New TTP chief emerging, will focus Afghan fight

[RevolutionThroughReason]

Destroyed Pakistani army and government,is good for all,the people of pakistan,afghanistan.

Everyone wish so.

then Taliban will get killed because they will no longer have any military and monetary support. I guess you're suicidal

[khushal]

Hakeemullah has been "out of operation" since January, 2010 anyway.

Wali-ur-Rehman was the man who shot Hakeemullah, incidentally, over the control of the lucrative suicide bomber and extortion trade.

The news of a more conciliatory TTP is making the Punjabi generals and their supporters feel all nice and warm during this winter but what they don't realize is that the TTP is becoming a permanent entity in FATA.

Make no mistake, the TTP and Rawalpindi have been engaged in secret talks for a very long time now and it seems as though the generals have communicated to Wali-ur-Rehman that he will receive the same protection as Hafiz Gul Bahadur, the Haqqani Network and Mullah Nazir if he agrees to focus on Afghanistan and leave the Pakistani army alone.

But it was the pakistani army who moved against them and not the other way around as you claim. The TTP already have refuge in Kunar and Nuristan so the generals offer of protection really is no bargain and protections from what, they still operate in south waziristan and swat which the army has declared cleaned up.

[Shah-i-Kot]

Pakistani officials promoting false split in Taliban leadership cadres, again

For some reason, Reuters seems to want to perpetuate the myth that Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud, the top two leaders of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, are "at each other's throats," a claim that Waliur Rehman himself has denied. Back in January, I debunked the claims, and the long-awaited clash between the two never materialized. You can read about that here.

Eleven months later, Reuters pretty much writes the same story. This time, unnamed Pakistani military sources are making the claims. But in the process of making the case for the split between the two leaders, the Pakistani officials tell an easily demonstrable lie. And "lie" isn't a term I use easily around here, but in this case, it applies.

While making the case that Hakeemullah is no longer in charge of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's operations, Pakistani officials told Reuters the following:

Intelligence officials said Mehsud had not commanded any recent operations, including an August 16 attack on the Minhas Airbase in Pakistan and a suicide attack on a street market in May that killed 24 people.
Military sources said Rehman planned the April 15 jail break in Bannu in Pakistan that freed 384 prisoners, including an estimated 200 Taliban members and an al Qaeda-linked militant who had attempted to assassinate former president Pervez Musharraf.

Now, the officials aren't clear how they know Hakeemullah wasn't involved in the Minhas suicide assault; it does fit the profile of other attacks he directed.

But the real kicker is the Bannu prison break. We know for a fact that Hakeemullah was involved. How do we know? The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan released a videotape of the operations, in which both Waliur Rehman and Hakeemullah appeared. And guess what? Hakeemullah himself appears on the videotape where the Taliban are staging to conduct the attack. You can see him there, and you can see his men surrounding him. So we know for certain that Hakeemullah was indeed directly involved in the Bannu prison break. The Pakistani officials who tracked the Bannu prison break would also know this.

Pakistani officials have been promoting a split between Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud for years, beginning with the fake battle at the shura to succeed Bailtullah Mehsud, the emir of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan who was killed in an August 2009 drone strike. The battle never happened, yet Pakistani officials insist to this day that it did. We've covered this, and other such nonsense, extensively at The Long War Journal.

Dare I say that Pakistani officials are using Reuters and other news agencies as part of a not-so-sophisticated information operation designed to split the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan's top leadership? It is high time that news organizations see through this patently obvious nonsense.



Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat...#ixzz2ESmxPvxx

this guy has made a accurate analysis. This story was also circulated last year at around this time.

I think the Pakistan army is hoping to not be fighting an insurgency in FATA/Balochistan after 2014 so they are promoting this idea. They think that once they disengage and stop supporting the NATO war, then there will be peace in FATA/Balochistan.

What the writer does not mention (maybe on purpose) is that the Pakistani insurgency exists due to Pakistan support for the NATO war. This is a fact that can not be ignored when analyzing this.

[Soldat_Amir]

Wali Ur Rehman from what I know is a Malkhel Maseed...they are the most pro Pakistani awlad you will meet.....they are related to a guy called Mahar dil who was a pro Jinnah little puppet.

Pakistan is getting ready its proxies for US withdrawal and re-install Taliban as the emirs of the Afghan throne.

Its just sooo sad the Western world did not see this coming....they are so blind.

[afghan]

Wali Ur Rehman from what I know is a Malkhel Maseed...they are the most pro Pakistani awlad you will meet.....they are related to a guy called Mahar dil who was a pro Jinnah little puppet.

Pakistan is getting ready its proxies for US withdrawal and re-install Taliban as the emirs of the Afghan throne.

Its just sooo sad the Western world did not see this coming....they are so blind.

taliban are the offspring of pakistan, it does not matter which tribe or khel they belong to, will be serving the pakies.