Talks won’t succeed without withdrawal of troops, prisoners’ release: TTP

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The spokesman of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has said that peace talks cannot be successful without the withdrawal of army troops from tribal areas and the release of prisoners.

In an interview to a group of journalists at a secret location in Waziristan, the TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid also demanded that drone strikes be put to an end.

He disclosed that they were being funded by the Afghan Taliban. He said in the beginning the Pakistani Taliban used to provide financial help to the Afghan Taliban but now the latter had become so strong that they no longer needed support from the former. “Now they extend assistance to others besides providing secure positions in Afghanistan,” he added.

Shahidullah Shahid told the journalists that the Afghan Taliban had also provided shelter to Mullah Fazlullah in the Kunar province.

Referring to Malala Yousafzai, he said she was not attacked for pursuing education but for going against the religion of Islam. “Had we got another chance, we would attack her again,” he added.

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