ISLAMABAD – Federal Minister for Information Chaudhry Fawad Hussain haswarned the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants to abide by the law or facestern action.
Speaking in a presser on Sunday, the PTI minister said the state waswilling to move forward in dialogue with those members of the banned outfitwho would only abide by the constitution of Pakistan.
“We have fought those who were not willing to comply with laws in the pastand can do so in future also”, he said days after the terror group declinedto extend the month-long ceasefire with the government, accusing it offailing to honour the decisions reached earlier.
The group also claimed to gun down two of the law enforcers besidesinjuring others deployed to guard polio vaccination teams in Pakistan’snorthwestern region.
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Last week, dozens of TTP low profile prisoners were released, whileofficials declined to release key prisoners on the list presented by theTTP to the government.
The militant group now led by Noor Wali Mahsud has been behind deadlyattacks on Pakistani security forces and civilians over the last 14 yearsincluding a 2014 attack on an army-run school in Peshawar that martyred 154people, mostly school going children.
