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The fact that Saudi donors are at the forefront of funding TTP, and the murder of 40,000 civilians and 5000 soldiers is a wake up call for us. Saudis cannot pretend to be our friends while being "close" to TTP sympathizers like Sami ul Haq, funding Salafi-inspired terrorists such TTP and LeJ...

There is no doubt anymore. JI is abetting AQ and TTP in their war against the state. One of JI leaders, Javed Paracha recently went as far as to term Bin Laden a martyr.

Express Tribune ISLAMABAD: As part of its proposed national security policy, the government will ask ‘brotherly’ Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, to clamp down on financers of sectarian and terrorist networks operating in Pakistan, The Express Tribune has learnt. On Friday, Prime...

The fact of the matter is that just as there are non-state actors in Pakistan fighting to carve out a salafi-inspired state, there are 'non state directors' in the Saudi Salafi establishment, orchestrating these violent insurgencies and propping up non state actors: the TTP and Al Qaeda in...

Reuters With a few hundred hard-core cadres, the highly secretive LeJ aims to trigger sectarian violence that would pave the way for a Sunni theocracy in U.S.-allied Pakistan, say Pakistan police and intelligence officials. Its immediate goal, they say, is to stoke the intense Sunni-Shi'ite...

Azfar Rizvi A US official in a cable sent to the State Department stated that “financial support estimated at nearly 100 million USD annually was making its way to Deobandi and Salafi clerics in south Punjab from organisations in Saudi Arabia.”The cable sent in November 2008 by Bryan Hunt, the...

Wikileaks Cable While the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) takes seriously the threat of terrorism within Saudi Arabia, it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority. Due in part to intense focus by...

Babar Sattar GETTING mad at Munawar Hasan for attempting to subvert the resolve of our soldiers to fight the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan by challenging the moral legitimacy of their mission is one thing. Learning lessons from the Jamaat-i-Islami’s hostile response to Hakeemullah’s death and...

This just reveals the anti Pakistan agenda of Mullah Omar. The fact that he supports Fazlullah and other Al Qaeda affiliates reflects this scumbag's desire to destabilize the pakistani state and setup a Afghan Taliban/Al Qaeda/TTP controlled mini Salafi-inspired state spanning parts of...

Has the Army learned its lesson? Ayaz Amir Is the army happy now? When you play with fire and ride the dragon’s back it’s too much to hope that once you try to get down the fire will not scorch you. For 30 years the army has played at ‘jihad’ and held in a tight embrace elements like the...

JI has become the political wing of the TTP and needs to be treated as such.

Munawar Hassan should be tried for treason and thrown into jail. Jamaat Islami has been on the payroll of Salafis in Saudi for a very long time and is known for sympathizing with TTP and AQ. The party should be banned.

Fazllulah's base in Nuristan - a salafi bastion Saleem Shahzad Oct 2009 ISLAMABAD - The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate...

TTP - From Deobandi links to Salafi influence DAWN TEHREEK-i-Taliban Pakistan, which was formed as an umbrella organisation for more than two dozen militant outfits in December 2007, in South Waziristan has since evolved considerably from its roots. From the very start, Salafi and Arab...

Editorial - The Nation Hakimullah Mehsud, the chief of TTP - a militant organization fighting against the Pakistani state, and declared wanted, with Rs 5 crore head money - was killed in a US drone strike along with four others near a town in Miranshah, North Waziristan, on Friday. His...

You are right about one thing - it is the ideology driving this evil. So where does this ideology come from? The fact of the matter is that just as there are non-state actors in Pakistan fighting to carve out a salafi-inspired state, there are 'non state directors' in the Saudi Salafi...

ISLAMABAD: Afghan Taliban on Saturday condemned the killing of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Chief Hakimullah Mehsud and described him as a “strong and brave” leader of the Pakistani Taliban. “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was shocked at the news that Hakimullah Mehsud was martyred in a...

I couldn't agree more. Hakimullah and his gang of Salafi inspired TTP thugs deserve to be sent to hell. That said, killing him or his successors alone will not decimate the TTP. Someone else will be nominated by TTP's Salafi masters to take his place. Just as there are non-state actors in...

Fair point - the Pakistani state can only do so much against TTP's Saudi masters. However, the Americans can, and they are slowly waking up, as demonstrated by their reluctance to pull the trigger on Syria while warming up to Rouhani. No wonder the Saudis are pissed. Perhaps the Americans...

Hakimullah and his gang of Salafi inspired thugs deserve to be sent to hell. That said, killing him will not decimate the TTP. Someone else will be nominated by TTP's Salafi masters to take his place. Just as there are non-state actors in Pakistan fighting to carve out a salafi-inspired state...