Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan Fuels Militancy in Pakistan

Pakistani warplanes bombed a village in the country’s northwest in the fall of 2007, killing around 50 people. The air strikes occurred in the district of North Waziristan during the height of militancy in the South Asian country. “That was the darkest era of terrorism,” said Adil Dawar, a local activist whose uncle and cousin were among those killed in the attack. Northwestern Pakistan, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda and the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), was the scene of deadly Pakistani counterterrorism operations and U.S. drone…