Escalating Security Crisis: Examining Pakistan's Ongoing Struggle with Recurrent Bombings

An armed group linked to Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) — the Pakistani Taliban — claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday. Similar attacks have plagued the country for about 20 years.

Pakistan’s government says many of them are launched from just across the border in Afghanistan. As a result, relations between the two countries have soured, raising the critical question of how Islamabad should deal with the persistent bomb threat.

Presenter: Rob Matheson
Guests: Hassan Khan – Political and security affairs analyst; Victoria Jones – Senior research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation; Sahar Khan – Non-resident fellow at the Institute for Global Affairs