Khattak urges PML-N govt to initiate Taliban talks without delay

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PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak Tuesday said peace talks with Pakistani Taliban should be started without any delay as per consensus decision of the All Parties Conference (APC).

In a statement issued here, he said delay in holding talks in the light of the APC resolution would provide a chance to the elements that wanted to sabotage the dialogue process.

Leaders of Khattak’s Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) party including its chief Imran Khan have repeatedly shown their annoyance over delays in the paces talks. They regretted that the party should have asked the ruling PML-N at the Sept 9 APC to set a deadline for holding the talks.

The chief minister said people and government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were bearing the brunt of terrorist acts, which had claimed precious innocent lives.

Since the May 11 elections, the party has lost three of its lawmakers to militant attacks, including a minister who was killed on the first day of Eidul Azha.

Khattak urged the PML-N government to initiate the dialogue process in order to give peace a chance.

Citing the report by Amnesty International issued on Tuesday, the KP chief minister said the federal government should get the drone attacks stopped.

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Pasanni

Oct 22, 2013 11:23pm

This is for sure that at the end of the day, you will opt talks so why not today, go ahead IK, i am sure you can do it. If the federal government does not show any interest then 18th amendment empowers provinces for Law and Order as well,,

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Modi

Oct 23, 2013 06:16am

Imran Khan will sink Pakistan with his senseless demand on pursuance of talks and negotiations with the terrorists who go by the name of Pakistani talibans! Imran khan has shown such poor judgement and vision in regard to Talibans and how to tackle them, that following PTI for any Pakistani is courting danger of extremists and terrorists ruling the country. His argument that Talibans are "our" people and hence we must talk to them, is so ridiculous that any normal and sensible human being will see the fallacy of his position, because murderers and criminals in Pakistan are also "our" people. So does that mean that we should negotiate with all criminals in the country, instead of prosecuting and confronting them with the laws of the land and punishing them for murders and treason?

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