Highlights
- TTP’s most wanted terrorist Mohammad Khurasani has been found dead in Afghanistan
- Pakistan claims that Mohammad Khurasani was also the commander and spokesperson of TTP.
- Meanwhile, both the TTP and the Taliban government have denied Khorasani’s death.
Khalid Batli alias Mohammad Khurasani, the most wanted terrorist of Tehreek-e-Taliban, who made Pakistan Army cry in tears, has been found dead in Nangarhar, Afghanistan. Pakistan claims that Khurasani was the commander and spokesperson of TTP. Meanwhile, both the TTP and the Taliban government have denied Khorasani’s death. Analysts say that if the claim of the Pakistani army is true, then it is openly carrying out violence under the Taliban rule, undermining the sovereignty of Afghanistan. Pakistan has not even taken the Taliban into its confidence.
On Pakistan’s claim, TTP has issued a statement saying that its official spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani is alive and well. We are probing the death of Mufti Khalid Batli who has no role in this movement. This Taliban sources claim that many people are active in the name of Mohammad Khurasani. He even has a Twitter account. With the claim of the death of Mohammad Khurasani of Pakistan, a big question has started to arise whether the Pakistani army is active in Afghanistan through the intelligence agency ISI?
Pakistani army kept silent on the murder
Ashraf Ghani and Afghan analyst Mohammad Shafiq Hamdam, a former adviser to NATO, say that the killing shows that Pakistan is no longer respecting the sovereignty of Afghanistan. Pakistanis are now active inside Afghanistan without coordination with the Taliban or with their permission. The Pakistani army has also kept silent about how Khalid Batali was killed. TTP has been supported by Taliban and if this proves to be true, Taliban may flare up.
Pakistani officials said that Mohammad Khurasani, about 50 years old, was also the spokesperson of the TTP. He was also involved in many attacks on the people and security forces of Pakistan. Officials claimed that he was frequently visiting Kabul after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. Pakistan claims that it was uniting different factions of its organization with TTP chief Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud.
Khurasani was a resident of Gilgit-Baltistan
Pakistan has claimed that it was also planning terrorist attacks. He had also recently threatened to carry out terrorist attacks inside Pakistan. Khalid Batti alias Mohammad Khurasani, a resident of Gilgit-Baltistan, was the operational commander of the TTP for the past several years. In 2007 he joined the banned Tehrik Nifaaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi in Swat and established close ties with former TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah.
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