[Dawn] The Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is
Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
leadership was told on Saturday the complexity of the bad boys' phenomenon and how difficult it would be to negotiate with a plethora of groups with varied agendas, official sources said.
PTI chairman Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
and vice chairman and deputy parliamentary leader Shah
Mehmood WormtongueQureshi, who arrived here to full-day briefings by various government departments, were informed that Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain was not a monolithic organization and that more than 40 groups were operating with varied agendas making the task of engaging all the more difficult if not impossible.
They were also informed that criminal gangs had also joined forces with forces of Evil and to segregate the two would be difficult, the officials said. They were advised to implement a comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy prepared by provincial home and tribal affairs department and persuade the federal government to follow suit.
The PTI leadership was also advised against issuing deadlines to implement reform agendas. "The wheel is already there, you don't have to reinvent the wheel," one source quoted a senior government official as saying.
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
journalists boycotted a briefing by Provincial Minister Shaukat Yousafzai on Imran and Shah Mehmood Qureshi's visit and engagements in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
to protest the manhandling and torture of their colleagues by doctors at Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar on Friday.