TTP intermediary Professor Ibrahim. PHOTO:PPI
This morning while speaking to the media, Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief and member of Taliban negotiation committee Professor Ibrahim appreciated government’s efforts towards peace.
The negotiation committee will urge the Taliban to cooperate with the government and not act as an obstacle to the objective of restoration of peace, he said.
It was reported that Baland Khel, Orakzai Agency, South Waziristan, Miranshah and Bannu Airport were potential venues for peace talks. However, Professor Ibrahim said a final decision regarding the venue has not been made yet.
The government’s peace initiative appeared to be in jeopardy on May 2, when Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan — who has been tasked by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to coordinate the peace process — had warned that the dialogue process with the TTP could not proceed amid a ‘tug of war’.
Nisar had previously said, “There is no hurdle from our side. Neither is there any [hurdle] from the army.”
On April 23, government negotiators and Taliban intermediaries had agreed to form a subcommittee to look into reservations from both sides in an effort to keep the nascent peace dialogue process.
The government has already made it clear that it would not be possible to move ahead with talks in the absence of a ceasefire as TTP previously refused to extend their 40-day ceasefire.
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@Syed:
These "creeps" constitute a major portion of your FATA population, whom you have so much alienated by your army action that they will be now working to join their Afghan tribes in Afghanistan as soon as that country stabilizes. Welcome back to 1980s. Afghanistan in West and India in the East.
Apologies that started with foreign occupation then drone strikes and now on sharia will end on either dismemberment of Pakistan or state taken over by hardline Islamists.
Much respect for this guy for his stance. He is doing his job well to ensure commitment to peace from both sides!
This is a true example of the systematic destruction of the state, its institutions and leadership. When the country's headlines speak of polio ban, talks with militants, energy crises, more loans, where do you think this country is heading. Had we nurtured engineers, doctors, architects, economists, builders, and scientists, we would have been building locomotives, laptops, cars, causeways, dams. Instead we nurtured militants. And there is no end to this menace for at least another 10 years
I know one thing " till Now Musharraf was Damn right " ... spend so much time on these creeps you'll definitely come to the same conclusion one day ..