US shifted TTP leaders to Afghanistan: Beg

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Monday, November 16, 2009
LAHORE: General (retd) Mirza Aslam Beg has alleged that the US has shifted Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud and the other Taliban leadership to Afghanistan.

In an interview, Aslam Beg said when the Pakistan Army started the operation in South Waziristan, a helicopter flew from the Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan and shifted Hakimullah Mehsud and other militants to Afghanistan.

He said Hakimullah Mehsud and other militant commanders were present in Afghanistan. He alleged that the US was backing the militants fighting against the Pakistan Army in South Waziristan Agency.

He said that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of India wanted to detach the tribal areas from Pakistan but it did not succeed in its designs. About the current wave of terrorism in the country, especially in Peshawar, he said these incidents could be a reaction to the Waziristan operation but possibilities of the US and other foreign actors’ involvement could not be ruled out.

Responding to a question about the operation Rah-e-Nijat, he said the people were talking about the difficulties in the operation and the possibility that the Army could be trapped in the area but due to an effective strategy, the military succeeded in clearing the area of the militants within a month and the remaining task would be completed soon.

About the US efforts in Afghanistan, he said the US could neither succeed in Afghanistan nor could get a safe exit from the Afghan soil until it corrected its attitude with the Pakistan Army. Aslam Beg said only the Pakistan Army and the Taliban could give a safe exit to the US from Afghanistan. About the military action in Balochistan, he said there was no need for a military operation in the province.



US shifted TTP leaders to Afghanistan: Beg

 

[Hulk]

Was there any evidence provided on this story. I do not believe US will do this, fact is even today US is Pakistans friend.

 

[Halaku Khan]

He said that the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of India wanted to detach the tribal areas from Pakistan but it did not succeed in its designs. About the current wave of terrorism in the country, especially in Peshawar, he said these incidents could be a reaction to the Waziristan operation but possibilities of the US and other foreign actors’ involvement could not be ruled out.

People of NWFP willingly vote for parties like the ANP, which has no antipathy for India. Apart from some Punjabi elites, some small minority in the Mohajir community, and perhaps some Madrassa graduates, there is no hostility against India in Pakistan.

Therefore India does not need to support crazy elements like the TTP, who are hurting the Pashtun people with bomb-attacks.

 

[Vassnti]

If its not Beg its Gul they both seem run the same anti america pro taliban line but then considering thier loyalty perhaps it is not all that suprising.

Solidarity with Osama bin Laden
According to Zahid Hussain, in his book Frontline Pakistan, General (retd) Mirza Beg and former ISI chief Lt. Gen. (retd) Hamid Gul were part of the 9 January 2001 Darul Uloom Haqqania Islamic conference held near Peshawar, which was also attended by 300 leaders representing various radical Islamic groups. In the meeting, they declared it a religious duty of Muslims all over the world to protect the Taliban government, and the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden it was hosting, whom they considered as a 'great Muslim warrior.'

Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam by Zahid Hussain, Columbia University Press, 2007, page 81-82.

 

[A.Rahman]

Please keep it to yourself, You don't know jack about loyalty, these men are battle proven and are loyal to Pakistan.

we are not interested in Indian views.

 

[deathfromabove]

Was there any evidence provided on this story. I do not believe US will do this, fact is even today US is Pakistans friend.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/strate...tp-leaders-evacuated-mysterious-airlifts.html

 

[Ahmad]

if that is the case then why Pak gov does not confront the americans with evidence and seek explanation?

 

[deathfromabove]

if that is the case then why Pak gov does not confront the Americans with evidence and seek explanation?

Like I said earlier, we are the victim of our passive / non-existent Foreign Policy. Since, onus of national security lies with "democratic institutions", so army has forwarded the case to NRO dirty dozen, which is only interested in milking more out of the Americans.