Without naming AQ, TTP issued a statement rejecting the latest UNSC committee on AQ/ISIL report and claims that neither a "global [jihadist] organization" nor any state helped mergers of various anti-state Pakistani jihadist groups into TTP last year. 1/n
The UNCS report published on 3rd Feb claimed that AQ moderated the TTP mergers process. The TTP statement could be surprising for many observers, but there seem two strategic aims for TTP behind releasing this statement. 2/n
First, TTP remains a natural ally of the Afghan Taliban, both having historical roots. TTP is sheltered in the controlled areas in Afghanistan. Thus, TTP will want the AT soon to reach power, for which the AQ's presence in Afghanistan remains a major obstacle. 3/n
Secondly, there are rumors of the ongoing negotiation between TTP and the Pakistan government, facilitated by Sirajuddin Haqqani. Therefore, TTP needs to portray its war with Pakistan only shaped by domestic problems and not directed by the global jihadist agenda of AQ. 4/n
TTP history shows that the group has remained an AQ ally in AfPak. AQ not only founded TTP but played instrumental roles in its expansion and rise. There has never been any confrontation between the two groups. 5/n
AQ has always supported the TTP, and its latest evidence is the Zawahiri eulogy released on the killing of TTP emir Maulana Fazlullah in Aug 2018. 6/n
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19 Jan
TTP issued a statement confirming its two senior commanders' assassination, blaming it on the Pakistani security agencies. Both originally belonged to JuA or TTP Mohmand. The statement condemns the news reports which claimed these assassinations as intra-TTP fighting. 1/6
Several TTP senior commanders are assassinated in Kunar-Nangarhar in the last two years, but it is the first time TTP issued such a statement on these mysterious killings. The statement has three important points. 2/6
First, TTP claims their assassination location in the Methay area of Mohmand agency, which is few kilometers away from the Baharabad-Shonkray locality of the Sarkani district of Kunar province, where local sources confirmed that this attack took place. 3/6
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A Pakistani News channel, @aajnews_urdu reports that 3⃣ senior members of TTP-JuA targeted in an IED attack in the Baharabad locality of the Sarkani district of Kunar. 2⃣ of them, Noor Gul, aka Muslimyar, & Rasheed Mama, are killed, and the third, Waheed Gul, is injured. 1/5
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22 Dec 20
My report for @BBCMonitoring on the latest TTP video released on 17th Dec. The video showcases TTP attacks against the Pakistani security forces during Sep-Oct-Nov. It has some very significant revelations, highly recommended to access it through BBCM. 1/4
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The video shows footage of 19 attacks conducted in Bajaur, South and North Waziristan. The video claims that TTP has carried out 68 attacks in the last three months, killing 151 and injuring 40 people. 80% of these attacks have inflicted losses to the army. 2/4
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22 Dec 20
ISKP spokesman, Sultan Aziz Azzam, releases a new statement criticizing the Afghan Taliban, declaring the US-TB peace process as TB surrender to the US, directed by Pakistan. The statement seems authored yesterday as mentioned to the 20th Dec missile attacks in Kabul. 1/3
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For the first time since 2015, TTP claims an attack in Mamozay, Orakzay agency, the hometown of ISKP founding leadership, Shaikh Maqbool & Hafiz Saeed Khan. Orakzay was the basecamp of Hakimullah & the stronghold of TTP till TTP-Orakzay defected and founded ISKP in late 2014. 1/5
TTP claims to have killed two and abducted one of the laborers constructing a police post in the area. Reports say that both laborers were workers of ANP and belonged to the Mardan district of KpK. Both were beheaded. 2/5
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19 Nov 20
Benazir Bhutto, ex-PM of Pakistan, described AQ in the following words n 2004, which I would say is a very concise & significant definition. It shows that she was well aware of the AQ threat, & the AQ also correctly considered her a major threat 4 its survival n the region. 1/n
Benazir Bhutto says ”Al-Qaeda has managed to unite disparate militant groups into an international confederate of terrorists, which is at times is called the Islamic Front. 2/n
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