Simply put, if the TTP's demands were to be met, it would amount to a surrender of the state’s authority over parts of the erstwhile tribal belt where the militants are active.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the incident and said that enemies of people's lives and property will be "dealt with iron hands".
The incident comes less than a month after a suicide bombing at the Karachi University Confucius Institute.
The former prime minister has also called for countrywide protests and a long march to the capital in the last week of May.
The visit comes a week before Beijing hosts a conference of Afghanistan's neighbours on how to assist the Taliban government.
The rumours of the replacement emerged after China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Kabul unannounced on March 24.
The paper says the Taliban need to walk the talk to claim diplomatic recognition, and that rhetoric alone will not take them anywhere.
This time around, the Taliban government has downgraded the level of its participation in the OIC summit by sending an Afghan foreign ministry official rather than its minister.
The writer says what the Taliban need is a step in the right direction and developing the capacity to transform their militancy into political rule.
More than 120,000 Afghans and dual nationals were evacuated up to August 31 when the last US-led troops withdrew.