ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday the Senate should form two committees comprising representatives of all political parties to hold talks with estranged Baloch leaders Harbayar Khan and Barhamdagh Bugti.

In a brief policy statement in the house on last week’s terrorist attack on Malala Yousufzai and the law and order situation in Balochistan, he said the government would facilitate the committees in visiting the troubled province and arranging meetings with the two nationalist leaders. But he suggested that the committees should be given 15 days to come up with their recommendations.

He said he would give a detailed briefing to the house on Thursday on the overall law and order situation in the country with particular reference to target killings in Karachi and sectarian killings in Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan.

Mr Malik said Malala was improving in the UK hospital.

He claimed that there was an infighting within the Taliban ranks and that Maulvi Fazlullah wanted to become head of the organisation.

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