“The ceasefire will keep on extending with the progress in the negotiations.” “The government of Pakistan and banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has agreed on a complete ceasefire,” Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said in a statement last week. To eliminate the reemerging threat posed by the Pakistani Taliban, Islamabad has reportedly clinched a deal with local Taliban militants, persuading them to agree with Islamabad on a ceasefire. The renewed confidence became apparent in October when the TTP leader Noor Wali Mehsud came out of hiding and was photographed shaking hands with people and speaking in publicly in a publicity move that was deemed impossible just a few months ago. Since the Taliban laid siege to Kabul in August, the Pakistani offshoot of the group has upped the ante on its side of the border, according to an AFP report on Monday which detailed the developing phenomenon.Īccording to experts, the success of Afghan Taliban in regaining power after a 20-year struggle has emboldened the Pakistani Taliban in scaling up its armed activities in a bid to topple the democratically-elected government in Islamabad. Islamabad has scaled up efforts to quell a recent surge in deadly attacks carried out by the the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, a banned terrorist outfit based along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
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