Tag: Talks

Imran throws TTP talks ball in Nawaz’s court

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to take the lead in initiating peace talks with the Pakistani...

Talks with Taliban in sensitive phase: Sartaj Aziz

Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz has said talks with the Taliban are in a sensitive phase. Talking to...

PST opposes talks with Taliban

    Pakistan Sunni Tehreek (PST) Ulema Board has said that Shariah did not allow pardon to any murderer and demanded the government not to hold...

Clerics, Taliban talks underway: KP CM spokesman

The spokesman for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister, Shiraz Paracha on Wednesday said peace talks between religious scholars and the Taliban were underway and...

Talks won’t succeed sans troops pullout, prisoners release: TTP

  The spokesman of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has said peace talks cannot be successful until army troops were the withdrawn from Tribal Areas...

PTI to back military operation if talks fail

Says govt should make sincere efforts to give dialogue process a chance Party chief Khan criticises govt for its anti-people economic policies, for printing 800...

Khursheed demands immediate decision on talks with Taliban

Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Friday condemned the attack on a government employees’ bus in Peshawar and...

Senators reject Taliban conditions for talks

Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Relations Chairman Haji Mohammad Adeel on Tuesday said the preconditions set by the Taliban for dialogue process did not...

Respect national consensus on Taliban talks: Fazl

        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...

Talks with Taliban indigenous idea: Nisar

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday said the decision to initiate process of dialogue with the Taliban was homemade and not taken...

Taliban begin consultations over govt’s talks offer

  In response of unanimous decision regarding settling the issue of militancy and terrorism through peaceful and political means, militants from various groups and factions...

APC mandates govt to hold talks with Taliban

Calling dialogue the “only option” to deal with the scourge of terrorism and militancy across the country, the political leadership on Monday authorised the...

All parties on same page over Taliban talks, says Nisar

      Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan has said all political parties were on the same page regarding talks with the Taliban. Talking to reporters in Islamabad...

DCC approves conditional talks offer to Taliban

Government willing to talk to militants if they put down weapons Warns of use of force if attacks continue Deplores Indian agitation along LoC Pakistan to persist...

India puts talks with Pakistan on hold until Sept end

Hardening its stance over alleged border crossfire, India has decided to put talks with Pakistan "on freeze" and official meetings will not be held...

US-Afghanistan security deal talks can resume soon

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has lined up a high-profile negotiating team to thrash out a critical long-term security deal with the US, raising hopes...

Khurshid talks sense, says talks only way to resolve issues

Stressing that India had no intention to hurt its ties with Pakistan, Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Wednesday reiterated that dialogue was...