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Taliban End Ceasefire, Pak

April 17, 2014 by  

Taliban End Ceasefire, Pak, The Pakistani Taliban said Wednesday that they were ending a six-week-old cease-fire but would continue peace talks with the Pakistani government.

In a statement emailed to journalists, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, as the group is formally known, accused the military of torturing prisoners and killing 50 militants during the cease-fire.

“The T.T.P. showed restraint and patience over the ongoing operations,” said a spokesman for the group, Shahidullah Shahid, in reference to the Pakistani military. “But the government failed to take notice of this.”

The Taliban announced a one-month cease-fire on March 1, then extended it. But militant attacks continued in April, killing dozens of civilians in Islamabad and elsewhere.

The Taliban claimed that those attacks were conducted by a breakaway group, but some analysts and Pakistani officials are skeptical of the claims, saying it was just as likely that the Taliban were using violence to keep pressure on the talks. The Taliban’s announcement about ending the cease-fire on Wednesday was also widely taken as an attempt to influence the negotiations.

After a preliminary meeting with the Taliban in late March, the government agreed to release 12 low-level prisoners. But it refused Taliban demands for a “peace zone” where militants could move freely in South Waziristan.

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