Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday urged the government to declare a ceasefire if it was serious about holding peace talks with militants in Pakistan.
The PTI chairman also called on the government to allow militants to open an office in Pakistan, similar to the Afghan Taliban office in Qatar, to facilitate the dialogue process.
Talking to reporters outside the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) after enquiring about the health of the people injured in twin suicide blasts at Peshawar All Saints Church, Khan said it was not possible to hold peace talks when the war was still going on.
He said that it was decided during the fourth All Parties Conference (APC) that peace talks would be held but no solution had yet been worked out.
Khans stressed that the government should take the negotiations seriously and declare a ceasefire.
He said the government should allow militants to establish an office in Pakistan to hold peace talks, adding that negotiations were not possible without conducting talks and the nine-year long war against terrorism would continue.
Discussing the church attack which killed 83 people, Khan alleged that the incident was being politicised. He said the PTI had not politicized the 170 blasts that took place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the past nine years.
