ISLAMABAD
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that the government team will hold direct talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in North Waziristan on Tuesday (today).
Speaking to reporters after holding a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry on the sidelines of a two-day nuclear summit at The Hague, Nawaz said the government was holding talks with sincerity and the government committee would visit North Waziristan on Tuesday where direct talks would take place with the Taliban leadership.
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Meanwhile in Pakistan, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar held a meeting with the government’s negotiating committee to discuss the talks agenda.
He told the participants that the government was serious in resolving issues with the militants and it would not let any anti-peace force sabotage the dialogue process with Taliban.
In a related development, a private television channel reported that the government would negotiate the recovery of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son Syed Ali Haider Gilani, Shahbaz Taseer, the son of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer and Ajmal Khan.