After Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, terror attacks in Pakistan highest in 4 years
Terror attacks in Pakistan have increased manifold ever since the Taliban won back control of the state outfit in Afghanistan in a lightning-fast descent further than a month agone, according to data collected by the South Asia Terrorism Portal. The report showed that after the United States military withdrew from war- torn Afghanistan and the Taliban seized Kabul, deadly terrorist attacks in Pakistan increased to their loftiest position in further than four times, signalling growing insecurity in the region that experts say could come back to suck Islamabad.
As per its rearmost review, seen by the Bloomberg news agency – Pakistan saw at least 35 terror attacks that killed 52 civilians in August alone, the loftiest since February 2017. Utmost of these attacks have been attributed to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an offshoot terror outfit of the Taliban, which is believed to have been‘encouraged’by the developments coming door. The South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP) is the largest website on terrorism and low- intensity warfare in South Asia; it creates the database and logical environment for exploration and analysis of all revolutionist movements in the region.
The TTP, alternately appertained to as the‘Pakistani Taliban’has a stated end to erect the government in Islamabad by waging a violent service crusade against the state. It maintains ties with several other terror outfits, including but not limited to al-Qaeda. According to experts, this borderline militant group was “ inspired further by what happed in Afghanistan”.
“ The terrorist group had formerly been growing stronger much before the situation in Afghanistan with chip groups incorporating over the once time or so,” Umar Karim, a visiting fellow at the London- grounded Royal United Services Institute, told the Bloomberg agency over the phone.
Asfandyar Mir, a elderly expert at the United States Institute of Peace, said that although Pakistan isn’t talking about it openly, Islamabad is concerned about there-emergence of the Pakistani Taliban trouble, which had before been suppressed by a combination of domestic military operations and US drone strikes.
The development comes amid a precarious situation for Pakistan, which was criticised heavily across global diggings for encouraging the Taliban descent against the quondam Ashraf Ghani government in Afghanistan, in the expedients of gaining favour among the species of the new autocrats in Kabul and keep its neighbours uncomfortable in the process. But so far, the newfound Taliban governance has only led to further discomfort for Islamabad. The zealots, after sweeping to power, freed several terrorists wanted by the Pakistan government from jails in Afghanistan.
Terrorists firing from Afghanistan killed two Pakistani dogfaces and left numerous injured in a clash last month. Seven other dogfaces failed before in September when the Pakistani army attacked terrorists in South Waziristan, according to a statement transferred by the army’s media sect.
