Summary PPP-lead All FATA Political Alliance will hold Jirga to discuss post-Hakimullah scenario.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) –FATA political leadership has become active after the killing of TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud for the resumption of peace efforts.
The Jirga, to be hosted by Pakistan People’s Party, will be attended by representatives of FATA chapters of PML-N, JUI-F and other political parties.
The jirga will discuss the situation created by the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud and selection of Moulvi Fazlullah as the new TTP chief.
Talks with Taliban are also on the agenda of the Jirga.
The Pakistani Taliban rejected the idea of peace talks with the government after electing hard-line commander Mullah Fazlullah, whose men shot schoolgirl Malala Yousaf-zai last year, as their new leader on Thursday.
The rise of Fazlullah, known for his fierce Islamist views, by the Taliban Shurah council follows the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud, the previous leader or Ameer, in a US drone strike on November 1.
Mehsud and his allies had been tentatively open to the concept of cease-fire talks with the government, but Fazlullah s emergence as the new chief changes that picture.
"There will be no more talks as Mullah Fazlullah is already against negotiations with the Pakistan government," Shahidullah Shahid, a Taliban spokesman, told a foreign news agency by telephone from an undisclosed location in neighbouring Afghanistan.
