BATKHELA, Aug 7: The Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) offered on Thursday to mediate between the government and the Taliban in Swat.

Its chief Maulana Sufi Mohammad told journalists after a meeting of TNSM’s Shura in Amandara that two committees had been constituted to broker a ceasefire deal.

The first committee, headed by TNSM’s deputy chief Maulana Mohammad Alam, has gone to Peshawar to for talks with the ANP-led provincial government, and the second committee, headed by Maulana Abdul Haq, would contact the Taliban leadership in Swat.

Maulan Sufi said that members of the committees would try to persuade both sides to resume talks for peace in the valley.

“It is the duty of every Muslim to work for peace among warring Muslim brethren,” he said, adding that the TNSM would try to persuade the two sides to sign a peace agreement and avoid bloodshed and violence in the region.

He urged them to stop shelling each other’s positions.