A militant leader associated with Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani has said that the Afghan Taliban have no links with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), reported Dawn News on Tuesday. The channel quoted the TTP militant as saying that the Afghan Taliban were operating independently and had no links with the Taliban working in Pakistan's Tribal Areas. He rejected as propaganda speculation that the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan were working under one command, the channel reported.
| I think they're actually being truthful, not that I'm privy to the inner workings of their various shuras. The TTP, which I previously thought was the Pak side of the Talibs -- as indeed they pretend to be -- is looking more and more like a pure al-Qaeda front. TTP is an amalgam of tribals, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Harkat ul-Mujaheddin, Lashkar-e-Taiba, TNSM, and Jaish-ul-Muhammad, among others. Baitullah and Mullah Omar both have similar pretensions. |
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