Ehsanullah Ehsan, the former spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and senior leader of Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, surrendered to Pakistani Armyon Monday, Dawn News reported.

Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) General Asif Ghafoor announced Monday that “there can be no bigger achievement for Pakistan than the fact that our biggest enemies are now turning themselves in.”

Ehsanullah Ehsan was a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban until 2013.

Ehsan and other former commanders of Pakistan’s Taliban – such as Omar Khorasani – branched off and formed an offshoot in Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, which claimed several deadly attacks across in Pakistan.