??????? ???? | PAKISTAN LEDGER | ???????? ????? |Aug 26, 08 | Moin Ansari | ???? ??????? | Pakistan has repeatedly provided the ISAF, NATO and US forces with the exact location of Mr. Baiullah Mehsud, the leader of the Indian and Kabul sponsored terrorist oganization. Mr. Mehsud’s organizaiton has named itself after a popular insurgency in Afghanistan. Tyring to get cheap publicity for himself he calls his organizaiton the Tehrik e Tlaiban e Pakistan or (TTP). The TTP has nothing to do with popular anti-occupation insurgency in Afghanistan which is lead by 30 groups. The TTP has nothing to do with the rise and fall of the “Taliban” which were created by the CIA under the direciton of Congressman Rohrabaker.

India and Karzai forces continue to provide Baitullah Mehsud with training, arms, ammunition and finanicial help.

To show its support for Pakistan, the US should immediteialy declare the TTP as a terror organizaiont, and disallow India and Karzai to privide it finanicial and material support.

Tehrik-i-Taliban banned By Our Staff Reporter

ISLAMABAD, Aug 25: The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has been banned under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

“We have banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan because of its involvement in a series of suicide attacks that claimed the lives of over 1,200 people,” Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik told Dawn on Monday.

“The TTP has claimed responsibility for several suicide attacks, including the fresh twin blasts outside POF in Wah, killing at least 78 people, and the government cannot engage in dialogue with terrorists,” he said.

The government had also rejected a ceasefire offer by the TTP and announced that it would not hold talks with terrorists who refused to lay down weapons.

A handout issued by the interior ministry said the State Bank had been asked to freeze any accounts of the TTP. Organisations and persons belonging to the organisation are forbidden from collecting money or raising funds for their activities and its offices would be sealed and assets seized.It said the government had reasons to believe that the TTP was a militant organisation headed by Baitullah Mehsud based in South Waziristan. It was involved in acts of terrorism, including suicide bombings, throughout the country and it had publicly accepted responsibility for terrorist acts. Therefore, the government had proscribed the TTP under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

The organisation apparently has no office in the settled areas and no bank accounts.

A spokesman for the organisation termed the ban ‘meaningless’, saying it would have no effect. “Tehrik-i-Taliban is not a political organisation that can be barred from parliament by imposing a ban,” he told BBC.