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Pakistan weighs options to tackle cross-border TTP threat

by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Nov 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Despite simmering tensions with Afghanistan, Pakistan is confident that it can sort out the issue of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), officials, who deal with the matter, believe. “It is not the question of a contingency plan. It is the question of capability and we have that capability to tackle the problem,” a senior official told The Express Tribune here on Wednesday while requesting anonymity. He…

‘An alliance of forces formed with an eye on retaining power’: Social

FrontReport in The Himalayan Times, June 25, 2023Although the top leaders of the Socialist Front comprising the CPN-MC, CPN- US, Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal and Communist Party of Nepal said this front would be different from past alliances as they had built ideological congruence on many issues, political analysts believe the front is for bargaining on the basis of political power in the Parliament. The three parties of the front – CPN-MC, CPN (US) and JSP-N…

Peshawar Attack: edit in The Nation, Jan 16, 2023

Once again, the TTP has claimed an attack that illustrates how the group has become more audacious as it targeted the Sarband police station at the outskirts of Peshawar. A senior police officer along with two two constables embraced martyrdom in a midnight militant attack, which officials believe is the first of its kind where modern gadgets were used to target police. While the five attackers managed to flee in the dark—as has been witnessed…