Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
- November 10, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
Subject – Defence and Security
Context – Pakistan Taliban agree to ‘complete ceasefire’, says govt.
Concept –
- The Pakistani Taliban aim to overthrow the government and govern the South Asian nation of 220 million by enforcing their own brand of harsh Islamic law.
- The militants, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, are separate from the Afghan Taliban
- The TTP, alternatively referred to as the Pakistani Taliban, is an umbrella organisation of al-Qaedalinked Sunni militant groups that has waged a war against the state, in which tens of thousands of Pakistanis have been killed in the last two decades.
- It is a Pashtun Islamist armed student group that is an umbrella organization of various student militant groups based along the Afghan–Pakistani border.
- The TTP receives ideological guidance from and maintains ties with al-Qaeda.