Pakistani Taliban end ceasefire
After months of ceasefire, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Monday ordered its militants to launch attacks across the country.
The TTP is a separate faction of the Afghan Taliban. But he shares with them the same ideology and a long common history (illustration).
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The Pakistani Taliban announced on Monday that a cease-fire announced in June had ended, but it was only partially respected. They ordered their militants to attack across Pakistan.
“As military operations against the Mujahideen continue in various areas (…) it is necessary for you to carry out attacks as much as possible in the country,” the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) told its men. .
The TTP was extended indefinitely in June due to “progress” in peace talks with representatives of the Pakistani government that began in May under the mediation of the Afghan Taliban in the Afghan capital, Kabul. .
But this ceasefire was not actually respected. The TTP continued its attacks, not directed against civilians as before, but mainly against security forces. As for the Pakistan Army, it continued to pursue its militants.
Same ideology
The TTP is a separate faction of the Afghan Taliban. But he shares a common ideology and a long history with them and was buoyed by their return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the withdrawal of US forces after two decades of war.
It was formed in 2007 by Pakistani jihadists affiliated with al-Qaeda, who fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan in the 1990s and protested Islamabad’s support for the Americans after the 2001 invasion of that country.
Born in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, the TTP has killed tens of thousands of Pakistani civilians and members of the security forces in less than a decade.
Weakened since 2014 by heavy military operations, it has reasserted itself since the summer of 2020, and even more so since the Afghan Taliban came to power. Pakistan accuses the TTP of allowing the TTP to plan its attacks from Afghan soil, which Kabul has consistently denied.
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