Pakistan rejects Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan offer to resume talks

PESHAWAR: Pakistani authorities have declined an offer from the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to resume talks, citing their previous negative experience with dialogue, media reports said.

The TTP, through various sources and individual contacts, expressed their willingness to re-engage in talks in recent days. However, the government rejected the offer and instead urged the militants to surrender, according to sources, The Express Tribune reported.

The government had engaged in talks with the proscribed TTP last year at the insistence of the Afghan Taliban government in Kabul. For that purpose, a ceasefire was also announced.

However, the TTP unilaterally terminated the truce in November last year, a few days before the appointment of General Asim Munir as the new army chief of Pakistan.

Subsequent to the ceasefire’s termination, a wave of attacks on police, security personnel, and government installations ensued, with particular emphasis on the southern districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. These targeted attacks were attributed to the TTP, Express Tribune reported. (IANS)

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