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global governance is feeling ah my british manager, welcome to the the news asia. glad you could join us. but to start is facing an increase in attacks by the part taliban just last month. the militant storm, the police compound in karachi, the group is also suspected to be behind a suicide bombing in january. that killed at least a 100 in a mosque in pish over. the attacks have increased since the group walked out of obesity with the pakistan government last november. since then, at least a 100 attacks in the country have been blamed on them. most have targeted police personnel. it's left the government in the dilemma. how can parties study citizens feel safe when police themselves don't? to little a police officer at this outpost impish hour in north western pakistan is kick it

out with a rocket propelled grenade launcher. it's part of a new campaign to help security forces fight back against the space of attacks by pakistani taliban. it's one of dozens of scattered outposts in a zone where the police face almost daily assaults by militants. less up. okay. he was up game pakistani taliban known as the t t p. a stepped up its activity, including the deadliest single attack on the force. a mosque bombing, the killed over 80 police in pasha are in late january these i post stand at the edge of the government's full control facing mountainous areas and their militant hide ads along the afghan border. pasha are, is just over 50 kilometers from the afghan frontier through the khyber pass a key trade route and a strategic military location will almost a year deal with me. the other would be the good. but it really, the biggest problem we face is the number of personnel, which is

a little low. so if i just have you or i have a good number of weapons inside our ground floor store, he will know this is a targeted area and we're absolutely face to face with the militants. a got it so little of the windows or i interlock fuller lived in you. within to live with earlier the the intensive training is aimed at boosting skills and morale. the number of police killed has been rising sharply up to 119 last year from 54 and 2021. more than 2100 personnel have been killed since 2001. the taliban stated aim is to impose islamic religious law in pakistan just as they did across the border. pakistani forces have scored a string of military victory since 2014, but taliban fighters were able to regroup. attacks on police officers have escalated since the hurried departure from afghanistan of nato forces in 2021.

there has been disproportionately affected. that's a fact. i'm not gonna sit here and say that, but it's been a, has been given all the protection as much protection as it can give. but the trip that is emanated is a very unique nature. local police complained that they're under paid and have a lower status from the pakistani army. electricity is in short supply, plus, dealing with an insurgent and a suicide vest is a daunting prospect, even for well trained, well equipped personnel. joining me now for more context on this is michael goldman, his director of the south, is your institute at the wilson center think tank invoicing to d. c. michael, what is the poly bon end game in pakistan? i think the told on are the ttp is the pakistan on is known as keen to replicate in pakistan. what the taliban afghanistan was able to do in that country. it's not

something that the t t p will be able to do, but it wants to try and this is why we're seeing in recent months, intensifying attacks by the t t p on the security establishment on state forces on the army on soldiers and indeed, and especially in recent weeks on police as well. some of the partners on thought of on knows and understands that had gotten tired of defeat the pakistani state. and if that is the case, is it just a case of hedging their bets and seeing how far they can go? yes, certainly part of it. and also, i mean, a t, t p has long had a fight to, to wage against pakistan. the security forces that it uses, having been allied with, with the u. s. government when it was waiting as war in afghanistan. and certainly as a t t p has long been very unhappy about how the pakistani military has stage counterterrorism offences against a t t p. that, of course, eliminated many, many

t t p fighters over the years. so on many levels, what we're seeing with this t t p campaign in pakistan now is a campaign of revenge trying to get out at the pakistani security forces army and, and police. and i think that one reason we're seeing so many attacks on police in recent weeks is that the t t p use the police is somewhat of a more easier and therefore attractive target than any security forces. particularly, as we seen, the police unfortunately have lacked a capacity to quickly and these very sophisticated assaults that the t t p is carried out. and we've seen it particularly in the most recent case army commandos have to come in to try to. and these a soft by the t t p. and how much support does it have from the i've gone thought about as part to sounds, governmental ledges does well i mean the, the afghan taliban in the package and has long been closely allied. they're not the same organization, they're different,

but they've longly been ideologically aligned, and for quite some time during the, when the warrant, afghanistan was being waged. you had a number of instances where pakistani taliban fighters would work alongside afghan taliban fighters, operationally they were cooperating as well. now the, the, the t t p has long been been loyal to, to the afghan as long profess it's allegiance to the supreme leadership of the afghan taliban. and the african telephone refers returns, the favor, quite frankly, it is providing space if not sanctuary to the senior t t p leadership inside afghanistan. now i'm not saying that the afghan taliban is arming the t t p and sending it in to pakistan to carry out attacks. but the i can talk about is certainly looking the other way to say the least when it comes to the t. t p. enjoying space in sanctuary, and i'm going to stand and crossing the border into pakistan to carry out attacks. does the tend to be also serve any strategic ideal,

the stress strategic goals of the afghan thought about how when it comes to dealing with the focused on government and tell them look at t t p is a source of leverage in the sense that i hope that maybe you could get something out of pakistan. again, pakistan to make some type of major concession to the afghan taliban in returned to the african tal about making set concessions to pakistan. a t t p issue for instance. you know, the possibility of, of trying to get pakistan to recognize the afghan taliban regime. and then in return the afghan taliban would, would try to make some concessions such as perhaps trying to pressure t t p leaders to leave afghanistan. i don't actually think that that's going to be the case, but i do think that there's something to this idea that maybe the i can tell on things that can use the t t p as a bargaining chip to try to get something out of the pakistani state, it's all about has also long have things for the i've gone on. so why isn't it

being able to prevail on going to end the support of the part of on one factor is, is, is the, the very close links between the 2 tower bonds. let's put it this way. the taliban is aligned with many milliken groups that are better base to knock and pakistan from al qaeda to a number of regional terrorist groups. and the telephone had never turned on any of these milton allies. it is fighting against the islamic state or a son, but as long as the course and has always been a rival of the taliban. so the telephone never turned on any but milton allies including the ttp. so that's one factor. i also think that the top one enough denise then wants to assert at independence from pakistan, from its former patron. it was long dependent on pakistan for sanctuary when the war in afghanistan was raging. but none of the war has had ended for now. i think that the taliban wants to show the people who on many levels, mistrust pakistan in the way that the taliban no longer has to be reliant on

pakistan. it's no longer going to do its bidding. it's no longer going to roll over and, and cow towel to the tank as many states and do what pakistan asked the telephone to do. so, i think that's another factor at play as well. in 2014 michael for the party santa live on attacked an army school and push over the army. the an army up it's offensive against admittance. do you see a similar response taking shape now? yes, certainly there's a, there's a big debate raging in pakistan. now about what type of response we might see, what type of connect, connecticut kinetic response we might see from the pakistani military. but i think it's unlikely we'll see anything akin to, to what happened in 2014 anytime soon. because for one reason it's a very fractured political environment in pakistan right now. and so there's no political, there's no broader political consensus in favor of a major counterterrorism offenses. also, there's a severe economic crisis in pakistan right now. pakistan could be just 2 weeks away

from a default. and so i think that he can comically could be very difficult to muster the resources at this point to mount a major counterterrorism offensive against the ttp. and another issue is, i think that, you know, the army would have to figure out what type of offensive we want to actually mount the television, because the senior tcp leadership is based in afghanistan. so the most effective tactical operation might be one that, that involve operation didn't canister, but that could really set tensions that can really potentially with the taliban in afghanistan on an even higher level, which is a big risk for pakistan. but if it maintains it limits at potential offensive only to pakistan, it may not get to the root of the problem, which is and then we leave the all of the better. talking to michael graham. thank you so much for joining us. thanks for having me. ah, for ministers of the world 20 most advanced and emerging economies have met in

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