Peshawar: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) tonight rejected a report of the UN Security Council (UNSC) which has suggested that the outfit has presence in Afghanistan and blamed the “duplicitous policy of the government of Pakistan” for such a “biased” view.
In a statement, TTP asserted that it has “repeatedly explained that we have no external agenda” and that “We are fighting against the occupying forces from our own land with the support of our zealous people.”
“The 31st report of the Analytical support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the United Nations Security Council has once again shown bias and ignorance of facts,” said the statement issued by TTP spokesman Muhammad Khurasani.
“It is regrettable to say that the countries which are pioneers of development, peace and the rights for the United Nations are still affected by the duplicitous policy of the government of Pakistan,” he said.
Khurasani was apparently referring to Pakistan’s double standards as it has been alleging that TTP is engaged in terrorism with camps in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
TTP has repeatedly rejected Pakistan’s claims in this regard, maintaining that it has no camps in Afghanistan and that it was operating purely out of Pakistan.
“Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has no existence in Afghanistan…..There is no need for us to use the land of another country in this war,” the TTP statement issued tonight emphasised.
“Therefore, we reject this baseless report of the United Nations in which they have unsuccessfully tried to prove the presence of Mujahideen of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Afghanistan,” Khursani said.
At the same time, the TTP spokesman said “some victims of Pakistan’s atrocities and bombings have migrated and they have resettled in Afghanistan under the international principles of refugees like refugees from other countries.
“Associating them with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and presenting them as terrorists in front of the world is like rubbing salt in the wounds of the downtrodden. This kind of monstrous behavior is neither beneficial to America nor to other countries.”
