No longer occupied with vice patrols, Pakistani Taliban say they are now devoting their efforts to fighting the Pakistani military and foreign soldiers in Afghanistan, according to a Bannu-datelined report by Christian Science Monitor. Published on Thursday, the report quotes a 26-year old Pakistani Taliban named Majnoon as saying, “Now the training camps over here are shunned, and everybody is on the road to get training in suicide attacks and other tactics inside Afghanistan.” Majnoon, and a few other self-declared Taliban fighters were interviewed recently in Bannu, according to correspondent Suzanna Koster. “Now that the peace agreement is broken it is very difficult for us to move in groups or convoys, because now we are against the military, and police officials are everywhere,” said Majnoon.
Coordination: Another Pakistani Taliban, Qari Afsar, said, “We have their (Afghans’) cooperation in every aspect, in bread, butter, life, weapons, everything.” The Pakistani and Afghan Taliban coordinate their attacks by satellite phones, said one of the fighters. “We have a special wireless system through which we communicate, clear issues with each other, and to tell who’s coming and who’s going. We don’t feel any kind of fear that anyone will spy on us or the government will arrest us, because the other side of the border is also our land,” one of their leaders said.