 North Waziristan Member of National Assembly Maulana Nek Zaman, while rejecting the government demand of reviewing the jirga boycott decision, has said until Pakistan solves its own problems, it cannot discuss peace in another country.
| Especially when that country borders Pakistain. |
He termed the joint peace jirga meaningless without peace in Waziristan.
| Which is kind of an admission that the unrest in Afghanistan emanates from the Wazoos. |
In an interview with NNI, he said the MNAs had urged the government to settle the problem through negotiations and jirgas instead of using force, but the government had not accepted their request.
| That could be because the Taliban and al-Qaeda aren't settling problems through jirgas and negotiations. If one party is negotiating while the other party is shooting the place up, the "negotiations" aren't plural. |
He said the members of Parliament and elders of North and South Waziristan were refusing to participate in the Pak-Afghan Peace Jirga in protest.
| It couldn't possibly be because those selfsame members of Parliament and Wazoo elders are dispatching hard boyz to shoot up Afghanistan. |
Maulana Nek Zama said it is a tribal tradition to never accept any decision taken at gunpoint, adding it was not a proper method of solving the problem.
| So how come they spend so much time pointing guns at each other? Do they accept decisions taken at rocket-point? They seem to do a lot of that, too. |
According to tribal customs, he said a jirga consisted of the concerned parties and points of contention. This jirga has no defined concerned parties, he added.
| Isn't that because they refused to show up? |
Answering a question, Maulana Nek Zama called upon the government to take solid steps for a solution to the Waziristan problem.
| Killing all the hard boyz would be a positive step, but I don't think that's the one he has in mind... |
He also called for the withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan to allow the Afghan people to decide their fate.
| They could maybe do that, if the Pak people weren't trying to decide the Afghans' fate, too. |
He said the government had violated the peace pact it had signed with the North Waziristan tribesmen by increasing the deployment of troops to the check posts in the region, instead of reducing them as agreed in the treaty.
| The Wazoo hard boyz were the ones who said they weren't going to raid in Afghanistan, weren't they? |
He said on the one hand, the government was trying to maintain peace in the region by holding peace jirgas, while on the other it was simultaneously trying to settle the problems in Waziristan through force.
| If one doesn't work the other one might. |
He said the protestors had made it clear |