ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday said that Pakistan had no plan to hold talks with outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), who are involved in shedding the blood of innocent Pakistani people, including its security forces.
In her weekly briefing, foreign office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that the Taliban regime in Kabul should take action against the TTP for killing people in Pakistan by using the Afghan soil.
The statement comes in the wake of unprecedented terrorist attacks especially in the Balochistan province in which armed people blocked roads and killed passengers two days back.
The foreign office spokesperson said that Pakistan had taken up the issue with the interim government in Kabul on multiple occasions, but action against the TTP was yet to be seen. The presence of groups including the TTP has been verified by international forums, including the United Nations, she said.
Ms Baloch said that Pakistan had shared intelligence reports with the authorities in Afghanistan about the terrorists’ presence in the neighbouring country. Moreover, there are multiple channels of communication through which the two countries share intelligence reports; however, the reports shared with Afghanistan cannot be brought into the public.
In reply to a question about the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid’s offer to mediate between the TTP and Pakistan, the FO spokesperson said Pakistan had no plan to hold talks with the TTP. She said that Afghan authorities should take action against the TTP for using its soil for terror attacks in Pakistan.
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