wider. Regional and global peace is in peril.

Its top-most diplomatic official engaged with the Taliban’s acting foreign minister in Dubai recently.

The ISK is criticizing the Taliban for paying lip service to the Palestinian cause and shying away from sending its fighters to fight against Israel.

The counterterrorism campaign is loud on rhetoric, low on substance and offers nothing substantive to stem the rising tide of militancy in Pakistan.

The bomb ripped through a crowd of 500 people who had gathered at a mosque for a procession to celebrate the Prophet’s birthday.

The attack on a Jamiat Ulema Islam political rally in Bajur district was aimed at weakening political Islamists.

At first, a Taliban victory in Afghanistan was considered synonymous with Pakistan’s victory. But disappointed hopes on both sides now have the neighbors at loggerheads.

Islamabad will need to focus on the TTP and the terrorism problem rather than be diverted by provincial elections at this point.

Without revisiting its myopic Afghan policy, a new counterterrorism campaign alone will not fix Pakistan's mounting challenges with terrorism.

Islamabad is reported to have asked its missions in Afghanistan to highlight ideological and political contradictions between India and the Taliban.

Worryingly, the Pakistan government is engaging the militant group in talks from a position of weakness.

The military action inside Afghanistan marks a significant shift in its approach to the terror group.