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URL:https://quincyinst.org/events/a-spring-offensive-of-terror-is-k-ttp-vi
 olence-in-afghanistan-pakistan/
SUMMARY:A Spring Offensive of Terror: IS-K & TTP Violence in Afghanistan & 
 Pakistan
DESCRIPTION:Spring in Afghanistan and Pakistan is off to a violent start. O
 n April 21\, an attack on a Shi’a mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif killed at lea
 st 10 people. Two days earlier\, a terror attack targeted children at a bo
 ys’ school and killed at least six people in a Hazara neighborhood of Ka
 bul\, Afghanistan. It was likely committed by IS-K (ISIS affiliate)\, the 
 same group that just last month sent a suicide bomber to kill over 50 peop
 le at a Shi’a mosque in Peshawar\, Pakistan. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakis
 tan (TTP)\, an ally (or affiliate) of the Afghan Taliban sometimes referre
 d to interchangeably as the Pakistani Taliban in reporting\, announced a s
 pring offensive inside Pakistan. The group has escalated attacks and Pakis
 tan’s Inter-Services Public Relations office announced that 97 Pakistani
  soldiers were killed in the first three months of 2022 alone. These comba
 t fatality figures resemble those experienced by the United States at the 
 height of the troop surge in Afghanistan. In response\, Pakistan conducted
  strikes inside Afghanistan. The death toll reported by the Afghan Taliban
  is at least 45\, including civilians.  Spring became synonymous with the 
 beginning of the fighting season throughout the U.S. war in Afghanistan. N
 ow the Taliban face the specter of a fighting season with IS-K which has m
 aintained a stronghold in Nangarhar province and can operate inside Kabul.
  Pakistan is squared off against an emboldened TTP insurgency that enjoys 
 the sanctuary of the Afghan Taliban. Can the Taliban fend off IS-K and mai
 ntain relative security in Afghanistan? What is the likelihood that IS-K w
 ill grow or capture territory? Can Afghanistan-Pakistan relations survive 
 Taliban support for the TTP? What does this all mean for US-Pakistan relat
 ions and US outreach to the Taliban? How can the region avoid a copy and p
 aste application of tried and failed counterterrorism tactics from the War
  on Terror?  Join us for a panel that explores these questions and more wi
 th Tamim Asey\, Executive Chairman of The Institute of War and Peace Studi
 es in Afghanistan\, Asfandyar Mir\, Senior Expert at the United States Ins
 titute of Peace\, Jonathan Schroden\, Director of the Center for Naval Ana
 lyses’ Countering Threats and Challenges Program\, and Elizabeth Threlke
 ld\, Director of the Stimson Center’s South Asia Program. Adam Weinstein
 \, research fellow at the Quincy Institute\, will moderate.  
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