ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Taliban mentioned on Thursday they won’t prolong a cease-fire agreed to final month, accusing the federal government in Islamabad of not honoring the truce and failing to launch 102 of their fighters.
The militant group, also referred to as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, has been behind quite a few assaults on Pakistani safety forces and civilians over the past 14 years. TTP was additionally behind a 2014 assault on an army-run college within the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar that killed 154 folks, largely schoolchildren.
They’re a separate group from the Taliban in Afghanistan, who took over that nation in August. Nevertheless, the 2 teams are shut allies and TTP leaders and fighters have through the years sought sanctuary throughout the border in Afghanistan.
An announcement from TTP spokesman Mohammad Khurasani claimed that regardless of the settlement on the cease-fire – which went into impact on November 9 and was meant to offer time for peace talks between the 2 sides – authorities forces are persevering with to hold out operations towards the group.
The truce expires at midnight. “It’s not attainable to hold on with the cease-fire in these circumstances,” Khurasani mentioned. There was no speedy remark from the Pakistani authorities. The Pakistani Taliban have been emboldened by the return to energy of the Taliban in Afghanistan and there have been considerations of renewed violence inside Pakistan.
About 1,000,000 folks have been displaced when Pakistan launched operations within the northwest in 2013 to filter TTP fighters. They returned to their houses after 2017, when Pakistan claimed victory towards the militants.
