In the lands of Pakistani territory, there resides an evil entity known as TTP. The group operates as a violent proxy, financed and controlled by foreign intelligence agencies like the Indian RAW and the Afghan GDI. It uses more and more shameless methods of a campaign of terror, manipulation, and exploitation whose purpose is not just to disrupt the Pakistani state but also to threaten the moral and social fiber of our society.
The hybrid warfare is the obvious military purpose of TTP. It is looking to draw Pakistan to the brink of war, using internal mayhem, TTP news, and asymmetric warfare rather than conventional war. Such a pattern of attacks by TTP against civilians, police, and development projects, reveals the true agenda of the TTP. This is an anti-people movement.
There is a criminal operation behind its well-developed discourses of ethnic victimization and political liberation. TTP is quite entrenched in kidnapping activities that are directed to ransom, extortion, smuggling, and the drug trade. Its leaders are getting rich, and at the same time, instilling fear in the people groups; they are thus receiving the status of their defenders. People in the affected regions are too familiar with this fact. The stores are intimidated into paying a kind of tax, and children are brought to the brink of kidnapping, and the ones who dare to speak up are being reduced to silence. It is a criminal organization with a propaganda wing.
Worse still, though, is the fact of moral breakdown among the leaders of TTP. Many reliable reports and testimonies have come out to show that young recruits, many of whom are forcibly conscripted, are being subjected to serious psychological mistreatment, pressure, and even to sexual violence, including sodomy. Such revelations not only pose a blemish to the credibility of the said group but straightaway pose an affront to all ethical, religious, and cultural values that are held close by Pakistanis.
It has been viewed as taboo to talk of sexual abuse among terrorist groups, but no voice should be left unspoken when people are sweeping away innocent lives. Such actions are not only a support of the personal wickedness of individual commanders but also a sign of the complete moral disintegration of an organization founded on lies and exploitation. Unless TTP were genuinely interested in improving the lives of its people, then, it would never treat its children as objects of exploitation.
The fact is that TTP is a mercenary force — a professional murderer of foreign agencies that have an eye on the domestic rifts of Pakistan. RAW and GDI have a long history of using proxy warfare and destabilizing regions in South Asia, and TTP is just their tool. The leaders of the group obey rules and not principles. They do not set their goals towards local empowerment but towards sabotage in the region.
Pakistan, on the other hand, is adopting a strategy of development, dialogue, and inclusion. This commitment is evident in huge infrastructural projects, educational programs, and outreach activities in the restive regions. Instead of leaving these areas to the militants, the state is investing in them, constructing feeder and trunk roads, erecting schools, hospitals, and creating opportunities to express their politics and culture. Terrorist bunkers are constructed in one country, and futures are created in Pakistan.
One should realize that this danger of TTP is not just physical; it is psychological and ideological. They are trying to reinvent the storyline and to gain recruits by capitalizing on legitimate complaints. Through these efforts of disinformation and spreading fear, they expect to divide the relationship between the state and its people. It is therefore in this capacity that all one can do to counteract TTP is not just resort to very tactical activities, but also a strong, truthful, and just counter-narrative.
TTP subjugates civilians, mistreats children, and annihilates communities. Their philosophy is panic. It does not have heroes as its leaders — rather warlords. Their interest lies in foreign intervention.
Pakistan needs to stand firm not only in defending its border but holding its values as well. The battle against TTP is not a question of security but of dignity, justice, and truth. As a nation, we should be able to reveal their lies, we should be able to point out their crimes, and we should be able to create an impression amongst the world that terrorism will never be allowed to bend its knee in Pakistan, however much it is disguised.
Tell the world: Pakistan will conquer it, not only with bullets, but with the truth.
