On February 6, the representatives of the Pakistani government and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan met in the Islamabad (Capital of Pakistan) to discuss a road map aimed at ending a decade-long violent insurgency in the country.
It is not the first time that the Pakistani government and the Islamist fundamentalists have engaged in peace talks. In November last year, Islamabad’s efforts to start a dialogue with the militants came to an abrupt halt after Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was assassinated in a US drone strike.
According to the Maulana Sami-ul-Haq (Taliban’s Chief Negotiator), his side agreed with Islamabad’s demand that “there should be no activity by either side which could potentially harm the peace efforts,”
According to the Irfan Siddiqui (Government Mediator), Taliban committee had responded beyond his expectations. We share the common goal of making this country peaceful in accordance with Islamic teaching. I thank the Taliban committee for meeting us.
Maulana Abdul Aziz (another member of the Taliban committee) told to press conference in Islamabad, There would be no problems if our constitution were the Quran and Sunnah.
Snehal Shingavi, (South Asia expert at the University of Texas) USA, is of the view, nonetheless, that the implementation of the shariah shouldn’t be a problem as long as the extremists agree to Islamabad’s demand that the scope of the dialogue should be confined to areas affected by violence and not the whole country.
According to the Snehal Shingavi, Previous Pakistani governments have allowed the Taliban to set up shariah courts in some parts of the country’s northwest. This should not be an issue again.
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