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PESHAWAR: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced on Wednesday its decision to not extending the ceasefire and said that the government had failed to respond positively to the militant organisation's ceasefire of more than 40 days.
TTP spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, in his detailed statement, said that the government has failed to respond positively to Taliban's 'realistic' demands of establishing a peace zone, release of non-combatants and suspension of security forces operation in tribal areas.
“These were concrete steps for building confidence and defusing the tension,” he added.
Shahidullah blamed the government for rooting out an operation killing more than 50 of their activists and arresting over 200, saying hundreds of raids have also been conducted across the country which negated the ceasefire.
He said that the deadline for ceasefire had expired six days ago (April 10) but still there was a “mysterious silence” among the government ranks over peace talks.
The central spokesman of the Pakistani Taliban added that in the light of these developments, the TTP Shura has unanimously decided not to extend the ceasefire any more. He, however, added that the militant outfit would be willing to respond to any positive response from the government so that the peace process continues.
Moreover, the TTP Mohmand Agency chief, Umer Khalid Khurasani, also issued a statement in which he had said that government was not serious about peace and the only way to implement true Shariah was jihad.
Earlier on March 1, the TTP had announced a month-long ceasefire breaking a deadlock that was reached between mediating teams of the government and Taliban committee.
Within 24 hours of the ceasefire announcement, the government had also made public its decision to halt air strikes on militant hideouts.
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Apr 16, 2014 07:33pm
Challo ji...back to square one!
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Apr 16, 2014 07:40pm
Maulana Ghazi should be provided an expensive burqa on government's expense so he can prevent his sons from taking innocent lives again.
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Apr 16, 2014 07:42pm
I wonder when these criminals will be eliminated from our beautiful homeland.
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Apr 16, 2014 07:54pm
Forty days was enough for them to disperse rearm and go to Afghanistan. Now they will be difficult to find and eliminate. What about the Taliban prisoners Nawaz Sharif is releasing???
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Apr 16, 2014 08:01pm
Get up from slumber Pak armed forces and Govt. You have weakend Pakistan. Attack enemies of Pakistan please act. TTP have also taunted fooled Pakistan enough.Pakistan also released their some prisoners who would be the next suicide bombers. So sad
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Apr 16, 2014 08:09pm
Well there we have it - confirmation that these people are not sincere but were just biding time ("Jihad is the only way to implement Sharia").
The Nawaz Government has through its extreme stupidity given these people free air time and publicity for the best part of 8 weeks. The whole dialogue fiasco is the brainchild of Chaudhry Nisar who not for the first time is leading Nawaz Shariff down a deadly cul -de sac. When will our esteemed Prime Minister start thinking for himself and ditch this man?
I note no announcements have come from Nisar or the Government. I would have thought the correct response is: "We are still hopeful for a peaceful outcome,, but all terrorists need to be aware that any outrage will be met with the full force of the Law and devastating military force".
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Apr 16, 2014 08:15pm
Trying to acheive peace with TTP is a complete waste of time and energy. Every person knew very well, its a dead end. As the peace talks failed, no cease fire extension, so now continuation of brutality, killing innocent.
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Apr 16, 2014 08:56pm
Let us hope that the Government responds with Iron hands.
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Apr 16, 2014 08:57pm
@concerned:
It is time to go after these senseless killers of innocent people in Pakistan.
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Apr 16, 2014 09:38pm
Sharia Law is the cure to all problems in our society.May Allah give us the wisdom the path of righteousness through strict adherence to Sharia
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Apr 16, 2014 10:04pm
So the killing of Pashtuns will continue...
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Apr 16, 2014 10:07pm
Unfortunately the only person who had the courage and conviction to fight terrorists is facing charges of terrorism for taking action in Lal Masjid and is called Ghaddar. This is the state of our country, the most corrupt people are ruling us and a proven honest leader is imprisoned. Yet our armed forces are unable to protect their own honest leader and we are cowards so we can't support him either.
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Apr 16, 2014 10:20pm
@Truth
you need sharia then move to Saudi Arabia man. Our four fathers didn't sacrifice their lives to have your twisted sharia run our beautiful country.
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Apr 16, 2014 10:22pm
@Naseer:
I agree with you man and my heart goes to our real hero. I salute to him.
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Apr 16, 2014 10:32pm
They got some two months to strengthen themselves plus the release a many of their fellow criminals............what did the government get ? Egg on its face.
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Apr 16, 2014 10:59pm
The true heroes of the Pakistan Army are not those who surrendered, but those who died fighting.
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Apr 16, 2014 11:03pm
No no no. Please please don't do it, we beg you. We the nation of 180million people, 700hundred thousand army, nuclear bombs, missiles, we all beg you not to call off this ceasefire, please.
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Apr 16, 2014 11:09pm
Why negotiate with criminals, who are uncivilized and have a sick mind? They can never be rationale and trying to reason with them is worse then hitting your head against the wall! We do not need ceasefire - it never lasts! They do not belong in our country and if they will not leave voluntarily, they need to be destroyed. Our military is capable of doing just that - please, for the sake of our children, let them grow up in peace and make your country proud - I say to our military - go and get them and finish the job.
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Apr 16, 2014 11:13pm
Now that winter is over, the Taliban have no reason to curb its bombing and indiscriminant and target killing activities. I cant believe Nawaz Sharif and Chaudary Nisar can be so naive.
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Apr 16, 2014 11:22pm
@Jamal:
how will they kill innocent... they are infighting with each other.. have failed to manage their own unity
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Apr 16, 2014 11:25pm
They are infighting .. have unable to maintained their own unity... I don't think so they are able to get better of Pak Army...
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Apr 16, 2014 11:40pm
Did any one expect any different? show me one who did and I will show you an idiot or a supporter of TTP. I have said all along it is a "Zero Sum Game." For Pakistan to survive, TTP has to be completely eliminated and if TTP survives and prospers, Pakistan is history. How can you have both in the same country when one ABSOLUTELY believes in the other's total enslavement or annihilation. Haven't the TTP made that amply clear from the "gitgo" or am I missing some thing? The only solution is to kill these cockroaches.
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Apr 16, 2014 11:50pm
The Pakistan Army has a legacy of valour. This army has fought under the command of men like Gen. Iftikhar Janjua, who led and died in combat.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:06am
@Truth:
You are uneducated.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:12am
TTP said last week that killing innocent people was haram. So if they start killing innocent people then killing TTP members would be halal.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:15am
Lets get ready to rumble............one one corner the savages and the other corner is the 95% poor, helpless, ignored, left in the middle of the creek with no paddles, nation of Pakistan. Go ahead savages wreak your your evil.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:17am
@Truth:
What bizarro world are you from? You may wanna call yourself the untold lie.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:20am
40 days were enough to regroup and find a solution how to avoid air strikes. they are smart as they know security wouldn't be very tight on Pak-Afghan after Afghan elections;
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Apr 17, 2014 12:21am
So TTP is going back to killing more innocent women and children? is that what Islam taught you?
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Apr 17, 2014 12:22am
Paint his face with black color and put him in the Karachi Zoo, and don't even throw peanuts. Let the Brute die by Starvation.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:38am
When a government "negotiates" with militant criminals, it means the state is on its knees, begging for mercy.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:44am
Are you kidding? telling me that 'fun' is going to start again! some ass jihadist is going to blow up himself or herself and kill hundreds... illiteracy at its ever best! it will take another 40 years to get these asinine jihadists to vanish from here at the same time invest in good education - NOT madrasa based one! There is a little hope still left Pakistan..... very very little.. before Pakistan disintegrates ...
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Apr 17, 2014 12:51am
@Ayesha Khan:
You forgot one thing. Shave his beard and give him
a haircut. That will be torture for him.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:08am
What a classical dealing by these Nawaz and Niswar gang. They have humiliated Pakistan Army and locked them up on a side track and negotiating with these terrorists. They sold out the terrorists apprehended by the security agencies and got them out of winter snow. Now they are finely black mailing the so called government, which can't control the traffic.
It appears that Nawaz group is negotiating with these terrorists to help them in fighting against Pakistan Army, which seems to be their common enemy. This may be "Taliban Gate" scandal like the "Memo Gate" scandal.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:11am
The snow has started to melt from the mountains and meanwhile they have regrouped themselves making a complete "mamoon" of our PM and Interior Minister.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:12am
Its not like the TTP have been quite - they have a) let loose quite a few bombs b) killed quite a few c) regrouped d) used the opportunity for propaganda.
What exactly does the government have to show for these ceasefire and talks so far?
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Apr 17, 2014 01:18am
One has to be an absolute imbecile to have even remotely entertained the hope that any good will come out of this 'fools errand' that negotiations with the TTP were. Chaudhry Nisar Ali, Imran Khan, NS and others of their ilk who have a soft spot for these barbarians ought to know better. The JUI, JI and other islamist groups are very comfortable with the anachronistic, savage and oppressive agenda of the TTP because this is what they want to see happen too. This is the time for the military to shed its chicken heartedness and declare to the civilian government in no uncertain terms that an accomodation with the TTP is totally unacceptable to the army no matter how attractive it appears to the PML-N to save its province from any retalitory activity.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:33am
Only army with leadership of generals like Musharraf can destroy insurgency, terrorism and lawlessness in Pakistan if army is given free hand for three years. Time is running out, decide which is first country or corrupt politicians coming through rigged and manipulated elections which is very easy because of poor and uneducated masses. Politicians have been given sufficient time since sham democracy was restored. Conditions have gone from worse to worst.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:36am
For the sake of peace and Shariat, please hand over Pakistan to Taliban.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:52am
khoda pahar nikla shahid choha
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Apr 17, 2014 03:22am
Mr Nawaz Sharif,
It is time to stop begging for peace and to start taking action.
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Apr 17, 2014 03:45am
Gengiz khan negotiation with these people by creating a huge doom of skulls. A great warrior like him knew that these people deserve none other. We need a army general that would do the same.. Create a doom of skulls at the gates of Waziristan.
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Apr 17, 2014 04:11am
Has anyone seen army generals shopping for three piece suits, they could blame this on Nawaz Sharif on how he lost everything on "negotiating table" and take things into their hand.
Also if TTP is demanding for sharia why is this a problem in a country where 95% are muslims and created based on religion. Is Islam is used only to do Jihad if not why not govern based on Islam and Sharia and throw away the western system.
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Apr 17, 2014 04:59am
With these barbarians wanting to kill any and all Pakistani citizens, Pakistan does not need any external enemy. Unless these people are weeded out, they will take any nation back to the stone-age. It is high time the Pakistani people and leaders focus inwards and clean up the killers inside.
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Apr 17, 2014 07:28am
@Truth:
Just wondering if you are talking about TTP sharia?
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Apr 17, 2014 07:34am
@Gulzar:
Sooner or later govt will have to take action and sooner the better.
Why the inevitable action is being delayed is beyond sense. Large section of people believe it is due to pressure from a "friendly" country.
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Apr 17, 2014 08:02am
TTP wanted to implement true shariah under which they slaughter our FC Jawans, bomb out a number of innocent and unconcerned persons leaving thousands dead and equally wounded. They challenged the writ of the Government from the very first day. Aik mian me do talwar nahi rah sakti. But Government,ignoring this factor initiated muzakrat with TTP to stop the kilings and bomb attacks. However initially it was failed followed by various attacks by Taliban forces killing a number of peoples. The new muzakrat committee under the direct supervision of Chaudhry NIsar,releasing Taliban prisoners without having any swap has also been failed as TTP not extending the ceasefire further. Accepting their demands mean formation of a state under state which can not be allowed.TTP must be dealt with iron hands.Ager hathiar unehn pasand hain tu Pak Army me aajain aur dushman k khelaf muthid ho jayen na k apni hi sharug katna shru kerden.
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Apr 17, 2014 04:37pm
@Truth:
So we should execute terrorists on mass! Funny how those shouting "sharia nafez karo", never seem to think it applies to them!
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Apr 18, 2014 12:31am
@nasir mir:
four fathers? (:
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Apr 18, 2014 01:59am
@Imran Bajwa:
Good Question! The criminals will not be eliminated until a new government is in power,
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Apr 18, 2014 09:58pm
Time to unsheathe the DRONE with the name "for Mullah Fazl" written on it.
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Apr 19, 2014 05:52am
@Truth: "May Allah give us the wisdom the path of righteousness through strict adherence to Sharia"
Instead of saying "us" -- you could have said -- " May Allah give the Taliban the wisdom the path of righteousness through non tribal interpretation of the Sharia".
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Apr 20, 2014 11:21pm
@Truth,
You may call yourself a TRUTH but you have been told lies and you have to find out the TRUH
What you are asking is fair and simple Sharia in Islamic Republic of Pakistan a country created based on Islam is only makes sense, you grow up screaming top of your lungs Pakistan ka Matalab kya those who call you uneducated may not know that you read Koran and do Namaz five times day.
However those who are opposing you are the ones who used Religion in state affairs when it was convenient for them, They have used religion time and again to incite a young men like you and send you to fight and die across the border, however if you return home they want you to embrace western values as "enlighten moderation"
Please take a look at your founding fathers images on internet, you will find them in made in England suits smoking cigars, they were well educated in western world and had nothing to do with religion However they were the first use religion only to keep their jagir,
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