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| Pakistani Taleban announce month-long ceasefire | |
| 2014-03-02 | |
Pakistani Taleban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid on Saturday announced a month-long ceasefire to allow the resumption of stalled peace talks with the Pakistan government.
“Because of a positive response from the government, an appeal from the religious scholars and for the better future of Pakistan we have decided not to carry out any activity (attacks) for one month,” he said. Last month Islamabad began peace talks with the Taleban in an attempt to end a seven-year insurgency which has cost thousands of lives. But the militant group continued to carry out attacks in the country on a near-daily basis. Government mediators later suspended dialogue with their Taleban counterparts after the insurgents claimed they had executed 23 kidnapped soldiers in a northwestern tribal region. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |