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| TTP to halt activities if operations stopped |
| 2008-08-19 |
| Welcoming President General (retd) Pervez Musharraf's resignation, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud on Monday offered to halt the militant activities and hold peace talks with the elected government if the military operations in Bajaur and Swat were stopped. In a statement conveyed to this correspondent through his spokesman Maulvi Omar, the leading Taliban commander said that hopefully the elected government would give up the "pro-US policies pursued by the Musharraf-led regime". "Musharraf had never been sincere with Pakistan and its people. He always preferred his personal interests to those of the country and imposed the US war on peaceful and true Pakistanis of the tribal areas," Omar quoted the TTP chief as saying. According to Omar, Baitullah contacted the TTP Shura members after Musharraf's resignation and all of them assured to stop militant activities and hold peace talks with the government provided "the government guaranteed that it would stop pro-US policies adopted by the former military dictator". |
| Posted by:Fred |