Things were difficult for the Pakistan Army to begin with, to say the least, but with the wave that is sweeping across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa now, things have gotten tremendously more difficult.
To be honest, for the people who were planning to cause unrest in Pakistan, they couldn’t have imagined things getting this bad, this quickly.
For many days, CommandEleven has held back on providing an analysis of the proposed operation, its targets and the potential pitfalls it will face because we know how Pakistan operates, and how quickly public statements are backtracked from grand operations to minor grunts of force.
This post is a historical collection of what CommandEleven has said in the past about the activities of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
A CommandEleven primer on the Taliban — leadership hierarchy, ideology, governance approach as IEA, and the group’s relationship with Pakistan and international actors.
CommandEleven profiles the Haqqani Network — its origins, leadership under Sirajuddin Haqqani, ISI ties, and its role as the Taliban’s most lethal military arm inside the IEA.
CommandEleven assesses TTP military strength — fighter numbers, weapons capacity, operational reach, and the group’s growing threat to Pakistani security forces from Afghan territory.
While many will disagree with us, we have spent months discussing the situation in Afghanistan, and these statements don’t track with the on-ground reality. We’ve also clearly said that the force that would replace the Taliban in Afghanistan will be more brutal than any terror group the world has seen thus far.
Global terrorism is about to explode with the European Cup, Summer Olympics, and ICC T20 Cricket World Cup on the horizon, as Afghanistan slips into a very quick and very bloody militant civil war.
There are some Pakistani X handles advocating in favor of creating a buffer zone between Pakistan and Afghanistan. We fully believe those that are advocating for the creation of such an area are either misinformed, lack the proper knowledge or are conspiring to ceded Pakistani territory to terrorists.
Analyzing the operational reach of ISKP into Central Asian Republics (CARs) and the strategic threat to Russian regional interests.
