Afghanistan Peace CampaignMehsud thanked Pakistan’s religious, political, and national leaders for opposing the country’s new military operations called Azm-e-Istehkam.
The Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has denied receiving fund and training from Al-Qaeda and being operative from the Afghan soil or any Afghan citizen involved in their attacks.
In a written message to the religious scholars and national and political leaders of Pakistan, Noor Wali Mehsud, the leader of the TTP said that they receive no cooperation from the Islamic Emirate.
The TTP leader claimed they need no foreign aid to carry out their operations nor they have foreign agenda but to defend “their nation from the oppression of generals and the rulers.”
“We receive no foreign cooperation in this war of ours, nor do we feel any need to seek it. With the permission of Allah, we have fought a successful 20-year-long guerrilla campaign through the support and cooperation of our nation, and we have the capability to do so for years to come,” part of the message reads.
The Pakistani Taliban have asked Qatar and other Islamic countries to investigate whether they are terrorists and if war has been imposed on them and that they had no choice but to defend themselves.
Mehsud thanked Pakistan’s religious, political, and national leaders for opposing the country’s new military operations called Azm-e-Istehkam.
Last month, Pakistan’s military launched operations in the country after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s approval.
The TTP leader accused Pakistan’s generals and rulers of refusing to sit at the negotiating table with the group, adding that they had experience of talks with the Pakistani government during Imran Khan’s premiership.
“We’ve never refused to take part in negotiations, and just as we know how to properly fight a war, we also know how to sit at the negotiating table and solve issues through dialogue (which the world witnessed during Imran Khan’s time in power),” wrote Mehsud in the message.
Noor Wali Mehsud also said that the war was imposed on the Pashtuns on both sides of the Durand Line following 9/11, aiming to eliminate tribal independence.
Mehsud’s message also reads that Pakistani military and American drones have killed thousands of men, women, and children and destroyed the tribal people’s schools, houses, mosques, and madrassas, leaving them no option but to pick up weapons against the perpetrators.