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Ehsanullah Ehsan (Urdu: احسان اللہ احسان, real name: Liaqat Ali) is a former spokesman of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and later Jamaat-ul-Ahrar.[1][2][3] As a spokesperson of the groups, Ehsan would use media campaigns, social media networks and call up local journalists to claim responsibility for terrorist attacks on behalf of the groups. He was initially a spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). In 2014, he left TTP after he had developed ideological differences with the TTP leadership following the appointment of Fazlullah as the leader of the group. He later co-founded Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and became its spokesman.[4][5] In 2015, as a spokesman of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, he condemned Fazlullah-led Tehrik-e-Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar.[6]
In April 2017, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director-General Asif Ghafoor announced that Ehsan had surrendered himself to Pakistan's security agencies.[7][8] However, ISPR's claim was disputed by Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, who said that Ehansullah Ehsan was captured by ISI from Paktika province of Afghanistan.[9]
While Ehsan was in the custody of Pakistani security forces, several high ranking TTP members like Qari Saifullah Mehsud, Sheikh Khalid Haqqani and Qari Saif Younis were assassinated in Afghanistan.[4] TTP members believe that the Pakistan's ISI was responsible for the killings.[10][11] Several anti-terrorist operations were also conducted by Pakistani security forces in Pakistan based on the information provided by Ehsan.[12]
In early February 2020, Ehsanullah claimed that he has escaped from the custody of Pakistani Agencies.[13][14]
- ^ "Ex-spokesman TTP Ehsan claims he escaped from custody". The News International. 7 February 2020.
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"Taliban admits Shabqadar attack". BBC News. 3 May 2011.
"It's the first revenge for the martyrdom of... Bin Laden. There will be more," Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told the Reuters news agency by telephone from an undisclosed location.
- ^ "Suicide attack strikes Pakistani soldiers". Al Jazeera. 24 December 2011. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, claimed responsibility for the attack in a phone call to the Associated Press news agency. He said it was meant to avenge the death of commander Taj Gul in a US drone strike in October in the South Waziristan tribal area, a key sanctuary for the militants.
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{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Exclusive: Pakistani Taliban down but not out, says ex-spokesman". Al Jazeera. 3 April 2020.
- ^ "4 terrorist groups that condemned APS terror attack". Daily Pakistan. 16 December 2015.
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- ^ "TTP leader Saifullah Mehsud killed in Afghanistan". Pakistan Today. 30 December 2019. Archived from the original on 30 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
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- ^ "Ehsanullah Ehsan: Alleged audio message of former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman, claiming to have 'escaped' from Pakistani army custody". BBC. 6 February 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
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