Islamabad says no plans to enter talks with Pakistani Taliban militant group

Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said on Thursday the federal government had no plans to enter talks with the Pakistani Taliban, amid a surge in militant attacks in the country. 
The Pakistani Taliban, or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella group of militants, has stepped up attacks against Pakistan security forces in recent months, with daily assaults on army and paramilitary posts and targeted killings of police and government officials. 
Pakistan blames the surge on neighboring Afghanistan, saying Kabul was not doing enough to tackle militant groups using its territory to target Pakistan, which the Afghan Taliban rulers deny. 
“[Government has] no designs to enter into any talks with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan,” Baloch told reporters at a weekly press briefing, saying the TTP was behind the killings of both Pakistani and foreign citizens in Pakistan.

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