The deadly suicide bombing inside a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines area on January 30 has deepened the realization among Pakistan’s policymaking circles that dealing with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) necessitates a new approach.
The attack, which appears to have been targeted against police personnel praying at the mosque, claimed the lives of over a hundred people, most of them policemen. Over 200 others were injured in the attack, many of them critically.
The…