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Talks with Taliban suspended

Thousands fleeing Lower Dir in Pakistan

BBC ONLINE, Islamabad
The Taliban's talks with the government in north-west Pakistan have been suspended amid army operations against militants, a Taliban negotiator says.
Pakistani troops and Taliban militants have clashed in Lower Dir in North West Frontier Province (NWFP), forcing hundreds of civilians to flee.
NWFP officials had agreed a deal that would introduce Sharia law in return for an end to the Taliban insurgency.
Critics argued the deal was a capitulation to the militants.
Ameer Izzat Khan, a spokesman for Sufi Muhammad, the cleric who negotiated the deal between the government and the Taliban, said: "Our council of leaders met on Sunday night and decided to suspend peace negotiations with the government in North West Frontier Province."
However, he said the Taliban still wanted to adhere to the peace deal, agreed in February.
Khan said Sufi Muhammad was cut off in his village in Lower Dir and no talks could take place until communication was restored. "We are demanding a suspension of the operation so that Sufi Muhammad is able to get out of his village.”
He added; " Ihe operation is contrary to die peace agreement, and we believe there is no point talking peace when there is violence in die area. But a decision on dial will be taken by our[council|."
The situation in Lower Dir remains tense as families continue to flee the batde zone.
The Pakistani military said troops killed another 20 militants today in the Maidan area.
Ihe NWFP government said earlier that at least 25 suspected militants were killed on Sunday when they attacked army convoys.
Die clashes started when the government deployed troops in some areas of the district over the weekend.
Hundreds of civilians have been fleeing the conflict zone
Correspondents say diis was presumably to prevent an incursion by militants similar to the recent one in Buner district.
The operation came after 12 children were killed in Lower Dir on Saturday after playing with a bomb diey mistook for a football.
Civilians have begun leaving die Lower Dir area but many are still trapped in their villages.
Karimullah, a farmer in the Samarbagh area of Lower Dir, told Reuters news agency: I am leaving everything here and taking my family. We can't take a risk with troops fighting the Taliban."
The Taliban spokesman in Swat, Muslim Khan, accused the government of violating the terms of the peace agreement in Swat.
Tire Taliban warned of militant attacks in al) parts of Malakand division - the group of six districts where the new Sharialawhasbeen enforced - if the military operation in Dir was not halted.
The government and the military say they still want to abide by the terms of the Swat peace deal and consider it intact.
However, they believe that the Taliban are yet to fulfil their part of the deal, which is to disarm and to concede administrative power to government departments.
In Buner, the presence of the Taliban continues in main towns despite an announcement on Friday that they would leave the area and go back to their bases in Swat.
Troops have still not advanced beyond a border village.