The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has withdrawn its demand of reversing the merger of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) following a tough stance by the Government on the matter, The Express Tribune reported quoting a senior security official privy to the ongoing negotiations. The senior security official, on the condition of anonymity said on November 26 that Pakistan has emphatically rejected two key demands at the very onset of negotiations between the two sides. The official said that the TTP had demanded reversal of former FATA’s merger into KP. Pakistan has rejected the TTP's demand and made it clear that FATA's integration into KP is not the decision of a single individual but of the people of the region and the parliament. The group was also told that the Government had spent billions of rupees so far for the region’s merger. The group had also expressed reservations over the ongoing local Government elections in the tribal region.