PESHAWAR:
The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday announced that they have removed a key commander for welcoming a call for dialogue by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over ending bloodshed that has left thousands dead.
Ismatullah Muaweea, the head of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) Punjab province chapter, on Thursday hailed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s offer, saying that the prime minister had shown maturity.
Sharif made the offer to extremists on Monday in his first televised address to the nation since taking office after winning elections in May – a sweeping, hour-long speech that focused on Pakistan’s myriad problems.
“Wisdom demands that we follow a path where we minimise the loss of innocent lives,” said Sharif.
But TTP distanced itself from Muaweea’s comments and said that the commander has no more role in the outfit.
“The Taliban decision making body met under Commander Hakimullah Mehsud and decided that Ismatullah Muaweea has no relation with the TTP,” Shahidullah Shahid, Taliban spokesman, told AFP.
“He is respectable for us, but he has no relation with the TTP. The decision about the new head of TTP’s Punjab chapter will be taken in next meeting of our decision makers,” he said.
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