India, Jan. 11 -- In an exclusive interaction with The Sunday Guardian, following a press conference by the Pakistan military spokesperson in Islamabad earlier last week, Mohammad Khorasani, spokesperson of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), responded to the Pakistan military's allegations targeting India. Mohammad Khorasani, who uses "Khorasani" as a nom de guerre, rejected claims of Afghan or foreign backing to TTP and stated that the group's leadership and operational structure were based entirely within Pakistan. The TTP leader also denied deliberate targeting of civilians or Chinese-linked projects in Pakistan, something which Pakistan has repeatedly claimed. Edited excerpts.

Pakistan's military has claimed that evidence from recent ...