Islamabad:
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has revealed that his government is in talks with banned terror group Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for “reconciliation” with the assistance of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The TTP, usually recognized as Pakistani Taliban, is a banned terrorist organisation based along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
There had been reports that the Afghan Taliban had set no cost some dreaded TTP terrorists, which includes Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, soon after taking more than Afghanistan in August.
In an interview to Turkish government-owned TRT World news channel, Imran Khan mentioned there are distinctive terror groups which kind the TTP and some of them want to speak to the Pakistan government for peace, Pakistan’s Dawn News reported on Friday.
“So, we are in talks with them. It’s a reconciliation process,” the Imran Khan mentioned.
When asked if the government was asking the terrorists to lay down arms, Imran Khan mentioned, “Yes, we forgive them and they become normal citizens.”
To a query on why the TTP was conducting attacks on Pakistan’s safety forces when they had been in talks with the government, he mentioned it was just a “spate of attacks”.
“We might not reach some sort of conclusion or settlement in the end but we are talking,” Imran Khan added.
Responding to an additional query on whether or not the Afghan Taliban had been acting as mediators in between the TTP and Pakistan, the Imran Khan mentioned: “Since the talks were taking place in Afghanistan, so in that sense, yes.”
The Taliban swept across Afghanistan in August, seizing manage of nearly all important towns and cities in the backdrop of withdrawal of the US forces that started on May 1.
On August 15, the capital city of Kabul fell to the terrorists. The Taliban claimed victory more than opposition forces in the last holdout province of Panjshir on September 6, finishing their takeover of Afghanistan 3 weeks soon after capturing Kabul.
The Taliban have place in location a hardline interim 33-member so-known as “Cabinet” that has no ladies and consists of numerous UN-designated terrorists. The Taliban last ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
Earlier in September, Pak President Arif Alvi had recommended that the Pakistani government could look at providing an amnesty to these terrorists of the TTP who had not remained involved in “criminal activities” and who laid down their weapons and agreed to adhere to the Pakistani Constitution.