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Pakistan’s Taliban challenge: With over 100 attacks in two months, Islamabad faces grim security situation
Tilak Devasher •A year and a half after the Taliban captured Kabul the euphoria has vanished, the mood is grim and Pakistan’s policy is in tatters
WATCH: Taliban mocks Pakistan Army with video of TTP snipers targeting soldiers with US weapons
Fp Staff •The video shows TTP snipers attacking soldiers from the Pakistan Army and the country's various paramilitary forces at various locations across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan
From supporting Taliban to border clashes: How did Pakistan's 'strategic depth policy' in Afghanistan backfire?
Fp Staff •Since August 2021, border skirmishes between Pakistan and Taliban-led Afghanistan have increased significantly. The latest border clash between the two countries earlier this month had Taliban fighters and Pakistani forces exchanging heavy artillery fire along the Spin-Boldak-Chaman border
Pakistan: Imran Khan blames 'imported govt' for Taliban attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Fp Staff •A day earlier, four police personnel were killed and as many others wounded in an overnight terrorist attack on the Bargai Police Station of Lakki Marwat area
Heavy destruction in Pakistan as Taliban fires rockets across Durand Line
Fp Staff •Earlier this week, at least six people including security forces personnel were killed and 17 others sustained injuries on the Pakistan side of the Durand Line due to firing by the Afghan Taliban in Balochistan’s Chaman district
At least six killed in 'unprovoked' firing by Taliban border forces in Balochistan, says Pakistan Army
•Sunday's standoff at the border comes barely 24 hours after authorities in Pakistan said that its counterterrorism forces had intercepted four Islamic State Khorasan Province (IS-K) terrorists close to the Afghan border and killed them
As you sow, so shall you reap: Pakistan now has to deal with self-created demon Taliban
Ajeyo Basu •With the TTP declaring an end to the truce with the government on Monday (November 28) and the resumption of nationwide militant attacks, Pakistan is now staring into an abyss of its own making
TTP declares end to truce, orders attacks across Pakistan
Fp Staff •This decision by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) comes even as Pakistan is facing regular attacks in its tribal areas and along the Durand Line - its border with Afghanistan - from the Afghan Taliban and insurgents linked to the Pakistan Taliban
Afganistan: Several injured as Taliban, Pakistan Army clash on Durand Line
Fp Staff •The latest clash between the Taliban and the Pakistan Army on the Durand Line has taken place in the Dand-e-Patan area of Paktia province of Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Five children among those killed in Pakistan's rocket attacks
•Since the Taliban seized power last year in Afghanistan, border tensions between the neighbours have risen, with Pakistan claiming militant groups were carrying out attacks from Afghan soil