In February 2023, a new militant outfit announced its emergence as Tehreek-e-Jihad-e-Pakistan (TJP).
TJP claimed its first attack in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province’s Chaman district in February this year and later claimed to have been involved in the recent explosions in the counter-terrorism facility in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Swat city, which official investigations until now indicate it was not an act of terrorism.
However, on 27th April 2023, the group came up with another claim stating to have been involved in a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) suicide attack on a security forces compound in the southern district of