Peshawar: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) today asserted that it had no role in the failed attack on a Mosque in Hangu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a few days back and suggested that such attacks on holy places were being engineered by the Pakistani government to defame the Islamist organisation.
There was an attempt to attack the mosque inside Hangu Police Station by two suicide bombers, who were intercepted before they could reach the target.
“Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has nothing to do with the attempted attack on a mosque in Hangu Police Station days ago,” its spokesman Muhammad Khurasani said in a statement.
He said the Pakistan government has always tried to unsuccessfully put the blame of “such self-done operations on the Mujahideen”.
Khurasani said that through such “self-conducted actions”, an effort is made by the Pakistan government to pit TTP against mosques, madrasas and other holy and religious places to defame the Islamist organisation and to hurt its popularity among the people of Pakistan.
He said the government achieves “political goals” by carrying out such acts.
“Remember! The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan is the largest jihadist and militant group in the country of Pakistan, and is a follower of the Hanafi Mazhab, a believer in the moderate Minhaj of the Ahl-e-Sunnah Wal-Jamaat, and is bound by the interpretations of the Deoband scholars.
“Our war is against the anti-Islamic (Pakistani) security forces imposed on the country by Aghyar and their agents who have been looting the national resources and treasure for many decades and filling their coffers in foreign countries,” the statement said.
“We consider the desecration of mosques, madrasas, etc. sacred places and religious scholars as the reason for the decline of faith,” it added.
“Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has set very transparent and clear Shariah rules for the education and training of the Istishadi Force, and the goals under the supervision of the learned scholars.
“No candidate is authorized to participate in any type of action without completing the above steps,” the statement said.
