The last time the government tried to negotiate with the banned TTP, it did so from a position of weakness: the TTP was in the ascendant, the TTP was regularly attacking state and society and the TTP was the one issuing preconditions. Now though, as the government negotiates with a breakaway Mehsud faction of the TTP, there are marked differences.
For one, the military operation in North
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Wazoo Agency has scattered the TTP and denied it a vital base from which to organise and plot attacks against Pakistain.