Pakistain's military has stepped up its fight against murderous Moslems since Taliban gunnies massacred more than 150 people, most of them children, at a school in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
in December.
On Thursday, leaders of Taliban splinter group Jamat-ul-Ahrar and murderous Moslems belonging to Lashkar-e-Islam
...a group of Islamic bandidos infesting Khyber Agency. It's headed by a former bus driver....
pledged allegiance to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), which grabbed credit for the deadly school shooting.
TTP is led by Mullah Fazlullah
...son-in-law of holy man Sufi Mohammad. Known as Mullah FM, Fazlullah had the habit of grabbing his FM mike when the mood struck him and bellowing forth sermons. Sufi suckered the Pak govt into imposing Shariah on the Swat Valley and then stepped aside whilst Fazlullah and his Talibs imposed a reign of terror on the populace like they hadn't seen before, at least not for a thousand years or so. For some reason the Pak intel services were never able to locate his transmitter, much less bomb it. After ruling the place like a conquered province for a year or so, Fazlullah's Talibs began gobbling up more territory as they pushed toward Islamabad, at which point as a matter of self-preservation the Mighty Pak Army threw them out and chased them into Afghanistan...
, who is believed to have ordered the 2012 shooting that gravely injured Pak schoolgirl Malala Yusefzai, last year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
"We congratulate the Ummaat-e-Moslema (Moslems across the world) and especially the Mujahideen (holy warriors) of Pakistain for the coalition of strong Jihadi groups," Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
, a Jamat-ul-Ahrar front man, told Agence La Belle France-Presse in an emailed statement.
Lashkar-e-Islam, led by warlord Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency
..., has also joined the alliance, Ehsan said.
The group is feared for kidnappings and extortion in Khyber, one of seven tribal districts along the Afghan border.
Jamat-ul-Ahrar split from TTP last year but has claimed many attacks against Pak troops and Shiite Moslems.
TTP main front man Muhammad Khorasani confirmed the re-alliance in a separate statement sent via email.
Both the spokesmen threatened to carry out more attacks against Pak troops "jointly."
A Taliban capo in the country's northwest told AFP that representatives of the three bully boy groups met somewhere in eastern Afghanistan and decided to align after holding several meetings.
Pak troops have been engaged in a full-scale offensive against Taliban and other murderous Moslems in North Wazoo and Khyber tribal districts along the Afghan border since last year.
The school massacre, Pakistain's deadliest ever terror attack prompted the government to announce a tough crackdown on bully boy groups.
A moratorium on executions in terror cases was lifted and the constitution was amended to set up military courts for the speedy trial of terrorism cases.
The government extended the order on Tuesday, directing provincial governments to proceed with hangings for all death row prisoners who had exhausted their appeals and clemency petitions.
Twenty-four people have been hanged since executions were restarted in December.