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Pakistan has a complicated relationship with Pakistani (TTP) Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), a militant group that has a bond with the Afghan Taliban.
Islamabad banned the group in 2008. TTP was responsible for many attacks in Pakistan, especially school attacks in Peshawar in 2014, which killed 149 people, including 132 children.
TTP has also attacked the Pakistani army and the military checks, attract the anger of the country’s army command.
In 2012, the militant group shot Malala Yousafzai, who is now the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, because it promotes the education of girls in his original SWAT area, close to Afghanistan.
So, when the authorities decided to hold a peaceful talks with TTP, many people in Pakistan condemned the decision.
The Taliban Afghanistan, who seized power in Afghanistan in August 2022, was mediating a conversation between Islamabad and the Taliban Pakistan. Several rounds of discussion have been held in Kabul so far, but no agreement has been achieved.
In May, negotiations caused “permanent ceasefire” in return for the release of fighters and TTP commanders. But analysts say violations of ceasefires are often and widespread.
One of the TTP demands is to restore the semi -economic status of the former tribal territory given by Federal (FATA) which borders Afghanistan. Islamabad combined the Fata region with the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in North Sumatra in 2018 to improve the government there.
Last week, the team of eight members of Islamic scholars from Pakistan went to Kabul to break the deadlock. However, militant groups have not shown flexibility in their approach.
Pakistan wants to end the war for 14 years with TTP and restore peace in his border region. For that reason, he decided to be involved with militant groups, with Afghan leaders who acted as mediators,” Maleeha Lodhi, former Pakistan Ambassador to the United Nations, to DW.However, the conversation is very slow and difficult. The main points are demands by TTP to reverse the Merger of Fata with Kyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the imposition of sharia law in the area, and the withdrawal of Pakistani military forces from the border region,” he said.
Michael Kugelman, a South Asian expert at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Cendekiawan based in Washington, said he was skeptical about the results of the conversation. “TTP has asked for the month, demanding that Pakistan cannot agree. And TTP does not want to make a concession. And if somehow there is an agreement, there is a few reasons to believe it will remain, considering that it enters the past TTP has denied all agreements and returned to Violence, “he told DW.
“It’s hard to imagine Islamabad surrendered to the request of the reversal of the Fata mergers. Surely it must know that this will be a big victory for TTP, because fewer government and weaker warrant Seeing Islamabad surrender, “Kugelman added.Why is Pakistan so interested in having an agreement with TTP?
Pakistan was forced to start talks was TTP because of an increase in attacks in the country. There is no appropriate alternative to end this violence,” Saman Rizwan, a policy research analyst based in Islamabad, told DW.
Kugelman said Pakistan acted because of despair. “He knows that TTP has become a rise force, increasing his attack on a large -scale. And he knows the Taliban in Afghanistan will not do anything to curb the group, based in Afghanistan. This leaves the conversation, which is an imperfect option, But really, the one is the option at this time, “Kugelman underlined.Husain Haqqani, Director of South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute and former Pakistani Ambassador
