Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Raza Rabbani on Friday demanded clarity on the deal struck between the government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, saying despite the agreement between the two sides, Pakistani soldiers continued to be martyred, reported Geo.

The former Senate chairperson was speaking in a Senate session when he asked under what terms the deal between the two sides had been struck in November.

"Riasat-e-Madina cannot be established on secretive agreements [...] Pakistan's civil-military bureaucracy will have to be answerable before the Parliament," the report quoted Rabbani.

He also claimed various groups were reorganising in Afghanistan despite the ceasefire agreement and said the issues would continue until "root causes of the problems are ascertained".

He added the state remained a "silent spectator" despite extremist groups gained footing in the country.

"Extremist groups have torn up the state's writ to shreds," he said.

He considered the National Action Plan a need of the time and called for a debate on it once more in the Parliament so that it could be implemented.

Talking about the Afghan Taliban, Senator Rabbani questioned the government's haste to extend support to the Afghan Taliban, when the latter did "not even recognise the border", reported Dawn.

The senator asked the foreign minister to brief the parliament about the reports that Afghan Taliban interrupted the Pakistan Army forces in fencing work at the Pak-Afghan border.

Pakistan has fenced most of the 2,600 km (1,615 mile) border despite protestations from Kabul, which has always contested the British-era boundary demarcation that splits families and tribes on either side.

Afghan defence ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khwarazmi had said Taliban forces stopped the Pakistani military from erecting an "illegal" border fence along the eastern province of Nangarhar.

So far the government has not officially commented on the incident.

However, The Express Tribune in a report quoted a senior Pakistani official, saying a consensus has been reached between the Taliban leadership and Islamabad over the fencing issue.

The source in the report said a local intelligence chief of the Taliban tried to remove the fence and it was not a decision approved by the Taliban leadership.

“Both sides have reached an understanding not to escalate the situation,” the official said, adding that there were some issues of alignments about the border fencing and the two sides would resolve this mutually.

Rabbani in the Senate session questioned: "They [the Afghan interim government] are not ready to recognise the border, so why are we moving forward?"