Summary Says govt should plan structured, formal and open talks with TTP with sincerity and commitment.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan has said that no scientific methodology has been adopted by the government about talks with the Taliban so far.
“Talks are done not through media but in a planned way through proper channel,” he said in a press conference in Islamabad.
Imran said once proper talks start; it will become clear which sections of militant groups are sincere with peace in Pakistan and who wanted only bloodshed.
However, he said that whole nation will be at the back of security forces if talks fail and operation remained the only option.
“Enemies of Pakistan want to sabotage the talks with TTP,” he said.
Federal govt should structure the dialogue process, otherwise enemies of Pakistan can be derailed the talks.
“Talks are not done through media statements and counter statements,” he said.
He said it was decided in APC that government would go to United Nations if there were further drone attacks but this has not been done although there were 5 attacks after the APC.
Regarding the increase in electricity and POL prices he said government was twisting the masses on the directions of IMF, adding worst-ever inflation was going to hit country.
He lamented the fact that PTI, which is the second largest party of the country, has been not consulted over appointment of NAB Chairman.
He said there were rumours that sister of former president Zardari was being appointed as Public Accounts Committee chairperson.
Earlier, talking to foreign press Imran Khan said if peace talks failed, he will reluctantly support military options.
Imran Khan will reluctantly support military operations against the Pakistani Taliban if in two months it is clear his highly controversial strategy of negotiating with militant groups has failed, Imran said for the first time.
Imran was criticised in recent weeks for pressing the case for peace talks at a time when scores of civilians have been killed in bomb attacks. But speaking to the Guardian, Khan insisted the country would soon know whether his strategy would succeed.
"By the mid or end of November we will know if this isn t going to work," he said during an interview at his hilltop estate on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad.
"It could be just a complete deadlock, a collapse, with the Taliban insisting on demands that we cannot meet. I reckon you will know in two months."
Imran said if it became clear it was not going to work then he would reluctantly go along with an operation in north Waziristan. He said: "I am anti-war. I do not believe in military solutions. But in end if we are left with no option I will go along with it."
"Taliban will have to accept the constitution," he said.
"Number two, we cannot accept any sectarian groups that are just in cold blood killing people. What deal can you have with them?" And he added: "All militias within Pakistan will have to disarm."
Khan said the proliferation of militant groups meant there were no easy solutions left. "There is now anything between 14 and 18 bigger groups and around 20 to 25 smaller groups, so it is such a mess now and clearly there are groups that do not want peace and are foreign funded, according to our interior minister."
Khan remains convinced that the militancy ravaging Pakistan was unnecessarily inflicted on the country by the assistance former military leader General Pervez Musharraf gave to the US-led intervention in Afghanistan.
In his view this sparked a tribal revolt that will only stop if the country distances itself from the US, CIA drone strikes in Fata come to an end and new rulers take over in Kabul who are "not considered a stooge government of the Americans".
He said he did not know which group was behind the massacre but said he had received government briefings in the past that have blamed the Afghan government for other attacks. "It could be Raw [Research and Analysis Wing]," he said, referring to the intelligence agency of India, Pakistan s traditional enemy.
