On Saturday, December 3, 2022, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or Pakistani Taliban announced its new government with new full Cabinet. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan announced new appointments to divide the outfit into various ministries. Direct challenge to Pakistan's sovereignty and civilians goverment, Pakistani Taliban formed a parallel government with a cabinet of ministers, ranging from Defence to Education.
"TTP announced its new appointments dividing the outfit into various ministries, Defence, Judiciary, Information, Political Affairs, Economic Affairs, Education, a Fatwa-issuing authority, Intelligence, and a Department for construction", TTP said in statement.
Moreover, TTP has divided areas in its loose control into two zones – North (includes Peshawar, Malakand, Mardan, and Gilgit-Baltistan) and South (includes Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, and Kohat).
About Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) or Pakistani Taliban
According to media reports, The TTP or Pakistani Taliban, in 2021 has conducted more than hundreds of terror attacks on the pakistan's police and even on the army headquarters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Quetta in the Balochistan region.
TTP is allied with Afghan-Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan in August last year. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan-Pakistani border. It is an alliance of militant networks formed in 2007, to unify opposition against the Pakistani military.
The Pakistani Taliban share a common ideology with the Afghan Taliban and assisted them in the 2001–2021 war in Afghanistan. Two groups have separate operations and command structures. The TTP's aim is to overthrow the government of Pakistan by waging a terrorist campaign against the Pakistan armed forces and the state. The TTP receives ideological guidance from and maintains ties with Al-Qaeda.
According to Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan terrorists have strength of 7,000 to 10,000 in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The success of the Taliban in Afghanistan in August 2021, has given a boost to these terror attacks by TTP in Pakistan. Pakistan was unable to persuade the Afghan Taliban to crack down on the TTP. The Afghan Taliban instead mediated talks between Pakistan and the TTP, leading to the release of dozens of TTP prisoners in Pakistan and a temporary ceasefire between the Pakistani government and the TTP. The ceasefire has expired between Pakistan's civilian government and Pakistani Taliban on December 10, 2021, after that, the TTP increased attacks on Pakistani security forces.
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