Source: Asia Times:
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR – Peshawar is breathing a little easier. Prime Minister-designate Nawaz Sharif’s offer of talks with the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has rekindled hope for peace in this Pakistan border town.
The TTP have had a long run of terror in Pakistan’s northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the adjacent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, of which Peshawar is the capital. The terror intensified in the run-up to the country’s May 11 general election as bomb and suicide attacks left a bloody trail of political casualties in the region.