The statement came a day after Pakistain's Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
said bully boyz would not be allowed to take advantage of the offer for peace talks.
Earlier on Sunday, two senior military officers were killed by a remote controlled bomb in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, where the military is fighting Al Qaeda and Taliban-led myrmidons.
"War is continuing, it was started by the government and they will have to stop it," Shahidullah Shahid, the main front man for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), declared from
Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
has called for peace talks, and managed to win the backing from main political parties last week.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
hopes that the talks would go ahead were dealt a blow when an IED (improvised bomb) went
kaboom!in Upper Dir on Sunday and killed three soldiers, including a major-general.
Analysts said the attack endangered the proposed peace talks with the krazed killer group.
Moreover, former cricketer turned politician Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the sharpest bulb on the national tree...
who heads Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) on Monday called for ceasefire by the government and Talibs along with immediate formation of delegations to kick-off talks.
The Taliban have said that they would carry out more attacks because peace talks have yet to be officially proposed.
"No one has contacted us for peace talks, not even a tribal jirga has approached us. If they (government) want to end this war, they will have to announce a ceasefire," Shahid said.
The Taliban on Sunday announced preconditions for talks on ending the insurgency that has killed thousands of people, demanding that troops withdraw from tribal areas and that prisoners are freed.
But Pakistain's military, in turn, insisted they would not let Taliban rebels set conditions for peace talks.
When the TTP front man was asked about his group's future plans after the attack which killed the officers, he said: "We will never miss any opportunity to attack the army like that."
Previous peace deals with the Taliban have quickly broken down and been sharply criticised for allowing the gunnies time to regroup for fresh attacks.
An editorial in this newspaper today said that although General Kayani spoke bluntly "about not caving in to the demands of terrorists" and underlined the military's resolve "to defeat the terrorists", words alone would not suffice.