Islamabad, October 15: Pakistan Taliban has threatened it will attack India once their own country becomes a hardline Islamist state. The threat comes on a day when the Tehrik-e-Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks in three Pakistani cities that killed over 40.
In an interview to Sky News, the new chief of Pak Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud said he will send his soldiers to the Indian border to fight there, once an Islamic state is created in Pakistan.
“We want an Islamic state. If we get that, then we will go to the borders and help fight the Indians,” Hakimullah said in a video aired by the channel in Britain.
Taliban today laid siege to Lahore city with audacious and simultaneous attacks on three police establishments that killed 25 people, including 10 of the attackers. Suicide bombers claimed 11 more lives elsewhere in the country.
On the series of attacks carried out by his militants, the dreaded terrorist said they could stop if Pakistan Army stops cooperating with the US.
“We are fighting the (Pakistani) military, police and militia because they are following American orders. If they stop following their orders, we will stop fighting them,” said Hakimullah reportedly told the channel.
The US considers Hakimullah killed in one of its drone attacks.
Twenty eight-year old Hakimullah was named the new chief of the Tehrik-e- Taliban Pakistan after his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a US drone attack in Waziristan in August. His organisation and others are on the target of Pakistan Army offensive under US pressure.
—Agencies