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Malik urges Taliban to nominate 'real representative' for talks
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
on Saturday urged Pak Taliban to nominate their real representative, if they are serious in holding peace talks with the government.

Speaking to media representatives, he said the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) is not serious in holding a dialogue with the government, as, he said, they have nominated a "murderer and proclaimed offender for talks."

Expressing their willingness for conditional peace talks with the government, the Pak Taliban had called for three top politicians of the country -- PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
, Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
Ameer Syed Munawar Hasan, and the chief of the JUI-F Maulana Fazlur Rehman
Deobandi holy man, known as Mullah Diesel during the war against the Soviets, his sympathies for the Taliban have never been tempered by honesty ...
-- to act as guarantors for negotiations for stopping the armed conflict in the country's tribal areas.

TTP front man Ehsnaullah Ehsan, in a video interview on Feb 3 appearing with Adnan Rashid, the prime convict in the Pervez Perv Musharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
attempted suicide kaboom case, said that if the above mentioned politicians acted as guarantors for the peace talks, they would be willing to negotiate in the best interest of the country.

The interior minister suggested today that different factions of Pak Taliban should form a team after consulting each other for the negotiations. He said the dialogue process before the coming elections will be a welcome step.

Posted by: Fred 2013-02-10
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