Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan (C) and his guards (file photo)<\/p>\n
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Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan have withdrawn their offer of peace talks with the government after a senior leader of the group was killed in an attack.\n<\/p>\n
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan made the announcement in a statement issued on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Waliur Rehman, a senior leader of the TTP, and several other member of the group were killed in a strike carried out by a US drone in Chashma village near the town of Miranshah in North Waziristan.\n<\/p>\n
On May 20, Pakistan\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Prime Minister-elect Nawaz Sharif called for peace talks with the Taliban militants.\n<\/p>\n
Sharif said the Taliban was ready to hold peace talks with the Pakistani government, adding that the offer of talks by the TTP \u00c5\u201cshould be taken seriously.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u00c5\u201cGuns are not a solution to all problems,\u201d Sharif stated.\n<\/p>\n
Sharif\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Pakistan Muslim League-N won the National Assembly elections of May 11.\n<\/p>\n
Earlier a Taliban spokesman was quoted as saying that the militants might agree on a truce if Sharif and his party showed seriousness in holding the peace talks.\n<\/p>\n
Thousands of Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since October 2001, when Pakistan joined an alliance with the United States in the so-called war against terrorism.\n<\/p>\n
Thousands more have been displaced by the wave of violence and militancy sweeping across the country.\n<\/p>\n
MAM\/MHB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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