Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Maj-Gen BabarIftikhar, has said that the army officers responsible for the escape offormer Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, frommilitary custody last year have been punished.
While speaking to BBC Urdu on Wednesday, Maj-Gen Iftikhar termedEhsanullah’s escape a “very serious” matter that had been investigatedthoroughly, and those found responsible in the episode have already beentaken to the task.——————————
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He said that the efforts are afoot to arrest the Ehsanullah Ehsan again,but his current whereabouts are unknown.
Ehsan was arrested in 2017 but escaped from the so-called safe house wherehe was being held by the forces. The circumstances of both his arrest andescape need a lot of explanation.
Days after the militant’s escape from custody, the then interior ministerIjaz Shah had confirmed the news as “true,” saying that the “state isaware” without giving any more details.
His long-forgotten escape came to light again when a parody account ofEhsanullah made life threats to Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai.——————————
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The TTP had allegedly shot and badly wounded Malala nine years ago.
When asked to comment about the incident, the DG ISPR said that to hisknowledge, the account used to threaten Malala was a fake one.
The threats had received Malala’s attention, who asked the military andPrime Minister Imran Khan to explain how her alleged shooter, Ehsan, hadescaped from government custody.
“This is the ex-spokesperson of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan who claims theattack on me and many innocent people. He is now threatening people onsocial media,” she tweeted, demanding an explanation on his escape.
