{"id":3006,"date":"2013-09-18T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T07:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2013-09-18T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T07:20:37","slug":"taliban-say-still-at-war-with-government-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/09\/18\/3006\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban say still at war with government troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/pakistani-taliban-2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday insisted they were still at war with the government troops because peace talks had yet to start and the military was still launching multiple offensives against them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">The statement came a day after Pakistan\u2019s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani said militants would not be allowed to take advantage of the offer for peace talks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Earlier on Sunday, two senior military officers were killed by a remote controlled explosive device in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the military is fighting al Qaeda and Taliban-led militants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">\u201cWar is continuing, it was started by the government and they will have to stop it,\u201d Shahidullah Shahid, the main spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), declared from an undisclosed location.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called for peace talks and managed to win the backing from main political parties last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">However, hopes that the talks would go ahead were dealt a blow when an IED (improvised explosive device) exploded in Upper Dir on Sunday and killed three soldiers, including a major general.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Analysts said the attack endangered the proposed peace talks with the insurgent group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Moreover, former cricketer turned politician Imran Khan who heads Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday called for ceasefire by the government and Taliban militants along with immediate formation of delegations to kick-off talks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">The Taliban have said that they would carry out more attacks because peace talks had yet to be officially proposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">\u201cNo one has contacted us for peace talks, not even a tribal jirga has approached us. If they (government) want to end this war, they will have to announce a ceasefire,\u201d Shahid said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">The Taliban also announced preconditions for talks on ending the insurgency that has killed thousands of people, demanding that troops be withdrawn from the Tribal Areas and prisoners be freed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">But Pakistan\u2019s military, in turn, insisted they would not let Taliban rebels set conditions for peace talks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">When the TTP spokesman was asked about his group\u2019s future plans after the attack which killed the officers, he said: \u201cWe will never miss any opportunity to attack the army like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Previous peace deals with the Taliban have quickly broken down and been sharply criticised for allowing the extremists time to regroup for fresh attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>Pakistan Today<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday insisted they were still at war with the government troops because peace talks had yet to start and the military was still launching multiple offensives against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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