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The fortified group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan( TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, has blazoned the end of an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the government in June and issued orders to its fighters to carry out attacks across the countryAs military operations are ongoing against mujahideen in different areas, so it’s imperative for yoasu to carry out attacks wherever you can in the entire country, ” the group said in a statement on Monday.
The group, which is ideologically aligned with the Afghan Taliban, said it’s facing a rising number of attacks by the Pakistani service, particularly in the Lakki Marwat quarter of Pakistan’s northwestern fiefdom of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
We submit to the people of Pakistan that we’ve constantly advised you and continued to be patient so that the concession process isn’t sabotaged at least by us, but the army and intelligence agencies don’t stop and continue the attacks, so now our retaliatory attacks will also start across the country, ” the statement said.
Al Jazeera reached out to the Pakistani service for comment but didn’t admit a response.The TTP has been waging a rebellion against the state of Pakistan for further than a decade. The group demands the duty of strict Islamic law law, release of crucial members arrested by the government and a reversal of the junction of Pakistan’s ethnical areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa fiefdom.
On November 16, the TTP claimed responsibility for an attack on a police command in Lakki Marwat, about 200 km( 125 long hauls) southwest of the parochial capital, Peshawar. Six bobbieswere killed.After the attack, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said “ terrorism ” continues to be one of Pakistan’s foremost problems.
The TTP made its protestation hours after the government said the state minister for foreign affairs, Hina Rabbani Khar, will visit Afghanistan on Tuesday.According to the foreign ministry, Khar will hold addresses on indigenous security with the Taliban government in Kabul.Security specialist Asfandyar Mir of the United States Institute of Peace told Al Jazeera that while the TTP has been raising its violence lately, it has also exercised restraint by not carrying out attacks outside ethnical areas.
I’ve inferred the targeting as a function of Afghan Taliban pressure on the TTP to calibrate their escalation, ” he saId. “ Now if the TTP follows through in its protestation of countrywide attacks, the crucial question is how will the Taliban respond. The government and the TTP have held multiple rounds of addresses eased by the Afghan Taliban, the last of which took place in June. The addresses began weeks after the Taliban took control of Kabul last time.
Despite the ceasefire, the TTP continued its attacks this time, saying they were protective in nature and only in retribution for operations carried out by Pakistan’s service.According to data collected by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, an Islamabad- grounded exploration organisation, at least 65 similar attacks took place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through the end of October. They killed at least 98 people and wounded 75, it said.
