Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan - Origin, Evolution and Future Portents

To understand the context, within which the TTP came into being and operated over the years, the policies of the Western countries towards the region in the aftermath of 9/11, the approach of the Pakistan military towards Islamist jihadi groups as well as its temptation to use terrorism as an element of its security policy, its complex and complicated relations with India and Afghanistan, the role. [...] The first Constitution of Pakistan in 1956 not only guaranteed the rights and privileges of the princes but the Frontier states and agencies were granted special status by retaining their status as a “Special Area” under Article 104 which provided that the executive authority of the province of West Pakistan was empowered to act in the area subject to the President’s concurrence. [...] The main objective of the FCR was the suppression of crime and protection of the interests of the Government of Pakistan (earlier that of the British Empire); including keeping lines of communications open with Afghanistan. [...] In the process, in order to keep the jihad going and both to mobilise greater support for it and keep indoctrinating the young and impressionable refugee children pouring into Pakistani tribal borderlands, hundreds of madrassas were constructed in the area as well as in the hinterland and specially designed school textbooks preaching jihad were produced in the US and supplied free of cost to the c. [...] With the rise of Taliban in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s, midwifed by the Pakistani intelligence and army, the mullahs of the region fed with the success of Afghan jihad started dreaming of Islamic emirates in their own areas, if not entire Pakistan.