Another crafted drama between the IEA Taliban and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Here's how this has gone in the past:
1 - TTP terrorists re-branded as Waziristan refugees and "moved" to northern Afghanistan provinces. Lasted less than a month, returned back to their border safe havens.
2 - Qatar, China and Pakistan funded the construction of housing in western Afghanistan. The TTP and Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group (HGBG) "toured" the facilities to select homes for themselves and their families. No one ever moved.
3 - Taliban holds talks with Noor Wali Mehsud to cease attacks against Pakistan, Noor Wali replies - "if you keep demanding we stop, we'll align with ISKP," which they are already via the Haqqani Network.
4 - Pakistan launches major air strikes on TTP and Taliban targets. Taliban says they won't turn on the TTP, but runs to China to get Pakistan to negotiate.
5 - In the past few days, Russia has agreed to a "military cooperation" agreement with the Taliban, which must have clauses tied to dealing with the terror groups on Afghanistan soil. This, 4 months after the Russian MoFA issued a statement that Afghanistan had turned into a terrorist haven again.
There is ZERO chance the Taliban will break its ties with the TTP. ZERO.
With the interlinked collaboration networks between the Taliban, including paying $45k/monthly to Noor Wali Mehsud, the HQN, Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and ISKP, which we have detailed in great length in
@commandeleven dossiers.
This is a well-scripted drama to fool China and Russia, while keeping US taxpayer weekly support flowing, and tacitly holding Pakistan from re-launching Operation Ghazb lil Haq against them.
Negotiations have never worked. It's always used to buy time to re-arm and re-train before the next offensive.