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Taliban consider Karachi the safest place to hide: Report | Karachi is considered the safest place by the Taliban to
hide in Pakistan. According to a Newsweek report, the Taliban is hardly worried by US' plans to send in more troops to Afghanistan, and believes that as far as
they do not foment terror, they can live safely in the city. "So well entrenched
and widespread in southern, eastern, western, and even northern Afghanistan, that
the increased US troop numbers will not pose a serious threat," the report quoted
senior Taliban commanders, as saying. The report said top Taliban commanders were
slowly shifting their base from Quetta to Karachi, and added that more senior
Taliban leaders were operating from Karachi these days than from Quetta, the capital
of Balochistan. "Taliban leadership, allegedly in hiding in Balochistan, is steadily
migrating from across Pakistan to the financial capital Karachi, where, well out
of America's reach, they can operate more freely," it said. However, Taliban leaders
were concerned about the safety of their top leaders, including Mullah Omar, whose
family is said to be living in Karachi since 2003. Quoting a top Afghan Taliban
leader, Zabihullah, the report said that since a large population in Karachi were
Pahstuns, the extremists would not have any trouble establishing their base in
the country's financial capital. "And like other ethnic groups in the metropolis,
many Pashtuns are focused almost entirely on the business of making money. Most
would have no concern about a Taliban safe house operating next door. Some Taliban
operatives and sympathisers even run legitimate and lucrative businesses, from
construction to commerce and transportation," Zabihullah said. "Karachi is the
safest place for us. We want to keep it that way," he added. |
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