Pakistan's sovereignty challenged:TTP forms new cabinet

In Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, TTP has announced its government with a full Cabinet. Directly challenging Pakistan's sovereignty, TTP announced its new appointments dividing the outfit into various ministries, such as defence, judiciary, information, political affairs, economic affairs, education, a fatwa-issuing authority, intelligence, and a department for construction. According to The Khorasan Diary publication, the TTP has divided areas in its loose control or contested with Pakistan into two provinces. Last November, the TTP formally withdrew its ceasefire agreement with Pakistan.
Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan or, the  'Student Movement of Pakistan', is an umbrella organization of various Islamist armed militant groups operating along the Afghan-Pakistani border. It is an alliance of militant networks formed in 2007 to unify opposition against the Pakistani military. TTP’s stated objectives are the expulsion of Islamabad’s influence in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan and implementation of a strict interpretation of sharia throughout Pakistan. TTP leaders also publicly say that the group seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan that would require the overthrow of the Pakistani Government.

An Islamabad-based think tank this week said the year 2022 ended with the deadliest month for Pakistan's security personnel in over a decade, as it pointed to the emergence of TTP as the biggest threat to the country. In its annual report released on Saturday, the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) said Pakistan security forces lost at least 282 personnel during 2022 in attacks that included IED ambushes, suicide attacks, and raids on security posts, mostly in the Pakistan-Afghan border regions. On Wednesday, Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said that an estimated number of around 7,000 to 10,000 TTP militants are present in the region, Dawn reported.