Pakistan is watching its own creation turn into its worst nightmare. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), once a loosely managed militant asset in Islamabad’s strategic playbook, has now evolved into a full-fledged insurgency that seeks to overthrow the Pakistani government and replace it with a brutal Islamic emirate modelled after the Taliban regime in Kabul.

With growing coordination between the Afghan Taliban and the TTP, and cross-border attacks killing scores of Pakistani troops, Islamabad faces an existential threat of its own making. The very ideology it once exported for “strategic depth” in Afghanistan now burns at home, and Pakistan’s denials, bluster, and blame-shifting can no longer hide its loss of control.

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