ISLAMABAD: The banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday denied reports that it made a contact with former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker Javed Ibraheem Paracha.
Earlier in the day, former lawmaker from Kohat Javed Ibraheem Paracha said that in response to federal government’s talks offer to the Taliban, the TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsood made a formal contact by telephone with him and gave a list of 50 prisoners, demanding the government to release them.
A spokesman for the TTP said that neither Mehsud nor he talked to Paracha over the telephone.
Paracha, who is serving as a coordinator for the talks, said prisoners were associated with the TTP and sectarian outfits Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
According to the sources, Paracha had visited Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi to meet the Taliban prisoners. Moreover, they claimed that Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan along with an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official had also met Paracha.
