Peace With Taliban: JUI-F chief urges govt to start talks

PESHAWAR: Influential politic-religious leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman asked the government on Saturday to give the go-ahead for peace talks with the Taliban.

Addressing a gathering at the provincial secretariat of his eponymous faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, the Maulana said that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the outlawed umbrella of militant groups, has expressed confidence in a tribal jirga which has been trying to broker peace in the region. The JUI-F chief asked the government to stop ‘dragging its feet’ on the matter and express confidence in the tribal jirga so that it could work for the restoration of peace with confidence.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 10^th, 2013.