INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief stated that the group is fighting Pakistan from within the country&s territory, &using Pakistani
soil.&&We have the ability to fight for many more decades with the weapons and spirit of liberation that exist on the soil of Pakistan,&
Noor Wali Mehsud told CNN in an interview.A months-long ceasefire with Islamabad was broken by TTP late last month and its fighters were
ordered to resume attacks across the country.However, the prospect of increased violence in Pakistan with the termination of the truce may
also result in an uptick in tensions between the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan, CNN reported.But Mehsud said the group was not
getting any help from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) and said: &When we don&t need any help from the Afghan Taliban, what is the
point of hiding it.&This comes after Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari warned against cross-border terrorism on Friday,
saying that his country reserved the right to take direct action against the TTP or other militant groups.Meanwhile, Mohammad Ali Saif,
spokesperson for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government said Monday that talks between Pakistani officials and the TTP are underway in
Afghansitan following the attack on the Counter-Terrorism Dept&s (CTD) compound in Bannu.Pakistani authorities opened talks to try to
resolve a stand-off with the TTP who were holding several security personnel hostage after seizing control of a counter-terrorism facility
in the country&s northwest a day earlier.The post TTP attacks Pakistan from ‘within its territory&, says the group&s leader first appeared
