Pakistan Taliban head tells Mainichi Japan of desire to strengthen ties with Afghan 'brothers'

[Menace2Society]

Salaam



I do know that, I meant will they be allowed free hand as they were under the previous regime once they IEA are able fully establish the administrative machinery needed to control such elements.

They are already allowed a free hand. They have no such influence and nor do they care.

Pakistan should have negotiated crackdown on TTP before getting involved in the evacuation and supporting Taliban.

 

[Battlion25]

IEA has repeatedly said to this people they don't approve of their activities and a redline for IEA for many political reasons and doesn't align with IEA policies they publically and privately told them to stop and views this as illegal

 

[Dalit]

LOL Indians still trying to remain relevant in Afghanistan. It is game over Hindustanis.

 

[Menace2Society]

IEA has repeatedly said to this people they don't approve of their activities and a redline for IEA for many political reasons and doesn't align with IEA policies

They say one thing do another. You are not dealing with Norway. Afghanistan is historically known to abuse their weakest friend.

 

[Battlion25]

They say one thing do another. You are not dealing with Norway. Afghanistan is historically known to abuse their weakest friend.

You are hallucinating my mann IEA has no interest in this point of time in all of this hassle with a major nuclear power that is friendly to them and has granted them benefits on top of it. It is not in their policies hence TTP is more of an annoyance to IEA than to PAK at this point. It is just a couple of Indian paid folks and a very handful few who are taking foreign paychecks and they themselves are not doing any meaningful why are they even speaking to Japanese newspapers they got alot of time on their hands and are not sincere. IEA has alot of support base in Pak, fans and popularity they want that continued and They have very strong ties with Islamabad

 

[Vapnope]

My Bad, I meant Pakistani Taliban (TTP). But they do share the similar ideology as Afghan Taliban. Let me know your views about this article derived from the same interview as OP.

TTP’s enmity toward Pakistan creates risk for Chinese projects: analysts - Global Times

In an exclusive interview with Japanese media outlet Mainichi Shimbun, TTP leader Mufti Wali Noor Mehsud welcomed the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan after 20 years of absence and said that "We are hopeful for a strong relationship between the two of us." Regarding the TTP's ties with the Afghan Taliban, Mehsud said that the relationship is "Cordial and like a brotherhood." But he denied there was any collaboration.

The Mainichi Shimbun said that the Afghan Taliban and the TTP are "Known to share the ideal of governing by Sharia, or Islamic law." The remarks showed that the TTP hopes to benefit from the Afghan Taliban's takeover as they are both Pashtuns and the Afghan Taliban's victory represents a victory for Pashtuns and Islamism, Zhang Jiadong, a professor at the Center for American Studies, Fudan University, told the Global Times.

Zhu Yongbiao, director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at Lanzhou University, said that the TTP leaders' remarks showed that while the Afghan Taliban wants to cut ties with the TTP, the TTP wants the opposite.

In 2009, the Afghan Taliban denied having ties with the TTP and released statements to openly condemn the TTP's attacks on civilians.

Some members of the TTP also helped the Taliban to fight the former Afghan government.

During the interview with the Mainichi Shimbun, Mehsud claimed that there is "No hostility between the TTP and China." But he warned the Chinese government and its people "Not to be influenced by Pakistan's conspiracies and deception, and to avoid initiating a war against the TTP." However, Qian Feng, director of the research department at the National Strategy Institute at Tsinghua University, said that the TTP is playing tricks to confuse the international community and its leader's remarks cannot disguise the fact that the TTP is a terrorist group.

The Afghan Taliban may try to cut ties with the TTP, Qian noted.

Afghan taliban and TTP follow the same Islamic school of thought (Deoband) at least on paper however the major difference is that Afghan taliban do no plan to enforce shariah outside Afghanistan while TTP has made alliance with ISIS to enfore shariah outside Afghanistan.
Afghan taliban leadership has distanced themselves from TTP so far and has had friction before but it would be interesting to see their futute bahavior.

 

[Tornado23]

Smooth brain TTP talking about his terrorist activities and making out how great they are without realising they hold nothing today and are being massacred by the pak army/fc/LEA

 

[Khanate]

" You have the watches but we have the time" does not apply to Pakistan. We have eternity and we aren't going anywhere.

This is a fundamental flaw in TTP calculus, other then the fact that their raison d'etre of US drone strikes have long stopped.

LOL Indians still trying to remain relevant in Afghanistan. It is game over Hindustanis.

Exactly that.

Afghanistan's national assets are frozen and the economic situation is getting dire. Food is running out. Hospital funding is drying up.

Afghan Taliban will not get legitimacy from the world anytime soon. It may take years.

Who will pay for TTP's lavish stay in Afghanistan? Only Modi who lynches Muslims.