Bannu jailbreak aftermath: Influential Taliban commander calls for ‘agreement with Pakistan’ be respected
The request, communicated through a pamphlet distributed on Tuesday, comes a day after the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed that they had taken prisoners, who they had released in their brazen attack on Bannu Central Jail, to Mir Ali.
In the pamphlet, titled Masool-o-Khuddamul Mujahideen North Waziristan, Bahadur said that the people of the agency will be fully supported by him in their battle against those who try to use the area against the interest of the people. “Do not let them operate [from North Waziristan]. Show them resistance, we are with you,” the pamphlet read.
Resistance will be put up if security forces try moving into the agency, the pamphlet said, also stressing that those hailing from South [Waziristan] should respect their own land and property.
The “agreement with Pakistan” is a clear reference to a peace treaty.
The pamphlet uses the word “Southerners” in a clear reference to the TTP, which comprises mostly of Mehsud tribesmen from South Waziristan. Differences between Bahadur and TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud grew stronger following former TTP head Baitullah Mehsud’s death in a drone strike in 2009. Previously, the Taliban had operated under the Shura Ittehadul Mujahideen but the group became defunct a few months after its inception in December 2008.
Bahadur’s relationship with the TTP may have soured, but his alliance with Mullah Nazir in South Waziristan remains intact.
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@FAISAL SIDDIQUI..........TTP are RAW ,AGENTS?????....real taliban in afghanistan?????...........THIS a point of view same as of THE pak-army......what u people say about an attak by jordanian doctor "HAMAM AL-BALAWI" an AL-QAEDA terrorist attacked CIA headquarter in khost (31 dec 2009).....his confession VEDIO was published by TTP media cell "UMAR" ......he's is sitting with HAKEEM-ULLAH MEHSUD.....attack was conducted in AFGHANISTAN and responsilbilty was also claimed by A COMMANDER OF AFGHAN TALIBAN OF THAT AREA..........the POINT IS PLEASE DON'T TRY TO DISCRIMINATE THEM......TERRORIST REMAINS terrorist wether he's in afghanistan pakistan aur even in AMERICA..........
TTP = CIA, RAW, MOSAD REAL Taliban = In Afghanistan NOT Pakistan
Pakistan should try to do more peace agreements with Talibans that will provide precious time to implement de-radicalization program in miltancy hit area with economic and social development
@Roflcopter: reading your comments equals to banging head against the wall
@Roflcopter: and by your reply, people apparently need to dumb themselves down to an unrealistic extent to communicate at your level effectively.
Pakistani government must accept the call for peace agreement from Taliban without feeling/accepting US pressure because Pakistani leaders have seen that US' officials have deceived them in this regard on various platforms and because most advanced US' and NATO's nations despite having most modern war's resources, weapons,techniques and equipments couldn't defeat Taliban in Afghanistan then how can Pakistan defeat them having limited war's resources,weapons,equipments and techniques and most importantly Pakistan is facing heaviest losses of precious lives of innocent citizens,F.C.'s,Security Forces' and Army's personnels and billions of $$$$$$.
@DB:
Then I would suggest you surrender your house and family to them. If not stopped now, they eventually will.
@Mohammad Ali Siddiqui, sometimes our security forces also hold rifles while covering their face....going by your logic I guess that is also terrorism
Americans, Indians and Pakistani liberals would rather we initiate war with Hafiz Gul as well and kill more of our Pakistanis on both sides of the conflict. The obvious answer for Pakistan is not to fight all taliban groups to please outsiders and burn our own house down.
Hafiz Gulbahadur is an ally, keeping TTP at bay.
I don't like such men who hold rifles in their hands and at the same time cover their faces.
This is an open terrorism.