Pakistan, July 26 -- The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan thrives on a theatre of piety, but its moral posturing hides an underbelly of vice, greed and impunity. Its leaders sermonise about purity and sacrifice while living in concealed comfort; its foot soldiers endure dirt, fear and poverty. "We were told to sleep on floors and fight while the commanders slept in luxury and counted money," a former fighter recalled on television last year. That money does not flow from faith. It comes from extortion, smuggling, kidnap-for-ransom and narcotics, as Pakistan's own counterterrorism officials have repeatedly acknowledged and as the Financial Action Task Force warns: terrorists still rely on "extortion, smuggling and KFR" despite tighter oversight....
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