Pakistan criticizes Imran Khan’s “appeasement” policy with the Pakistani Taliban

Jan. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Pakistani Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, criticized on Wednesday the “appeasement” policy of the previous government, led by Imran Khan, with the armed group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), known as the Pakistani Taliban. .

Bhutto-Zardari has indicated in an interview with the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera that this “wrong” policy has been negative for the country and has guaranteed that the new Executive has changed its position towards the group.

Thus, he stressed that the authorities “will not tolerate” the activities of the group, which in November announced the end of the ceasefire, agreed within the framework of a process of talks mediated by the Afghan Taliban, and resumed its attacks, as has picked up the Pakistani television network Geo TV.

The minister also stated that “the solution is to interact with the Afghan government and try to convince them to keep their promises to the international community, be it on women’s rights or on issues of terrorism.”

On the other hand, the security forces have killed four suspected terrorists this Wednesday during an operation in the city of Hoshab, located in the province of Balochistan, as reported by the Pakistani newspaper ‘Dawn’.

Islamabad has denounced that TTP uses Afghan territory for its attacks and has even threatened cross-border operations, something firmly rejected from Kabul.

The TTP group, which differs from the Afghan Taliban in organizational matters but follows the same rigorous interpretation of Sunni Islam, brings together more than a dozen Islamist militant groups operating in Pakistan, where they have killed some 70,000 people in two decades of violence.