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Pak Taliban rules out peace talks with Nawaz govt post Mehsud's death

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ANI Islamabad
Last Updated : Nov 10 2013 | 5:25 PM IST

The Pak Taliban has ruled out talks with the Nawaz government.

The terrorist outfit said that the chances of negotiations after the killing of their leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a US drone strike were 'below zero'.

According to the Nation, senior TTP leader Ihsanullah Ihsan claimed Mehsud's killing last week was a violation of Pashtun culture.

He said that after the death of Mehsud there can be no peace talks. It would be too generous to say that the possibility of peace talks is zero; the chances are, in fact, below zero.

Ihsan described Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar's criticism on the drone strike that killed Mehsud as 'shedding crocodile tears'.

He claimed the "ruse of peace talks" has been used to eliminate Taliban leaders one by one.

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He said that for every drone attack, about 80 percent of the information and ground intelligence is provided by Pakistani security organizations.

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First Published: Nov 10 2013 | 5:16 PM IST

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