Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Thursday stated he become now no longer frightened of threats via way of means of 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 crucial government committee of his Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that he constantly taken into consideration the TTP as a terrorist outfit and its operatives have been now no longer even humans.
“We have already been dealing with 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 take into account them even human beings. We are dealing with their hazard however we are able to now no longer alternate our stance,” he stated.
The TTP, which has ideological linkages with the Afghan Taliban, achieved round extra than a hundred assaults closing year, maximum of which befell after August while the institution’s peace talks with the Pakistan authorities commenced to falter. The ceasefire become officially ended on November 28 via way of means of the TTP.
The TTP in a assertion on Wednesday pointedly cited Bilawal and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif via way of means of name, in addition to their respective events, and warned non secular events towards “activities” towards it.
The TTP, additionally called the Pakistan Taliban, become installation as an umbrella institution of numerous militant clothes in 2007. Its major 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, which includes 131 college students. The assault despatched shockwaves throughout the world, and become broadly condemned.