Hakimullah’s death: TTP praises JI chief’s ‘martyr’ comments

TTP appreciated the statement that Pakistani security forces are under US yoke and don’t have any authority.

MIRANSHAH: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid appreciated Jamaat-e-Islami chief Munawar Hassan’s statement calling Hakimullah Mehsud a martyr. While talking to reporters on Sunday, the spokesperson paid tribute to the JI chief saying that the TTP appreciated the statement of Hassan for calling Hakimullah Mehsud a martyr and saying that Pakistani security forces are under US yoke and don’t have any authority.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 11^th,2013.