Islamabad:
While terrorism cradles the province, the chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Ali Amin Gandapur, urged the federal government to formally entrust it with the responsibility of negotiating with the Afghan Taliban, affirming that dialogue was the only viable path to peace in the region.
Addressing journalists in Islamabad on Friday, Gandapur said that his government had formulated a peace plan in consultation with tribal advisers from all agencies and had submitted it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior.
However, he deplored that the proposal remained unanswered. “The Taliban cannot refuse talks with the former tribal. Bring them to the table-negotiations are the only solution,” he added.
“I will stand discussions with [Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah] Akhunzada. “”
“Right now, I have no contact with the Taliban, but if I am sent, we will operate it,” he added. He also took a jibe to the head of Jui-F Maulana Fazlur Rehman, claiming that his influence on the Taliban had declined and that only Taliban leaders at the lower level engaged with him.
“Sit with the Taliban through the table, hold talks with them is the only solution,” said KP CM.
Gandapur stressed that the Clerc-Policianian was more numerous than all the other political parties by organizing public rallies in KP before the 2024 elections. “We hid the mountains before the elections. We did not organize any gathering,” he said.
Earlier, addressing an Iftar party organized by him, Gandapur said that his province had come out of the financial crisis. KP has a surplus of 159 billion rupees, while Punjab is faced with a deficit of 148 billion rupees. “We have introduced transparency in the province,” he added.
Burning the allegations of corruption, he joked that if the province was excess after corruption, such corruption was to be adopted by all the other provinces.
