{"id":3443,"date":"2014-03-02T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2014-03-02T07:35:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T07:35:48","slug":"pakistan-taliban-announce-month-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/03\/02\/3443\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Taliban announce month truce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/shahidullah-shahid.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>The Pakistani Taliban have announced a month-long ceasefire aimed at reviving stalled peace talks with government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pakistan&#8217;s government welcomed the announcement as a &#8220;positive development&#8221;, and said it was prepared to resume talks.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The talks broke down last month, after Taliban-linked militants said they had killed 23 soldiers they were holding.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This triggered air strikes by the Pakistani military against suspected militant hideouts in the north-west.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said the Taliban had decided on a ceasefire &#8220;because of a positive response from the government, an appeal from the religious scholars and for the better future of Pakistan&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He requested the Pakistani government to fulfil the group&#8217;s demands, which include an end to US drone strikes and the introduction of sharia law.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Irfan Siddiqui, an adviser to the Pakistani prime minister, said that the ceasefire would be a &#8220;positive development&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;After all 17 days of talks, this is the first big breakthrough that we are seeing,&#8221; he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Interior ministry official Sami ul Haq told local media that he had spoken to the head of the Taliban&#8217;s negotiating committee following the announcement.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The officials agreed to arrange a meeting between the two sides &#8220;within a day or two&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Increasing attacks<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Taliban said last month that they were close to deciding on a ceasefire, before negotiations stalled.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The government&#8217;s decision to hold peace talks has been criticised by some Pakistani opposition parties because militant attacks have continued.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Taliban have recently stepped up attacks against targets in Pakistan and Afghanistan, ahead of an anticipated reduction in the number of US troops in the region in 2014.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hundreds have died in Pakistan in a series of bomb and gun attacks in recent months.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Pakistani Taliban, also knows as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), are based mainly in the north-west, but have staged attacks across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <em><strong>BBC News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistani Taliban have announced a month-long ceasefire aimed at reviving stalled peace talks with government.<\/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-3443","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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