LET attacking TTP bases says TTP

[Spring Onion]

ISLAMABAD:
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Saturday accused Lashkar-e-Taiba and Ansarul Islam of hatching a plot to attack its bases and supporters in Mohmand Agency.

TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told The Express Tribune that the two groups had reached a pact with the local anti-Taliban forces.However, the TTP vowed that it would fight back any such coordinated assault. “We will fight back and there will be bloodshed,” he said. According to Ehsan, the two groups had planned the operation due to an old rivalry with the Taliban.



The Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) rejected the TTP’s claim, arguing that its activities were only limited to the Indian-administered Kashmir.

“We neither work in Afghanistan nor in Pakistan’s tribal regions. We do not have any links with any group in the tribal regions,” LeT spokesman Abdullah Ghaznavi told The Express Tribune via phone from an undisclosed location.



The TTP spokesman appeared concerned at the impression created by his group’s rivals that the Afghan Taliban had also turned against the Pakistani Taliban.

“We hope that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan will realise the conspiracy of the TTP rivals,” Ehsan said. The TTP uses the term ‘Islamic Emirate’ for the Afghan Taliban.

“We have shown allegiance to the Islamic Emirate and accept their leadership and if they have any complaint we are ready to satisfy them,” the TTP spokesman said.

Two Afghan Taliban officials said in response that they did not want to be involved in any fighting outside Afghanistan.

“We are fighting foreign forces and their local backers in Afghanistan and have never been involved in any activity in any other country,” the Taliban officials said.

How tensions began

Friction developed between TTP fighters in Mohmand Agency and some Afghan Taliban in Kunar province last year. As a result the two groups were involved in armed clashes. The fighting eventually led to the death of a son of Afghan Taliban leader Abdul Mateen, an Afghan journalist in Kunar told The Express Tribune by telephone on Saturday. At that point a senior Afghan Taliban leader reconciled with the TTP fighters. However, some supporters of the Afghan Taliban leader rejected the agreement, the Afghan journalist said.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 9th, 2013.


Mohmand Agency: TTP accuses rival groups of plotting attacks on its bases – The Express Tribune

 

[Markus]

It will be a miracle if these two outfits fight and destroy each other.

 

[OrionHunter]

Good! These SOBs should annihilate each other! Phir, na rahega baans na bajegi bansuri!!

Par Kayani ke 'strategic assets' ka kya hoga, Kalyaa??

 

[Spring Onion]

It will be a miracle if these two outfits fight and destroy each other.

it wont be a miracle. LET and TTP are faces of the same coin. They both switch sides.

I wish they fight each other to ultimate death

 

[Spring Onion]

Major militant clash feared near Pak-Afghan border


PESHAWAR: Several militant groups are likely to face off in a clash as armed fighters have started taking positions inside Afghan territory near Pakistan's Mohmand agency bordering Afghanistan, reliable sources told Dawn.com on Saturday.

Groups of fighters comprising Lashkar-i-Taiba, Ansarul Islam, Afghan Taliban militants and local militia have started taking positions inside Afghan territory, safe havens for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) from where they are known to have previously launched attacks inside Pakistan, the sources said.

The sources said an assault was imminent against the outlawed TTP militants, who have waged a war against the Pakistani state and launched several attacks against its Army.

Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the banned militant group, confirmed an attack was planned against Pakistani Taliban positions inside Afghanistan’s Kunar province bordering Pakistan, but warned it may result in major bloodshed.

“We have old enmity with Ansarul Islam and some other militant groups who want to avenge their own fights and losses now. They are planning a major attack on us in the bordering areas along Mohmand Agency,” he said, speaking via telephone from an undisclosed location.

A Taliban insider said that the clash might be a continuation of the killing of militant commander Shah Sahib, who led another Islamist group engaged in fighting US-led Nato troops in Afghanistan and was based in Mohmand Agency since 2006.
TTP militants led by Umar Khalid Khurrasani attacked the training centre of the Shah group on July 19, 2008, killing many, including Shah Sahib. Most of the Shah Sahib loyalist were either kidnapped or killed and the group was eliminated from the Mohmand agency.

Most members of the group are presently part of tribal lashkars (local militias), and the attack being planned was part of their strategy to fight the TTP, said the Taliban insider.

Several Pakistani security personnel have been killed in attacks by hundreds of Taliban militants from alleged safe havens across the border in Afghanistan’s Kunar, Nuristan and Nangarhar provinces bordering Pakistani territory from Dir to Chitral.

Former Pakistani Ambassador to Afghanistan, Rustam Shah Mohmand said there were fears of a huge security vacuum following the planned withdrawal of US and Nato troops from Afghanistan.

The Afghan government has effectively no authority over the vast territory along the Pak-Afghan border, turning it into safe havens for militants, he said.

Shah called the recent tension "a fight for the territory and resources in the bordering area rather than a big clash."

"There is no writ of the Afghan government along the bordering belt with Pakistan. Both Afghan and Pakistani militants have their own interests in the region and infighting is only natural," he said.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Lashkar-i-Taiba denied any involvement in the events on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

We are not part of any operation against any Taliban group either in Pakistan or Afghanistan, he said, claiming that their operations were only targeted against Indian forces and limited to Indian-administered Kashmir.

Major militant clash feared near Pak-Afghan border - DAWN.COM

 

[Leader]

I think these moves are to destabilize the nawaz govt with a new series of fighting, as LeT is punjab based while TTP is frontier based......

hor khelo proxy proxy !!

 

[RazPaK]

I think these moves are to destabilize the nawaz govt with a new series of fighting, as LeT is punjab based while TTP is frontier based......

hor khelo proxy proxy !!

Ghalat. Tu toh abii bacha hain.


TTP bhi Nawaz khi hain.

 

[iPhone]

Who's got tickets to the front seats for this battle royal?

 

[WarMonger]

TTP will annihilate the LeT just like it annihilated Pro-Pakistan government Ansar ul Islam from Tirah valley a few montths back.

 

[Areesh]

I think these moves are to destabilize the nawaz govt with a new series of fighting, as LeT is punjab based while TTP is frontier based......

hor khelo proxy proxy !!

Stupid comment like always leader.

Punjabi or Pushtoon doesn't matter. What matters is that anyone who is involved in attacking Pakistani state needs to countered. And if TTP is weakened in this manner then why not?

The following comment of this Bharati troll might give you an idea why these operations against TTP scums are important.

TTP will annihilate the LeT just like it annihilated Pro-Pakistan government Ansar ul Islam from Tirah valley a few montths back.

 

[Android]

my money on TTP

 

[haviZsultan]

The Pakistani Taliban or the TTP as they are called should be vanquished completely. TTP has caused enough damage to Pakistan. However I must say any wrangling of these militant groups between themselves is going to benefit #Pakistan a lot. Terrorists must be defeated and we must develop a strong useful strategy to eradicate them.

The Taliban have had poor relations with almost everyone else. Its good for us as their enemies can hopefully strike at them for us Pakistanis.

 

[rockstarIN]

TTP to finish Let and PA to finish TTP.

All the problems will be solved.

 

[Spring Onion]

I think these moves are to destabilize the nawaz govt with a new series of fighting, as LeT is punjab based while TTP is frontier based......

hor khelo proxy proxy !!

No as far as we know here based in KP, these groups have clash of interests.

TTP is getting weaker day by day. LET is dreaded more than TTP. LET deserted members along LEJ had been providing suicide bombers to TTP earlier.

This is interestingly development because TTP had been steping on Afghan Taliban's territory as well harming their cause against foreign invader forces.

TTP will annihilate the LeT just like it annihilated Pro-Pakistan government Ansar ul Islam from Tirah valley a few montths back.

Ansarul Islam are rag tags. Good for fighting with Lashkr e Islam

Anyway TTP is weaker and LET is stronger at the moment.

 

[F.O.X]

ISI strategy seems to be Working .