Pakistan faces growing al-Qaida threat

Significance He suggested it would soon become the “spearhead” for al-Qaida’s “regional and global terrorist goals”. Although he described the TTP as the largest terrorist organisation in Afghanistan, it has a presence in Pakistan too. Impacts If the AQIS plan works out, the group’s leverage over the Taliban emirate will increase considerably. China -- among the few countries engaging substantially with the emirate -- will pressure the Taliban to help curb AQIS activity. AQIS support for the TTP will make a peace deal between the TTP and Islamabad an even more remote prospect.