Is support to Taliban, a support to terrorism?

[Arleitter]

@CM

What is the TTPs old form?

You see that would make sense if their source of ammunition and weapons were 10 year old AK-47s and not RPGs, C4 and RDX which can not be produced outside of factories.

TTP weapons are not indegiously made. That is evident with all attacks. Additionally be it Afghan Taliban or Hizb-e-Islami those weapons are usually locally produced or provided by Pakistan or Iran. That does not include extremely expensive and rare explosives.

Simply put it would make sense if both groups had the same grade of weapons. But the TTP actually have more sophisticated sources of weapons and explosives.

Look to highlight the differences between the groups I would highly recommend reading the three books by Ahmad Rashid. And then translation of the Afghan Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan. All 4 books provide a very concrete view of the differences between the two groups and the history of the different militants groups.

RPG is not that difficult to obtain.It’s available from the Mujahideen era in Afghanistan and also it’s variants are being used in Iraq,Chechnya and other places(The reason I cited these two places because of their regional importance). Moreover,I would say that RPG or such weapons are not that `sophisticated’ these days compared to the standards of fight hardened people like Taliban ,or erstwhile L.T.T.E and others.Even Hamaz produces R.P.G 's domestically,like yasin, Al Bana etc.Ofcourse for an organization like Taliban,who knows in and out of Afghanistan it would be easy for them to produce them indigenously…(Just like they are making I.E.D’s)

I would invite your attenion to the fact that Kalashnikoves and other weapons were openly available in Peshawar .(I do not forget the fact that many of them might have been smuggled from outside). So there is no wonder that TTP is having it’s indigenous supply of weapons.