India ‘investor’ of TTP, BLA alliance in Pakistan: Balochistan home minister – Pakistan

Balochistan Home Minister Ziaullah Langau said on Wednesday that banned outfits Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) were working together to carry out terrorist attacks in Pakistan with India as their “single investor”.

He made the statement during a press conference in Quetta, where he shared that security forces had arrested two militant commanders — Nasrullah aka Maulvi Mansoor and Idrees aka Irshad — and then showed a recorded statement of the former.

After showing Nasrullah’s video statement, Langau said, “The global community should have no doubt left that there is an international terrorist country, India, behind all this.”

He further said: “The Taliban (TTP) say they will bring an Islamic system. On the other hand, the BLA are their ideological opposites. Their nexus only means that their investor is the same who is using them from two angles.

“If you look at the financial [support] or the intelligence of the BLA and the TTP, or their members sitting abroad, there is no doubt that RAW is funding them,” Langau asserted.

According to the home minister, Nasrullah was a core committee member of the TTP and also a part of its defence commission.

In the video statement, Nasrullah detailed his activities since he joined the banned outfit in 2007, including attacks on various checkposts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, and said he worked with a BLA member in January.

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