Thursday 18 December 2014

Peshawar School Attack - Some Background

Jason Burke with a thoughtful background to the horror attack.

Pakistan Taliban: a brutal tactic from a ragtag group feeling the pressure | World news | The Guardian
Since June, a new and very direct pressure has been applied to the TTP.The Pakistani military finally moved into the North Waziristan tribal agency, where dozens of groups threatening local, regional and international targets were based. The assault was seen as the climax to years of campaigning on the frontier, chasing militants out of successive strongholds.
More than a thousand fighters from the movement are thought to have been killed in the new push, as well as civilians.



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