Peshawar: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Friday refuted claims of providing security to Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and his supporters during a peace march towards South Waziristan against the US drone strikes.
In a statement issued on Friday, TTP spokesman, Ahsanullah Ahsan said that the militant organization had not assured a safe-passage for PTI “peace march” through their tribal stronghold.
“Our men are too important give an escort to the likes of Imran Khan,” said Ahsanullah.
The spokesman said that there were two kinds of politicians in Pakistan: Those who were in power and those were not.
“The ones in the power i.e. Peoples Party of Pakistan, Muttahida Qaumi Movement, and Awami National Party are anti-TTP, whereas the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf are not in the power but are secular and Westernophiles in their mentality”, Ahsanullah added.
He said that TTP would never come out for a Westernophile like Imran Khan. “Secularists cannot win TTP’s sympathies”, the TTP spokesman added.
He was categorical in saying that Imran Khan’s was in fact not coming to Waziristan to show solidarity for the victims of drone strikes.
“The agenda of PTI’s peace march is not what it claims to be. There is more what meets the eye in their case. It’s only a gimmick to gain political mileage”, Ashanullah said.
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