RAW accused of helping Taliban

Captured militant makes allegations

April 27, 2017 12:38 am | Updated 12:38 am IST - KARACHI

A former spokesperson of the banned militant group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, has claimed that Indian and Afghanistan intelligence agencies have been using and funding Pakistani Taliban to launch terror attacks in Pakistan.

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter group of the Taliban, has claimed several terror attacks, in which hundreds were killed.

Ehsanullah Ehsan, captured last week by the Pakistani military, said in a video confession that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and the Afghanistan intelligence agency NDS had provided safe havens to terrorist organisations in Afghanistan. The video was released by the Army. Ehsan claimed that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief, Mullah Fazlullah, Pakistan’s most wanted man, is being provided a safe haven by the RAW and the NDS. Ehsan also said the militants were enemies of Islam and asked the youth to stay away from them. “These people misled people in the name of Islam, especially the youth, for their own ends,” he said.

Military spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor in a tweet said Ehsan had exposed the “hostile foreign agenda” to destabilise Pakistan.

In an interview to Geo TV, to be broadcast on Thursday, Ehsan claimed that JuA chief Khalid Khurasani went to India for treatment from Afghanistan when he got injured in a NATO attack in 2015. Indian government sources said they “attached no credibility” to the claims by Ehsaan.

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