Just days after the Pakistan Prime Minister said, his government was in the process of holding talks with the Pakistani Taliban, the militant group has rejected the idea. This announcement by the Pakistani Taliban comes after its leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a U.S. drone strike on Nov 1. It paved the way for the election of hardline commander Mullah Fazlullah as the new leader of the group on Thursday.

Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud (C) sits with other militants in South Waziristan, in this file still image taken from video shot October 4, 2009 and released October 5, 2009. A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan killed Hakimullah Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban, on November 1, 2013, security sources told Reuters, the latest in a series of blows to Pakistan's most feared militant group. (REUTERS/Reuters TV/Files)

The rise of Mr Fazlullah, known for his fierce Islamist views, and whose men shot schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai last year, could mark the end of any rapprochement between the Pakistan government and the Pakistani Taliban.

"There will be no more talks as Mullah Fazlullah is already against negotiations with the Pakistan government," Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban spokesman, told is reported to have told Reuters news agency by telephone from an undisclosed location in neighbouring Afghanistan.

"All governments play double games with us. In the name of peace talks, they deceived us and killed our people. We are one hundred percent sure that Pakistan fully supports the United States in its drone strikes."

The Taliban spokesperson told the news agency, that the new ameer (leader) who had taken over with immediate effect would decide on how to avenge Mr Mehsud.

Reuters reports that, Mr Fazlullah, is nicknamed Mullah Radio because he set up an underground FM radio station to promote fundamentalist and anti-Western ideas, is considered hardline even among the Pakistani Taliban movement itself.

Born in 1976, Mr Fazlullah gained prominence in 2004. He shot into prominence after his fighters took over Pakistan's Swat valley in 2009 following which he imposed strict Islamic rule there. He is also notorious for ordering the closure of girls' schools and his rather bizarre opposition to the UN run polio vaccinations in the region which he termed as a Jewish and Christian conspiracy to harm Muslims.