The Taliban took the unusual step Tuesday of insisting that it is not Pakistan, which controls the Haqqani network, adding that the camps of Taliban and leadership is present in Afghanistan and US is trying to put whole responsibility of its defeat in Afghanistan on Pakistan.
The militia advised Pakistan, historically perhaps its closest foreign ally, to prioritise “Islamic and national” interests and stand firm in the face of “America’s two-faced and implacable politics”.
“Neither are our bases in Pakistan nor do we need residence outside of our country,” said the English and Pashto- languages statement in the name of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan – the Taliban’s name for itself – on its Voice of Jihad website, released by the Spokesman of the Afghan Taliban Qari Yousuf Ahmadi.
“All the military and civilian activities in the country are our own initiatives and our own actions.
“The respected Maulawi Jalaluddin Haqqani (the group’s founder) is (one of the) Islamic Emirate’s honourable and dignified personalities and receives all guidance for operations from the leader of the Islamic Emirate.”
“Our advice to the people of Pakistan and its government is that it should deliberate on America’s two-faced and implacable politics,” said the Taliban.
“It should always give precedence to its Islamic and national interests and they should have a firm belief that America will never be happy with them until they loot all their material and moral assets.”
According to the spokesman of Taliban CIA Chief David Petraeus is trying to convince US masses that the whole resistance is being done from Pakistan instead of Afghanistan.
According to the spokesman still Taliban holding control over the majority part of Afghanistan, adding that there are no links between Haqqani network and ISI.
September 27, 2011