The armed group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), known as the Pakistani Taliban, announced on Monday the end of the ceasefire agreed with the Pakistani authorities and claimed responsibility for an attack earlier in the day that left two members of the security forces wounded.
In their statement, reported by The Khorasan Daily news portal, the Pakistani Taliban said it was a response «to a series of proactive attacks by the Pakistani government». «It is imperative that they strike wherever they can across the country,» the armed group stressed.
The announcement comes hours after two officers were wounded after being shot at in the South Waziristan town of Makin and just a day before the term of Pakistan Army chief Qamer Yavad Bajua comes to an end.
The ceasefire had been in place for months amid a process of talks between the Pakistani authorities and the armed group, a process mediated by the Afghan Taliban, who in August 2021 seized power in the neighboring country after taking over the capital, Kabul.
The armed group, which differs from the Afghan Taliban in organizational matters but follows the same rigorist interpretation of Sunni Islam, brings together more than a dozen Islamist militant groups operating in Pakistan, where they have killed some 70,000 people in two decades of violence.
