Terming the Pakistani government as not “independent” and the international borders as “Western-imposed” borders, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson has said that his organisation does accept national borders, and that the group can only enter peace talks with an independent government.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid has slammed the government for their inability to establish peace in the nation by saying “Let them practise what they preach”.
Shahid said that the group’s policy is Sharia-based, and not political. He rejected news of changed made to their policy after the selection of new chief Mullah Fazlullah.
The spokesperson said the TTP’s war is against western secularism, of which’s system and education, his organisation believed, had been enforced on Pakistan and its people for more than 200 years.
Talking about the TTP’s policy post-2014, after withdrawal of the international forces from Afghanistan, Shahid said that Pakistani Taliban and Afghan Taliban will always remain one, despite “western enforced borders”.
Don’t accept ‘Western-imposed’ borders: TTP
