Summary Taliban have also finalised an agenda, sources told.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) - The much-anticipated direct peace dialogue between the government and the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan will take place today (Wednesday) in North Waziristan, Dunya News reported.
Representatives from the government and the Taliban left for the area by a helicopter and the talks were planned at an undisclosed location in the Waziristan tribal region.
The government had started indirect talks with a team of the Taliban intermediaries last month and the government has now constituted a new committee of senior officials comprising Rustam Shah Mehmand, Arbab Arif, Habibullah Khattak and Fawad Hassan to hold talks with the militants.
Earlier, a TTP leader told media that they are ready for face-to-face talks with the government and that they have also finalized an agenda.
The leader, who spoke to the media by phone, declined to offer more details on the agenda. However, the Taliban had earlier suggested release of all their non-combatant people.
The Taliban had announced a month-long ceasefire on March 1 and the negotiators say they are asking the militants to extend it.
After the Taliban ceasefire, the government had also suspended airstrikes on the Taliban hideouts in Waziristan tribal region as a positive response.
Series of attacks including a deadly suicide attack on the judges and lawyers in Islamabad on March 3 had posed serious threats to the fragile ceasefire.The Taliban, however, had denied any involvement. A little known militant group, Ahrar-ul-Hind, had claimed responsibility for the court's attack.
