SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Crumbling TTP seems on back-foot after operation Zarb.e.Azb. It seems that militants are retreating and on the run but infact it is not so. TTP seems to have join hands with other splinter terrorists groups. Lashkar-e-Islam, a militant organisation led by warlord Mangal Bagh, and Jamaatul Ahrar led by Omar Khalid Khorasani that had split from the TTP, “united and re-formed the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan,” The Long War Journal reported. The announcement of the re-unification of the factions and their merger with Lashkar-e-Islam was announced by Jamaatul Ahrar spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan. The decision regarding the reunification of the outlawed militant group came after the three leaders, Khorasani, Fazlullah, and Mangal Bagh, met for “a joint consultative meeting,” according to Ehsan. The reunification of Taliban points to the fact that the leadership disputes between the groups, which arose after Fazlullah took control of the group in the wake of Hakeemullah Mehsud’s death in a drone strike in November 2013, have been partially healed.
This situation does not bode well for terrorism struck Pakistan and now military needs to focus on several other splinter groups before they join hands and become a monster. Furthermore, reunification of these smaller groups with TTP would make it more lethal and dangerous.
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