Slain Ttp Top Commanders Were Opposed To Peace Talks With Pak: Report

Slain TTP Top commanders of the TTP are against negotiations for peace with Pak The report

New Delhi, Aug 10 : The murder of four of the top leaders of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Afghanistan has dealt an enormous hit to the terrorist organization and raised doubts about a ceasefire and continuing peace talks between the terrorists as well as the Islamabad government the report said.
In the aftermath of the massacre that occurred on the 7th of August on, the TTP leadership has been in numerous discussions about the best way to deal with the departure of certain of its top officers as according to the RFE/RL report quoted a number of observers as saying.

 Slain Ttp Top Commanders Were Opposed To Peace Talks With Pak: Report-TeluguStop.com

While no party has claimed responsibility for the deadly explosions which killed the leaders, many experts think that they could be the result of an internal dispute over the possibility of an ongoing cease-fire with Islamabad which the TTP also referred to as the Pakistani Taliban has been fighting to overthrow since 2007.

The issue is the possibility of an indefinite cease-fire between the militants and Islamabad and talks aimed at ending TTP’s violent insurgency.

The continuation of the ceasefire that’s been in place for two months may cause negative feelings among the TTP’s leaders experts warn.

However, the decision to end the peace talks and truce could result in tension from the Haqqani network which is an influential Afghan Taliban faction which is the home of the TTP in Afghanistan and is believed to have connections to the Pakistani intelligence services, according to the report.RFE/RL reported.

The negotiations were mediated by the Afghan Taliban who have close organizational and ideological connections with the TTP.The Afghan militant group is an ally for a long time of Islamabad.

The TTP leadership has utilized Afghanistan as a refuge and staging area to launch attacks on Islamabad since the beginning of a major military operation in 2014 forced militants from the region across the border.

The specifics of the killings are still a mystery.

The TTP has confirmed the death of Abdul Wali (alias Omar Khalid Khorasani), Mufti Hassan Swati and Hafiz Dawlat Khan orakzai as they traveled in the southeastern part of Afghanistan but it is not clear the cause of their deaths, whether it was struck by an explosion on the roadside or drone strike.

All three are believed to be against peace talks with Pakistan, RFE/RL reported.

Some have speculated that the trio were scheduled to meet with the representatives of the Afghan Taliban in the Barmal district of Paktika Province, which is bordered by the Pakistani districts of North and South Waziristan.

“It isn’t established what exactly transpired however the area in which the three most powerful TTP leaders were reported to have been killed was previously the mainstay of the Haqqani network,” RFE/RL quoted Afrasiab Khattak an analyst, and former Pakistani senator, as saying.

Another high-ranking TTP commander the chief of intelligence Abdul Rashid (alias Uqabi Bajauri) was killed just hours earlier by an explosive on a roadside in the eastern part of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province.

The four murders occurred just a few days following the killing of A -Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri was killed in the course of a US drone attack on his secure home in an area of luxury of Kabul thought to be under the supervision of Sirajuddin Haqqani Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Afghan Taliban’s chief of the interior ministry and head of the Haqqani network.

Khorasani, who was a victim of $3 million US bounty on his head was the first founding member of the TTP and was regarded to be the TTP’s most powerful and brutal commander.

He created his own group of militants, Jamat ul-Ahrar (JuA), in 2013.However, he joined the TTP after the current TTP head Noor Wali Mehsud was elected in the year 2018.

Khorasani was a vocal opponent of the administration in Pakistan and had repeatedly opposed talks between the TTP and Islamabad, RFE/RL reported.

In 2014, Khorasani and the JuA were the ones responsible for the murder of 23 detained Pakistani soldiers while the TTP held peace talks with Pakistani authorities.Khorasani’s JuA also claimed the responsibility for a bomb explosion in the year 2016 in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore which killed around 70 people, mostly of the Christian minority.

Two additional TTP commanders killed along with Khorasani in Afghanistan, Hassan and Dawlat were also opposed to peace talks.

They had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State (IS) terror group’s leader Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi in 2015.

But they returned to TTP after Khorasani joined JuA with JuA in the fold of the TTP.

A Peshawar-based researcher believes that the murder of the TTP commanders is more an indication of an internal conflict within the TTP group than external factors, RFE/RL reported.

There were suspicions among TTP’s leadership, according to the researcher about Hassan and Dawlat’s ties to IS due to their past connections with IS.Additionally, in certain circles, Hassan had been accused of being a part of the Western-backed Afghan government, which was subsequently overthrown by the Afghan Taliban in August 2021, he adds.

In a major change in one major change, one major change is that a Pakistani military officer, who was believed to be the creator of the peace process was removed from the city in the northwestern part of Peshawar in the aftermath of the murders.

Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed, a former chief of intelligence, was removed from his post as the corps commander in Peshawar on Monday.

Hameed has recently met with the TTP head in Kabul in which they came to an agreement on the conditions of an eventual truce that could last for a long time.

His departure has raised questions within the TTP regarding the future of talks sources inside the militant group say, RFE/RL reported.

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