Drone Attacks Must Be Stoppped In Tribal Areas--- Taliban's New Condition For Ceasefire

Defunct Tehreek e Taliban has prsented another condition for ceasefire which is the stoppage of drone attacks in tribal areas to initiate dialogue. The spokeperson of TTP said only the stoppage of forces activities is not enough. He said if drone attacks continueed then ceasefire for them is not possible. On other side the secretary general of Wafaq ul Madaras ul Arabia ( federation of Religious Schools) Hafeez Jalandhary said the religious scholars can not play the role of negotiators but they can only appeal for ceasefire. However, he said Taliban have shown positive response, the reply from government is awaited. Meanwhile, the high level meeting of TTP was held in North Waziristan and Hakeem Ullah Mahsood and Sirajud Din Haqqni gave green singal for talks leading to ceasefire, if government takes first step to ceasefire and get the drone attacks stopped. The leader of 'Punjabi Taliban' Asmat ullah also attended the meeting. According to reports several times talks for agreements were held before, but these wee sabotaged when any leader of Taliban, or military or government was killled. Government made agreements with Bait ullah Mahsood, Sufi Muhammad of Nifaz e Sharia and Maulvi Fazal but these were broken due to one or other reason. But the condition of stopping drone attacks is impossible for government act upon because it is not the hands of Pakistan's government and USA neither stopped in past not it will do in future instead of "strong protests" from government side. The ceasefire agreement seem difficult to come to end successfully.