Peshawar, April 2 (NVI) Insisting that it has “no foreign agenda”, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) today asserted that it poses no threat to the US and asked the international community “not to be misled by the complaints and false propaganda of the disruptive elements in Pakistan”.
The TTP clarified its stance in a press statement in the wake of a report prepared by 18 US intelligence agencies which stated that the Islamist militant outfit poses a potential threat to the United States in the future.
At the same time, Pakistan’s Special Representative to the United Nations, Munir Akram, along with the Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister of Pakistan, have repeatedly raised this issue on various occasions, the statement noted.
“Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan once again clarifies that we have no foreign agenda,” said the statement issued by its spokesman Muhammad Khorasani and meant to be addressed to the US and other foreign powers.
“Even within Pakistan, we are only fighting against those elements who are involved in oppression, killings, enforced disappearances, fake encounters, and other major crimes in the country—primarily led by the Pakistani military and intelligence agencies,” he said.
“Our actions on the battlefield are clear evidence of this,” the spokesman said in a bid to authenticate the statement.
“We send a message to the United Nations, the United States, and all other global powers not to be misled by the complaints and false propaganda of these disruptive elements in Pakistan. Instead, they should strive to understand the realities on the ground,” Khorasani said.
“At this moment, it is also important to remind that in recent times, the military and police have been desecrating the bodies of our fallen comrades and demolishing the homes of Mujahideen, which is a blatant violation of human and international laws,” he added. (NVI)
