Tehreek-­e-­Taliban Pakistan

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.