Near the Afghan border on Thursday, The Pakistani Taliban has killed 15 kidnapped troops in revenge for military operations against them, vowing further such attacks.
A Taliban spokesman reported that the Pakistani forces have targeted the northwestern Khyber tribal region’s militants for more than 4 years.
In a statement, Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), said, “This is revenge for the killing of our comrades in Khyber by Pakistani forces,”
“We will soon take revenge for other operations too,” he added.
In the Thal area of the northwestern Hangu district, near the porous border with Afghanistan, 15 bodies were founded with signs of torture and gunshot wounds.
On 23 Dec when dozen of Taliban militants stormed a paramilitary fort in the northwestern Tank district, the Pakistani soldiers were kidnapped, local officials confirmed.
However from 2007, the TTP is presented as an umbrella group of various Pakistani militant factions that are operating in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Allied with the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda, it pledged to overthrow the Pakistani government.
A source report said that the fact of audacious attacks, including one on the Pakistan army headquarters near the capital Islamabad in 2009, is carried out because of it. Meanwhile US govt. has tagged TTP a terrorist group.
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