ISLAMABAD: A senior official from the Ministry of Interior of the Taliban government has requested the Pakistan government to hold dialogues with the Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Afghan broadcasting service, Radio Azadi, reported that Mohammad Nabi Omari, the deputy Interior minister, proposed to the TTP in Khost province on Tuesday to resolve the problem with the government of Pakistan through talks.
However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan today denied accepting the Taliban regime’s plea to hold talks with TTP. “Pakistan is not holding any talks with terrorist group TTP and it has no plans to hold talks. We urge the Afghan authorities to act against terrorist groups,” Foreign Office spokesperson, Mumtaz Baloch said in her weekly press briefing in Islamabad.
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According to the details, Afghanistan’s Deputy Interior Minister, speaking at an event advised Pakistan and the outlawed TTP to resolve their issues through dialogue as the violence in Pakistan is spreading to Afghanistan. “The fighting in Pakistan is creating problems for us and the flames are reaching Afghanistan,” he said.
The Afghan deputy interior minister further warned Islamabad that if the country’s army is a million or ten million, it is “our experience that you cannot win this war”. On the other hand, Omari also advised the TTP and its aid groups that “even if they fight for 100 years, Afghanistan has nothing to do with it”.
The development came after Pakistan’s Defense Minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, alleged that the TTP has training camps and shelters in Afghanistan. After the deadly attack on Chinese engineers in Pakistan on March 27, Pakistan authorities called Afghanistan the source of terrorism in Pakistan.
Previously, Pakistani officials have once rejected resuming negotiation talks with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a group that has claimed responsibility for some of the deadly attacks in Pakistan.
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