🧵: "Who Created the Monster of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan?"

THREAD 🧵: "Who Created Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan?"
To understand who made the TTP, you have to go back to the 1980s — the Afghan Jihad era.
The US, Pakistan’s ISI, and Saudi Arabia built, trained, and armed thousands of fighters to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

After the Soviet withdrawal, those fighters didn’t disappear.
They evolved into the Afghan Taliban, created and supported in the mid-1990s by Pakistan’s security establishment to ensure a “friendly government” in Kabul — one aligned with Islamabad’s regional goals.
Fast forward to 2001:
The US invades Afghanistan.
Taliban flee across the border into Pakistan’s tribal belt — especially Waziristan.
There, many regrouped and reorganized under new leadership, blending with local militant groups.
When Pakistan joined the US War on Terror, launching military operations in its own tribal areas under US pressure, these militants turned their guns inward.
They saw Pakistan’s army as an “agent of America.”
Thus, in 2007, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was officially born under Baitullah Mehsud.
Initially, many of these groups were once seen as “strategic assets” — used to influence events in Afghanistan and Kashmir.
But those same assets soon became Pakistan’s worst internal threat, carrying out deadly attacks against civilians, schools, police, and the military.
So, who “made” them?
They were the by-product of decades of proxy wars — supported by powerful states when convenient, and condemned when they went rogue.
In short: the monster was made to fight someone else, but ended up attacking its own creator.
And who gave journalists access to them?
Often, it wasn’t random.
Access was facilitated through intermediaries — local tribes, intelligence handlers, or groups with vested interests.
Nothing in that region happens without layers of approval.
Today, TTP remains active along the Pakistan-Afghan border — reorganized, rearmed, and sometimes quietly tolerated by the same forces that once denied their existence.
History has come full circle.
The truth is uncomfortable:
Those who proudly called themselves liberal or secular in the West helped fund the jihad that birthed the Taliban.
And those who used religion for politics in the region nurtured them for power.
Both are responsible for the chaos that followed.
In summary:
The Taliban weren’t born in a vacuum.
They were manufactured, trained, used, and then abandoned.
And now, everyone’s paying the price.
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