Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan presents demands for ceasefire
The TTP spokesman says that the govt committee should assure ceasefire by the government.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has put forward its conditions for ceasefire with the government.
TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid in a statement said on Wednesday that many activists of Tehreek-e-Taliban have been killed by the law enforcement agencies.
It has been demanded in the statement that the arrests and killings of TTP activists in fake police encounter must be stopped.
The statement further says that the intelligence agencies operation against TTP continues across the country while dead bodies of the TTP activists stuffed in the sacks were being found that. The statement demanded to stop all this.
Shahidullah Shahid further said that the Mohamand Agency incident was not revenge but a retaliatory action against the killings of TTP activists. He said the security forces killed 10 TTP activists the same day when Mohmand Agency incident occurred.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is serious in peace talks, however it is ready to announce ceasefire if the government committee provides assurance of ending action against TTP activists, Shahidullah Shahid concluded.
Earlier, talking to Dunya News in Peshawar, member of Taliban talks committee Professor Ibrahim said that one-sided ceasefire is not possible. He said that no contact was made with the Taliban leadership again.
Professor Ibrahim said that TTP has claimed responsibility of FC men’s killing and they have also clarified their stance.
However, security agencies are not satisfied with the Taliban’s clarification. He said that dialogue committees should probe such incidents to ascertain who is right and who is wrong. Only then the dialogue process will move forward, he added.
The dialogue process faltered after a faction of the insurgent group announced on Sunday they had killed 23 kidnapped FC personnel.
Following a meeting on Tuesday in Islamabad, the government negotiators briefed Prime Minister Nawaz and said they had received a "discouraging response" since talks were announced on January 29.
"The prime minister was told that the committee was unable to carry forward the dialogue process in the absence of an announcement by the Taliban ceasing violent activities and then implementing the decision," a statement said.
Militants killed an army major near the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday, and a soldier died in a separate border post attack overnight in lawless South Waziristan.
Excluding the kidnapped soldiers, some 60 people have died in violence since Prime Minister Sharif announced the peace talks on January 29.
