The Border provinces of Pakistan adjoining Afghanistan have been facing attacks by the terror outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. These attacks have claimed 419 civilian and defence personnel's lives in the last year alone.
Khan while speaking at a seminar on terrorism organised by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in Islamabad, said that the PTI government had planned to relocate at least 5,000 TTP fighters and their family members which amount to about 35,000, but the plan did not go through as the provinces
Protesters who had staged a sit-in blocked roads in South Waziristan on Tuesday after talks between their leaders and local administration failed to yield positive results, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported.
It's a double whammy for Pakistan which has a new 'enemy' (Taliban) on its western border and a new nightmare that is its own making (TTP). As many as 15 cross-border attacks took place in Pakistan in 2022.
In view of the terror attacks on civilians in the district on January 1, the central reserve police force (CRPF) along with the Jammu and Kashmir Police on Tuesday morning provided weapons training to the village defence guards (VDG) at the Kandi area of Rajouri district.
According to officials, a police mobile van came under a gun and bomb attack in Bannu's Domel area. This happened after a team from Domel police station spotted two suspicious motorcyclists while on patrol duty.
"If the TTP decides to come under the ambit of the Constitution, then we can hold talks with them," Pakistan's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) will send additional 18 companies to Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of recent killings of civilians in two fresh terror attacks in the Rajouri district, sources familiar with the development said.
In the latest terror attack, a child was killed and five others injured after a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast that took place in Rajouri's Upper Dangri village on Monday morning, the police said.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces remained under the grip of criminal activities as Pakistan suffered close to 376 terror attacks the previous year, Dailytimes reported citing a report by the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) on Sunday.