The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has announced that the organisation’s two major splinter groups, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Hizbul Ahrar, have joined its ranks again. On the part of the TTP, the unification is a smart move to put pressure on the Afghan Taliban as well. “TTP has separated itself from ISKP, which will come under the pump for being a transnational group. In doing so, they have saved their residual organisational strength to continue operating from Afghanistan while focusing on Pakistan,” Abdul Basit, Research Fellow at the RSIS told The Diplomat.