| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/09/09, 7:28 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Pakistani political icon Imran Khan has urged his prime minister to open talks with the Taliban to rid the country of terrorism.
Khan, a former cricketer who is now chairman of Pakistan's Tehrik-e-Insaf party, held a closed-door meeting with the country's prime minister Nawaz Sharif and its military chief, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani.
Sources claimed that Khan stressed the need for dialogue with various factions of the Taliban to encourage reconciliation.He also raised the issue of funding for the Taliban, and claimed that the terror scourge would not be eradicated unless the government adopted a clear, categorical policy on drone strikes.
Khan, a former Oxford student who became involved in politics after retiring from cricket in 1992, had earlier promised to cite the example of Nelson Mandela during his meeting with Sharif and Kayani.Speaking at a labour conference in Lahore ahead of the meeting, Khan said he would suggest "a policy of reconciliation in the tribal areas, [based]on the pattern of Nelson Mandela's policy".
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