Ehsanullah Ehsan, a TTP & JuA former spokesman, reveals some interesting information of 🇦🇫Taliban relations with the most radical anti-Pak TTP group, led by Umar Khalid Khurasani, known TTP Mohmand, separated from TTP in 2014, named itself JuA & remerged in TTP in Aug 2020. 1/7 
Ehsan criticizes all such Pakistani media analyses, claiming whether the TTP Khurasani group has severe relations with the Afghan Taliban. He counts three examples as evidence that JuA enjoys good mutual relations with the Afghan Taliban inside Afghanistan. 2/7
According to him, AT took strict actions on the TTP Mohammand complaints against its important commander in Kunar, Haji Abdul Rahim, in 2012 and removed him from his responsibility. Rahim is a LeT linked Afghan Salafist commander affiliated with the AT. 3/7
Secondly, the Afghan Taliban sent its delegation to JuA after its establishment in 2014 seeking its pledge to the Taliban´s supreme leader. Ehsan says that AT merged its Afghan chapter in the AT ranks was named as Junud-ul-Khurasan. 4/7
His 35d argument is that AT sought the direct help of JuA in 2015, confronting the ISKP expansion in those areas of the Afghan provinces of Nangarhar & Kunar, which remain JuA strongholds. Ehsan says that it was the 🇦🇫Taliban's first-ever request of support from any TTP group.5/7
Ehsan's last evidence is the IS's rejection of allotting Wilaya Hind to JuA due to its primary condition that it would not be part of the ISKP war against the Afghan Taliban. 6/7
Several other sources are informing about these claims except the 2nd one. The first case is reported by @ShaahJei in 2013 dawn.com/news/1020911/t….
Tore and I have discussed the last point in this piece on TTP, published by CTC
Tore and I have discussed the last point in this piece on TTP, published by CTC
https://twitter.com/CTCWP/status/1387064968919408655?s=20. 7/7
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