Pakistani Taliban won’t extend cease-fire with government
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The Pakistani Taliban said Thursday they won’t extend a check- fire agreed to last month, criminating the government in Islamabad of not recognizing the armistice and failing to release 102 of their fighters.
The militant group, also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, has been before multitudinous attacks on Pakistani security forces and civilians over the last 14 times.
TTP was also behind a 2014 attack on an army- run academy in the northwestern megacity of Peshawar that killed 154 people, substantially schoolchildren.
They’re a separate group from the Taliban in Afghanistan, who took over that country in August. Still, the two groups are close abettors and TTP leaders and fighters have over the times sought sanctuary across the border in Afghanistan.
A statement from TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khurasani claimed that despite the agreement on the check- fire “ which went into effect onNov. 9 and was meant to give time for peace addresses between the two sides” government forces are continuing to carry out operations against the group. The armistice expires at night.
There was no immediate comment from the Pakistani authorities.
The Pakistani Taliban have been inspired by the return to power of the Taliban in Afghanistan and there have been enterprises of renewed violence within Pakistan.
About a million people were displaced when Pakistan launched operations in the northwest in 2013 to clear out TTP fighters. They returned to their homes after 2017, when Pakistan claimed palm against the zealots.
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