According to a media source on Saturday, the Afghan Taliban have encouraged the Pakistani government to start new negotiations with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan terror organization, which is outlawed. A top Afghan Taliban leader has reportedly advised Islamabad to choose peace over conflict.
The Express Tribune daily said that Pakistan’s most recent efforts to persuade Kabul to take action against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) failed to garner traction.
This week, Pakistan sent a special envoy on a three-day mission to Kabul to make it clear that the interim Taliban administration in Afghanistan must take serious action against the TTP, which is responsible for a number of significant terrorist strikes across the nation.
During his visit, Ambassador Asad Durrani met with the country’s acting foreign minister, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi, and acting prime minister, Maulvi Abdul Kabir.
After several discussions, the Afghan Taliban advised him, according to the publication, that Pakistan should follow the route of peace rather than resorting to force.
The Afghan Taliban leadership was clearly informed, according to official sources acquainted with the closed-door meetings, that Pakistan’s patience with the TTP was running out.
At her weekly news briefing this week, Foreign Office spokesman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch also addressed the subject, saying that Pakistan takes the issue of terrorism very seriously. Additionally, Pakistan has brought up this matter with the Afghan government on numerous occasions and during all significant meetings between the two countries.
When asked if Ambassador Durrani brought up the problem of cross-border terrorism with the Afghan government, she responded, “We have discussed the threat of terrorism emanating from the Afghan soil.”
However, the Afghan Taliban administration is not prepared to follow that course, despite Pakistan’s insistence on taking action against the TTP.
According to sources, the deputy prime minister of Afghanistan advised to the Pakistani ambassador to try diplomacy rather than employ force.
They claimed that it was obvious the Afghan Taliban had no interest in attacking the TTP.
Instead, Kabul once more requested that Pakistan begin peace negotiations with the TTP.
The TTP increased attacks and exploited the prior rounds of negotiations, leading Pakistan to give up on the peace effort.
Pakistan will no longer pursue negotiations with the TTP, the civil and military leadership determined.
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