The author is a faculty member (DS-Research) at Pakistan Air Force(PAF), Air War College Institute, Karachi. She can be reached at drmusarat12@gmail.com.
If the Taliban guarantee and respect international norms, do not establish any ties or harbor terrorist groups, maintain peace and do not allow their soil to be used by the terrorist groups, then they should be engaged as a normal state.
The TTP seems onto the recourse of recovery once again as it largely gains support and direction from Afghanistan. Recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan point to the TTP pathway to consolidation and reinvigoration of violent campaigns.
