Peshawar (Ghag Report)
The Ameer (Leader) of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud has expressed his willingness for conditional talks with Pakistan by releasing a detailed statement.
He said that TTP has not refused meaningful talks and negotiations. He explained his offer with an example of the negotiation process during Imran Khan’s regime. In his statement, he rejected the recent report of the United Nations in which it was said that the Afghan Interim Government and Al-Qaeda are supporting the TTP.
According to him, TTP is an organized ideological organization that has been operating on its own and has a network throughout Pakistan.
Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud has also mentioned the reasons and factors in response to which TTP was forced to take armed actions.
The political and defense experts have expressed different opinions on this detailed statement and position of Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud. Some believe that the TTP leader has directly offered negotiations in this statement, while others believe that this statement is an anti-TTP pressure after the recent report by the Afghan Taliban or the interim government of Afghanistan.
Some analysts are looking at this statement in the background of Pakistan’s Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar’s proposed visit to Kabul, while a few analysts also highlight the importance of Operation Azm-e-Istehkam.
On the other hand, TTP, an umbrella grouping for disparate militant organizations, has been waging an insurgency inside Pakistan since 2007, unleashing deadly attacks on urban centers from their bases along the Afghan border, where they provided shelter to an array of global militant groups including Al Qaeda.