Islamabad, Sept 1 (ANI): Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) called off talks with the Pakistani government, as it was 'playing tricks', and 'wasn't serious', a senior commander of the banned terror group has claimed.
"The government contacted me and some other TTP leaders through intermediaries several times, but the contacts were suspended because government officials were not serious," TTP's Maulvi Faqir said.
Faqir was the deputy of TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud and the group's head honcho in Bajaur Agency until early 2012 when he was deposed for his "unauthorised contacts" with the government.
According to The Express Tribune, Faqir claimed that a religious group had mediated between them and the government.
"The Pakistani government is not independent in taking decisions as it is under the US pressure. No one can refuse talks, but the government has always tricked us," he added.
About his sacking as TTP chief in Bajaur, Faqir claimed that he himself had requested Mehsud to relieve him after had fled a military operation in his region in 2009.
However, Faqir later contradicted himself saying that the Taliban Shura had asked him to step down.
"I had accepted the Shura decision to resign, but I still consider myself a member of the TTP," the paper quoted him, as saying.
According to the paper, Faqir claimed that he and his fighters were now operating from the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan (ANI)
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