Pak officer who captured Abhinandan killed by TTP in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Major Moiz Abbas, the Pakistani officer who claimed to have captured Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman in 2019, was killed in a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ambush on June 24, 2025.

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00:00The Pakistani major who captured the Indian pilot Abhinandan has been killed in Pakistan's Khaiwar Pakhtunkhwa.

00:05Major Mois Abbas had claimed he had captured IAF pilot Abhinandan Varthaman in 2019.

00:10Abbas was honorarily promoted to the rank of major for his act.

00:13According to local media, Field Marshal Asim Munir attended his funeral,

00:17while PM Shaibas Sharif praised him for fighting Fitna Al Khwarej,

00:20Pakistan's term for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan fighters.

00:23However, on June 24, 2025, he was killed by TTP fighters.

00:27According to reports, at least a dozen more Pakistani soldiers were killed in the ambush.

00:32Let's take a look at why the TTP is against the Pakistani army.

00:35The TTP views the Pakistani army as a promoter of Western policies.

00:38The TTP emerged in 2007 as an umbrella group of various militant factions in Pakistan's tribal areas.

00:44It sees the Pakistani military's operations in regions like Waziristan as betrayals of Islamic values.

00:49The killing of Mois Abbas is part of the TTP's continued violent campaign against the Pakistani army.

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