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Ikramullah Mehsud, a TTP commander, enters the Taliban security offices in Khost without permission or inspection. When he enters the office, police and intelligence officers smile and say, "Bhutto's killer has arrived."
His car never stops to fill up with gas, because Taliban officials always fill his tank.
On December 27, 2007, former TTP leader Baitullah Mehsud sent two suicide bombers into Liaquat Park in Rawalpindi, where former Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto was addressing a large gathering. One of the bombers was Ikramullah Mehsud.
Bilal, wearing smoke-colored glasses, approached Bhutto's armored vehicle from the left. He pulled out his pistol and fired three shots in quick succession before detonating himself. Within seconds, Bhutto's white headscarf was covered in blood and her body fell onto the vehicle. Ikramullah Mehsud threw his suicide vest and pistol into a nearby mosque and fled the scene.
In 2014, after the start of Operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan, Akramullah Mehsud went to Afghanistan with Shahriar Mehsud, one of the slain commanders of Hakimullah Mehsud's group. At the time, he denied involvement in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
Since 2014, Ikramullah has been moving in fear and secrecy across Nangarhar, Kunar, Khost, and Paktika provinces, collaborating with Pakistani Taliban commanders. But after the Taliban came to power in 2021, he has come out of hiding. He now does not deny his role in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and openly says that he went to Liaquat Park to kill her.
Findings from the Afghanistan International Investigation Unit indicate that most senior Pakistani Taliban commanders including Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, Azmatullah Mehsud, Akhtar Mohammad Khalil, and Mufti Sadiq Noor Dawar are moving between Kabul and the provinces of Kunar, Khost, Paktia, and Paktika, and the tribal areas.
In Afghanistan, cars drive on the right side of the road, but from the Tany district of Khost province, when you enter the Zadran-e-Ghobargi region, cars drive on the left side, because the Pakistani Taliban here all drive on the left side, in the Pakistani style.
In March 2022, after Pakistani airstrikes on the village of Afghan Dubai and its surrounding areas in the Khost province's Sapira district, Gul Bahadur moved from the area to the Barmal district of Paktika. Some of his commanders dispersed to the Shamil district of Khost and other areas, but his affiliated schools and fighters are still active in Sapira.
After the severe earthquake in July 2022, Taliban Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and, after the Pakistani attacks in Hajj, Deputy Chief of Army Staff of the Ministry of Defense Mali Khan Siddique visited the area. Shortly thereafter, photos were released of their meetings with Akhtar Mohammad Khalil and Commander Aftab Dawar, two TTP commanders.
An elder of the Madakhil tribe, without mentioning his name, told Afghanistan International: "Sirajuddin Haqqani had promised the Madakhil tribe during this visit that he would approve the formation of a separate district for them called Kani."
Before the fall of Kabul, the Afghan Taliban signed an agreement with the Pakistani Taliban and other foreign militant groups in the Mir Ali region of North Waziristan, according to which, after the Taliban returned to power in the "Islamic Emirate", Kabul would cooperate with them in the form of "jihad" and support the establishment of a Sharia system in Pakistan.
A source close to Gul Bahadur's group, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Afghanistan International that the agreement was signed by Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani Network who was then the deputy leader of the Taliban. o for the Haqqani Network and Al-Qaeda in North Waziristan, showed Yaqoob Mujahid the Mir Ali agreement document in this meeting, which emphasizes the Islamic Emirate's support for TTP.
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