PESHAWAR-
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has named a 9-member committee to monitor peace talks, private news channels reported on Monday.
According to sources, TTP’s central shura has constituted the committee with members including Qari Shakil Khan Haqqani, Umar Khalid Khurasani, Qari Bashir, Azam Tariq, Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, Asmatullah Muavia and others.
A five-member team had already been proposed by TTP on Saturday with names including those of Tehreek-e-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan, Jamiat Ulma e Islam- Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq, Red Mosque cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, Jamat e Islami Chief of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prof Mohammad Ibrahim and former MPA Mufti Kifayatullah.
PTI chief had distanced himself from the proposal and asked the militant outfit to name its own members for representation.