Blast in a Mosque in Peshawar: 50 people injured

[Megg]

Your own Tweet proves it was them (second tweet)

They claimed it but seems now they are denying it, after being criticised by ISKP and other groups for calling them Khawarij for bombing mosques, and then doing it themselves.

The second tweet is by an american journalist, it's his views on the matter, he isn't stating it for a fact. TTP has always boasted about their bombings, this one by far the worse every after APS. 90+ dead in a single bombing! It doesn't make sense they would distance themselves from something that could be a big achievement

 

[SecularNationalist]

Its time to bomb Kabul and other areas inside Afghanistan. Send them a message by killing 2 times more namak haram afghan terrorists.

 

[Vapnope]

They have denied that

https://twitter.com/x/status/1620154041027424256

https://twitter.com/x/status/1620277182064099328

So now TTP is credible? You remember they distanced themselves from APS attack as well until Ehsan Ullah Ehsan spilled the beans inadvertently. I get it that people are angry with establishment, and rightfully so, but don't fall into the trap of terrorists.

 

[TheSolution]

The second tweet is by an american journalist, it's his views on the matter, he isn't stating it for a fact. TTP has always boasted about their bombings, this one by far the worse every after APS. 90+ dead in a single bombing! It doesn't make sense they would distance themselves from something that could be a big achievement

It does if you read this

https://twitter.com/x/status/1620041165738311681

Many TTP members and channels have already claimed and spoken in support of the bombing though, so either they are claiming things not done by them or it's likely them

 

[TheSolution]

Its time to bomb Kabul and other areas inside Afghanistan. Send them a message by killing 2 times more namak haram afghan terrorists.

Taliban government is 1000x more competent and capable than Pakistan's government if you've heard their interviews and statements, they are very smart and strategic with their wording. They have wisdom and foresight.

It's actually shameful for Pakistan. They are running their country in a much more intelligent and sensible manner.

Look at the statement released against the attack.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1620088208389246976

 

[-=virus=-]

up to 100 gone now, and probably thousands directly effected..

this is beyond terrible and very heartbreaking

hope Pak agencies and fauj deliver some swift and just retribution to the filth responsible for this.

 

[Megg]

So now TTP is credible? You remember they distanced themselves from APS attack as well until Ehsan Ullah Ehsan spilled the beans inadvertently. I get it that people are angry with establishment, and rightfully so, but don't fall into the trap of terrorists.

What's the point of such attacks when you're not going to accept the responsibility?

So now TTP is credible? You remember they distanced themselves from APS attack as well until Ehsan Ullah Ehsan spilled the beans inadvertently. I get it that people are angry with establishment, and rightfully so, but don't fall into the trap of terrorists.

Did they? If i remember correctly they even released videos of the attackers before the mission, they had accepted the responsibility. Afghan taliban had condemned it though

 

[terry5]

North-west Pakistan in grip of deadly Taliban resurgence​

Misguided government efforts to rehabilitate militants have helped fuel recent terrorist activity

The bomber struck shortly before afternoon prayers, when the mosque in Peshawar’s bustling Police Lines district would be at its busiest. Hundreds of people, including many police officers, were inside as the device detonated, creating a blast so strong the roof and wall collapsed and 92 people were killed.

The attack on Monday was among the worst in years to hit Peshawar, a city in north-west Pakistan that has been ravaged relentlessly by deadly terrorist violence over decades. Hours after the attack, responsibility was claimed by a low-level commander from one faction of the Pakistan Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), as revenge for the death of a fighter in Afghanistan.


Later, an official spokesperson from the TTP distanced themselves from the incident, stating it was not their policy to target mosques. Yet it was just the latest escalation in an onslaught of violence claimed by TTP in the north-west province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which in recent months has been in the grip of a deadly Taliban resurgence that the government and Pakistan’s powerful military appear powerless to control.

Only two weeks previously, a police station on the outskirts of Peshawar was targeted in a coordinated onslaught by well-equipped Talibanfighters. “The terrorists were armed with modern weapons and night vision glasses,” said Irshad Malik, an assistant sub-inspector who was in the police station during the attack. “They targeted officers with snipers and hurled hand-grenades at the police station.” Three officers were killed.

Raza Khan, another officer present, said security agencies were “under attack across the province”. “It is a scary situation,” he added. “The terrorists seem to be everywhere.”

TTP, which is separate from the Taliban in Afghanistan but shares a similar hardline Islamist ideology, has waged a bloody insurgency in Pakistan for the past 15 years, fighting for stricter enforcement of Islamic sharia law. The group has been responsible for some of the deadliest terrorist attacks on Pakistan soil, including the 2014 Peshawar school massacre in which 132 children were killed.


After military operations in 2014 and 2017, which resulted in heavy bloodshed, they were largely suppressed. Yet since November, they have once again stepped up attacks after peace negotiations with the government failed and the group declared it was ending its ceasefire.

Since then, the security situation has deteriorated rapidly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the province neighbouring Afghanistan, as the Pakistan Taliban have carried out almost a dozen deadly attacks targeting police and military posts. In one incident in December, Taliban detainees overpowered their guards at a counter-terrorism unit, seized control of the facility and held them hostage for more than 24 hours, leaving more than a dozen army and police officers dead.

Michael Kugelman, a senior associate for south Asia at the Wilson Center, said: “TTP’s intensifying attacks on Pakistani security forces are meant to send a simple but unsettling message: the state can’t stop them.”

The seemingly uncontrollable resurgence of the TTP in Pakistan had been forewarned by many observers since the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan in August 2020, after they seized control from the US-backed government and imposed brutal Islamic rule on the country. The triumph of the Taliban in Afghanistan was celebrated in Islamabad including by the then prime minister, Imran Khan, who said the country had broken from “the shackles of slavery”.

But promises by the Afghan Taliban not to shelter TTP fighters proved hollow and the relationship between the Pakistan government and the Taliban began to break down.

“Pakistan’s mistake was to think that the Taliban would be willing to help it curb TTP,” said Kugelman. “The Taliban’s track record has been consistent: the group doesn’t turn on its militant allies. It didn’t turn on al-Qaida, so why would it turn on TTP, with which the Taliban have been aligned ideologically for years?”

Meanwhile, misguided efforts by Khan’s government included 5,000 TTP fighters being brought back to Pakistan from Afghanistan to be rehabilitated and resettled in the tribal area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The programme failed after ceasefire negotiations broke down and funding could not be found to resettle the fighters, leaving Pakistan with more TTP fighters freely roaming on home soil.

The defence minister, Khawaja Asif, who serves under the new government of Shehbaz Sharif, confirmed that the hundreds of TTP fighters had been brought over under the previous Khan government. Asif was critical of the failed rehabilitation plan, accepting that it had instead helped fuel recent terrorist activity in the country.

He said the TTP fighters “did not settle down like normal citizens. Instead they are going back to their old activities, creating an atmosphere of fear in these areas.”

Asif described the situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as “bad without a doubt”. “They know it, we know it, everyone knows that Pakistani Taliban are using Afghan soil for terrorism in Pakistan,” he said. “We would like to avoid a military operation but if we are compelled to use force then we will have to.”

In Waziristan, a heavily militarised mountainous region bordering Afghanistan, which historically has been at the centre of Taliban attacks and brutal security operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, locals described how the Taliban presence could be felt heavily once again. They said an influx of TTP fighters had come from Afghanistan and the Taliban were now controlling the many security checkpoints at night.

For over a year we have seen TTP militants crossing into Pakistan,” said Anwar Khpalwak, from the local organisation The Voice of People. Locals described how Pakistan Taliban militants now roamed freely around the area, including in the bazaar, and said they had been involved in ransom, kidnapping and extortion of local businesses.

Local anger at the government and military was potent. Most had lost relatives to years of terrorist attacks and retaliatory military operations, and the return of the TTP meant only more violence and bloodshed. “We have lost most men and our widowed women would guard the house at night. We had peace for a very short period, and it seems the terrorists are back. We are tired of war,” said Malik Ala Noor Khan, 40, who lost 14 family members and joined a recent march calling for peace.

Many believed the TTP had only used the ceasefire with the government to regroup and reorganise so they could come back stronger. Manzoor Pashteen, the founder of the Pashtun Tahafuz movement (PTM) that works for peace in the violence-stricken tribal areas, said all the government’s negotiations with the Pakistan Taliban had “never yielded us peace”.

“These negotiations were only to give each other space for a few months,” he said. “In a way, these negotiations were a justification, a gateway to allow militant organisation in tribal areas.”

As hundreds of locals gathered recently in Wana, a town in Waziristan, they waved white flags of peace to protest against the violence that had once again imposed itself on their lives. “Through peaceful protests of the people, we will continue to challenge this war being fought on our soil,” said Pashteen. “This is not our war

North-west Pakistan in grip of deadly Taliban resurgence

Misguided government efforts to rehabilitate militants have helped fuel recent terrorist activity

www.theguardian.com

 

[Arsalan Tauseef]

The military wields the strength to strike down 1000 TTP in a single day, and this act of vengeance could sway the hostile outlook of the Pakistani population in their favor. Despite several paths to unravel the knots that have eroded the integrity of the establishment, what hinders decisive action from being taken? How many more lives must be lost before a resolution is pursued?

 

[TheSolution]

What's the point of such attacks when you're not going to accept the responsibility?

Did they? If i remember correctly they even released videos of the attackers before the mission, they had accepted the responsibility. Afghan taliban had condemned it though

To engineer political instability on purpose.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1620424092821368833

https://twitter.com/x/status/1620087656616173569

 

[Crimson Blue]

Just WOW. Company is getting really desperate.

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

Are we going to bomb TTP inside Afghanistan ? When will we kick out Afghans ?

What happened is likely a repercussion of the recent proactiveness in sending the refugees back by govt.
They thought better to blow up than go back.

 

[Smoke]

No it won't

It will be Allah's wrath on display against Afghanistan for their treachery and support to khawarijs, and spilling the blood of their own people for racial superiority endeavours.

Not to mention how prevalent homosexuality as a culture is there - Allah destroyed an entire nation for that.

Can you justify that for every soul living there? The children are doing it too? Realize that one murder = murdering all of mankind

 

[TheSolution]

Can you justify that for every soul living there? The children are doing it too? Realize that one murder = murdering all of mankind

No I can't justify it for every soul living there

But I can justify it if it protects every soul living in Pakistan. We have tried every peaceful option in the book and shown restraint, our people have only shed tears in return and spilled blood.

What's left?

 

[Smoke]

No I can't justify it for every soul living there

But I can justify it if it protects every soul living in Pakistan. We have tried every peaceful option in the book and shown restraint, our people have only shed tears in return and spilled blood.

What's left?

Anything other than nukes, not only do you screw their land and food up, you also screw it up for KP, Balochistan and West Punjab.