United States Institute of Peace<\/strong> (USIP) titled \u201cThe Evolution and Potential Resurgence of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan\u201d, had pointed towards the dangers posed by these factions reviving themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBy 2015, a US drone campaign and Pakistani military ground operations had destroyed much of the cadre base of the TTP. But with the signing of the Doha agreement on February 29, 2020 between the Taliban and the US, it was like the US lifting its foot of its throat!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most worrying thing for the international community is that the TTP has been in favour of alliances with like-minded factions like the Al Qaeda in the Indian Sub-continent (AQIS), ISKP and others who are not just opposed to the US, but more specifically against Pakistan military presence in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Out of the lot, it is the TTP and the ISKP that are more vehemently opposed to militant factions sympathetic towards Pakistan and its military presence. On the other hand, the TTP has helped Al Qaeda in granting its militants safe heavens in the mountainous regions bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the lot, policy experts like Amira Jadoon label the TTP as the deadliest of the militant organisations that operate from northern border regions both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. These militant outfits have found safe heavens in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as well as provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since January 2021, more so in recent times, the TTP has once again stepped up its attacks inside Pakistan targeting not just civilians, but more importantly the Pakistani army. The TTP has carried out terror attacks outside of FATA and KP into urban areas of Quetta, Karachi and Lahore. Since early this year, the TTP has carried out 32 terror attacks inside Pakistan, mostly in North Waziristan, Islamabad and Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most audacious attacks carried out by the TTP was at the Pakistan Navy\u2019s Mehran naval base in 2011. The TTP militants fought a 15-hour long battle which left 13 people dead and a Pakistani maritime surveillance aircraft destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Amira Jadoon, Pakistan has been guilty of capitulating before these terror outfits like the TTP. A case in point is the Malakand accord with the Tehrik-i-Nifaz-i-Shariat-i-Mohammadi of Sufi Mohammad wherein Pakistan agreed to implementation of the Sharia law in districts of Malakand, Swat, Shangla, Buner, Dir, Chatral and Kohistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both Pakistan and China may be in glee, eager to rush into a region often described as the \u201cGraveyard of Empires\u201d, to tap into the potential rare earth mineral deposits of Afghanistan. Pakistan may have succeeded in ensuring that the real power lies with its chosen Haqqani Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The disappearance, silence or house arrest of Taliban\u2019s second-in-command Mullah Baradar indicates that all is not well within the terror outfit. The recent terror attack by ISKP on Kabul airport on August 26, 2021 only underlines the fact that the Taliban does not have absolute control over other militant factions and that all is not well within its own ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The warning signs issued by Amira Jadoon in May 2021 and more recently by former US NSA John Bolton are ominous. For China too, besides its impending economic meltdown, reigning in the various factions of Taliban may not be that easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Taliban itself might want to bargain and barter Nukes either with Pakistan or China, if they both do not want any trouble in their own backyards of Balochistan or Xinjiang. Taliban factions like the TTP, ISKP and AQIS are not averse to lending their support to separatist Uyghurs in Xinjiang province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Indian context the increased terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir, attempts by Pakistan to push through terrorists and drop arms and ammunition using Drones into border regions of Punjab in India, are ominous signs. But certainly, things are a lot different politically and militarily in India since 2014, Moreover, both China and Pakistan are facing their own internal situations that could explode in their own face sooner or later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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