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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.

The first six months of Taliban rule show that the group has not delivered on any of Pakistan’s concerns.

The Afghan Taliban have shown no signs of expelling TTP leaders or preventing them from carrying out attacks in Pakistan, even as Pakistan pushes a reluctant world to engage with Afghanistan's new rulers.

An elected representative of North Waziristan urges the Pakistani government to confront the reality of what the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan will mean for Pakistan. 

In a recent interview, TTP chief Noor Wali Mehsud called for an independent state in Pakistan's tribal areas.

In return for not hosting American bases on Pakistani soil, Islamabad wants the Afghan Taliban to rein in the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.

The withdrawal of U.S. troops raises questions about Pakistan’s ability to target TTP militants in Afghanistan.