In a statement issued to the media, he said that if the defence minister was unaware about the location of detention centres in the country, then how could he be informed about the number of people being held at such facilities.
Khawaja Asif earlier on Sunday had rejected a major demand of the Taliban -- release of non-combatants -- saying there were no women and kiddies in the custody of security forces.
Pak Taliban leaders reportedly had handed over a list to their committee headed by Maulana Samiul Haq
...the
Godfather of the Taliban,leader of his own faction of the JUI. Known as
Mullah Sandwichfor his habit of having two young boys at a time...
of more than 60 such people, who they say are in the custody of the armed forces.
The TTP front man further claimed that the secret detention centres in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and other areas of the country were an undeniable fact.
He added that after passage of the Pakistain Protection Ordinance (PPO) these "illegal and inhuman" centres were given legal cover and further questioned the number of missing persons Khawaja Asif had presented in court in abidance with the law.
Shahidullah also asked about the people over whose recovery the Supreme Court had threatened to initiate contempt proceedings against the prime minister and defence minister.
He said that the government appeared to be confused over holding peace talks and wondered about the 'forces' who had signalled Khawaja Asif to put the dialogue process at stake.
He also said that as evidence of his claims, he had forwarded a list of non-combatants to the committee nominated by the turban organization to mediate peace talks with the government.
Describing details of the list in a presser on Sunday, Professor Mohammad Ibrahim Khan said the list included women, children and elderly people.
Prof Ibrahim and Maulana Yousaf Shah went to Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
recently for consultations with members of the TTP Shura.
The TTP front man also said that it was the committee's responsibility to investigate the list and if the issue progressed any further then the names of prisoners could be presented in this regard.
The dialogue process that started by the government of 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 entered its decisive stage now with the formation of a new government committee, comprised of bureaucrats, to mediate with the Taliban leadership.
The ongoing peace talks between the two parties struck an impasse last month after the Taliban-linked Death Eaters murdered 23 kidnapped Pak paramilitary soldiers.
The killings resulted in multiple targeted
The Taliban then announced a one-month ceasefire which was reciprocated by the government which halted its