Peshawar, May 8 (NVI) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) today held the “traitorous” Pakistan Army responsible for the killing of the family of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar in an Indian attack, saying the “information” was provided by this “professional killer group”.
Significantly, the TTP made no mention of India in the statement in which it expressed “deep sorrow and grief over this tragic incident in which civilians including the family of Maulana Masood Azhar were martyred at various places.”
Azhar’s 10 family members were killed in the aerial attacks by India at the JeM headquarters in Bahawalpur in Punjab Province of Pakistan during the intervening night of May 6 and 7.
“On this occasion, we express that according to the authentic information received, the information provided for this attack was from the traitorous and pro-Western army of Pakistan, which is nothing new,” said the statement issued by TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani.
Sharing the grief of Azhar’s family as “our grief”, he said, “This incident once again highlights the fact that the current Pakistani army has in fact become a professional killer group… This army has repeatedly bathed its own people in dust and blood at the behest of foreigners.”
The TTP spokesman said, “The black history of this (Pakistan) army is a witness that it has always traded with Islamists, scholars and Mujahideen. This is the same army that, on American instructions, stained the streets of the country with the blood of the scholars of truth, and arrested the Mujahideen and handed them over to the infidels.”
Emphasising that the Pakistan Army’s “hands are stained with the blood of unarmed Afghans, scholars, and Mujahideen of Islam,” he appealed to the Pakistani people, especially the scholars and the Islamist class, “not to fall for their deception again and again.” (NVI)
