"Umar Media is proud to announce online jobs opportunities (sic)," says the first post on the networking website, written on October 25. "Job description (sic) is video editing, translations, sharing, uploading, downloading and collection of required data," it says, giving an email address and asking readers to "plz spread it. This fb account ma be deleted."
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan confirmed to AFP by telephone on Friday that the faction was "temporarily" using the page "to fulfil its requirements" before launching its own website. US-based organisation SITE Intelligence Group says the TTP uses Facebook as "a recruitment centre". "Through its official media arm, Umar Media, the TTP has taken to Facebook to recruit contributors for their media work and the group's forthcoming publication 'Ayah-E-Khilafat'," it said in a statement.