LAHORE: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) granted the authority to decide on ceasefire to Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUIS) chief Maulana Samiul Haq.
Samiul Haq is heading the TTP intermediary committee. The JUI-S central information secretary said that if there was a consensus between the government peace talks committee and Haq then a ceasefire can be announced.
The TTP had offered on February 19 to observe a ceasefire to allow the resumption of stalled peace talks, provided security forces stop killing and arresting its members.
The offer came a day after a four-member government negotiating committee suspended dialogue following a weekend claim by the TTP Mohmand chapter that it has executed 23 kidnapped paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) troops. The government negotiators had set a ceasefire as a precondition for another round of talks.
