[Here is the subject (5.54 min.) video clip: <http://nation.com.pk/national/26-Apr-2017/video-taliban-have-close-ties-with-raw-former-ttp-spokesman-confesses>. Watch, in particular, from 3.16 mins. onward.]
I/II. http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/raw-providing-safe-haven-to-pakistani-taliban-chief-says-ehsanullah-ehsan-breakaway-faction-spokesman/article18221720.ece INTERNATIONAL RAW providing safe haven to Pakistani Taliban chief, says breakaway faction spokesman Mubashir Zaidi KARACHI APRIL 26, 2017 17:37 IST UPDATED: APRIL 26, 2017 21:27 IST Grab from this “video confession” released by the Pakistan military shows Ehsanullah Ehsan, former spokesman of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. *Pakistan military releases “video confession” of Ehsanullah Ehsan who was captured by the Pakistan military last week.* The Pakistan military on Wednesday released a statement of the spokesman of Jamaatul Ahrar (JuA), a banned militant group in which he has claimed that Afghan and Indian intelligence agencies have been using and funding Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan) to launch terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Read: Transcript of Ehsanullah Ehsan’s ‘confession’ released by Pakistan military Ehsanullah Ehsan, who was captured last week by the Pakistan military, said in a video confession that Indian intelligence agency RAW and Afghan intelligence agency NDS have provided safe heavens to terrorist organisations in Afghanistan. Ehsan was spokesman of JuA, a breakaway faction of the Taliban, which is responsible for major terrorist attacks in Pakistan over the past two years. Hundreds of people were killed in Wagah and Gulashan Iqbal Park attacks in Lahore and two major attacks in Quetta in 2016. Clad in salwar kameez, Ehsan claimed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Mullah Fazlullah — Pakistan’s most wanted man — is being given safe heaven by RAW and NDS. EhsanullahEhsan Ehsanullah Ehsan in 2013. | Photo Credit: AFP II. http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/pakistan-releases-ex-taliban-spokesman-s-confession-video-alleging-indian-role-in-terror-276515.html Pakistan Releases Ex-Taliban Spokesman's 'Confession Video' Alleging' Indian Role In Terror OMER FAROOQ KHAN APRIL 27, 2017 The Pakistan army released on Wednesday a video of a confessional statement made by a top Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant Ehsanullah Ehsan, who was earlier the spokesperson of its lethal faction Jamaatul-Ahrar. The video showed Ehsan confessing that he participated in antiPakistan activities from sanctuaries in Afghanistan and surrendered "voluntarily" to Pakistani security forces. Ehsanullah Ehsan SCREEN GRAB The militant alleged that Indian intelligence agencies are working with their Afghan equivalents in carrying out terror attacks against Pakistan. Ehsan, who used to regularly liaise with Pakistani journalists, was missing for past few months, until surfacing in the video. Army spokesman, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, claimed Ehsan had surrendered to security forces and was now in their custody. "My name is Liaquat Ali, alias Ehsanullah Ehsan. I belong to the Mohmand tribal region and had joined the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in 2008, when I was in college," Ehsan is heard saying in Urdu in the video. Ehsanullah Ehsan SCREEN GRAB "I have been spokesperson for Taliban and Jamaatul-Ahrar," he said. After the operation in North Waziristan, Ehsan said, Taliban jihadis fled to Afghanistan. "There, we established and developed contacts with India and its spy agency RAW ," he claimed. "TTP got their (Indian) support, their funding and took money for every terrorist activity in Pakistan. They pushed TTP soldiers on the frontlines to fight against Pakistan army and went into hiding themselves," he said. "These (terrorist) organisations have established committees in Afghanistan through which they communicate and coordinate with RAW . Indians had given them special visas to help them move around in Afghanistan with ease," he said. Ehsanullah Ehsan SCREEN GRAB Earlier too, New Delhi and Kabul have rejected allegations of funding terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil. Pakistan's GEO TV website quoted the video saying Ehsan has also revealed that Jamaat-ul-Ahrar chief Umer Khalid Khorasani went to India for medical treatment when he got injured during a raid. He added that Khorasani used a Afghan visa for his India visit. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
