Taliban won’t extend ceasefire

The Pakistani Taliban said Thursday they will not extend a ceasefire agreed to last month, accusing the government in Islamabad of not honouring the truce and failing to release 102 of their fighters. The militant group has been behind numerous attacks on Pakistani security forces and civilians over the past 14 years. TTP was also behind a 2014 attack on an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar that killed 154 people, mostly schoolchildren. They are a separate group from the Taliban in Afghanistan, who took over that country in August. However, the two groups are close allies.