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| Former TTP, spokesman Qari Ehsanullah Ehsan (File Photo) |
Tahreek e Taliban Pakistan has sacked their spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan on the remarks he made regarding Afghan Taliban.
Ehsanullah Ehsan told a local newspaper that U.S.-Taliban peace talks in Doha would have no effect on the TTP, suggesting that the two movements were "totally different".
Taliban distributed pamphlets which say that,
"He has made comments that have raised the danger of divisions between the Pakistani Taliban and the Afghan Taliban," the pamphlet said.
One TTP commander told Reuters that,
"After Ehsan's damaging statements, the Afghan Taliban asked us not to use their stationery or their flag," he said by telephone from North Waziristan. "This is unacceptable for us. Taliban are our foundation and (Afghan Taliban leader)Mullah Omar is our supreme leader. That is why, from today, Ehsanullah Ehsan is no longer our spokesman."
TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan is replaced by Sheikh Maqbool, a man who is considered close to the Afghan Taliban and has spent much of his time since 2007 in Afghanistan.