Asghar Ali Mubarak
The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has announced to end the ceasefire it had clinched with the Pakistan government in June and ordered its terrorists to launch attacks across the country.
TTP announces attacks
In a statement, the TTP said that “All the group leaders of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, ministry of defence, Tehreek officials and governors are ordered to carry out attacks wherever they can reach across the country”.
It said that “continuous operations are being carried out by military organizations in various areas including Lakki Marwat of Bannu districts and an unstoppable series of counter-attacks has started”.
Addressing the people of Pakistan, the outlawed TTP said: “We warned you many times and continued to be patient so that the negotiation process was not sabotaged at least by us, but the army and intelligence agencies did not stop and the attacks continued.”
The TTP statement said: “Now our revenge attacks will also start across the country”.
No statement from government and military
On the other hand, the government and the security forces have issued not a statement in this regard.
In October, the Federal Ministry of Interior said that peace talks between the banned TTP and the government, which had been going on for more than a year, were stalemated.
Earlier, the banned TTP had accused the Pakistan government of failing to fulfill its basic demands, including doing away with the merger of the former FATA with Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, as well as the release of arrested TTP members.
