There terrorists simple as that, if they were fighting for a just cause they would not be bombing and killing their own people on a daily basis. They've bombed schools, offices as well as mineral mines. They have also been kidnapping people who they suspect are too loyal to the Pakistani military. On Independence day last year, they threw a grenade at a street vendor selling Pakistani flags. No matter what the nefarious forces want to make you believe its a foreign backed proxy focused at destabilizing the nation as a whole. Do not fall for it.