The Pakistani Taliban have set up a base in Syria to assess "the needs of the jihad", according to a spokesperson.
Mohammed Amin, coordinator of the base, said to the BBC that it was set up six months ago to monitor the “jihad”.
"They were facilitated by our friends in Syria who have previously been fighting in Afghanistan.”
Their job is to "assess the needs of the Jihad in Syria, and to work out joint operations with our Syrian friends,
"There are dozens of Pakistani hopefuls in line to join the fighting against the Syrian army, but the advice we are getting at the moment is that there's already enough manpower in Syria," he said.
