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Articles tagged with: Baitullah Mehsud
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Multiple investigations and millions of dollars later, Pakistanis still are no closer to determining who really conceived and ordered the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
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The decentralised networks of militant groups have many sources of generating funds, including local and foreign Islamic charities, bank robberies and kidnappings for ransom, mainly in Karachi.
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Most analysts had assumed that the killing of Baitullah Mehsud and the subsequent confusion over the leadership of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan would lead to a “phony war”. The last week has proved us all wrong.
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Will the Pakistan army’s expected operation in Waziristan spell the death-knell of the TTP?
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Maulana Waliur Rahman couldn’t become the amir, or head, of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) following the death of Baitullah Mehsud, but he did manage to grab arguably the most powerful job in the banned organisation. As the amir of the TTP in South Waziristan, he controls the resources and fighters in the organisation’s birthplace and stronghold. In a way, the new TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud would be dependent on him for money and manpower.
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The swift ascendancy of Baitullah Mehsud was due to more than his willingness to wage violent jihad: he was a strategic leader with charm.
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Following the intervention of Maulana Sufi Mohammad, the Taliban publicly announced their decision to pull out of Buner and even stage-managed the withdrawal of some of their fighters as they drove through the mountain passes on the way to Swat. But most Taliban fighters didn’t leave. The government later produced a record of a telephonic conversation between Maulana Fazlullah and his commanders in Buner in which he advised them to stay put after staging a pullout drama for the benefit of the media.
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Hakimullah Mehsud, a deputy of Baitullah Mehsud, has declared Orakzai Agency as his own ‘Islamic Emirate’ and is demanding that the 63 Sikh families residing there pay jazia to him. The imposition of jazia by the militants in FATA is driving the Sikh community out of their homeland, where they have been residing and engaged in business much before the partition took place.
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The peace deal in Swat appears to tacitly endorse the Taliban’s brutalities. The government and the military have surrendered the valley to the militants, who are responsible for the killing of hundreds of people. The flogging of a 17-year-old girl, which took place in Kabal district in January and surfaced only recently, is a stark reminder of where Pakistan is heading if the growing threat of Islamic extremism is not checked.
