PAKISTANI TALIBAN IS A VOLCANO WAITING TO ERUPT

摘要

The TTP's links with transnational jihadi networks plus its demands to retain control of its weapons and demerge FATA from KP, strongly suggests that the group intends to use the peace process to gain control of its old stronghold not only as a sanctuary for its allies but also as a launch base for its new war on the State. In the past Afghan Taliban leaders like Mullah Umar and Sirajuddin Haqqani had repeatedly attempted to convince the TTP to focus on the Afghan Jihad and not to attack Pakistan. But these initiatives had always been futile because waging of the Jihad against Pakistan forms the basis for TTP's separate identity.