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Taliban Threatens Anti-India Groups
By Aamir Latif, IOL Correspondent
The local Taliban wants militants to either fight with it or leave its areas. (Google photo)
PESHAWAR Local Taliban militants have issued stern threats to groups battling Indian forces in disputed Kashmir to either ally with them in fighting against Islamabad, leave their areas or face retaliation.
"We have been asked to vacate Swat and Dir just because we are not ready to fight our own people," a spokesman for Hizbul Mujahiddin, a group based in Pakistan and Pakistan-ruled Kashmir and active in India-controlled Kashmir, told IslamOnline.net.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat (TTS) of Maulana Fazlullah, commonly known as Maulana Radio because of its FM radio station, has asked anti-India groups to either join hands in fighting the Pakistani army or leave the area.
A similar warning has been issued to members of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LT) based in Darra Adamkhel, some 60 kilometers north of Peshawar, the capital of the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP), by local Taliban commander Omar Khalid.
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Khalid came into limelight in 2007 when he seized a local mosque and named it Red Mosque after a military operation against Islamabad's Red Mosque in July 2007 killed hundreds of students, including women and children.
Sources within the Harkatul Mujahiddin, another group that is based in Pakistan but operates primarily in Kashmir, also confirmed the Taliban threats.
"They think that our fighters are not interested in fighting against the Pakistani security forces and that, to them, means we dont want an Islamic government in Pakistan," one of the group's leaders told IOL.
The TTS accuses the three groups of standing with the Pakistan army, according to intelligence officials.
"The TTS thinks that these militants are preventing local youths from joining the anti-army activities," a senior intelligence official told IOL, requesting anonymity.
"Thats why they have issued them evacuation orders."
TTS spokesman Haji Muslim Khan could not be reached to comment despite repeated efforts.
Quit Islamabad
Several scholars based in Islamabad have also received messages from the TTS to either support its agenda or leave the capital.
"If you cannot support our struggle, then leave Islamabad as soon as possible otherwise you will be considered American-collaborators," reads a message received by the head of a madrasah located in the heart of the capital.
Islamabad administration rushed last week to remove slogans from walls in different areas of the capital against several scholars describing them as US agents and threatening them of dire consequences.
Security and political analysts are not surprised by the Talibans move.
"The Talibans threat to militants belonging to other organizations is kind of a sectarian issue," says Salim Safi, an expert of Afghan affairs.
"Taliban belongs to the Dubendi school of thought, whereas LT represents the Ahl-e-Hadit school of thought. Both have no link at all."
He argues that Harkatul Mujahiddin leans towards the Jammat-e-Islami, is only operative in Kashmir and has nothing to do with Afghanistan.
The group's fighters were ousted by the Taliban regime in 1997 from Sarobi, a former stronghold of former premier Gulbadin Hikmatyar.
"Taliban has never been close to these organizations and does not consider them friends," says Safi.
"Secondly, these organizations have no interests in Afghanistan, that's why the Talibans move is neither a new phenomenon nor surprising."
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ITS OBVIOUS TALIBAN ARE WORKING FOR INDIA
By Aamir Latif, IOL Correspondent
The local Taliban wants militants to either fight with it or leave its areas. (Google photo)
PESHAWAR Local Taliban militants have issued stern threats to groups battling Indian forces in disputed Kashmir to either ally with them in fighting against Islamabad, leave their areas or face retaliation.
"We have been asked to vacate Swat and Dir just because we are not ready to fight our own people," a spokesman for Hizbul Mujahiddin, a group based in Pakistan and Pakistan-ruled Kashmir and active in India-controlled Kashmir, told IslamOnline.net.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat (TTS) of Maulana Fazlullah, commonly known as Maulana Radio because of its FM radio station, has asked anti-India groups to either join hands in fighting the Pakistani army or leave the area.
A similar warning has been issued to members of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LT) based in Darra Adamkhel, some 60 kilometers north of Peshawar, the capital of the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP), by local Taliban commander Omar Khalid.
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Pakistan Militant Groups
Taliban Vs Taliban
Khalid came into limelight in 2007 when he seized a local mosque and named it Red Mosque after a military operation against Islamabad's Red Mosque in July 2007 killed hundreds of students, including women and children.
Sources within the Harkatul Mujahiddin, another group that is based in Pakistan but operates primarily in Kashmir, also confirmed the Taliban threats.
"They think that our fighters are not interested in fighting against the Pakistani security forces and that, to them, means we dont want an Islamic government in Pakistan," one of the group's leaders told IOL.
The TTS accuses the three groups of standing with the Pakistan army, according to intelligence officials.
"The TTS thinks that these militants are preventing local youths from joining the anti-army activities," a senior intelligence official told IOL, requesting anonymity.
"Thats why they have issued them evacuation orders."
TTS spokesman Haji Muslim Khan could not be reached to comment despite repeated efforts.
Quit Islamabad
Several scholars based in Islamabad have also received messages from the TTS to either support its agenda or leave the capital.
"If you cannot support our struggle, then leave Islamabad as soon as possible otherwise you will be considered American-collaborators," reads a message received by the head of a madrasah located in the heart of the capital.
Islamabad administration rushed last week to remove slogans from walls in different areas of the capital against several scholars describing them as US agents and threatening them of dire consequences.
Security and political analysts are not surprised by the Talibans move.
"The Talibans threat to militants belonging to other organizations is kind of a sectarian issue," says Salim Safi, an expert of Afghan affairs.
"Taliban belongs to the Dubendi school of thought, whereas LT represents the Ahl-e-Hadit school of thought. Both have no link at all."
He argues that Harkatul Mujahiddin leans towards the Jammat-e-Islami, is only operative in Kashmir and has nothing to do with Afghanistan.
The group's fighters were ousted by the Taliban regime in 1997 from Sarobi, a former stronghold of former premier Gulbadin Hikmatyar.
"Taliban has never been close to these organizations and does not consider them friends," says Safi.
"Secondly, these organizations have no interests in Afghanistan, that's why the Talibans move is neither a new phenomenon nor surprising."
Taliban Threatens Anti-India Groups - IslamOnline.net - News
ITS OBVIOUS TALIBAN ARE WORKING FOR INDIA
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