Express News screengrab shows Sirajul Haq addressign a gathering in Peshawar on April 3, 2014.
“Maulana Samiul Haq, 80-year-old man, cannot be expected to go into the mountains to negotiate,” he said, adding that if the federal government could not arrange for this, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government could facilitate the talks.
Late last month, the government committee and the Taliban intermediaries visited an undisclosed location North Waziristan to meet the TTP Shura.
Background
The government and the Taliban are in a second round of talks which has been described by their interlocutors as ‘decisive’.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid was quoted as saying by a foreign news agency on April 2, that the group had not extended a month-long ceasefire but is still open to pursuing peace talks with the government.
The spokesperson said that some Taliban leaders had objected to extending the ceasefire, which lasted during the month of March.
The government on March 29 had managed to buy time from the Taliban’s intermediaries as the latter held out an assurance that the one-month ceasefire declared by the TTP early this month will hold post-March 31.
Peace talks to be reviewed soon
A meeting will be held soon to review the process of dialogue with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Thursday while addressing a gathering, Radio Pakistan reported. He expressed confidence that progress will be made in the peace talks.
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yes surrender document should be signed in Islamabad
What better way to get Taliban into Islamabad,and near the power centers.!!!!!!!!!!
What u p* people know , what was happening here. Since many years you try every thing, the army the helicopter, the jet. But what you gain? A problem which can be initially solved by talks, reach to a huge conflict, which swallow a thousand of people, peace and harmony and even our every thing. After the lost of thousand lives again the only solution is talking. And if any Punjabi or muhajir is found of operation or bombardment by jet, do it in Punjab and Karachi as they need it more. Just search the history of previous some years, the Taliban was only limited to Fata. But the operation give them opportunity to spread all over the country. If they(Taliban) die or not by operation, but we suffered it, and suffering more.