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TTP Claims Sindh Presence, Threatens Province-Wide Expansion
- •The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claims to have established a presence in Pakistan's Sindh province and threatens to expand its activities across the region.
- •A video circulated on social media features a group claiming to be a "TTP Sindh chapter" appealing to the "oppressed people of Sindh" for support.
- •The speaker in the video invoked Muhammad bin Qasim's eighth-century conquest of Sindh, stating the TTP aims to hoist its flag across the province.
- •The TTP urged people to reject feudal landlords and landowners, encouraging them to join the group's campaign in the name of Islam.
- •This claim follows renewed militant activity in Sindh, particularly Karachi, and security assessments noting TTP's presence and expansion beyond its traditional base in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan released a video claiming to have established a presence in Pakistan's Sindh province and threatened to expand its activities across the region, while urging the local population to support its militant campaign and reject feudal influence.
According to the European Union Agency for Asylum and Pakistani security sources, the TTP and the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group were involved in eight attacks in Karachi in 2025, and the TTP previously claimed responsibility for the February 2023 attack on the Karachi Police Office.
A coordinated suicide and gun assault on the provincial headquarters of the Sindh Rangers in Karachi was carried out by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a lethal splinter faction aligned with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
