“So far, the TTP has carried out 200 suicide attacks killing 561 security personnel and 2,403 civilians. At least 702 security men and 6,125 civilians were injured in these attacks. It has also carried out 1,300 IED attacks killing 2,060 security men and 2,073 civilians, and injuring 1,532 troops and 2,309 civilians. The group has blown up more than 300 schools during this period.”

Shehzad, Mohammad.  “Brotherhood of Bombs.”  The Friday Times, November 9, 2012.

A state might send in massive force, including investigative force, and attempt to shut down the social and physical machinery producing so much death and misery, but it risks also not succeeding completely — e.g., of seeing its outposts raided and officers murdered with impunity — as long as obsession continues to motivate the party that can neither contain, discipline, nor restrain itself.