Islamabad: The government of Pakistan on Wednesday urged the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan to announce a truce for at least one month if it was serious to hold talks with Islamabad.
“First there should be ceasefire and peace talks can be held only after it,” Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Islamabad on Wednesday.
“The nation has rejected the system of Taliban, this is voice of majority, come forward, announce a one-month ceasefire and then hold negotiations,” AFP quoted him as saying.
Earlier this month, TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan proposed talks with Pakistan given that three opposition politicians— Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, chief of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Amir Syed Munawar Hasan—act as guarantors.
In December, the militant group leader Hakimullah Mehsud said he was open to peace talks but poured scorn on the idea of disarmament.
Mehsud has a $5 million US bounty on his head.
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