Pessimism looms over outcome as Pakistan clears talks with local Taliban

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Islamabad: The Pakistani government who negotiated with local Taliban militants has been described by experts this week as “only solutions” to end militancy in the country, but many are skeptical about whether the process will lead to positive results after previous failures.

The Pakistani Taliban, known as Pakistani-e-e-e-taliban (TTP)-has been carrying out some of the most bloody attacks in Pakistan since 2007, including the 2014 attack on a school where 134 students were killed. This group is not directly affiliated with the Afghan Taliban, but promises loyalty to them.

Pakistan since 2007 has carried out a number of military operations against TTP, but despite reducing the traces of militant groups – with most fighters fled to neighboring Afghanistan – unable to fully stop the attack, which began to rise again throughout the western border in recent months.

On June 4, TTP extended the ceasefire with the government for an unlimited period, after a two -day talks with a delegation of the Pakistani elders facilitated by the Afghan Taliban, who had run the government in Kabul since the US troops led back last year last year was withdrawn last year last year. .

This week, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arranged a meeting on the camera in Islamabad which was attended by more than 100 members of parliament and officials to negotiate in talks with the Pakistani Taliban. The Parliamentary Committee on national security then gave formal approval to hold talks and also formed a parliamentary committee to oversee the process and ensure that was carried out in the constitutional ambition.

Pakistani media has widely reported that in the heart of the conversation is an offer to accommodate TTP with a safe part of returning to Pakistan from Afghanistan in return for groups that approve of long -term ceasefires, dissolve their organizations and may even join the mainstream politics.

Pakistan wants to do it (talking) because militancy is not over and they have realized that the only solution to this problem is that the local Taliban must be integrated into the mainstream,” Rustam Shah Mohmand, former Pakistani ambassador to Kabul, told Arabs to Arabic News on Wednesday.

Although the Taliban Afghanistan is confusing with TTP because they have to uphold international obligations not to let militants use Afghan land to attack other countries, Mohmand said the Kabul government also did not want to force TTP to come to the table or agree with the agreement.

Afghanistan leaders in the past openly praised TTP for their contribution to the rebellion of the Coalition of Security Assistance led by the US and the former Afghan government, and hinted that they could not leave the affiliation of Pakistan.

Afghanist Taliban is a facilitator and they play this role because for some time the TTP fighters fought with them in Afghanistan,” Mohmand added. “But if they (the Taliban Afghanistan) will force them to go to Pakistan, then TTP will blame them for their arrests (in Pakistan).”

Speaking of the main demands of militant groups, diplomats said TTP wanted to resolve the problem of missing persons, compensation for losses experienced from military operations, and for Pakistan to cancel the 2018 semi-independent status of semi-independent semi-independent Semi-Independent Semi-Independent Semi-Independas from the former Tribe, Fata, who came from the British colonial government.

TTP also wants a substantial reduction in Pakistani military former tribal troops, bordering Afghanistan and where the group mostly hid before being expelled through military operations.

The government will not accept the revival of the tribal system because it requires constitutional amendments,” Mohmand said, adding: “There is a little hope for people who are lost, so in reality, they can only move forward in the problem of compensation.”