On the occasion of Pakistan’s 70th anniversary, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar argued that the country had not truly realized its independence and urged Muslims to join it and pursue Shariah-based governance.

In an English statement posted on Telegram on August 14, 2017, the group explained that the “true meaning” of the country’s foundation is monotheism, but its leaders diverted from that, being preoccupied with corruption. It stated: “Score of politicians played with emotions of innocent people in the name of liberty and freedom. So-called religious leaders bet on the Sharia in the country. At the end of painstaking seventy years of journey, it has been realized that the paths they are following and stressing to lead us upon would never end in true destination.” To correct the path, declared that the people must embrace martyrdom and fighting “in the cause of Allah”.

The Islamic State’s (IS) Khorasan Province claimed killing 17 Pakistani soldiers and wounding 35 others in a suicide bombing near the Pishin Stop in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, Pakistan.

Coming amidst its recent propaganda aimed at women, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) published the first issue of an English jihadi magazine for female Muslims, featuring an interview with the wife of the group’s leader, Fazlullah Khorasani, and a piece written from the perspective of a 6-year-old boy.

Ansar al-Shariah Pakistan (ASP) claimed its first attack in the country’s tribal region since its founding, bombing a Pakistani army patrol in Rajgal Valley, and derided the military campaign “Operation Kyber IV”.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar claimed killing a “score” of Pakistani soldiers in Bajaur Agency with poisoned water.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar denied any link to the Islamic State (IS) and being based in its controlled areas.

Ansar al-Shariah Pakistan (ASP) published a document it titled “General Guidelines for Public,” outlining rules civilians should heed to avoid exposing themselves to harm during fighter attacks on military targets.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) released a video focusing on a suicide bombing on a Pakistani military center in Daraban tehsil in Dera Ismail Khan.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) urged women to physically participate in fighting in the first part of a new series on “sisters” in jihad.

The Islamic State (IS)-affiliated Furat Media released a video of children and adult fighters in the group’s Khorasan Province executing spies for the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban movements and Afghan soldiers.

“Ansar al-Shariah Pakistan” (ASP), which purports to have defectors from the Islamic State’s (IS) Khorasan Province among its membership, claimed five attacks on Pakistani security forces in Bahadurabad, Karachi, and Mastung in a campaign it dubbed “Elimination of Apostasy”.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), the AQ branch for Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan, and as it just revealed, Afghanistan and Burma (Myanmar), released its “Code of Conduct,” wherein it declared that Americans and U.S. interests in Pakistan are its “foremost priority”.

The Islamic State's (IS Khorasan Province and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar each claimed credit for a bombing in Quetta on Pakistani police, with the individual groups providing differing details.

A group calling itself “Ansar al-Shariah Pakistan” (ASP), which purports to have defectors from the Islamic State’s (IS) Khorasan Province among its membership, announced its establishment, and explained the reasons for those fighters joining and then leaving the IS.

The Islamic State’s (IS) ‘Amaq News Agency reported that group fighters killed two Chinese nationals who were being held in Balochistan province of Pakistan.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed two attacks on Pakistan soldiers in North Waziristan in revenge for a commander and a fighter killed in a drone strike two days prior.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar published an English message attributed to an American fighter threatening Pakistani soldiers and promoting the success of the group’s “Operation Ghazi”.

Lashkar E-Jhangvi al-Alami, a Sunni militant group based in Pakistan, claimed credit for attacks in the Pakistani city of Quetta and the country’s northwest tribal region.

The Islamic State’s (IS) Khorasan Province claimed killing and wounding over 70 in a suicide bombing targeting a convoy of Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, the deputy chairman of the Pakistan Senate, near Quetta.

Through its ‘Amaq News Agency, the Islamic State (IS) claimed credit for the assassination attempt on Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, the deputy chairman of the Pakistan Senate, in a suicide bombing on his convoy.

The Islamic State’s (IS) ‘Amaq News Agency reported the assassination of an official in Khanpur, Pakistan.

The Islamic State’s (IS) Khorasan Province claimed credit for the suicide bombing near the U.S. Embassy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and reported the killing of eight American soldiers and a number of Afghan troops.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar published a monthly report of its claimed military operations for the month of April 2017, claiming 24 attacks on Pakistan Forces, and asserting it “is successfully accomplishing the goals” of its “Operation Ghazi.”

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed an attack by 120 fighters on a Pakistan Army camp in North Waziristan, in revenge for a U.S. drone strike on a position held by a TTP commander, Akhtar Muhammad Khaleel.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar each rejected claims by their former spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, that they have links to the Afghan and Indian intelligence agencies, NDS and RAW.

Both the Islamic State’s (IS) Khorasan Province and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar claimed credit for a bombing Shi’ites in Kurram Tribal Agency in northwestern Pakistan.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar claimed that the head of its Central Media Commission, Ehsanullah Ehsan, did not surrender to Pakistani security forces, but was arrested through “ISI agents” and turned over to the army.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed that its fighters poisoned the water supply of Pakistani security personnel in three posts in the Charmang subdistrict of Bajaur Agency, killing dozens and harming others.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) released a statement calling on Muslims to drive out the “un-Islamic” system of government, legitimizing suicide operations in order to do so, and labeling the United Nations as the leader in “an evil grand war on the Islamic world.”

Tehrik-e-Talibban Pakistan (TTP) released a video from its leader, Fazlullah Khorasani, declaring that the group has nearly uprooted all “cracks” within its structure by the Pakistani intelligence, and calling on fighters to kill blasphemers of the Prophet Muhammad.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed credit for destroying the Sunrise School in Qamber Khel in Pakistan’s Khyber Agency due to its being used as a “base of obscenity”.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed credit for the suicide bombing that struck Pakistani soldiers escorting census workers in Lahore.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) mourned the death of fighters and a commander killed in recent U.S. drone strikes, including one who was the mastermind of the October 2009 attack on the Pakistan GHQ in Rawalpindi.

Khyber-Paktunkhwa province on March 7, 2017, in which the group killed a Pakistan Army captain and a soldier.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) gave a eulogy for Aamir Ali Chaudhry (AKA Huzaifa, Arsalan), an explosives expert who both the U.S. and UN sanctioned in 2012 for his role in the group and his association with al-Qaeda (AQ).

The Islamic State’s (IS) Khorasan Province claimed killing two “intelligence” officials from the Afghan and Pakistani governments.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) released a video on the September 3, 2012, suicide bombing on a U.S. Consulate vehicle in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar claimed credit for the suicide raid at a court in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda district.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) identified a son of its leader, Fazlullah Khorasani, as one of the two suicide bombers involved in the February 7, 2017, attack at Police Station Mardan in Bannu.

The Islamic State’s (IS) Khorasan Province claimed killing at least 100 “polytheists” and wounding hundreds of others in a suicide bombing at a Sufi shrine in Sindh, Pakistan.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed credit for a suicide bombing on a van carrying judges in Peshawar, and an attack on a Samaa TV van in Karachi, as well as executing a spy, the video of which it said is forthcoming.

Within its newly-declared military campaign, “Operation Ghazi,” the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar claimed a double suicide bombing on a political office in Mohmand Agency and vowed to “crush the apostates”.

The Islamic State’s (IS) Khorasan Province claimed attacks in both Afghanistan and Pakistan in a single communique, stating that fighters clashed with Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Nangarhar, and bombed explosive experts in Balochistan.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar outlined targets for its new military campaign dubbed “Operation Ghazi” in a video release, and in two subsequent communiques, claimed credit for a suicide bombing in Lahore and raid on Pakistan Army posts in Mohmand.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed credit for the suicide bombing at Police Station Mandan in Bannu, and declared the operation to be the first after its recent merger with fighters from the Mehsud division.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced that the Mehsud division, under the command of Khalid Mehsud, has returned to its ranks, after it had defected from the group due to the actions and politics of “rogue elements” within.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) released a video showing the training of fighters in its “Special Task Force” at the Mehdi Alaih Rizwan Camp.

An alleged jihadi migrant, self-implied as living under the Islamic State (IS), has described her and her husband’s journey from England to Syria in an ongoing series of entries on Telegram.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) published a report on its operations in 2016, listing the date, location, target, numbers killed and injured, and the brigade responsible.

The Islamic State’s (IS) ‘Amaq News Agency reported that five Shi’ites were killed in a shooting in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

The Islamic State’s (IS) ‘Amaq News Agency reported that an IS suicide bomber struck Pakistani police in Rahim Yar Khan district in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

The Afghan Taliban invited private electricity companies to contact its "Department for Power Distribution" to facilitate their work, and rejected a report published in The New York Times about a Norwegian diplomat conversing with and meeting Mullah Muhammad Omar.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) published a letter from a female jihadist sympathizing with the plight of women in Syria and assured that fighters are coming to help them.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) released a video of little boys and girls it called its “school students” reenacting events such as the rendition of Dr. Aafia Siddique to the United States and the Pakistan Army’s raid on the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) released a video focusing on its operations in Pakistan's Balochistan province, including the February 2016 suicide bombing on Frontier Corps forces in Quetta, in revenge for "brutalities" against the people.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) published a four-part essay charging the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency with infiltrating Kashmir-focused jihadi organizations, and urging fighters to turn to the “original fronts,” Afghanistan and Waziristan.

A Telegram channel run by fighters in Syria from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region has offered private migration advice and solicited financial donations.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) published the first issue of its magazine, and in it, featured statistics of enemies killed in operations between June and November, 2016, giving a total of 119.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) published the first issue of its magazine, and in it, featured statistics of enemies killed in operations between June and November, 2016, giving a total of 119.

Khorasan Province of the Islamic State (IS) claimed killing a policeman and three border guards in an attack in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

Khorasan Province of the Islamic State (IS) claimed killing and wounding 130 Shi’ites in a suicide operation in the Hub region of Balochistan, Pakistan.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed an attack with 40 fighters on a Pakistani military camp in Kurram Agency, and published photos of the weapons and gear it captured as war spoils.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) launched an English version of its “Umar Radio,” an internet-based daily audio stream.

Khorasan Province of the Islamic State (IS) claimed killing 60 and wounding nearly 120 Pakistani police in a three-man suicide raid at a training center in Quetta, Pakistan.

The Islamic State (IS) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) issued competing claims of responsibility for the killing of a Pakistani intelligence officer in Peshawar.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar published responses from its spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, to press inquiries regarding its relationship with TTP and the IS, and its attacks on schools and mosques.

A jihadi Telegram channel incited for lone-wolf attacks during “sensitive moments” in politics, suggesting the use of improvised explosive devices (IED) in “simple operations.”

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) published an essay from a member claiming that the Pakistani government used negotiations as a ruse to justify Operation Zarb-e-Azb, the Pakistani military campaign against jihadi groups in North Waziristan.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) released a video of fighters in its “Taliban Special Group” (TSG) participating in rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) training in Swabi.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) released an audio speech from its spokesman, Usama Mahmoud, urging Kashmiris to establish a jihadi movement and to turn to fighters alone to help them, and incited Muslims in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan to fight.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced that its North Waziristan military commander Ruwayd Ali Sheikh and ten fighters were killed in a drone strike.

After publishing a biography of one of the slain sons of deceased al-Qaeda official Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Muhammad Khan, al-Fursan Media Foundation issued a biography for another son, who served as a member of AQ's Security Committee.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) released a video of its military operations in 2015, claiming a total of 137 with 639 victims among suicide attacks, ambushes, IED blasts, and others.

Omar Khalid Khorasani, a top official in the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar, criticized the terrorist designation of his group by the U.S. State Department, and denied any affiliation to al-Qaeda or the Islamic State (IS).

In its al-Bayan Radio news bulletin, the Islamic State (IS) identified Aaron Driver as the "soldier" of the IS who attempted a suicide bombing in Ottawa, Canada.

Two days after assassinating the president of the Balochistan Bar Association, and carrying out a suicide bombing at the hospital where he was taken, Khorasan Province of the Islamic State (IS) claimed a third attack in Quetta, bombing a Pakistani Special Forces’ vehicle.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) released a video showing training footage of fighters at the Qari Imran camp in South Waziristan.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) published a jihadi biography in English of slain 313 Brigade founder and al-Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri to explain why fighters give priority to jihad in Pakistan over jihad in Kashmir.

In its al-Naba newspaper, the Islamic State (IS) boasted that the machete attack carried out by an IS "soldier" in Charleroi, Belgium, came despite heightened security in the country, and claimed credit for the assassination of the Balochistan Bar Association president in Quetta in the morning prior to the suicide bombing.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) released an Urdu video chant condemning the Pakistan Army and calling on its soldiers to join the fighters.

Khorasan Province of the Islamic State (IS) claimed killing and wounding nearly 200 "apostates" from the Pakistani police and Justice Ministry in a suicide bombing in Quetta.

While the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) offshoot Jamat-ul-Ahrar had claimed credit for the August 8, 2016, suicide bombing in Quetta, Pakistan, 'Amaq News Agency of the Islamic State (IS) reported that it is an IS attack.

The Islamic State (IS) released the August 2, 2016 English edition of its al-Bayan provincial news bulletin, which included recaps of operations in Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan.

Al-Qaeda issued a warning to the U.S. and Pakistan over Pakistani authorities arresting and detaining the families of three slain officials on alleged orders from American intelligence.

Joining several other jihadi groups in condemning the suicide bombing outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) disavowed the act and said such an operation is not part of its policy and doctrine.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Fazlullah al-Khorasani asked Muslims to remember prisoners on Eid al-Fitr and specifically Aafia Siddique, and claimed that despite enemy propaganda to the contrary, his fighters are "well organized".

Khorasan Province of the Islamic State (IS) released a video of attacks on the Afghan Taliban and executing Taliban "spies," two of them by children, and showing the executors of the January 2016 suicide raid on the Pakistani Consulate in Jalalabad.

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri addressed Muslims in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of northwestern China in the ninth episode of his “Islamic Spring” series, promoting their cause and urging them to have patience amidst the “long battle” with the “atheist Chinese occupiers”.

The Islamic State (IS) released the June 29, 2016 English edition of its al-Bayan provincial news bulletin, which included recaps of operations in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and Pakistan.

Fighters in Khorasan Province of the Islamic State (IS) in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, including an unidentified English speaker, incited for lone-wolf attacks in the West in a video, and challenged America to put boots on the ground against the IS.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) released a statement from its spokesman, Usama Mahmoud, inciting Muslims and those in Pakistan specifically to fight America and the Pakistani military, and eulogizing former Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour.

Jihadist Telegram channels have circulated a list of instructions for starting grassroots recruitment, propaganda, or “physical” operations throughout the world.

Complementing the speech of 'Asim Umar, the leader of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), cautioning fighters against harming innocent Muslims, the group's spokesman condemned both the January 2016 attack at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, and the December 2015 bombing at the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) office in Mardan.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) released an audio speech from its leader, 'Asim Umar, cautioning fighters against harming innocent Muslims and potentially "severing" their connection to the people.

Khorasan Province, the division of the Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan and Pakistan, released a video of a small group of Tajik fighters pledging allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Ansar ul-Yateem, a charity organization started by slain Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Adnan Rasheed in 2011, released three episodes of a video series showing fighters in Khorasan (Afghanistan-Pakistan region) aiding to those orphaned and widowed by airstrikes.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced that the North Waziristan-based "Majlis Shura" has joined its group.

Al-Fursan Media Foundation published a biography of a slain Saudi military camp trainer and associate of former al-Qaeda official Mustafa Abu al-Yazid.

The Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) released an English-adapted version of the eighth installment of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent’s (AQIS) “Jihadi Memories” video series, featuring posthumous messages from a fighter who performed a suicide mission in Pakistan in 2015.