PESHAWAR: Mystery surrounds the circumstances of the dramatic escape of Ehsanullah Ehsan, who had surrendered himself to a Pakistani security agency under an agreement some three years ago, with sources saying that he fled during one of the operations to capture and target terrorists.
Ehsanullah Ehsan, the spokesperson for the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorist group, escaped during an operation against terrorists being conducted on the basis of information gleaned from him, according to sources.
Ehsanullah, who became the spokesperson for the breakaway Jamaatul Ahrar faction after the TTP split, had voluntarily turned himself into the intelligence agencies on Feb 5, 2017 – and remained in custody ever since.
However, he had started sharing sensitive information with the security forces much before his surrender, the sources said.
More than two months after his surrender, Ehsanullah recorded a confessional statement on April 26, 2017, in which he had unmasked his handlers and facilitators. He had also condemned terrorist acts and the extremist ideology he once espoused.
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