Is support to Taliban, a support to terrorism?

[Arleitter]

@CM

Incorrect. That is because the region is rife with Weapons. US media has reported that US weapons end up in the hands of Taliban because ANA (Afghan national army) officials sell them.

Secondly it is very very common in history for nations to use proxies to get their dirty work done. The CIA has done it. RAW has done it. The ISI has done it.

Lastly to get weapons to the TTP they would have to come from two routes. Iran or Afghanistan. They won’t come from Iran because the TTP is Sunni and Iran is Shia.

Lastly the TTP and the different groups in Afghanistan use different tactics. HII, QS and HG use IEDs. And their armed attacks though limited are with more modern forms of weapons.

The TTP on the other hand use Suicide bombers usually with RDX which is a Military grade explosive, which Pakistan does not have a lot of nor do we produce it from what our media says. So they can’t get it from a Pakistani source.

Even Afghan Taliban is also employing suicide bombers.

TTP has only recently gained its foothold in Punjab and their old form was/is still active in NWFP which has it’s close proximity with Afghanistan.In anyway it is simple to think that they have got links with Afghan Taliban.Infact,that would be their most convenient and easy source of arms and resource supplies.

You may recall last year’s Lahore Police Academy attack and a few instances those followed ,where Afghan nationals had been involved in TTP attacks.