Srinagar, Sept. 26 -- Though public protests against lack civic facilities, scarcity of essential goods, rising unemployment and inflation are commonplace in Pakistan, but what spurred widespread agitations in the Dir, Waziristan and Swat districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [KP] in August 2022 wasn't due to any of these reasons. The locals had taken to the streets with an unusual complaint that the government and army weren't doing anything to curb the growing presence of armed fighters of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan [TTP] terrorist group.Unchecked influx of TTP fighters assumed such gargantuan proportions that it even came up for discussion in the National Assembly and Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif was forced to acknowledge the...