Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Archives

Calling TTP by Another Name: Would It Diminish the Threat It Poses to Pakistan?

Declaring the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as Fitna al Khawarji will neither delegitimise the TTP nor diminish the threat it poses.

Ashish Shukla
August 07, 2024
Issue Brief

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan: Unravelling Pakistan’s Enduring Threat

The 4 November 2023 attack on the Pakistan Air Force base by an affiliate of the TTP highlights the threat posed by the group to the Pakistani state.

Rajneesh Singh
November 16, 2023
Issue Brief

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan: Origin, Evolution and Future Portents

Publisher: KW Publishers

This volume is a result of an abiding interest in the phenomenon of radical Islamist terror that haunts Pakistan today. The research questions that it seeks to answer are: Why do the tribal areas remain a problem for rulers and administrators throughout history? How and why did radical Islam embed itself in the terrain?

Was it influenced by the overall emphasis on Islam in Pakistani state politics? What is the role of history and politics in fuelling religious passions in the area? What has led to the survival of TTP despite humongous efforts of the Pakistan Army to decimate it? What are the future portents of such a movement? What impact is it likely to have on Pakistani society and politics?

The volume makes an attempt to understand the context in which Pakistani Taliban or TTP, as it is called now, came into being, the enabling factors that made the growth of TTP possible, the formation and growth of TTP as a militant organisation, its leadership and its activities over the years, its ideological orientation and its worldview, its aims and objectives, its relationship with other militant groups in and outside Pakistan and the efforts of the Pakistani establishment to come to terms with such a phenomenon. There is an attempt to analyse the process and study its implications for Pakistan and the region.

ISBN: 978-93-91490-02-7 ,
Price: ₹ 880/-
E-copy available

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan: Origin, Evolution and Future Portents

TTP’s Political Violence and Jihad

The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claims that the Pakistani state does not practice true Islam and therefore it can wage a legitimate Jihad against it.

Nazir Ahmad Mir
February 14, 2023
IDSA Comments

Emerging Fault Lines between Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban

Given the ideological convergence the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has with the Taliban, the latter may not be able or willing to fulfil Pakistan’s demand that its activities be curbed.

Nazir Ahmad Mir
December 09, 2022
IDSA Comments

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and its Relations with Afghan Taliban

The relationship between TTP, or Pakistani Taliban, and Afghan Taliban will continue to be dictated by religious-ideological convergence, ethnic-fraternal linkages and the close camaraderie that emerged while they were fighting together against the foreign ‘occupying’ forces in Afghanistan.

Ashok K. Behuria
September 16, 2021
IDSA Comments

Pakistan Is Headed For a Dangerous Denouement

If the Pakistan Army fails to conclusively eliminate the scourge in the north-west, it will soon reach Punjab, which has been relatively free of major incidents of violence.

Gurmeet Kanwal
December 22, 2014
IDSA Comments

Peshawar Massacre and the Afghan Endgame

The Peshawar school massacre does not appear to be a simple tit-for-tat game; it has an intricate link to the Afghan endgame in which Pakistan wants to be the victor.

P. Stobdan
December 22, 2014
IDSA Comments

Talks with Taliban: war by other means

The situation in Pakistan today is very fragile. Despite the progress on the democratic front, there is a sense of helplessness on how to tackle the menace of terrorism. Unlike in the past, Islamabad appears quite weak vis-à-vis Taliban while it keeps chanting its commitment to talks with TTP, despite the provocation and retaliation from the army.