This is in line with the change in the group’s manifesto in 2018, when it said it would focus its violence against Pakistani military and intelligence targets rather than civilians (the hallmark of its earlier attacks). The TTP largely appears to have focused its recent attacks on security personnel in Pakistan’s western border regions (though it also targeted a polio vaccination team in December). Yet the increasing violence in 2021 compared to 2020, when the TTP began to regroup, is clear. After the Pakistani military began its Zarb-e-Azb operation against the group in 2014, attacks declined sharply. The TTP itself claimed 282 attacks in 2021 and said that it had killed more than 500 law enforcement personnel it claimed an additional 42 attacks in January 2022.īoth sets of numbers are low relative to the number of terrorist attacks during the height of the TTP insurgency (2,586 terrorist attacks and 3,021 fatalities in 2009, according to PIPS data). PIPS notes that the TTP alone was responsible for 87 attacks, an increase of 84% relative to 2020. According to the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), 207 terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan in 2021 - an increase of 42% relative to 2020.
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