The U.S.'s next move: Pakistan’s Taliban problem is America’s too

Pakistan’s Taliban problem is America’s too After 20 years in Afghanistan, the US withdrew its forces on the assurance that the Taliban would not harbor terrorists. The Taliban pledged to fight not only al Qaeda, whose presence in Afghanistan led to the US invasion in 2001, but also the Pakistani Taliban, or TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan). Recent breakdown of a year-long ceasefire between the TTP and Islamabad in Pakistan raises worries about whether this pledge would hold. The collapse of the ceasefire in Pakistan could raise cross-border tensions between the Afghan and Pakistani administrations. It's already highlighting ties between the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban.