Mohsin Dawar, a member of the Pakistani parliament, criticised the country’s former defence minister's recent statement and said that the minister treats Afghan Taliban and Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in different light.
Khawaja Mohammad Asif, the former defence minister of Pakistan, had described the Afghan Taliban as "freedom fighters". So, in response, Dawar said that Asif should also consider TTP the same.
The former defence minister of Pakistan, who is a prominent member of the Pakistan Muslim League Party, had criticised former Afghan vice-president Amrullah Saleh for his comments on the possibility of the collapse of Pakistan like the Soviet Union.
Asif wrote that Saleh lost his position in Afghanistan to "a group of freedom fighters". He described the Afghan Taliban as "fearless fighters equipped only with fearless spirit of taking on the mighty NATO”.
Meanwhile, Khawaja Asif and other Pakistani officials consider the TTP group, which has the same ideology as the Afghan Taliban, to be a terrorist organisation.
In this case, Mohsin Dawar, a member of Pakistan's House of Representatives, wrote on social media platform X, “If one considers the Taliban in Afghanistan as "freedom fighters", then by these standards, you'd consider the TTP as the same.”
He added, "The reason Pakistan suffers from terrorism is because of this apologist attitude and confusion of mainstream politicians towards the Taliban."
