The extension comes a day after the interior ministry announced that it had released 19 non-combatant Taliban as a goodwill gesture for bolstering the grinding of the peace processor with the TTP.
In a statement issued to the media, Shahid said the group was awaiting the government's reply on its demands.
Shahid said the Taliban shura has extended the deadline and would sit after April 10 to decide about the future of talks.
He said the Taliban were still awaiting a reply from the government regarding the group's demands, including the release of non-combatants, but despite the passage of three days above the ceasefire deadline, the government had not yet responded to the TTP.
Shahid said the TTP had ordered its fighters not to carry out any attacks against the government and law-enforcement agencies until further orders.
The page-long statement issued in the Urdu language also said that the TTP wanted to clarify its position before the nation that it was serious about the talks but the response from the government had not encouraging.
It added that despite the fact the government's peace committee had met the Taliban leadership empty-handed, the Taliban had shown willingness to talk peace.
19 Taliban prisoners freed
The ceasefire extension comes a day after the interior ministry announced that it had released 19 non-combatant Taliban as a goodwill gesture for bolstering the grinding of the peace processor with the TTP.
The interior ministry announced on Thursday that the release of the 19 was the first large batch of people freed since the launch of military operation in South
Wazoo in 2009.A front man for the ministry said the prisoners released were non-combatant Taliban belonging to the Mehsud tribe.
The ministry did not release their names. It said three of them had been released on March 21, five on March 25 and 11 on March 28. They were nabbed
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on suspicion or on the basis of intelligence reports.
An official earlier told Dawn that most of the people released had been rounded up during search operations and declared "white" implying that they were innocent. Some of them belong to the Khan Said alias Sajna group which is widely believed to have been in contact with security agencies to cut a peace deal prior to the start of talks with the mainstream TTP.
However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
a hard boy commander told Dawn's correspondent in Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
that those released did not belong to the TTP. They belonged to the Wana-based Maulvi Nazir group which already had a peace agreement with the government, he claimed.