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| TTP rejects govt's call for unconditional ceasefire |
| 2014-02-27 |
| [DAWN] The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain has rejected the government's call for an unconditional ceasefire. "If this is what we have to do, we would have done it 10 years ago," TTP's front man Shahidullah Shahid said on Tuesday. "It is the government which has waged a war against us and it is for the government to end it now. Let the government hold fire and we shall follow suit," he told this correspondent. He blamed intelligence agencies for Monday's killing of its senior commander Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani ...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data... He said Shaheen Bhittani, whom he described as a colleague and a veteran of jihad, had been on the hit list of intelligence agencies. He said that there had been a few other incidents of killing of TTP commanders and his organization suspected them to be the handiwork of the agencies. "This is a drone's alternative. Now we are being hunted through ground drones." |
| Posted by:Fred |