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TTP spokesperson, five other leaders declare allegiance to Islamic State
By Tahir Khan
Published: October 14, 2014
ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid and five other senior TTP leaders have declared allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Shahidullah Shahid announced the decision in a video posted online and sent to media persons in Pakistan and posted online. Taliban leaders from Orakzai, Kuram, Khyber agencies, Peshawar and Hangu district are among those who have parted ways with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and joined the IS.
Leaders who have joined the Islamic State include chief of TTP Orakzai tribal region Hafiz Sayed Khan, TTP Khyber Agency leader Gul Zaman, chief of TTP Peshawar Mufti Hasan, TTP head of Hangu Khalid Mansoor and chief of TTP Kurram agency.
“I declare allegiance to the Caliph of Muslims, Amirul Momineen Abu Bakar al Baghdadi al Qarshi al Hussaini. I will listen and follow his every instruction whatever the situation may have been. This allegiance is neither from the TTP or its leader Maulvi Fazalullah. This is only from me and five leaders,” Shahid said.
Shahid added that TTP Chief Mullah Fazalullah has supported the Islamic State but has not declared allegiance.
“I appeal to the Ameerul Momineen to accept my allegiance,” the former TTP leader stated, adding that on at least three occasions he has declared allegiance to the IS.
An Urdu translation of Shahid’s video message has also been emailed to the journalists. He said his real name is Abu Omar alias Al-Khorasani.
Earlier, on October 4 the TTP declared allegiance to IS and ordered militants across the region to help the Middle Eastern group in its campaign to set up a global Islamic caliphate.
IS, which controls swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, has been making inroads into South Asia, which has traditionally been dominated by Taliban insurgencies against both the Pakistan and Afghanistan governments.
The announcement came after a September move by al Qaeda chief, Ayman al Zawahiri, to name former Taliban commander Asim Umar as the ‘Ameer’ of a new South Asia branch of the network that masterminded the 2001 attacks on the United States.
By Tahir Khan
Published: October 14, 2014
ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid and five other senior TTP leaders have declared allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Shahidullah Shahid announced the decision in a video posted online and sent to media persons in Pakistan and posted online. Taliban leaders from Orakzai, Kuram, Khyber agencies, Peshawar and Hangu district are among those who have parted ways with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and joined the IS.
Leaders who have joined the Islamic State include chief of TTP Orakzai tribal region Hafiz Sayed Khan, TTP Khyber Agency leader Gul Zaman, chief of TTP Peshawar Mufti Hasan, TTP head of Hangu Khalid Mansoor and chief of TTP Kurram agency.
“I declare allegiance to the Caliph of Muslims, Amirul Momineen Abu Bakar al Baghdadi al Qarshi al Hussaini. I will listen and follow his every instruction whatever the situation may have been. This allegiance is neither from the TTP or its leader Maulvi Fazalullah. This is only from me and five leaders,” Shahid said.
Shahid added that TTP Chief Mullah Fazalullah has supported the Islamic State but has not declared allegiance.
“I appeal to the Ameerul Momineen to accept my allegiance,” the former TTP leader stated, adding that on at least three occasions he has declared allegiance to the IS.
An Urdu translation of Shahid’s video message has also been emailed to the journalists. He said his real name is Abu Omar alias Al-Khorasani.
Earlier, on October 4 the TTP declared allegiance to IS and ordered militants across the region to help the Middle Eastern group in its campaign to set up a global Islamic caliphate.
IS, which controls swathes of land in Syria and Iraq, has been making inroads into South Asia, which has traditionally been dominated by Taliban insurgencies against both the Pakistan and Afghanistan governments.
The announcement came after a September move by al Qaeda chief, Ayman al Zawahiri, to name former Taliban commander Asim Umar as the ‘Ameer’ of a new South Asia branch of the network that masterminded the 2001 attacks on the United States.
