TTP terrorists stormed the Karachi Police Chief's office on February 17, resulting in a hours-long combat between terrorists and various law enforcement agencies which claimed lives of four people.
According to the 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism, the TTP uses the tribal belt along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to train and deploy its operatives.
After the Taliban closed the main trading and border crossing points, the Torkham gate, the Islamic Emirate forces and Pakistani border guards engaged in a gun battle, leaving one guard injured.
According to the general secretary of the Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan, Muhammad Zafar Paracha, traders, and smugglers are bringing as much as USD 5 million across the border daily.
The Taliban's Acting Foreign Minister Amir Muttaqi called on Pakistan to investigate the Peshawar attack rather than blame neighbouring Afghanistan for terror carnage. "Don't blame others for your own failures," said the Taliban to Pakistan's government.
The Diplomat said the black market is dominated by the flow of US dollars across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which unifies the economic crises of the two countries.