The move by the State Department comes days after the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, known as TTP, ended a monthslong ceasefire with Pakistan and resumed attacks across the country.
The United States has added the key Pakistani militant group and the al-Qaida branch to its list oftriggering sanctions against the groups amid a resurgence of militant violence in this Islamic nation.
The threat issued by the TTP forced Pakistani authorities to take additional measures, and security was tight on orders from the Interior Ministry outside worship and other public places Friday amid fears of more attacks. TTP has asked its fighters to target security forces across the country. Pakistaniwere behind the 2014 attack on a Peshawar school that killed 147 people, mostly schoolchildren.
The agency's statement said the U.S. is “committed to using its full set of counterterrorism tools to counter the threat posed by terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan, including al-Qa’ida in the Indian Subcontinent and Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan ” to keep militants from using Afghanistan as “a platform for international terrorism.”
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