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Peshawar, Sep 7 (PTI) The banned Tehr eek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella organistaion of armed Islamist groups, has warned the country’s media and journalists against calling them a “terrorist outfit” or they will be treated as “enemies”.<\/p>\n
TTP spokesman Mohammad Khurasani, in a statement on social media on Monday, said his organisation was tracking media coverage which branded the TTP with epithets such as terrorists and extremists .<\/p>\n
Using such terms for TTP showed a partisan role of media and journalists, the Dawn newspaper quoted the online statement by the TTP.<\/p>\n
“Such labels on the TTP meant the media professionals were dishonest towards their duty and would create enemies for itself,” Khurasani said.<\/p>\n
Therefore, the media should call them by the name of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Khurasani said.<\/p>\n
The Pakistani Taliban was formed in 2007 and the government listed it as a proscribed organisation in August 2008, following targeted attacks on civilians.<\/p>\n
The TTP’s first chief, Baitullah Mehsud, was killed in a drone strike in 2009 by the US.<\/p>\n
In its National Action Plan in 2014, the Pakistan government banned offshoot groups of the TTP and stopped the media from its so-called glorification of militants .<\/p>\n
Several Pakistani journalists have been killed and kidnapped, sandwiched between the militants and the government’s war on terror.<\/p>\n
At least, 30 newspersons have been killed in erstwhile Fata and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the last decade.<\/p>\n
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