The Taliban patrol the streets of Kabul.
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Pakistan and the local Taliban militants have agreed to a “complete ceasefire,” the country’s Information Minister Fawad Chowdhury said on Monday after the Taliban government in neighbouring Afghanistan helped arrange negotiations.
The goal of the Pakistani Taliban is to overthrow the government and rule this South Asian country of 220 million people by enforcing their own brand of strict Islamic laws.
The militants, also known as the Pakistani Taliban or TTP, are separate from the Afghan Taliban.
“As negotiations progress, the ceasefire will continue to expand,” Chowdhury said in a statement. “The Pakistani government and the banned Pakistani Taliban have agreed to a complete ceasefire.”
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He said that the negotiations will follow Pakistan’s laws and constitution. TTP has not yet responded to the announcement.
TTP is an umbrella organization of a Sunni militant group linked to Al Qaeda. This organization has launched a war against this country. In the past two decades, thousands of Pakistanis have been killed.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan with an iron fist from 1996 to 2001, robbing the Islamic radicals in the region from the courage, especially those radicals who had long dominated the tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which was once the local and foreign headquarters. . Islamists.
TTP is now seeking concessions. According to sources, it has provided the government with a list of imprisoned leaders, hoping to release these leaders to ensure further progress in the negotiations.
