Sunni Ittehad Council rejects government policy of talks with Taliban

Sunni Ittehad Council has rejected the formation of new committee for talks with the Taliban terrorists and said making banned terrorist group TTP a stakeholder is deleterious for Pakistan.

Sahibzada Hamid Raza, Allama Mohammad Sharif, Tariq Mehboob Siddiqui, Syed Jawad ul Hassan, Pir S M Iqbal Shah, Mufti Mohammad Saeed, Sahibzada Ammar Saeed, Mufti Haseeb Qadri, Maulana Wazir Qadri and Arshad Mustafai said in a joint statement that talks with the terrorists are fruitless.

They recalled that surgical strikes on the terrorists’ hideouts proved a fruitful and effective policy that bore success and military operation is the only successful option to liquidate the terrorists.

They reiterated their stance that forming a private militia is prohibited in the Constitution and talks with such banned private militia is also an unconstitutional mean hence rule of law could not be established by the violation of the Constitutional law.

They said that the terrorists have destroyed Pakistan by massacring civilians and security officials and bombing the installations. Therefore, the Sunni Ittehad Council leaders warned that holding talks with ferocious terrorists was tantamount to betray those 60,000 Pakistanis who have embraced martyrdom due to TTP terrorism.