Maulana urges govt. to stop drone attacks
- November 28, 2013, 6:28 pm
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Peshawar, Nov. 28 (Online): Chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana Fazlur Rehman Thursday urged the government to take concrete step for ending drone strikes in country’s tribal areas.
Speaking to media persons after grand Jirga, Maulana said that drone attacks have been affecting lives of tribal people since many years added that the Jirga has recorded its protest against drone strikes in FATA area.
He demanded the government to take solid steps to convince United States for not carrying out drone strikes inside Pakistan’s territory added that these attacks are open violation of country’s sovereignty.
Maulana said grand Jirga could play its positive role to restore peace in FATA and rest of the country.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that the Jirga members was sit to deliberate upon chalking out line of action as to how, when and where to hold talks with the militants.
He said Jirga wants a permanent solution of terrorism in the country and for this purpose immediate actions are need of the hour.
Maulana said both civilian and military leadership should come on a same page to make a common policy to tackle terrorism problem in the country.
Fazlur Rehman said the national leadership has given unanimous mandate to the tribal Jirga for holding talks with the Pakistani Taliban leadership.
He thanked the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leadership for giving positive response to the peace efforts and said that the Taliban leaders demonstrated sagacity by welcoming formation of the grand tribal Jirga.
He said banned Taliban outfit TTP had also accepted recommendations made by the tribal grand Jirga added that the government should consult the Jirga to move forward in wake of dialogue process with Taliban.
