Taliban Spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan lives at foreign mission’s house in Peshawar

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan resides in the safe house of foreign diplomatic mission located in the posh area of Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, claim media reports. According to the media reports, the Taliban’s spokesperson is living in the safe house of a foreign diplomatic mission in Peshawar who not only claim responsibility for most of terror attacks occurred in the county but also remain available to the foreign media on time especially US media. As per the reports, the intelligence authorities have solid evidences regarding the presence of TTP leader in the embassy of a foreign country. It is astonishing to believe that despite acquiring credible enough data about his presence, Pakistani authorities neither dispute with the alleged embassy nor they demand for his detention. Ehsanullah makes all his responsibility claims through wireless phone and the last such claim was about the assassination attempt on Hamid Mir. The Geo Television anchor was targeted in the aftermath of the media report that Hakeemullah Mehsud has issued directions to his subordinates to target Pakistani media groups for their biased coverage of the Malala incident. It was on October 17, 2012 that Rehman Malik had first offered Rs100 million bounty on Ehsan, after he had claimed responsibility for the cowardly assassination attempt on the 14-year old Malala Yousufzai. But hardly a few hours after the abortive attempt on Hamid Mir’s life in Islamabad on November 26, Rehman Malik doubled the bounty to Rs200 million, adding that “Ehsanullah is actually working for foreign elements”. But quite interestingly, after announcing the head money for TTP spokesman, the interior minister said in the same breath that the government was ready to give general amnesty to all proscribed organisations, including the Tehreek-e-Taliban, if they renounce terrorism.