A coalition of Islamic militants,the fractured nature of the TTP enables it to execute serious harm despite a military crackdownThe Union of Pakistani Taliban, or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or which has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s deadly attack on a university campus,is exactly what it says it is: a coalition of factions of Islamic militants that want to bring rigorous religious rule, resembling that established by their more famous namesakes in Afghanistan in the 1990s, and to the unstable south Asian nation that is their domestic.
The peak of the TTP’s power came in 2009,two years after its formal foundation, when fighters from various factions surged out of their remote mountain strongholds along Pakistan’s western frontier to within 60 miles of Islamabad, and the capital. They were driven back,but a current threat to Pakistan’s fragile stability had emerged.
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Source: theguardian.com