Taliban to back Pakistan Army on Eastern Border
Islamabad, Dec 23: The Pakistan Army has got support from a quarter that it would never have expected. The Taliban on Tuesday declared that they would back the Pakistan Army by deploying hundreds of suicide bombers in case of any military action with India.
Taliban commanders claimed that "thousands of our well-armed militants are ready to fight alongside the army if any war is imposed on Pakistan," chief of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud told a news organization on phone.
Hundreds of would-be bombers had been "given suicide jackets and explosive-laden vehicles for protection of the border in case of any aggression by the Indian troops," he said.
"The time had come, to wage a real Jehad that the Taliban had been waiting for," Mehsud, for whom the Pakistani and US forces are on the look out claimed.
"We know very well that the visible and invisible enemies of the country have been planning to weaken this lone Islamic nuclear power. But the Mujahideen will foil all such nefarious designs of our enemies," he claimed.
Interestingly, this is for the first time Mehsud has admitted that Taliban has marshaled thousands of fighters close to the Afghan-Pak border and where Pakistani army has launched a major operation to flush them out.
Mehsud said people might question how the Taliban would fight alongside the Pakistan Army when the militants had been fighting the force for a long time.
"Therefore, I want to make it clear that the army was acting otherwise in the past. But now it would fight for the protection and survival of the country, which is why we will support them,"
Mehsud said.
Mehsud, who was accused by former President Pervez Musharraf of masterminding the assassination of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto in December last year, significantly said the Taliban would defend the country's frontier with Afghanistan in the event of hostilities with India.
Agencies
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