The Afghan Taliban have expressed their willingness to disarm the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and relocate its members from the Pak-Afghan border but with a condition that Islamabad will bear the cost of the proposed plan. However, the Afghan government asked Pakistan to fund the proposal and bear the cost of rehabilitation of the TTP. Nevertheless, it was for the first time that the Afghan Taliban came up with the idea to disarm the TTP. Earlier, the interim Afghan government encouraged Pakistan to negotiate a peace deal with the TTP, something that backfired. "We have to accept unwillingly the strict conditions of the IMF deal," he said, adding that an accord was still a "week, 10 days" away.

Source: The Express Tribune February 25, 2023 06:04 UTC