Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has called off the ceasefire agreed with the government in June, vowing carry out attacks across the country, TTP said in a statement on Monday.
“As military operations are ongoing against mujahideen in different areas […] so it is imperative for you to carry out attacks wherever you can in the entire country,” Dawn reported quoting the TTP’s statement.
The decision, it stated, was taken after “a series of non-stop attacks were launched by the military organizations in Bannu’s Lakki Marwat district”.
The outlawed organization claimed it had warned Pakistan’s citizens numerous times and “remained patient so that the negotiation process is not derailed, at least by us.”
The statement stated that because the army and intelligence services “did not stop and continued the attacks, our retaliatory attacks will also start across the country.”
The government and intelligence agencies are yet to comment on the matter.
Official negotiations between Pakistani authorities and the extremist group began in October of last year but ended in December.
The talks later started up again in May of this year. However, due to a standoff over the revocation of the merger of former tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the process collapsed once more.
As a result, since the TTP’s ceasefire with the army expired in September, their attacks have increased. In KP, the Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, South Waziristan, and North Waziristan districts have seen the most of attacks.
