- The Taliban give TTP $ 43,000 monthly, helping terrorist attacks in Pakistan.
- Daesh-K’s attempt to infiltrate Pakistan frustrated by security forces.
- The outfit changes to traditional messaging networks to evade detection.
Afghan Taliban continue to provide space to Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for analytical support and team monitoring sanctions.
The 35th Team report establishes that the State and the TTP Status in Afghanistan remain unchanged, while their attacks on Pakistan have increased significantly, with more than 600 registered attacks during 2024, including cross -border assaults from the Afghan territory. The support of the Taliban to the forbidden team includes a monthly payment of 3 million Afghan (approximately $ 43,000).
TTP has expanded its training infrastructure, establishing new centers in the provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar, Khost and Paktika (Barmal). The group has also increased recruitment efforts, including the drawing of Afghan Taliban combatants.
In addition, TTP has strengthened its ties with the Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent (AQIS), making joint attacks under the tehreek-e Jihad Pakistan (TJP) banner. The report warns that this collaboration, together with the role of TTP in providing suicidal bombers and combatants, could transform the group into a broader regional threat and an organization umbrella for other militant groups in the area.
The report also highlights a significant setback suffered by Daesh-Kurasan in the summer, when the Pakistani security forces successfully intercepted the attempt of their branch of external operations to establish themselves within Pakistan. This operation led to the arrests of key figures, including Adil Panjsheri (Afghan), Abu Munzir (Tayik) and Kaka Younis (Uzbek), which were involved in the recruitment, travel and financing of combatants and suicidal bulbs. These individuals were linked to attacks in Kerman, Iran and Moscow.
However, another senior member of Daesh-K, Tariq Tajiki, suspected of being the intellectual author behind Kerman’s attack, remains in Afghanistan, according to a Member State.
To evade detection and reduce the risk of arrests, the leadership of Daesh-K has changed electronic communications and internet based on traditional messaging networks to deliver instructions and hold meetings in person.
The Baluchistan Liberation Army (BL) was given the responsibility of multiple high quality attacks during the report period, carried out by its Majeed Brigade (MB), which includes female members. The MB operates in the southern region of Pakistan, even in Awaran, Panjgur and Dalbandin. Two member states reported that MB has links with TTP, DAESH-K and the ETIM/TIP, which collaborates with the latter in the operational bases in Afghanistan.
Jamaat Ansarullah has also been active, maintaining training camps in the province of Khost with Al-Qaida engineers and arms instructors. The group operates a special military center in the Kalafgan district of the province of Takhar to train combatants of Central and Arabic Asia. In addition, he has formed the “Ansar” unit in the IMAM Sahib district of the province of Kunduz to infiltrate border areas.
The Talibanes have deployed a suicide bomber unit of the martyrdom battalion of LaShkar-E Mansouri in Fayz Abad, the province of Badakhshan, in coordination with Jamaat Ansarullah and Al Qaida Fighters, using them against anti-work resistance groups.
The report highlights the continuous collaboration between multiple militant groups in the region and the growing threat that represents its coordinated activities. The findings underline the complex and evolving landscape in southern Asia, with high -range implications for regional stability.
The terrorist attacks have been unbridled in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan of Pakistan, who are directed to Afghanistan, especially pointing to the agents of the law and the security forces.
Islamabad has urged Kabul again not to allow its territory to be used by terrorist groups to carry out attacks against Pakistan.
The diplomatic effort is combined with the continuous kinetic action against terrorists by the security forces that eliminated at least 15 militants, including Afghan Taliban members in a rapid and effective response to the infiltration attempt last week.
Pakistan witnessed a strong increase in terrorist attacks in January 2025, increasing by 42% compared to the previous month, according to the data published by the Institute of Conflict Studies and Security of Pakistan (PICSS), a group of experts.
January two suicide bombings say, both in Baluchistan, which are the most affected regions along with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The prohibited TTP attributed the responsibility of one, while the proscribed blade was attributed the credit for the other.
