In a new video released by As-Sahab, the Al-Qaeda media company, Azam Tariq, spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Movement of the Pakistani Taliban), warned of attacks against the private security firm "Blackwater and their hosts" in Pakistan."
Blaming the Blackwater and Pakistani secret agencies – a reference to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) – for recent bomb explosions targeting the general public at the Islamic International University of Islamabad and markets in Peshawar, the Taliban spokesman denied that the organization had carried out the attacks.
The statement notes that these attacks were aimed at creating "mistrust and hatred" in the Muslim community, especially among the Pakistani people, against the Taliban.
Following is the text of the Taliban spokesman's statement, originally in Urdu:[1]
Pakistan Secret Agencies Are Carrying Out Explosions "In Order to Cause Mistrust and Hatred in the Muslim Ummah against the Mujahideen"
"As the central spokesman of the movement, and on behalf of the mujahideen of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, I want to make it clear to the Muslim Ummah, especially to the people in Pakistan, that the explosions among the public are not being carried out by us, the mujahideen, but by the treacherous secret agencies of Pakistan and Blackwater.
"In order to cause mistrust and hatred in the Muslim Ummah against the mujahideen, the unpious secret agencies of Pakistan are committing the explosions, such as those in the Islamic University of Islamabad and in the Khyber and Kissa Khwani bazaar of Peshawar."
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