Banned terror outfit blames army, intelligence agencies for continuing attacks on them ,The tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ON Monday said that they have called off a ceasefire agreed with the federal government in june and ordered its militants to stage terrorist attacks across the country, astatement from the banned terror outfit said. THE TTP,a separate entity from the Taliban in Afghanistan but sharing a similar hardline ideology, have been responsiable for hundreds of attacks and thousands of eaths since emerging in 2007. The gorvernment and the TTP had agreed to a truce earlier this year after Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers took a prominent role in brokering peace talks,but negotiations made little program and there were frequent breaches. The Express Tribunehad reported that the talks reached a deadlock as the terror group refused to budge from its demand for the reversal of the merger of erstwhile Fata with the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. There has also been a stalemate over the issueof TTP laying down their arms in case of a peace deal,which would enable them to return to their homeland. Sources familiar with the develoment revealed that there had been a series of meetings between the two sides in recent weeks to break the impasse yet there had been no breakthrough so far. IN a push to take the process forward,a delegation of ulema led by Mufti Taqi Usman visited Kabul in July.The purpose of the scholars'group's visit was to use the good offices of the religious clerics to persuade the TTPN to withdraw their demand for Fata merger and other contentious issues. However, the TTP leadership did not give any firm assurance as the Ulema also pressed them to lay down their arms and return to Pakistan. "We...have show our continued patience so that the negotiation process is not sabotaged,"the TTP said in the statement. "Butt the army and intelligence agencies do not stop and continue the attacks,so now our retaliatory attacks will also start across the country." The TTP claimed that there have been constant operations on its militants by the security forces and they have noy been stopped despite the "patience"shown by it. "Wherever you find an opportunity to attack, do proceed,"the statement urged its terrorists. PAKISTAN began talks with the TTP in October last year at the requst of the Afghan Taliban to seek a political solution to the issue. "IT is important to initiate serious negotiations with the AFGHAN TALIBAN on this issue and make them aware of the seriousness of the matter."