| The Taliban have "voluntarily withdrawn" into the mountains under a strategy that will trap the army in the area, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman said on Wednesday. "We have not been defeated. We have voluntarily withdrawn into the mountains under a strategy that will trap the Pakistan Army in the area," Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told journalists taken blindfold to a mountain top, AFP reported. He said the fight against the United States would be a permanent feature of the banned organisation, and the military would not be allowed to accomplish its goals in Waziristan. The TTP also pleaded with the Mehsud tribes not to side with the army. He said the Mehsuds should "stay away from the enemy's propaganda which says they should raise militias against" the Taliban. |