The government will neither be “blackmailed” by militants nor will it listen to their “unrealistic” demands, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani has said. “We won’t listen to their demands that are totally unrealistic. If they want us to hand over [jailed] terrorists as a [precondition] for talks, that will not happen,” Gillani said in an interview with Newsweek, published on its website on Monday. Gillani said there would be no talks with militants “until our preconditions are met”.
“They should [put down] their arms first. Not only [Baitullah] Mehsud but also other [armed] tribes who are not militants,” he added.
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