PESHAWAR: Maulana Samiul Haq, coordinator of the Pakistani Taliban’s committee for peace talks with the government, contacted the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) shura on Wednesday to convey some requests on behalf of the committee, DawnNews reported quoting sources.

Meanwhile, another member of the committee Maulana Yousuf Shah said that Taliban have hinted at continuing the negotiations and further expressed the hope that they would respond positively to the requests.

He moreover said the public would be apprised of the TTP’s decision.

Shah added that in order to ensure successful peace talks, it was imperative that the government and the Taliban should enter a ceasefire.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Pakistani Taliban had rejected the government’s call for an unconditional ceasefire. “If this is what we have to do, we would have done it 10 years ago,” TTP’s spokesman Shahidullah Shahid had said.

“It is the government which has waged a war against us and it is for the government to end it now. Let the government hold fire and we shall follow suit,” he told a Dawn correspondent.