Karachi, a top commander of banned terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed that his team is working with illegal separatist groups in Balochistan to sabotage China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects worth $60 billion, the minister said from the Interior of the restive province, Mir Zia Langrove. he said in Quetta on Wednesday.
“Nasrullah alias Maulvi Mansoor, who heads the defense shoora in Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), was recently arrested in Balochistan by security forces while planning terror attacks in the province. Maulvi Mansoor has revealed very important information regarding terrorist activities in Balochistan,” Langrove said in a press conference.
The arrests came a day after the federal cabinet approved Operation Azm-e-Istehkam, a reinvigorated and reinvigorated national anti-terrorism campaign decided by the Central Apex Committee of the National Action Plan, The News International reported.
A video confession of Maulvi shown at the press conference showed him admitting that the TTP with the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) was engineering kidnapping cases and sending the kidnapped people to Afghanistan while listed as missing persons.
“I fled to Afghanistan during Operation Zarb Azab and since then I have been carrying out terrorist attacks on Pakistan Army posts on the border,” Mansoor said.
“The TTP and the BLA collaborate in many areas. We kidnapped people for ransom and took the victims to Afghanistan and then showed them as missing persons,” he said in the video confession.
He said senior BLA commanders had also sought refuge in Afghanistan with the TTP.
Langrove said two senior TTP commanders were arrested after a difficult operation against terrorists, but he did not reveal the location of the arrest.
Maulvi Mansoor also confessed in the video that TTP and BLA were working to sabotage CPEC projects in Balochistan.
The CPEC, which connects Gwadar port in Pakistan's Baluchistan to China's Xinjiang province, is the flagship project of China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI is seen as an attempt by China to increase its influence abroad with infrastructure projects funded by Chinese investments around the world.
China has also invested billions in various power projects and road networks in Pakistan under the $60 billion CPEC plan. However, the implementation of several projects has slowed down in recent months following terrorist attacks on Chinese staff working on them.
News International also reported that Idris alias "Irshad" was also arrested along with Maulvi Mansoor.
The government's measure is a response to a significant increase in terrorist attacks in recent months, as reflected in the Security Report for the first quarter of 2024 issued by the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), which revealed that the The country witnessed at least 432 violence-related deaths. and 370 injuries among civilians, security personnel and outlaws as a result of up to 245 incidents of terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations.
"The statistics only refer to the first four months of the current year 2024 and include 281 civilian and security force casualties," he said, adding: "Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have faced the brunt of these attacks with 92 percent percent of all deaths and 86 percent of attacks, including those related to terrorism and security force operations, occur in these two provinces.”
“Nasrullah alias Maulvi Mansoor, who heads the defense shoora in Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), was recently arrested in Balochistan by security forces while planning terror attacks in the province. Maulvi Mansoor has revealed very important information regarding terrorist activities in Balochistan,” Langrove said in a press conference.
The arrests came a day after the federal cabinet approved Operation Azm-e-Istehkam, a reinvigorated and reinvigorated national anti-terrorism campaign decided by the Central Apex Committee of the National Action Plan, The News International reported.
A video confession of Maulvi shown at the press conference showed him admitting that the TTP with the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) was engineering kidnapping cases and sending the kidnapped people to Afghanistan while listed as missing persons.
“I fled to Afghanistan during Operation Zarb Azab and since then I have been carrying out terrorist attacks on Pakistan Army posts on the border,” Mansoor said.
“The TTP and the BLA collaborate in many areas. We kidnapped people for ransom and took the victims to Afghanistan and then showed them as missing persons,” he said in the video confession.
He said senior BLA commanders had also sought refuge in Afghanistan with the TTP.
Langrove said two senior TTP commanders were arrested after a difficult operation against terrorists, but he did not reveal the location of the arrest.
Maulvi Mansoor also confessed in the video that TTP and BLA were working to sabotage CPEC projects in Balochistan.
The CPEC, which connects Gwadar port in Pakistan's Baluchistan to China's Xinjiang province, is the flagship project of China's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The BRI is seen as an attempt by China to increase its influence abroad with infrastructure projects funded by Chinese investments around the world.
China has also invested billions in various power projects and road networks in Pakistan under the $60 billion CPEC plan. However, the implementation of several projects has slowed down in recent months following terrorist attacks on Chinese staff working on them.
News International also reported that Idris alias "Irshad" was also arrested along with Maulvi Mansoor.
The government's measure is a response to a significant increase in terrorist attacks in recent months, as reflected in the Security Report for the first quarter of 2024 issued by the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), which revealed that the The country witnessed at least 432 violence-related deaths. and 370 injuries among civilians, security personnel and outlaws as a result of up to 245 incidents of terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations.
"The statistics only refer to the first four months of the current year 2024 and include 281 civilian and security force casualties," he said, adding: "Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have faced the brunt of these attacks with 92 percent percent of all deaths and 86 percent of attacks, including those related to terrorism and security force operations, occur in these two provinces.”
