{"id":3055,"date":"2013-10-10T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T07:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2013-10-10T07:21:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T07:21:02","slug":"no-dialogue-through-media-mehsud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/10\/10\/3055\/","title":{"rendered":"No dialogue through media: Mehsud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/hakimullah_mehsud_taliban_commander.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Criticising the government for not being able to take any substantial step towards peace talks, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud on Wednesday said they would not hold dialogue through the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Speaking during an interview published on BBC Urdu website, he said the Pakistani government should have officially announced initiation of peace talks and should have sent a tribal jirga to them for that purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t wish to negotiate with the media\u2026.neither do we wish to hear the government\u2019s preconditions through the media nor do we want to put our precondition in front of it,\u201d said Mehsud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">He said the Taliban were ready for serious talks with the government and would welcome such an effort from it. He vowed to provide the government jirga with complete security if it was sent to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">The TTP chief said scheduled withdrawal of NATO and US forces from Afghanistan would not change anything in Pakistan and vowed to carry on with their \u2018activities.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">\u201cWe are engaged in a war with Pakistan for two reasons; firstly Pakistan is a friend of America and secondly Ulema (Islamic clerics) were killed and madrassas (religious seminaries) were destroyed in the country upon America\u2019s command.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">\u201cAnother reason for waging a jihad here is the prevailing Kafirana (infidel) system in place in Pakistan,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Mehsud said the Pakistani Taliban would carry on demanding implementation of Shariah laws in the country even after the 2014 withdrawal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Acknowledging Pakistani clerics\u2019 appeal for a ceasefire prior to peace talks, he said for any ceasefire to be credible it was important that US drone strikes on Pakistani land were stopped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Distancing themselves from terrorist attacks on public places, Mehsud said spy agencies were involved in such activities. \u201cPurpose behind those attacks is to move the masses against Taliban so that public support towards us is stopped,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">The TTP chief vowed to carry on attacking \u201cfriends of America and devil believers\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Asked why previous peace initiatives had failed, he blamed the government. \u201cThe government of Pakistan bombs innocent tribal people due to the pressure of America&#8230; Drone strikes conducted by Americans were (backed) by Pakistan. Then the Americans pressed Pakistan to start ground operations in these areas, and Pakistan complied,\u201d said Mehsud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">\u201cSo the government is responsible for past failures,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>PakistanToday.com.pk<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criticising the government for not being able to take any substantial step towards peace talks, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud on Wednesday said they would not hold dialogue through the media.<\/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-3055","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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