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Emphasizing its “very clear” position, Islamabad has ruled out any negotiations with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) emphasizing that China and Pakistan have no plans to engage with the terrorist group.
Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said addressing a weekly news briefing in Islamabad on Friday, “First of all, there is no dialogue taking place between the government of Pakistan and TTP.”
She added, “The position of Pakistan with regards to the dialogue with the TTP is very clear and has been reiterated on several occasions. Secondly, Pakistan has said on a number of occasions that the proposals to initiate talks with TTP, wherever they may come from, are an affront to the families of thousands of victims of terrorism.”
She highlighted, “Thirdly, there is no such proposal on the agenda between Pakistan and China with regards to engagement with TTP.”
A suicide bomber crashed into a bus carrying employees of the Dasu hydropower plant in Besham, Shangla district in March of this year, killing at least six persons including five Chinese nationals. The TTP was identified as the person responsible for the incident by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) which also arrested four of its main terrorists.
In the past three years, there have been two attacks against local Chinese engineers. Thirteen persons were killed in July 2021 when their coach was bombed in the Dasu district of Kohistan comprising two Frontier Constabulary members, two locals and nine Chinese nationals.
The FO spokesperson stated that Pakistani diplomats maintain continuous communication with Afghan officials in response to another query on a meeting between Afghanistan’s Defense Minister Mullah Yaqoob and Pakistan’s Chargé d’Affaires to Afghanistan.
“It is the responsibility of our diplomats based in Afghanistan to engage with the officials and leadership of the Afghan interim government and the meeting of our head of mission in Kabul with the Defense Minister of Afghanistan was in this context. I do not believe that we should be sharing details with the media about the discussions that took place in this meeting,” She said.
Speaking about Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s visit, she said that the trip which was arranged at Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s invitation produced a number of extensive agreements.
According to Baloch, the two leaders inked a number of agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) that emphasized collaboration in the areas of science and technology, vocational education, financial intelligence sharing, halal trade, environmental protection and disaster management.
She stated that the signing of the “Roadmap for Comprehensive Cooperation between Pakistan and Belarus for 2025-2027” was one of the visit’s main results..
