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Pakistan Refuses to Hold Talks With TTP

© AP Photo / Anjum NaveedA Pakistan Navy soldier stands guard at a hilltop position near Gwadar port, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) west of Karachi. Pakistan, Monday, April 11, 2016.
A Pakistan Navy soldier stands guard at a hilltop position near Gwadar port, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) west of Karachi. Pakistan, Monday, April 11, 2016. - Sputnik India, 1920, 04.04.2024
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Pakistan has long held the view that members of the banned proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP*) have found safe havens in Afghanistan, a claim refuted by Kabul.
Pakistan on Thursday ruled out a dialogue with the TTP, the militant group behind a wave of terrorist incidents in Pakistan.
Among the latest terror incidents, the TTP reportedly perpetrated in Pakistan was an attack on Chinese nationals in the volatile Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province where the South Asian nation's ally is involved in building the Dasu Hydroelectric power station in Kohistan district.
In her weekly media briefing, Pakistan Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch urged Taliban** to demolish TTP's hideouts in the country, from where they launch attacks on Pakistan before going back to their secure dens in the neighboring sovereign state.
"I will reiterate what we have said in the past. Pakistan is not holding any talks with the terrorist organization, the TTP. We have no plans to hold these talks with TTP," Baloch said.
Her remarks came in response to a proposal made by Muhammad Nabi Omari, Taliban's deputy interior minister on Wednesday.
"We ask the government of Pakistan and advise the brothers (TTP) who are fighting with them to come together and talk," Omari said.
*terror outfit banned in Russia and other states
**under UN sanctions
A Taliban fighter sits as he watches the area in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 26, 2022. - Sputnik India, 1920, 01.04.2024
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