{"id":74712,"date":"2025-10-13T18:31:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/13\/an-environment-of-terror-deadly-resurgence-of-pakistan-taliban-gathers-pace"},"modified":"2025-10-13T18:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:31:24","slug":"an-environment-of-terror-deadly-resurgence-of-pakistan-taliban-gathers-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74712","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An environment of terror\u2019: deadly resurgence of Pakistan Taliban gathers pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surge in militancy in region bordering Afghanistan is now one of greatest security threats facing Islamabad<\/p>\n<p>Tariq Ahmed never lets his pistol out of his sight these days. Sitting cross-legged on a woven <em>charpai, <\/em>his face concealed with a scarf, the 26-year-old looks nervously left and right, shifting his gun in and out of his waistband.<\/p>\n<p>It was here, just a few months ago in this neighbourhood bordering Pakistan\u2019s north-western border city of Peshawar that his uncle Shehan Shah, 36, <a href=\"https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2553342\/cop-martyred-in-firing-incident-in-shahpur?amp=1\">was shot dead<\/a> at point-blank range by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/13\/an-environment-of-terror-deadly-resurgence-of-pakistan-taliban-gathers-pace\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surge in militancy in region bordering Afghanistan is now one of greatest security threats facing IslamabadTariq Ahmed never lets his pistol out of his sight these days. Sitting cross-legged on a woven charpai, his face concealed with a scarf, the 26-y&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,60,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74713,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74712\/revisions\/74713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}