Pakistan has witnessed a sharp rise in terror incidents, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, during the past couple of months after TTP put the truce with Islamabad to an end.
Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday said that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was being funded from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and that PTI chief Imran Khan had himself admitted to reintroducing the TTP militants in the province they were expelled from, reported The
The TTP has deep historical ties with the Afghan Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP). It is a by-product of al-Qaeda's jihadi politics in Afghanistan and Pakistan after 9/11.
A police constable and a terrorist were killed in Pakistan on Sunday after a gunman attacked a police checkpost in the Shahbaz Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Lakki Marwat District, a local police official said, according to a report in The Dawn.
The TTP in the last year has conducted hundreds of terror attacks on the police and army headquarters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Quetta in the Balochistan region.
Over 100 persons were convicted and sentenced to death by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa courts in 2022 and the total of prisoners with death sentences has crossed 450 including women, reported Pak vernacular media Aeen.
Guterres made these comments in response to a question on rising terrorist attacks in Pakistan, including the recent attack at a police station in Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
No group has taken responsibility for the attack so far. But the police suspect the involvement of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Dawn newspaper reported.
Taking to Twitter, Pakistani journalist Roohan Ahmad said that there was an intense gun battle between the security personnel and "militants" in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu area.
The business community in Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ruled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have expressed concern over kidnappings and extortions. Traders from the Insaf Traders Wing (ITW) have urged the PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan to hold a meeting to address the issue, The
Law and order situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has deteriorated over the past few years as terror attacks have surged across the province, Geo News reported citing a media report.