ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The Pakistani Taliban announced Monday that they had scrapped a fragile ceasefire they reached with the government in June and ordered their fighters to launch attacks across the country.

Although the Afghan Taliban is separate from the Pakistani one, the two movements share the same ideology.

The movement is responsible for dozens of attacks and hundreds of deaths across Pakistan since it emerged in 2007.

And she said in her statement, "While military operations against the mujahideen continue in various regions... you must launch attacks wherever possible throughout the country."

The Pakistani Taliban controlled large swathes of the tribal belt in Pakistan for a long time as it imposed the application of a strict version of Islamic law.

While most of its fighters have been expelled from Pakistan and pushed into neighboring Afghanistan since 2010, they have come into a position of strength since the return of the Afghan Taliban to power in Kabul.

The movement agreed to a cease-fire with the Pakistani government in June, but the two sides repeatedly stressed that the truce was ignored while many confrontations erupted.