The Foreign Office denied on Thursday that the government was in talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), citing recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan as evidence that the accusations were false. “No talks are being held between Pakistan and the TTP in any third country,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch stated during the weekly media briefing. The announcement coincides with the declaration made earlier this week by acting prime minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, who demanded an unconditional surrender from terrorist groups and said that talks would not take place. “There will be no more tolerance from the state for the terrorists who killed innocent civilians through violence,” Kakar declared. He declared, “There should be no question about the state’s stance against terrorists.”