Pakistani Taliban Warns Journalists Against Calling Them "Terrorists"

Such labels meant media professionals were dishonest towards their duty and would create enemies for itself, spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani said.

The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella organisation 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". 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". "Using such terms for TTP showed a partisan role of media and journalists," the Dawn newspaper quoted the online statement by the TTP. "Such labels on the TTP meant the media professionals were dishonest towards their duty and would create enemies for itself," Mohammad Khurasani said.