Pakistan Taliban says its fighters in Syria
The
Pakistani Taliban has said its first batch of fighters has arrived in Syria to
fight alongside rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Abdul Rashid Abbasi, the group's spokesperson, said the fighters have set
up a command and control centre to start operations in the war-torn
country and another batch of at least 120 fighters were expected to join the
force in Syria later this week. Taliban claimed that "Arab fighters in
Syria had requested their help, that
hundreds of their fighters were preparing to go there, or were already in
Syria, through unfrequented roots".
Taliban
fighters in Pakistan, who are linked to their Afghan counterparts, are mainly
fighting to topple Pakistan's government and to impose their version of Islam,
targeting the military, security forces and civilians.
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