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| Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi (Image: Flickr user narendramodiofficial) |
By Ankit Panda
A splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban threatened Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
On Wednesday, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a splinter group affiliated with the broader Pakistani Taliban, threatened to stage attacks against the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi. In a statement, a spokesman for the group condemned Modi’s alleged complicity in Hindu-on-Muslim violence in his home state of Gujarat, noting that Modi was “the killer of hundreds of Muslims.” Speaking via Twitter, he added that the TTP would “take the revenge of innocent people of Kashmir amd Gugrat [sic].”
The spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, spoke to Reuters via telephone where he elaborated on his group’s threats against the Indian government. ”I have already conveyed it to Modi … that if our suicide bombers can carry out attacks on this side of the border, they can easily do it on other side of the border in India,” he said. ”I told him that his hands are red with the blood of Kashmiri mujahideen (fighters) and innocent people of Gujarat for which he would have to pay the price,” he added.
The group’s threats to the Indian government and prime minister came shortly after it claimed attack for a deadly suicide attack in the Pakistani side of the village of Wagah – the site of the only official land border crossing between India and Pakistan. The choice of Wagah for that attack suggested that the group intended to threaten both India and the Pakistani government in one attack. The TTP spokesperson claimed that the Wagah bombing was retribution for the Pakistani military’s ongoing campaign against the Taliban in North Waziristan, known as Operation Zarb-e-Azb.
Read the full story at The Diplomat