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| PM Gilani Invites Baloch Nationalists for Meaningful Dialogue |
| 2009-11-27 |
| Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said the government was ready to negotiate with Baloch nationalist leaders on any terms within the ambit of Constitution. Addressing a press conference on - Aghaz-e-Huqooq-e-Balochistan - at PM House largely attended by national and international media, the Prime Minister said he was already in contact with the Baloch leadership however did not want to reveal further prematurely. About the Baloch nationalists in self-exile, Gilani said, Our government will make every effort to bring them back to country and include them into national mainstream. He said the leadership abroad had been invited for a “meaningful dialogue” besides encouraging them to play role for the uplift of their own province Balochistan. The Prime Minister said all Baloch leaders including Brahamdagh Bugti and Talal Bugti had been invited for negotiations, and mentioned his regards for Bugti family as his father and Nawab Akbar Bugti were cabinet colleagues. When asked if negotiations meant holding talks with those charged with criminal acts, Gilani said politics is a day-to-day affair and recalled that he was also labelled with such allegations when not in the government. He suggested for setting up a committee of parliamentarians to work on negotiations with Baloch leaders and to invite them to play their role in national mainstream. Gilani said this is for the first time in the country’s history that a tradition had been set up to take all political parties onboard on all issues of national importance. He said absence of Nawab Lashkar Raeesani from today’s committee meeting was due to his visit abroad for Hajj pilgrimage. |
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