Police inspect the damage at a Mosque that was destroyed in a suicide bomb blast on January 30, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photo: EPA-EFE
Police inspect the damage at a Mosque that was destroyed in a suicide bomb blast on January 30, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photo: EPA-EFE
Zahid Shahab Ahmed
Opinion

Opinion

Zahid Shahab Ahmed

What Peshawar suicide blast signals about terrorism in Pakistan

  • Pakistan’s deteriorating security situation is linked to a resurgent TTP and the increasing fragility in neighbouring Afghanistan since the Taliban’s takeover
  • Pakistan had supported the Afghan Taliban for years, but the relationship began to break down after the Afghan Taliban offered shelter to TTP fighters

Police inspect the damage at a Mosque that was destroyed in a suicide bomb blast on January 30, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photo: EPA-EFE
Police inspect the damage at a Mosque that was destroyed in a suicide bomb blast on January 30, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Photo: EPA-EFE
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