Here it is bit modified.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan
(TTP) has refuted the Pakistani claims that India and Afghanistan fund the
group and its various factions to perpetrate terror against Pakistan. According
to an Associate Press report, TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani, the Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) is using a surrendered ex-TTP spokesperson to further its
propaganda and drumbeat its agenda.
The ISI had released a video
yesterday showing confession of ex-TTP spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan where he
claimed that he surrendered after finding that India's Research and Analysis
Wing (RAW) and Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) were
funding the TTP and its factions for terror activities in Pakistan.
Ehsan and many other disgruntled
TTP commanders had split from the TTP and formed a splinter faction Jamaat-ul-Ahrar
(JuA) in September 2014, headed by Maulana Qasim Khorasani. Ehsan has also
claimed that the JuA chief got treatment in India after he was injured in a
terror attack in Afghanistan.
The TTP has called his confessional
video a bunch of lies, something that suit the Pakistani establishment. Let's
see what JuA comes up with.
Ehsan, who became the spokesperson
of the breakaway faction in September 2014, had claimed that the JuA would work
independently and would have no connections with the TTP headed by Mullah Fazlullah.
According to Ehsan, the stated goal of the JuA was to implement Sharia globally
and they began their campaign from Pakistan. Since its formation, the JuA has
claimed responsibility of many deadly terror attacks in Pakistan including the
Easter Sunday bombing in Lahore in 2016 that had killed over 70.
On April 17, the ISI had
announced the unconditional surrender of Ehsanullah Ehsan. The Pakistani media
has claimed that it is the most high profile surrender by a senior Taliban commander
in Pakistan in years.
©SantoshChaubey
