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ISLAMABAD, December 23 (PTI) In the latest instance of militant group Forging Hands, the deadly terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed on Friday that a second militant group from Balochistan had declared allegiance to the banned group. .
“The militant group led by Mazar Baloch, a separatist leader from the Makran district of southern Balochistan province, has joined the TTP,” Mohammad Kourasani, spokesman for the banned terrorist group, said in a statement.
Khurasani called the newly merged group the “most influential” of the Baluch liberation and separatist groups.
Although the militant group did not provide any details in its statement about the first Baloch group to join it, the insurgents claimed in June that a group of Baloch militants led by Aslam Baloch Added TTP.
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The latest merger brings to 22 the total number of groups joining the TTP, which demands Shariah rule in Pakistan, since July 2020, when the insurgents launched a reconciliation process with the help of the Afghan Taliban.
Since then, several smaller militant splinter groups, including the deadly Jamaatul Ahrar, have rejoined TTP, an umbrella group formed in 2007.
The groups have survived several operations by security forces over the years and have grown stronger since the Afghan Taliban took power in their country.
Pakistan started a reconciliation process with the TTP last year through the good offices of the Afghan Taliban, but nothing came of it.
The groups called off a ceasefire in November and have carried out numerous attacks on security forces, including a recent suicide bombing in Islamabad that killed a policeman.
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