Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has predicted that government's peace talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) will probably fail and an ensuing military operation would lead to more terrorism.
In an interview with the international news agency, Imran was quoted as saying: “The most likely result is that the negotiations will start, there will be about three or four big explosions and terrorist attacks and the negotiations will be called off.”
Giving his point of views on US drone attacks, the PTI chairman Khan, stated that the talks will be meaningful if the US announces an end to drone strikes. “If the US stops drone attacks, announces stopping the drone attacks during the talks, it would be a big plus point,” said Khan.
Imran further accused the US of sabotaging an earlier effort at talks with a November 1 drone attack that killed TTP leader.
“The US doesn’t want peace talks here or peace in Pakistan while they are leaving Afghanistan,” the report quoted Imran. “The thinking is that if they [insurgents] are engaged here, they would not be going across to fight.”
