TTP is allied with the Taliban, who seized power in neighbouring Afghanistan in August last year. The radical Islamic outfit has stepped up attacks since it announced the end of an Afghan Taliban-brokered ceasefire with the government in November.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Thursday said that Indian High Commission in Islamabad is adhering to all the security norms that are essential after the recent terrorist strike in Pakistan by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in the Bannu region and Sunday's multiple bomb blasts that
Within a few days of their victory, the new rulers of Kabul released members of the Pakistani Taliban (known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP) who had been imprisoned in Afghan jails.
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.
Pakistan's key terrorist proxy, the Taliban and its allies like Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are now hunting its own master, who has been training, arming and aiding the group for over three decades. Even civilian leaders are now blaming neighbouring countries.
Dawar's tweet comes as Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the explosion in Islamabad that killed a policeman and injured six other people after a car with explosives blasted near a clinic in the federal capital, Pakistani media reported.
This year ends on an alarming note in Pakistan as many as 33 Islamist militants, who were under detention and interrogation, snatched the guns from security personnel on duty and made them hostage in their own office for three days and killed two.
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.
Taking to Twitter, Midstone Centre for International Affairs (MCIA) senior associate Shemrez Nauman Afzal said, "Note that #TTP spokesman's claim said "Tuesday past week" at the start of the statement. This could imply that the claimed attack took place on Tuesday 13th Dec, and after 5 days
A top US military commander has said the United States is concerned by the threat posed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to the south Asian country's security amid the surge in violence perpetrated by the outlawed group in the country.
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.