PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday said everything decisions Related to issue of terrorism should be made on parliament against the background of ongoing negotiations in the country with banned organization Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
bilawal, who is also foreign minister and mentioned on several times that he personally suffered from terrorism, said party will reach out to their allies build consensus on in way forward.
“PPP held a high-level meeting to discuss issue of terrorism, especially in light of recent achievements in Afghanistan, with TTA (Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan) and TTP. PPP believes that all decisions must be accepted parliament”, he tweeted, making no direct reference to the talks. with forbidden group.
Older party leaders – Yusuf Raza Gilani, Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Murad Ali Shah, Sherri Rehman, Khurshid Shah, Faryal Talpur, Nayer Bukhari, Najmuddin, Faisal Karim Kundi, Humayun Khan, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Chaudhry Yassin, Chaudhry Manzur, Nadeem Afzal Chan, Akhunzada Chattan, Rukhsana Bangash, Nisar Khukhro and Farhatullah Babar attended the meeting chaired by Bilawal and former President Asif Ali Zardari.
Akhundzade Chattan was also separately of a Pakistani tribal delegation that arrived in Kabul, join negotiations earlier this month.
In a statement released after Saturday’s meeting, the PPP said that party repeated that everything decisions must be passed by parliament and thus parliament have to take on board.
Provisional Afghan Taliban government promotes peace talks between Islamabad and the TPP, whose leadership already in Kabul.
Last month, government and the TPP agreed to extend the ceasefire, this time indefinitely, and continue negotiations to end nearly two decades of militancy in tribal border region.
Later, a tribal jirga of 50 people was created. also joined negotiation. Pakistani official in Kabul said Dawn.com at a time when the negotiations “turned into serious phase” with a little progress.
BUT Dawn an editorial at the time said that if the demands of the TPP were met, it would be amount to surrender of state power over parts of former tribe belt where are the militants active.
“Group of militants should one cannot dictate to the state where the security forces can and cannot enter. Moreover, the merger of Fata and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018 was part of of constitutional process, and cannot be undone to accommodate the whims of the TPP…given this volatility of history’s perspective of lasting peace with militants are dull, ”the message says.
The PPP has previously opposed negotiations with TTP during tenure of previous PTI government and asked why parliament was not taken into account confidence. PPP chairman Bilawal called the talks a “betrayal”. of blood of martyrs.”
