Islamabad has firmly reiterated that no talks are being held with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), emphasising that there isn’t any proposal for engagement with the proscribed outfit on the agenda between Pakistan and China.
“Initially, there isn’t any dialogue happening between the federal government of Pakistan and TTP,” International Workplace spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch mentioned, addressing a weekly information briefing in Islamabad on Friday.
“The place of Pakistan with reference to the dialogue with the TTP may be very clear and has been reiterated on a number of events. Secondly, Pakistan has mentioned on numerous events that the proposals to provoke talks with TTP, wherever they might come from, are an affront to the households of 1000’s of victims of terrorism.”
“Thirdly, there isn’t any such proposal on the agenda between Pakistan and China with reference to engagement with TTP,” she emphasised.
In March this 12 months, at the very least six folks, together with 5 Chinese language nationals, have been killed after a suicide bomber rammed right into a bus transporting workers engaged on the Dasu hydropower venture in Besham, Shangla district.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter-Terrorism Division (CTD) discovered the TTP behind the assault and arrested its 4 key terrorists.
This was the second assault within the final three years on Chinese language engineers working within the space.
In July 2021, 13 folks, together with 9 Chinese language nationals, two Frontier Constabulary personnel, and two locals, have been killed when their coach was bombed within the Dasu space of Kohistan.
Replying to a different query concerning a gathering between Pakistan’s Chargé d’Affaires to Afghanistan and Afghanistan’s Defence Minister Mullah Yaqoob in Afghanistan, the FO spokesperson mentioned that Pakistani diplomats hold in fixed contact with the Afghan officers.
“It’s the accountability of our diplomats based mostly in Afghanistan to interact with the officers and management of the Afghan interim authorities and the assembly of our head of mission in Kabul with the Protection Minister of Afghanistan was on this context,” she careworn.
The 2 sides mentioned issues of mutual curiosity, she mentioned, noting nonetheless, “I don’t consider that we needs to be sharing particulars with the media concerning the discussions that passed off on this assembly.”
Talking on the go to of Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, she highlighted that the journey, made on the invitation of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, resulted in a number of complete agreements.
The 2 leaders signed a number of agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) specializing in cooperation in environmental safety, catastrophe administration, halal commerce, monetary intelligence sharing, vocational schooling and science & expertise, Baloch remarked.
A key end result of the go to was the signing of the “Roadmap for Complete Cooperation between Pakistan and Belarus for 2025-2027”, she added.