Pakistan has experienced an alarming rise in jihad attacks. “Data on the number and location of terrorist attacks in Pakistan show a concentration near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.”
The (TTP) seeks to implement sharia “throughout Pakistan….TTP leaders also publicly say that the group seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan that would require the overthrow of the Pakistani Government. TTP historically maintained close ties to senior al-Qa‘ida leaders, including al-Qa‘ida’s former head of operations for Pakistan.”
Taliban Commander Muhammed Arif Mustafa stated in 2021 that the “mujahedin will have victory, and Islamic law will come not to just Afghanistan, but all over the world.”
Although the TTP are the primary suspects in the latest blast, other groups including the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Baloch Nationalist Army (BNA), Sindhudesh People’s Army (SPA), and Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) are also identified as primary threats by counterterrorism authorities.
Foreign Policy Magazine has stated that “extremism,” a.k.a. jihad terror, “more than all the other crises, challenges Pakistan’s very survival.” Pakistan is a longtime jihad terror state that has played a double game to the world. Now it’s imploding as it is virtually at war with the Taliban and other jihadi factions.
“At least 12 killed in blasts at Pakistan counterterrorism office,” Al Jazeera, April 24, 2023:
Two explosions have rocked a counterterrorism facility in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 50 others, police said.
Sharifullah Khan, a police official in Kabal, told Al Jazeera that at least 12 people died in the blasts on Monday at the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Swat Valley while more than 50 were reported injured.
He added that he doesn’t believe the blasts were caused by “terrorism”. The “explosions occurred after explosive material in the CTD building’s basement caught fire”, he said.
The building complex also houses the Kabal district police station and headquarters of a reserve police force, but the main damage was done at the counterterrorism department building.
Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat said there was an old ammunition store in the office, and police were probing whether that caused the explosions or if it was an attack.
Two attacks on large police bases have been linked to the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since the start of the year.
Most of those killed on Monday were police counterterrorism officers, Hayat said, adding that a woman and her child who were passing by the building were also killed…..
stephen says
The frightening thing to me is that Pakistan has nukes. Imagine the taliban with nukes in their hands?
John Smith says
That is a frightening thought, and if the TTP does manage to overthrow this present government you can be certain some hardline jihadi will have his finger on the button.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
This is too funny – blasts at the Counter-terrorism office! Something one might get from the Babylon Bee or Thomson & Thompson in Tintin or other parody sites
Keith O says
Had a similar thought infidel, Shitistan has been sponsoring terrorism for how long??
Now the little monsters they enabled are turning on their masters, much lie the CIA using the Mujahedeen to fight the Russians, and then,,,,,,,,
James Lincoln says
Can anyone here at Jihad Watch comment intelligently about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and facilities?
stephen says
I read a while back that the Taliban had attacked the nuclear facilities more than once in the past. Can we in the west sit back and allow them to have their fingers on the button without having once again to intervene?
World News
May 23, 20112:25 AMUpdated 12 years ago
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-pakistan-attack-nukes-idUKTRE74M07S20110523
James Lincoln says
Thanks for your reply, Stephen.
stephen says
I do my best, James.
John Smith says
Thanks for the link Stephen
stephen says
N o problem