Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Thursday stated he turned into now no longer frightened of threats with the aid of using the militants, an afternoon after the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threatened to goal the pinnacle leaders of the ruling events.
Bilawal instructed the media after chairing the assembly of the critical government committee of his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that he continually taken into consideration the TTP as a terrorist outfit and its operatives have been now no longer even humans.
“We have already been going through terrorism. The APS (Army Public School) college students have been killed (in Peshawar in 2014). I time period them (TTP people) as extremists and terrorists. I don’t recollect them even human beings. We are going through their risk however we can now no longer alternate our stance,” he stated.
The TTP, which has ideological linkages with the Afghan Taliban, completed round extra than a hundred assaults closing year, maximum of which took place after August whilst the institution’s peace talks with the Pakistan authorities started out to falter. The ceasefire turned into officially ended on November 28 with the aid of using the TTP.
The TTP in a assertion on Wednesday pointedly referred to Bilawal and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif with the aid of using name, in addition to their respective events, and warned spiritual events in opposition to “activities” in opposition to it.
The TTP, additionally called the Pakistan Taliban, turned into installation as an umbrella institution of numerous militant clothing in 2007. Its most important purpose is to impose its strict logo of Islam throughout Pakistan. In 2014, the Pakistani Taliban stormed the Army Public School (APS) withinside the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar, killing at the least a hundred and fifty people, consisting of 131 college students. The assault despatched shockwaves throughout the world, and turned into extensively condemned.