- TTP spokesman says govt not serious in making peace talks successful
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) believes that the government is not serious in moving forward with the peace talks as on one hand it is talking about dialogue while on the other it is following war politics.
“TTP will not accept the politics of threats and thrusting war,” said TTP central spokesman Shahidullah Shahid in a statement issued from an undisclosed location Thursday. Shahid said that TTP was waging war for the supremacy of Sharia and it will not budge an inch from holding sincere and meaningful dialogue. He questioned whether it was only the responsibility of TTP to make the dialogue process successful.
The TTP spokesman made it clear that they will not accept negotiations as political and war weapons. He said they had given a “gift of ceasefire of 54 days” to the masses and warned that their “eagles knew how to repel an attack”.
Coming hard, he said war has been imposed on innocent people of Babarh and Shaktoi in South Waziristan and extensive operations were underway against TTP across the country. Moreover, he regretted that innocent family members of the missing persons were being subjected to severe torture. “This situation cannot provide circumstances for holding serious and meaningful dialogues. TTP has repeatedly made it clear that it is holding the process only for the sake of Islam and people of Pakistan. However, talks should not be used as a political and war weapon.”
The spokesman for the banned outfit said that Taliban had shown deep sense of sincerity and seriousness for the talks but the government had not shown any seriousness. He regretted that the demands of Taliban had not been fulfilled rather government had failed to stop operations conducted by the security agencies.
Under these circumstances, he concluded, it had become difficult to determine the rationale for peace talks.