Taliban: ready to lay down guns
Updated on 16 October 2008
After a punishing military campaign against them, Pakistan's Taliban call for a ceasefire to allow talks with the government.
They're calling it their "war on terror", a war against the Taliban with thousands of dead, hundreds of thousands of refugees on the move, and countless casualties.
But this is not Afghanistan, it's Pakistan, in the midst of the bloodiest internal conflict for decades as the army assaults militants in the mountainous tribal regions.
After weeks of fighting, the Pakistan Taliban today said it was ready to lay down its arms and talk, but the Pakistani army is continuing its operations.
