Summary Pakistani troops have for years been battling homegrown insurgents in the tribal belt.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Member of Taliban talks committee Professor Ibrahim today (Wednesday) said that one-sided ceasefire is not possible.
Talking to Dunya News, he said that no contact was made with the Taliban leadership again.
Professor Ibrahim said that TTP has claimed responsibility of FC men’s killing and they have also clarified their stance.
However, security agencies are not satisfied with the Taliban’s clarification.
He said that dialogue committees should probe such incidents to ascertain who is right and who is wrong.
Only then the dialogue process will move forward, he added.
The dialogue process faltered after a faction of the insurgent group announced on Sunday they had killed 23 kidnapped FC personnel.
Following a meeting on Tuesday in Islamabad, the government negotiators briefed Prime Minister Nawaz and said they had received a "discouraging response" since talks were announced on January 29.
"The prime minister was told that the committee was unable to carry forward the dialogue process in the absence of an announcement by the Taliban ceasing violent activities and then implementing the decision," a statement said.
Militants killed an army major near the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday, and a soldier died in a separate border post attack overnight in lawless South Waziristan.
Excluding the kidnapped soldiers, some 60 people have died in violence since Prime Minister Sharif announced the peace talks on January 29.
