MQM Chief Altaf Hussain has proposed to Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and ruling PML Chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain that the government must resolve the controversial issues in Swat and Waziristan through negotiations. “Should efforts for a peaceful solution fail, security forces should be more than careful in their actions to the extent that not a single innocent person is killed,” he exhorted.Hussain was talking to them by phone from London when they visited Nine-Zero. The MQM chief recalled that Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Senator Mushahid Hussain of the PML had held talks with Akbar Bugti in Dera Bugti but that process did not end well. He said repercussions of that operation are felt all over Pakistan.
He said that an insurgency is thwarted in accordance with the law and the government has the authority to do so but the killing of civilians/innocent people strengthens the position of the insurgents. “Be careful and deal with it prudently,” he said.