Summary "Those who politicked all their lives in the name of tribes should also play their roles," he urged.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – Taliban committee coordinator Maulana Yousaf Shah said on Wednesday that Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar has contacted him to resolve the deadlock and that Maulana Samiul Haq is in constant contact with Taliban on the matter.
Addressing a press conference – on the occasion of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal leader Maulana Ahmad Khan joining Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Samiul Haq group – Maulana Yousaf Shah said that the ceasefire announcement was supposed to happen on February 17 but the unwanted developments and incidents created the deadlock.
Maulana Samiul Haq said addressing the government committee that it is necessary to sit together and talk; but the government committee is maintaining the deadlock, he claimed.
Yousaf Shah told the press that Samiul Haq and Ch Nisar have talked over the phone in detail adding that Taliban want the negotiation doors not to be closed.
He also told the government committee member Rustam Shah to be his guest if he wants to talk to Taliban directly adding that he has no objection over it.
Yousaf Shah said that they are patriots and will not appease the enemies of Pakistan. Those who politicked all their lives in the name of tribes should also play their roles, he urged.
Earlier, talking to Dunya News in Peshawar, member of Taliban talks committee Professor Ibrahim said that one-sided ceasefire is not possible. 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.
