ESCAPED TALIBAN LEADER, WHO FALSELY FRAMED KULBHUSHAN JADHAV, NOW OUTSIDE PAK

Ehsanullah Ehsan is likely to shed light on the conduct of the Pakistan army and the ISI like never before as he worked as their asset and stayed with them for more than three years.

The Sunday Guardian can confirm that prominent Taliban leader Ehsanullah Ehsan is very much alive and is living as a free man outside Pakistan. This correspondent was presented with irrefutable evidence by sources on Friday and Saturday to prove that Ehsan is a free man. In fact, on Saturday, while speaking to The Sunday Guardian from an undisclosed location, Ehsan himself said that he was in good condition. “I am a free man and in good condition”, he said. He refused to share any further details. The Sunday Guardian was the first media outlet to report, in its 19 January edition, that Ehsan had fled from the custody of Pakistan army, where he had been since April 2017 (Pak Taliban leader Ehsanullah

Ehsan ‘flees’ from safe house).

Ehsan, in all these years he was in custody of the Pakistan army and the ISI, was used as a tool to spread a false narrative about India and Kulbhushan Jadhav. In April 2017, the Pakistani military had released a socalled “confessional” statement by Ehsan, who was a former spokesman of the Tehreek-e-taliban Pakistan (TTP), in which he claimed that TTP was working with India’s external intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Soon after this, in 2017 itself, Ehsan gave a 30-minute interview to Pakistan’s Geo television to present a “water-tight” case against Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is in Pakistan custody on the false charge of being a spy.

Ehsan’s escape now is likely to further weaken Pakistan’s false narrative in this case.

Ehsan had released an audio statement on 6 January stating that he had escaped and that he would be putting in public the details about the Pakistan army and why he had surrendered and what he had seen in the last three years in custody. Ehsan’s complete statement, which he had promised to release soon, is likely to shed light on the conduct of the Pakistan army and the ISI like never before as he worked as their asset and stayed with them for more than three years.

Ehsan’s escape, which prompted an emergency