Pakistan: After more than a decade, the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), a banned Pakistani terrorist group, has reemerged in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat District, intensifying violent incidents and disrupting regional security. The Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), is notorious for committing atrocities in the adjoining city of Islamabad as retaliation for “sustained military operations” carried out by the Pakistani military to eradicate its presence on Pakistani territory.
Unilateral ceasefire fails to keep TTP out of Swat Valley
Their entry into Swat, a former Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan, shows the failure of the unilaterally negotiated ceasefire and, consequently, the frailty of the Pakistan Army-led peace procedures. Any chance of negotiations to sustain peace in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat and several other northwest districts is being seriously undermined by the terror group TTP’s blatant intransigence on its basic goals.
Locals view TTP’s return as a plan to incite unrest in Pashtun regions
The Tehreek-e-Taliban’s [TTP] return is seen by locals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat as a cunning plan to incite unrest in Pakistan’s Pashtun regions. They also think that the Pakistani Armed Forces employ a “divide and rule” strategy in order to ignore the regional Pashtun unity. “Punjabi-dominated security establishment has always feared that the unresolved Durand Line issue with Afghanistan and the growing Pashtun influence in the region could challenge their dominance in Pakistan,” according to an analysis by the Washington-based think tank Global Strat View.
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