Respect national consensus on Taliban talks: Fazl

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Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl chief Maulana Fazl Rahman has called for respecting the APC’s national consensus on talks with the Taliban, saying undermining the talks option will not help efforts aimed at ending terrorism in the country.

According to his spokesperson Jan Achakzai, Maulana said, “There is already a consensus on the talks with the Taliban agreed by national leadership in the APC and debating merit and demerit of talks have passed”.

He said some quarters were not happy with the decision but they had to respect the military and political leadership’s agreement on holding talks with the militants, if they believed on democratic decision making process.

Fazl also regretted that the second tier leadership of certain political parties was also speaking against the APC’s outcome, despite the fact that their top leaders had signed up to the agreement.

He said holding talks with the Taliban was a very serious issue and should not be sacrificed at the altar of point scoring and petty politics.

The JUI-F chief said Taliban talks in Qatar were a big lesson for us that force alone could not eradicate insurgency. “The US with all its might and money could not subdue the Afghan Taliban,” he observed.

He said the Afghan Taliban talks had opened a window of opportunity for talks with the Pakistani Taliban and the APC endorsed this viewpoint, and now it was the responsibility of all concerned to seize the opportunity.

Fazl warned that attempts to sabotage national consensus on talks with the Taliban would likely prolong the cycle of mayhem, misery and destruction in the country.

5 COMMENTS

  1. Farzl is fully aware that the Taliban is not serious about peace talks. They have said that they will not lay down their weapons and the reason they fight the government is to impose sharia law;

  2. He is just getting ready to find someone to blame when the talks break down….The TTP murderers will not come to any agreement that does not put them in control and when the government tells them that they must submit to the rule of law like any other citizen…they will walk out of the talks and blame the government for the failure to make peace…it is a NO WIN situation that the proponents of talks have created and they should already know that they will fail…in civilized societies you don't negotiate with killers…you eliminate them…

  3. The national consensus is not to hold talks but to fight these S O Bs. It is the political consensus to surrender your freedom, which the politicians are labeling as "talks". People like Fazl do not care because they see it as an oportunity to impose their way of life on everyone. Fazl was a D O G, is a D O G and will remain a D O G. We are unfortunate that pepope like him live a long life and do not die easily.

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