TTP

Despite tactical successes over two decades, the strategic failure to eliminate or significantly degrade the TTP threat reflects deeper problems in Pakistan's approach to counterterrorism and regional security.

So far, these groups have not clashed violently. This could change, leading to their weakening.

Pakistan's peripheral regions – like Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – are highly strategic locations. They are also home to ethnic minorities who feel increasingly marginalized by the center.

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

The victims were construction workers and engineers working at the Dasu Dam, Pakistan’s largest hydropower project.

Why would the TTP, which was rejuvenated by the Taliban victory in Afghanistan, subsume itself into a group that is ideologically and operationally weaker?

The country's political parties are using the rising terrorist attacks in the country to score points against each other.

The latest wave of terrorism in Pakistan represents decades of policy choices coming home to roost.

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

The circumstances are dangerously ripe for a destabilizing element to shift the strategic balance in South Asia, with global consequences. 

The TTP has called for attacks on Pakistani leaders while the Taliban in Kabul push back against Pakistani accusations of Afghanistan harboring terrorists. 

In addition to taking around ten policemen hostage, the militants have snatched weapons and taken control of the facility in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.