Taliban groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan ‘collaborated’ on strikes against Pakistani law enforcement:
According to media sources, a slew of recent attacks against Pakistan’s security apparatus and law enforcement were “collaborated” in both the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban, officially known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan.
An unknown top Pakistani counterterrorism officer was quoted by The Express Tribune as saying that the Afghan Taliban actively took part in the aforementioned strikes.
In every “tashkil” (movement), if 10 TTP members were sent out, five or four would be Afghan citizens, according to the officer’s calculations.
He also disclosed that the Pakistani military, police, and counterterrorism department had killed 51 Afghan insurgents in targeted intelligence-based operations during the previous three months.
He stated that “even in the attack on the police station in Karachi, two of the terrorists involved were Afghan citizens,” and that the Afghan administration has been requested to help establish “peace and stability” in the nation.
“We have alerted and forewarned the Kabul government on the recent rise in militancy in Pakistan and the involvement of Afghan Taliban in these activities. They must fulfill their part in maintaining the peace and stability in our nation, we have demanded, he said.
The source for The Express Tribune added that there have been rumors of increased activity by the Afghan Taliban in the impending springtime.
According to a senior journalist from North Waziristan who spoke to the media under the condition of anonymity and confirmed the report, many of the assailants could be linked to Afghanistan.
He stated that three of the most recent ten suicide assaults in North Waziristan could be linked to Afghanistan, which “shows that the bonds (between the TTP and Afghan Taliban) are still in place and that the TTP is still receiving support from Kabul.”
The TTP in Pakistan has become stronger as a result of the Taliban organizations’ unification. The Taliban are apparently back in control of Afghanistan, while the TTP has reportedly reestablished itself in Pakistan’s former tribal areas.
The TTP and the Afghan Taliban are two sides of the same coin, says former Afghan security analyst Fawad Lamay. The TTP leadership, he claimed, “today freely moves from one side to the other, from border territories to main lands, with the Taliban back in control in Afghanistan. It holds meetings and, more precisely, has information from the Afghan Taliban’s Emirate-e-Islami.
It would be false to think that the Emirate-e-Islami had severed relations with other jihadist organizations, he continued.
According to recent reports, the TTP and the Balochistan Liberation Army have informally agreed on a partnership. According to reports, Abu Zar Fidae and a group of TTP from the Bannu Domail region, which is close to Peshawar, have also declared their allegiance.
