TTP Talks with banned TTP could not move ahead: Sheikh Rashid
Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Friday said talks with banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) failed to move forward.
Briefing the Senate Committee on Home Affairs, he was quoted as saying by The News International that the federal government had abandoned the idea of dialogue with the TTP due to the conditions put by the banned outfit.
Sheikh Rashid said the Afghan Taliban had initially held talks with the TTP and tried to persuade them to settle issues with Pakistan, but the talks could not move ahead as there were things that could not be accepted.
The interior minister was quoted as saying by the newspaper that there were people of the outlawed TTP in the border areas of Afghanistan and many groups may have come together, adding that two of their terrorists had been killed in Islamabad recently.
Sheikh Rashid said that the conditions laid out by them were not acceptable to the government, following which they ended the ceasefire themselves, adding that “we have received indications that negotiations will not succeed”.
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