{"id":13379,"date":"2023-01-31T12:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T12:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=13379"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T12:25:06","slug":"call-for-parliamentary-inquiry-into-rehabilitation-policy-of-the-ttp-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/01\/call-for-parliamentary-inquiry-into-rehabilitation-policy-of-the-ttp-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for inquiry into \u201crehabilitation policy\u201d of the TTP in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – Senator Raza Rabbani in Pakistan has demanded a parliamentary inquiry into the previous government\u2019s \u201crehabilitation policy\u201d of the proscribed TTP in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Condemning the Peshawar bombing in a Senate session, he stressed that Pakistan needed to review the causes of the rise in terrorism. \u201cThe TTP\u2019s rehabilitation policy, which was initiated by the [previous] government, is the foundation of this.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the\u00a0fall of the US-supported Ashraf Ghani government\u00a0in Afghanistan in 2021, the Afghan Taliban had facilitated\u00a0peace talks between the government and the TTP, reported Dawn. While negotiations with the banned group reportedly began in October 2021 under the PTI government\u2019s watch, the process continued in fits and starts when the Shehbaz Sharif government took over.<\/p>\n

In response, the banned outfit had\u00a0declared a ceasefire\u00a0and stopped its attacks on security forces, extending the truce in May. The government had also sent delegations of tribal elders and ulema to Kabul in order to persuade the TTP to end its activities and surrender its weapons.<\/p>\n

The months-long negotiations, however, remained inconclusive and ultimately\u00a0ended\u00a0in November last year. Major sticking points included the TTP\u2019s demands to roll back the merger of the erstwhile tribal areas with KP, release hardened terrorists, as well as the group\u2019s refusal to lay down their arms. These were obvious red lines the state could not let the militants cross.<\/p>\n

Addressing the upper house of Parliament today, Rabbani recalled that when the Taliban returned to Afghanistan, some thousands of people with weapons were allowed to enter Pakistan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was said that they are good Taliban and they will work according to the law and Constitution [\u2026] it was said they will be rehabilitated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The senator pointed out that neither the public nor Parliament was taken into confidence over the matter. \u201cEven at that time, Parliament had said that a joint session should be called and all these things should be presented before it so that the public\u2019s opinion could be brought forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rabbani went on to say that permission was also not taken from the National Security Committee, instead, it was just told that negotiations with the TTP were under way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe negotiations were outsourced to a jirga. PPP and ANP had strong reservations about them,\u201d he said, demanding that a parliamentary inquiry should be conducted into the matter.<\/p>\n

The senator also said that the terrorism policy should be discussed in the joint sitting of the Parliament on Feb 8.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the stakeholders and political parties should be called to the Parliament for a dialogue. This is the question of life and death but parties are busy in doing politics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the death toll from the attack on a mosque in Peshawar\u2019s Police Lines\u00a0area a day earlier rose to 96 on Tuesday after more bodies were recovered from the attack site, according to Commissioner Riaz Mehsud.<\/p>\n

On Monday, 59 people, mostly police officials, were martyred and over 150 were injured after an explosion ripped through a mosque in Peshawar\u2019s Red Zone area. The powerful blast blew away the wall of the prayer hall and an inner roof.<\/p>\n

The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack. It later distanced itself from it but sources earlier indicated that it might have been the handiwork of some local faction of the outlawed group.<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – Senator Raza Rabbani in Pakistan has demanded a parliamentary inquiry into the previous government\u2019s \u201crehabilitation policy\u201d of the proscribed TTP in the country. Condemning the Peshawar bombing in a Senate session, he stressed that Pakistan needed to review the causes of the rise in terrorism. \u201cThe TTP\u2019s rehabilitation policy, which was initiated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,978,194],"tags":[12,177,848],"class_list":["post-13379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-pakistan","tag-ttp"],"views":100,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13382,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions\/13382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}