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Pakistan Taliban Splits into Factions

Pakistan Taliban Splits into Factions
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A major faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan [TTP] announced that it is no longer associated with the group's central leadership following months of infighting, according to its spokesperson on Wednesday.


Spokesman for the breakaway group, Azam Tariq, released a video statement on Wednesday saying that his faction has separated from the TTP's central leadership on ideological grounds.
"We announce our defection from the Tehreek-e- Taliban Pakistan, we have chosen our Khalid Mehsud as the new leader for South Waziristan," he said.

"[The leadership] within the TTP has gone towards robberies, extortion, unjustified killing [and targeting] Islamic madrassas [schools], and it is taking foreign funding to attack targets in Afghanistan, taking responsibility for attacks under false identities, creating divisions within other jihadi groups, and especially spreading unfounded propaganda against the Afghan Taliban," said Tariq in the video.

He added that the new Mehsud faction of the TTP will be led by Khalid Mehsud, a local TTP commander in South Waziristan.

"We tried our best to put the group in the right direction, even the Afghan Taliban tried to mediate between us but the TTP did not pay any attention to the Afghan Taliban," he said.


Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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