Govt committee calls off meeting with TTP team

The government representative committee has excused from meeting Taliban nominated committee today (Monday), following the video in which the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) claimed to have beheaded 23 FC personnel.

Government negotiation committee coordinator Irfan Siddiqui in this connection said that the meeting of the negotiation committees was of no use following the beheading of the 23 captured FC personnel by the Mohamand Agency faction of Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP).
He said that such repeated gruesome incidents during the process of talks casting negative impact on the talks.
Irfan Siddiqui further said that the government committee with one voice termed this latest tragic incident highly shocking and condemnable.
Earlier, it was reported that two members of the government committee were set to leave for Miranshah to hold direct talks with the Taliban.
It may be recalled that a faction of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (Mohmand Agency) on Sunday claimed the killing of 23 FC personnel who were kidnapped in June 2010 from Shoonkri Post in tribal region of Mohmand Agency.

Source: PakistanToday