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| India-Pakistan |
| Ehsanullah Ehsan’s confession |
| 2017-04-28 |
| [DAWN] BEFORE the mysterious circumstances in which Jamaatul Ahrar ...A Pak Taliban splintergroup that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough... spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan ...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency... came to be in jug of Pakistain’s security forces could be fully explained, a sensational new twist in the story has overtaken the previous unanswered questions. In what has now become a familiar and expertly produced mode of confession, portions of Ehsan’s videotaped confession have been made public by the ISPR and broadcast around the country. The self-confessed terrorist, who has grabbed credit on behalf of the Jamaatul Ahrar for some of the worst hard boy attacks in Pakistain, has alleged that in recent years Afghan and Indian intelligence agencies have supported and financed the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain and directed attacks inside Pakistain. The claim is neither new nor surprising and no serious observer of the region can believe it is without merit. The degree to which Afghan and Indian intelligence agencies may be supporting anti-Pakistain Death Eaters in their war against this country can be debated, but there is far too much circumstantial evidence, even without Ehsan’s allegations, to deny the link between Afghanistan, India and anti-Pakistain Death Eaters who have found sanctuary in Afghanistan. What is troubling, however, is the centrality that the so-called foreign hand claims have been given in the portions of the confession that have been broadcast. It has the potential to undermine the hard-won recognition in recent years that the fight against militancy is a local fight against local enemies who subscribe to an ideology that was locally developed. After years of reluctance, the security establishment has been in recent times more willing to acknowledge past mistakes and recognise that the war Pakistain has been plunged in is against hard boy networks that were once patronised by the state itself. Indeed, in former army chief Gen Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... ’s and current army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa’s unequivocal statements that both Pakistain and Afghanistan suffer from terrorism and that Pakistain will not tolerate militancy and terrorism of any stripe or hue, hopes were raised that a regional approach to fighting religiously inspired militancy with common ideological roots would take shape. Pakistain should emphatically press its case with Afghanistan and India that support for anti-Pakistain militancy will not be tolerated. What the country’s leadership must not do is create fresh confusion about who the real enemy is and thereby inadvertently create some sympathy for the Pak Taliban as misguided and manipulated fighters. As for Ehsanullah Ehsan, he must face justice. In no circumstances should an individual who brashly and with a great deal of pride grabbed credit for the slaughter of countless Paks ever be allowed to escape punishment. There are no conceivable circumstances, no tactical gains or operational information that Ehsan can offer to justify ever being a free man again. |
| Posted by:Fred |