IS PESHAWAR BLAST A PRECURSOR T0 AN ALL-OUT WAR BETWEEN TTP, PAK ARMY?

‘Amid an economic crisis, the Pakistan army cannot carry out a sustained war against the TTP, which may trigger more suicide blasts in the country’.

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For long, the city of Peshawar that lies in North-West Pakistan, has witnessed numerous violent developments, from the time of the 8th century when Hindu Shahi”’—a non-Muslim dynasty that ruled the region and lost to Mahmud Ghazni in November 1001—to the battle between Sikh Maharaja Ranjit Singh and Pathan king Azim Khan in March 1823 during the battle of Nowshera.

From the 1960s and till 2010, Peshawar acted as an important listening center for American agents working for the Central Intelligence Agency CIA) to gather intelligence in tandem with the ShalwarKameezcladsleuths of Pakistan’s spy agency, the ISI, on the events taking place in the region, especially in Afghanistan.