Pak Government in Dilemma Over Negotiations with TTP

By New Age Islam Staff Writer 18 September 2025 TTP Has Offered Talks To Solve The Deadlock Main Points: 1. Heavy fighting continues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between TTP and Pak forces. 2. Imran Khan calls Pak operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a false flag operation. 3. Zalmay Khalilzad has advised Pak to negotiate with TTP. 4. Imran Khan says KP operation an attempt to malign PTI government. 5. Pak has not responded to talks offer. ----- As limited operation of the Pakistan security forces against the TTP and its allies are on in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan where Imran Khan's party PTI is in power, the TTP has proposed to Pakistan that if it stops the operation, they are ready to hold talks with them. In a press release they said that they can carry out attacks anywhere in Pakistan from Gilgit-Baltistan to Balochistan and from Karachi to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and therefore, if Pakistan stops its operation against them, they could take the talks forward. Currently, the Pakistani security forces and police are carrying out limited operations against the outlawed group but have not been able to yield a decisive blow against them. The militants carry out attacks in different parts of the province almost daily in which both security forces and militants suffer casualties. Lately, the militants attacked a police post in Bannu and killed a police personnel in Darra Adamkhel. They had attacked Bannu Cantt. and killed 12 soldiers. In Dir, seven soldiers were killed. 31 militants have also been killed by the security forces in the last few days. According to the Pak government, 14 thousand militants are present in Pakistan, out of which 80 per cent are Afghan nationals. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it looks like a battle between the TTP and the security forces is going on which has resulted in large scale displacement of the local population and the security forces are uncertain about the outcome of the operations. Therefore, Imran Khan's PTI and the KP government have been pushing for talks with the TTP and the Taliban government of Afghanistan. The offer for talks from the TTP has obviously been made after the Taliban's green signal. This is evident from the tweet of Zalmay Khalizad who has also advised the Pak government to talk with TTP. Meanwhile, Imran Khan released a long statement on X in which he criticised the federal government and the Field Marshal for the operation in KP. He called the operation in KP a false flag operation aimed at maligning his government and disturbing the Af-Pak relations. He wrote: "Since the time Asim Munir has taken charge, the relations with Afghanistan have deteriorated. Pakistan is being provoked to wage war with Afghanistan to malign Taliban and present himself as the saviour in the eyes of the West. First, Afghanistan was threatened and then Afghan immigrants living in Pakistan for three generations were forced to leave Pakistan in violation of human rights. Then, Afghanistan was attacked. An operation was launched in the tribal areas at the pretext of fighting foreign militants.It is a false flag operation. As a result of this policy, the security forces, the police and innocent people are being killed. They are all our people. Peace cannot be restored in this way. It can be achieved only through dialogue. To achieve this objective, all the three stake holders, people of the tribal area, Afghan government and Afghan people should be involved in the peace process.No solution is possible without their participation. The operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been launched with the purpose of maligning the KP government. This will only give rise to terrorism and when the police will engage in the fighting with terrorists, the governance and peace will be the casualty. The MNAs and the MPAs should sit with the government and find a solution to this problem. A delegation led by our representative Mahmood Khan Achakzai should visit Afghanistan and hold talks with the Taliban to find a solution. However, another PTI leader Fawad Chaudhary has opposed the name of Mahmood Khan Achakzai and recommended the name of Barrister Saif as the head of the delegation. Since, Zalmay Khalilzad has been the special envoy of the US in Afghanistan during the last regime, his advise to Pakistan to hold talks with the TTP is seen as the stance of the US on this issue. He has been active in Afghan politics even after the fall of the US-supported government. He had criticised the two day SASSI conference in Islamabad as anti-Taliban conference scheduled last month. After that the conference was cancelled. Interestingly, the leader of Hizb-e-Islami, Gulbuddin Hikmatyar's daily newspaper, Shahadat, in one of its issues, calls him the secret President of Afghanistan. It said that his activities involving Afghanistan were dangerous. He visits Kabul without a visa and issues statements against Pakistan to gain popularity among the Afghan people. He dreams of becoming the next king or ruler of Afghanistan. There is no doubt that the US has strategic interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan and uses militant organisations as tools of foreign policy. Recently, the Russian ambassador in Pakistan disclosed that 23 thousand foreign militants were present in Afghanistan. These militants sneak into Pakistan's border provinces to fight with security forces almost daily. This has pitted Pakistan and Afghanistan against each other. Asim Munir, who has the backing of the US President Trump has launched the operations in the KP knowing fully well that militant organisations have been present in Pakistan during successive governments and that limited operations cannot wipe out these organisations when full fledged military operations have failed against them in the past. In this context, Imran Khan's view that the operation was launched only to malign his government gains some weight. As of now, the Pak government has not responded to the offer from the TTP, but it has no option left as the TTP and other militant organisations have grown in strength with the support of Taliban and the religious organisations inside Pakistan who regard them the upholders of Khilafat. 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