Pakistan should resume peace negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

The diplomacy lens matters because this was not only a military pause. It was also a negotiated pause assembled through intermediaries, public statements, and a still-uncertain next phase.

Attacks by militant and insurgent groups within Pakistan, including bombings, shootings and other violence targeting security forces, government installations and civilians, and Pakistan's military and diplomatic responses to them, including tensions with Afghanistan over cross-border militancy.