Key commanders of the banned terrorist outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have announced the formation of a new group by the name of TTP Jamatul Ahrar and named Qasim Khurasani as the chief of the group.
Former TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan, who has been nominated as the spokesman for the splinter group, mostly comprising the Mohmand Agency Taliban, said that the new group was not willing to take sides in the current political tussle in Islamabad as they only wanted imposition of Sharia in the country.
According to them, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri were no different from the current political rulers, and that both of them were inclined towards the Western style of democracy.
Ehsan said that along with Khurasani, the TTP Jamatul Ihrar Shura also comprises Umer Khalid Khurasani from Mohmand Agency, Qari Shakil Haqqani from Charsadda, Maulana Yasin from Swat, Qari Ismail from Khyber Agency, Maulana Abdullah from Bajaur Agency, Mufti Misbah from Peshawar, and Maulana Haider and Mansoor Nazim Shura from Orakzai Agency.