‘Terrorism has returned’ in Pakistan
The Pakistani Taliban initially denied playing a part in Monday’s suicide bombing in Pakistan, which killed at least 101 people in the city of Peshawar. A faction of the group has since claimed responsibility, raising fears that instability and militancy could return to the city.
The devastating attack on a mosque in a heavily guarded neighborhood added to evidence that the Pakistani Taliban are regaining strength from safe havens in Afghanistan. In 2014, the group carried out a massacre at a school in Peshawar, a provincial capital near the border. That energized a Pakistani military offensive, which sent most of its fighters and other militants out of the region. Since 2015, the city has been relatively calm.
Now, the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan. They have covertly supported the Pakistani Taliban for years — a regional expert told The Times that the group’s leadership is based in Afghanistan — and have refused to help Pakistan rein them in. As negotiations stalled, the Pakistani Taliban regrouped and have begun flooding back into Pakistan’s northwest.
Quotable: “It seems that suicide bombing and terrorism has returned,” a rickshaw driver in Peshawar said.
What’s next: The attack came during a time of economic and political upheaval in Pakistan, which has consumed the country’s leaders. Few think they are equipped to respond right now.
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