Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar. PHOTO: INP?FILE
Addressing a press conference, Nisar said the decision to talk with the TTP would be taken during the All Parties' Conference (APC) after taking political parties into confidence.
Nisar said that talks with the Taliban is a sensitive matter and spreading information prematurely can be detrimental to the effort.
The interior minister said that political parties are united against terrorism. He added that the government's security policy has been finalised.
Jamiat-e-Ulema Islami Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman had earlier offered to assist the government with Taliban talks and had said that he wanted to help since no developments had been made on this front.
He had said that the previous government did not take the offer of talks from the Taliban seriously, but the current government should consider making it an important component of the country's anti-terrorism strategy.
The TTP in their offer for talks with the government had recommended Rehman and Jamaat-Islami chief Munawar Hasan as intermediaries.
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@Ali: Because they spare the Government.Their Jihad is against ordinary Pakistani citizens,and those in the security forces who sacrifice themselves for Pakistan.They know they will have people out there cheering them,being apologists for them,and defending their atrocities against their neighbors.
Syria is claiming the rebels stole the chemical weapons,and they are fighting with full force.How long before Taliban steal the nukes from Pakistan with all the appeasement strengthening them by the day.And they can't and won't transport it to US;It is going to be somewhere closer to home.
Why to hold talk with TTP. These extremist kill about 5000 secuirity forces and nearly 40000 innocent civilian. Government should crush them with full power. If government lack capabilities. I am sure western countries are ready to help them. Government should built only one consent among the people. The extremist organization is a group of kidnappers, killers etc. They work for money that all.
ok, we know the talks failed!
actual news is after secret peace talk pak gov't failed to negotiate with TTP and now drama.
How come different ministers in the same government give different information? Is this confusion or what?
THEN WHY DID PERVAIZ RASHID SAY THAT THEY ARE IN TALKS WITH THE TALIBAN?
Weird!
Please just call them TT and NOT TTP.