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Govt doesn’t want to stop talks process: Rashid
LAHORE - Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Saturday said the government did not want to stop the process of peace talks and hoped the Taliban would also reciprocate the government sentiments.
While talking to media persons here on Saturday, the minister expressed the resolve of the government that it would not let the dialogue process die down and expressed the hope the Taliban would also show the same spirit.
The Friday drone hit in North Wazirastan which killed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) head Hakimullah Mehsud along with others has spread a wide impression that the long-awaited dialogue process between the Pakistan government and the TTP has run into fiasco.
The minister said ups and downs were part of the process and the government never shirked the course of negotiations despite the fact that it had paid a heavy price in the form of the recent killing of a major general and about 50,000 civilians, army men and the security personnel in the war on terror.
When asked about any nexus between the premier’s recent visit to the US and the killing of Mehsud, Perviaz Rashid categorically denied they had any link and said America had its own perception about the drone attacks and Pakistan had its own, “and we stick to it.”
When asked with reference to PTI Chief Imran Khan’s stand on halting Nato supplies, the minister appeared not supporting this idea and said in the past halt to Nato supplies failed to halt the US drone attacks. He said the party voicing for stopping the Nato supplies to stop the drone attacks could not prove that this measure had proved effective. He said after the Salala incident Pakistan did not allow transportation of the Nato supplies through its territory, but it could not stop the drone attacks. To a question, the minister said war could not end a war, but it further flared up the fire which the government wanted to extinguish.
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LAHORE - Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister Senator Pervaiz Rashid on Saturday said the government did not want to stop the process of peace talks and hoped the Taliban would also reciprocate the government sentiments.
While talking to media persons here on Saturday, the minister expressed the resolve of the government that it would not let the dialogue process die down and expressed the hope the Taliban would also show the same spirit.
The Friday drone hit in North Wazirastan which killed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) head Hakimullah Mehsud along with others has spread a wide impression that the long-awaited dialogue process between the Pakistan government and the TTP has run into fiasco.
The minister said ups and downs were part of the process and the government never shirked the course of negotiations despite the fact that it had paid a heavy price in the form of the recent killing of a major general and about 50,000 civilians, army men and the security personnel in the war on terror.
When asked about any nexus between the premier’s recent visit to the US and the killing of Mehsud, Perviaz Rashid categorically denied they had any link and said America had its own perception about the drone attacks and Pakistan had its own, “and we stick to it.”
When asked with reference to PTI Chief Imran Khan’s stand on halting Nato supplies, the minister appeared not supporting this idea and said in the past halt to Nato supplies failed to halt the US drone attacks. He said the party voicing for stopping the Nato supplies to stop the drone attacks could not prove that this measure had proved effective. He said after the Salala incident Pakistan did not allow transportation of the Nato supplies through its territory, but it could not stop the drone attacks. To a question, the minister said war could not end a war, but it further flared up the fire which the government wanted to extinguish.
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