AFTER consecutive months of decline in terrorist violence in March and April, a wave of fatal incidents in recent days has raised fresh doubts over Afghanistan’s commitment to preventing the misuse of its territory against Pakistan. Over the course of five days starting May 9, terrorists struck a police post in Bannu, a traffic police deployment in Lakki Marwat, and a security deployment in Bajaur, KP. The Afghan chargé d’affaires was issued a “strong demarche” by the Foreign Office following the Bannu incident. It was a sophisticated attack, involving a vehicle-borne IED and a multipronged ground assault with heavy weaponry and quadcopters, and it claimed the lives of 15 police personnel. The FO said technical intelligence had definitively proven the........

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