TTP kills 23 kidnapped FC personnel to ‘avenge’ Taliban’s killing

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Spokesperson for Omar Khalid Khurasani, top leader of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Mohmand Agency, Sunday claimed to have killed 23 Frontier Corps (FC) personnel who were kidnapped by the Taliban in 2010, a private TV channel reported.

Addressing through a video recording, the spokesperson for Khurasani said that they had kidnapped FC personnel from Shongri Post, Mohmand Agency on June 14, 2010 and have killed them to avenge the killing of their men, the report added.

“We had been warning the government to stop killing our men but the government paid no heed. The government is killing our men in prisons and dumping their bodies on the streets. It is murdering us while asking us to ceasefire and hold dialogue. We will not tolerate this. The government should not account our courteousness as our weakness,” said the TTP leader.

He added that they will decide in their Shura whether they should take part in peace talks or not.

Khorasani aka Abdul Wali, is a former journalist from Mohmand Agency. Within organisational circles, he is known as a formidable military commander. He was also given additional charge of the Khyber agency chapter for a brief period where he orchestrated a bloody campaign against government-backed lashkars.

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  1. Notwithstanding what government says about the importance of negotiations with TTP, one pertinent question that needs answering why is there any need for negotiation in the first place? If the answer is to ensure peace and security in Pakistan, then it is simply an admission on the part of government that as they have been unable to secure peace and security in the battle ground now they want to achieve it on negotiation table. Simply put, government wants TTP to present them with their terms of peace as victors.
    And if state can defeat TTP but using negotiations to delay final settlement until NATO completes its drawdown from Afghanistan, it simply means that tried, tested and failed policy of strategic depth is still the central plank of Pakistan's foreign and defense policies. So if some fear -and signs of this fear are very much evident on the grounds of Muzafferabad, AJK- return of violence in Kashmir then this fear is not far fetched.
    My personal gut feeling is that Pakistani state can not defeat Islamists in the long run, not because they do not have weapons to do so it is because the inherent contradictions upon which the whole structure of this state is built upon. They are doomed if they negotiate with TTP and they are doomed if they fight with them. By negotiating they can only delay the outcome.

  2. the timing is just perfect–death of humanity -these guardians of the state are shaheeds – not the terrorists, murderers and rapists of the talis!send this video to imu, so that he can sing and dance to the tali song whilst watching it!try justifying these atrocities to the loved ones of these shaheeds, that the terrorists slaughtered them whilst there were performing their duties.Doomed peace talks!!!

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