| Golly. Is that how they're doing 'negotiation' nowadays? |
[DAWN] The Taliban Shura has finalised a fifteen point draft for negotiations with the Pakistain government and the draft proposal is likely to be handed over to the peace controllers and their representatives who are in Wazoo, DawnNews reported.The Taliban Shura had been meeting since Saturday under its deputy Ameer Sheikh Khalid Haqqani.
Professor Ibrahim Khan and Maulana Yousuf Shah who are in Waziristan for a meeting with the Taliban Shura are likely to convey these points to the committee formed by the government for mediation.
The points are as follows:
1) Stop drone attacks.
2) Introduce Sharia law in courts.
3) Introduce Islamic system of education in both public and private educational institutions.
4) Free Pak and foreign Taliban captured in jails.
5) Restoration and remuneration for damage to property during drone attacks.
6) Hand over control of tribal areas to local forces.
7) Withdrawal of army from tribal areas and close down check posts.
8) All criminal allegations held against the Taliban to be dropped.
9) Prisoners from both sides to be released.
10) Equal rights for all, poor and rich.
11) Families of drone attack victims to be offered jobs.
12) End interest based system.
13) Stop supporting the US on the war on terror.
14) Replace the democratic system of governance with the Islamic system.
15) Stop all relations with the US.