ISLAMABAD —
Pakistan and native Taliban militants have agreed to a “full ceasefire,” Info Minister Fawad Chaudhry mentioned on Monday, after talks which the Taliban authorities in neighbouring Afghanistan helped to rearrange.
The Pakistani Taliban goal to overthrow the federal government and govern the South Asian nation of 220 million by imposing their very own model of harsh Islamic regulation.
The militants, also referred to as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, are separate from the Afghan Taliban.
“The ceasefire will carry on extending with the progress within the negotiations,” Chaudhry mentioned in a press release. “The federal government of Pakistan and banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan have agreed on an entire ceasefire.”
The negotiations would comply with the regulation and structure of Pakistan, he mentioned. The TTP has but to answer the announcement.
The TTP is an umbrella group of al Qaeda linked Sunni militant teams that has waged a warfare towards the state during which tens of 1000’s of Pakistanis have been killed within the final 20 years.
The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, the place they dominated with an iron fist from 1996 to 2001, has emboldened Islamist militants within the area, particularly those that have lengthy held sway in tribal districts alongside the Afghan-Pakistan border, as soon as the headquarters of native and overseas Islamists.
The TTP is now in search of concessions. In line with sources, it has given the federal government a listing of numerous its imprisoned leaders that it desires launched to make sure additional progress in negotiations.
(Enhancing by Hugh Lawson and Nick Macfie)
