Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Still looking for a Bull Goose
The Pakistani Taliban has suffered another split within its organization.
A leading faction within the Pakistani Taliban split from the main organization on Wednesday, a top commander said, underscoring the difficulty the U.S.-allied Pakistani government faces in negotiating an end to a decade of violence with such groups as they become increasingly fragmented.Tribal groups fighting for parochial interests do not a stable organization make. However that very instability insures there will always be an element making trouble even if it is too small to move beyond the mountains. Maybe Pakistan would be better off giving the tribal territories to Afghanistan and letting them worry about it.
The Pakistani Taliban, which is separate from but allied to the Afghan Taliban, is an umbrella organization made up of loosely networked local groups. It has been fighting to overthrow the government and impose its own harsh brand of Islamic law.
The split within the movement caused by disagreements with its leadership, said Azam Tariq, a key commander of the faction that was earlier reported to have been toeing an independent line over the issue of peace talks with the government. The faction is based in South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border, the birthplace of the Taliban.
In a statement, he said the South Waziristan branch had differences with the leadership operating under Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah.
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