On Monday, a spokesman for the Taliban militant group said that the Taliban militants in Pakistan will no longer abide by a months-long ceasefire with the Pakistani government. 

The Afghan Taliban have facilitated peace talks between local ‘militants’ and the Pakistani government since last year.

The end of the ceasefire comes ahead of a visit by a Pakistani delegation, led by state minister for foreign affairs Hina Rabbani Khar, to Kabul on Tuesday.

Mohammad Khurasani, a spokesman for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) told Reuters in a text message that its leadership had decided to end the ceasefire with Pakistan.

It also comes a day before Pakistan’s outgoing army chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, who had approved the cease-fire with TTP in May is to retire after completing his six-year extended term.

“As military operations are ongoing against mujahideen in different areas… so it is imperative for you to carry out attacks wherever you can in the entire country,” the terrorist group said in a statement.

The TTP is an umbrella group of several Islamic terrorist groups that have been aiming to overthrow the government and rule the country with strict Islamic laws.

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari called for the government to revisit its strategy to deal with the ‘militant’ outfit earlier this month.

Bilawal said, “It is time to review decisions we took or were made to take with regards to internal security and terrorism.” Bilawal had also maintained that there was nothing wrong in admitting that “we were wrong about a few things and right about some other things and re-examine our approach”.