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| Analysis: Why Bahadur is so vexed |
| 2014-06-02 |
| [DAWN] EVEN if a split within the Tehrik-e-Taliban signalled a success of the Pak state's carrot-and-stick policy -- and indeed an opportunity to wean away pro-peace elements from hardliners in the Taliban ranks -- a new challenge emerged on Friday. After weeks of a 'surgical' military operation in North Wazoo Agency reportedly aimed at crushing foreign krazed killers, the 'pro-state' Hafiz Gul Bahadur ...a member of the Madda Khel clan of the Uthmanzai Waziris. Educated in a Deobandi madrassa located in Multan, he is affiliated with the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) political party. Upon the formation of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007, he was announced as the group's overall naib amir under Baitullah Mehsud, who was based in South Wazoo, but has largely distanced himself from the TTP due to rivalries with the Mehsuds and disagreements about the TTP's attacks against the Pak state.. , commander of the Taliban in NWA (Shura Mujahideen), said he was revoking the peace treaty he had signed with the Pak government in 2008. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I find that if I replace the word "Taliban" with the word "mafia" in articles like this that it clarifies things for me. What does pro-government mafia mean? Probably not what the Pak government thinks it means. What does a peace deal with the mafia mean? I can't see it. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-02 11:00 |