WIDENING INSURGENCIES
Pakistan’s widening insurgencies are waged by competing groups with different support bases and ideologies but a common enemy in the Pakistani state.
Last week’s attack in Kohat was claimed by a militant group called Shura Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen.
It is headed by warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who had once hosted al-Qaeda and Arab extremist fighters in the bordering region, said Abdul Basit, an analyst at Singapore’s S Rajaratnam School of International Studies. The group initially focused on attacks against US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
At the time, that stood in stark contrast with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its…
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